Another Darwin Award Candidate ?

[Canary42]

Cyclists rides through road barrier and then . . . . . . . . . ooops, perhaps she should have stopped at the barrier.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44865790/cyclist-falls-into-drawbridge-gap.

[Canary42]

Try again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44865790/cyclist-falls-into-drawbridge-gap

[Cloverjo]

Yes, she was all over the place before she even got to the gap.

[Buenchico]

Fixing the link. (You added a full stop on the end of it, Canary42):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44865790/cyclist-falls-into-drawbridge-gap

At least it's a bit of a variation on the countless videos of UK cyclists who seem to want to fight with trains:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leeds-38405867/cyclist-s-level-crossing-near-miss-caught-on-cctv

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-24366745/warning-after-cyclist-has-near-miss-on-level-crossing

[Mamyalynne]

Ouch!

[marval]

Oh dear, that will teach her.

[Canary42]

These people are so thick (my link and Chris's) you wonder how they ever learnt to ride a bike.

[Minkyme]

Could be drunk, drugged up or mentally ill.

[Minkyme]

Let us not //cast the first stone// especially if we’ve been there before.

[Captain2]

Do you have a 'less dark' side minkyme?

[Mamyalynne]

If awards were dished out for falling into/down/over things - I'd have a full trophy cabinet.

[anneasquith]

" let's not cast the first stone" ok , they were still stupid though .

[Hopkirk]

I see cyclists every day who think laws don't apply to them.

Some obviously think this includes the laws of physics.

[Old_Geezer]

It's a dangerous activity anyway. Cyclists are all trying for the award just by being on busy roads.

[Peter Pedant]

asked later she said:
yes this was a bridge I had to cross
or
yes this was a bridge too far .....
or....
I thought it was a steep hill to climb

Euclid commented - this was truly a pons asinorum
( bridge of donkeys) - er was that too high brow for the average Aber?
or
we really should call this the "bridge of sighs"

[sanmac]

That's what cycledelic drugs will do to you.

[Peter Pedant]

cyclic ? I dont do this every day you know - she protested

[sanmac]

PP, perhaps she was thinking "Per ardua ad astra."