Of course. Doing her a favour too, she’d be burned alive in her apartment building sooner than later, this would at least be an instant death.
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Holy fucking shit. WTF is wrong with people???
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I dunno, I’d have figured white guy in his mid to late 20s myself.
As a London resident I have to tell you that on a bridge with that much pavement width, with only two people passing, “drive left” is irrelevant. The “dude” was not in the wrong side either. There are no sides when walking. Pedestrians generally do not follow the rules of the road, just the normal “brownian motion and dynamically avoid contact” strategy. My theory is that he may have been looking down and not seen her until the last moment and his “push” may have been an instinctive reaction to minimise a collision, but he was an arsehole not to stop. But I have not forensically studied the video and it is just a theory.
Sorry to introduce a perhaps too light tone to a serious event but this is a humorous but true-ish depiction of London pedestrian strategies in a much more crowded rush-hour London bridge-crossing.
(Edited for grammar.)
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Well, I wouldn’t quite go that far. If running on a sidewalk, one should generally be deferential, for sure. If using wheeled transport, more deferential still, due to greater closing speeds.
But, let’s say I’m out for a run on a moderate-width sidewalk and staying to the right (as one does on my side of the pond). Then a pedestrian coming the other direction hews to their middle/middle-left and gratuitously blocks my way. There’s nobody else immediately in the area at the moment. That’s rudeness on their part, not on mine.
(Even if inattention is at root rather than “IDGAF”, inattentiveness in a crowded pedestrian environment is a form of rudeness. Assuming you’re talking about a full-grown person, not a child, etc., etc…)
Of course it should go without saying that experiencing this sort of rudeness should not trigger you to commit near-manslaughter. And in TFV the jogger experienced no such rudeness to begin with!
Your theory is an interesting notion, but… I’m a pretty seasoned urban runner. At speed you’re always scanning pretty darned far ahead. The possibility that the man didn’t see the woman coming doesn’t pass the laugh test for me. 
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As for walk-to-one-side standards: I live in New York City; there’s a very strong standard of staying right on sidewalks here. (Sidewalks is the amer-English vernacular, yep.) There are exceptions in very crowded situations, or contrariwise truly empty places with lots of width.
I was traveling in Japan recently and the standard there is very much walk-left. If you found yourself in a place where there were many out-of-country tourists – Dotonbori in Osaka comes to mind – you’d then find tons of people not habituated to this and walking at you instead. This confusion would slow you down considerably; it made it crystal clear that the usual behavior does make a difference!
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He attempted manslaughter. I hope he gets a hell of a lot worse than internet famous.
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I don’t think so. His head appears to be raised to look forward and she wasn’t even entirely in his path. He attacked her. I’m starting to wonder if he attacked her specifically, not just because she was there.
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And, you know, he doesn’t run into the man walking just ahead of her. If he saw that guy, he saw the woman right behind him.
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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” ~ Possibly Margaret Atwood
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Like I said earlier, in the video the man is only a few inches further away, closer to the curb. The line of shadow on the ground makes a good measurement; viewed from the camera the man is slightly to the left of it and the woman slightly to the right. She appears to be veering further left as she and the jogger approach each other. He comes nowhere near the man.
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I came across a a bbc video of a guy pushing a women down stairs but don’t remember the some essential finders fee trick
This seems utter bollocks to me as it collides with the idea to make way for weaker pedestrians by taking the more dangerous side, i. e. the one closer to the car lane.
I suppose it at least possible that this may have been an attempted hit. BBC Drama is getting predictable.
He’s wearing stereotypical jogger wear, almost a caricature; and his pace and coordination to me don’t really scream “regular jogger”. The swerve is clearly intentional. The guy is either a psycho or a hitman; the fact that he calmly ran back the other way, just ignoring people screaming at him, imho discards the hitman theory; a pro would have had a preplanned escape path. But we won’t know unless he’s found.
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Hunt for creepy jogger who pushes woman in front of a moving bus
Creepy?! WTF? How about psychopathic?
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True, but the reporting seems to indicate the man came back across the bridge on the same path later on. If this was at all planned, why return to the scene of the crime? This reads as savage indifference to me.
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Not premeditated, just maybe he’d had some interaction with her, perhaps a rebuffed advance, and lashed out as man-babies often do. Or she was just a proximate target for his misogynistic violent. But I don’t think he was indifferent. He deliberately appears to choose to attack her, whatever his motives.
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“Officer, she was walking right at me. . . .”
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Is it relevant that the woman he bumped into is the current head of MI-6?
