A truck just ran over me and my bike

[Sir_T-Cups]

@Alice_The_Goon

He’s going to ask the bike shop guy tomorrow to say that the bike is totaled, so that he can get a new bike.

I wasn’t going to ask him to lie because there was, in fact, noticeable frame damage

@Alice_The_Goon

Asserting my right to not pay for your ignorance of the law is not “hiding in the fine prints of a law”. You were in the wrong, and you not knowing the law is not a defense.

@mhendo

Have you read Muffin’s citation of the relevant Alabama code? Does it change your mind at all about this incident?.

Not even a little.

@Dag_Otto

If the bike originally came from a store like Target, the bike shop guy isn’t going to be especially interested in looking at it, but do him a big favor and tell him up front that if the bike is damaged that you willl be buying the new one from Target and not his bike shop. When you come back, post a photo of his bootprint on your ass.

Oh I know this too. But keep in mind that it wasn’t my idea to do it this way.

@BigT

There is just some stuff you don’t say to other human beings unless you are trying to start a fight, and “You’re lucky it wasn’t me, or I’d have made it even worse for you” is one of them. There is no reason to say that other than as an attack. Sometimes I wonder if people say crap like that because it gives them an excuse to be angry when the other person inevitably lashed out back.

This is what I keep trying to say in the thread. I get that it seems by the letter of the law I was technically in the wrong, and that’s great if you’re Judge Dredd, but the overarching principle of the matter is a truck hit a pedestrian. I don’t care if I was on my bike or walking or riding a damn horse, I am a pedestrian. Regardless if it’s correct to say it’s my fault and I’m technically on my own with a bike it’s not right to say that. I could have called the police, and did the insurance thing, and gotten witness statements (there were a bunch) and wasted 3 hours and done all that crap, but I didn’t because I assumed he would do the right thing and just get me a new bike and call it a day…
…which he just did. I’m eating lunch and got a call that basically said “It would just be easier to get you a new bike, meet me at Wal-Mart”. So we did. He grabbed a $150 that looked like mine, I went to a $130 dollar one that I wanted and said let’s do this one cuz it’s cooler. We did. I went home. I have a new bike and can put the matter behind me.