PedallingSquares wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 4:34pm
Jdsk wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 4:32pm
PedallingSquares wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 4:28pm
Seem to think it's OK to leave but then say sorry.
I don't read any of those as saying that leaving the scene was OK. I see people saying that they don't know what happened, and speculating about the reason why he did.
And I read
Tangled Metal's as saying that it
wasn't OK.
Jonathan
Yes which is why he isn't quoted as he and R2 seem to be the only ones who don't think it's OK
The question I posed was does saying "sorry" help. I didn't ask whether it made things completely okay, and neither I nor anyone else thinks it does. The comparison is with doing something wrong and not saying sorry.
I now have further information, which is that the delivery cyclist had been caught on camera and an image had been released by the police. So his motive for turning himself in was (as TM anticipated) probably just a damage limitation exercise, and his written apology could be seen in the same way. Which makes it worth less.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wale ... y-24246589
Of course it is still possible, if unlikely, that the cyclist did feel some remorse when he found out that the young lad needed treatment for cuts. But if I were the lad's dad I would probably tend to think the apology was cynical rather than sincere.
The pedestrianised shopping centre of Cardiff is a place where I have felt, in the past, that some delivery cyclists weave between pedestrians with insufficient care, so the fact that the incident happened doesn't surprise me at all. It is the proverbial accident that was waiting to happen.