queequeg wrote:I (stupidly) looked at the comments. One of the posters on there mentions her husband, who still hasn't come home after 6 months. That is one of my work colleagues. He hit a Kangaroo in Kuringai Chase National Park and was in a coma for 2 months. He is still learning how to walk and talk again. That could have just as easily been any of these riders getting thrown off by this act of sabotague. I hope they catch the cowards who built it and make an example of them.
I saw the comment too. Bloody hell. Sorry to hear that. Yeah, those vegemite coloured wallabies are really hard to see even with 3,800 measured lumens of German trail light technology. I've had a couple of mates taken out by them on the fire trails, and need to be choppered out.
I'm part of a small group trying to use coordinated influencer strategies to stem the hate. I had to take a mental health break and let the others take the running. The worst was a comment from a mountain biker I've been acquainted with for a few years through trail advocacy. His comment about a video of the crash (if available) being good for a laugh, and then doubling down when I called him on it, broke me.