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Cam, I guess I just don't like the implied equal culpability that you're
suggesting. While the rider may have not expressed the correct attitude or
information to the hiker, the latter clearly took exception and got snarky and
lashed out….and it doesn't matter whether it was a "brush" "jab" "poke" etc,
she escalated the situation physically. In the second situation she also
initiated a physical escalation and in the ensuing melee was bitten. From my
read on the story she knew she was wrong in the first incident and then was
trying to cover for it in the second, and now she's back tracking,
downplaying, trying to gain sympathy which she's clearly gotten. I'm glad
they're going to meet and resolve the issue, I'm sure they're both very
embarrassed, and we do need to move forward and past this, but I just wholly
disagree with placing equal blame here.
Feb. 3, 2015, 9:37 a.m. - t.odd
#!markdown Cam, I guess I just don't like the implied equal culpability that you're suggesting. While the rider may have not expressed the correct attitude or information to the hiker, the latter clearly took exception and got snarky and lashed out….and it doesn't matter whether it was a "brush" "jab" "poke" etc, she escalated the situation physically. In the second situation she also initiated a physical escalation and in the ensuing melee was bitten. From my read on the story she knew she was wrong in the first incident and then was trying to cover for it in the second, and now she's back tracking, downplaying, trying to gain sympathy which she's clearly gotten. I'm glad they're going to meet and resolve the issue, I'm sure they're both very embarrassed, and we do need to move forward and past this, but I just wholly disagree with placing equal blame here.