> Or God forbid you hit a pedestrian.

I mean, it's embarrassing if you hit a pedestrian, but it's not going to reach "God forbid" levels.

You can kill someone. That's more than embarassing. I'm astounded that you think bicyclists killing pedistrians is just fine.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/04/22/pedestrian-st...

"Embarrassing" is a strange way of saying "potentially deadly" (for example, https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-cycl... ).

> The felony conviction was the first of its kind in the nation involving a bicyclist.

The list of things that have killed one person in the last several hundred years is long. Everything is potentially deadly by that standard.

Here's a case mentioned in Law's Order:

"The plaintiff was about 14 years of age, and the defendant about 11 years of age. On the 20th day of February, 1889, they were sitting opposite to each other across an aisle in the high school of the village of Waukesha. The defendant reached across the aisle with his foot, and hit with his toe the shin of the right leg of the plaintiff. The touch was slight. ... In a few moments he felt a violent pain in that place, which caused him to cry out loudly. ... He will never recover the use of his limb."

(Vosburg v Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. 403 (1891))

It's the first felony conviction, not the first time a cyclist has killed someone.

Usually they get charged with a misdemeanor or not at all.