How will Michael Bryant travel now that a judge ordered him not to operate any motor vehicle until case closed?

ROFL...wife in SUV...altough imo more likely professional chauffeur in the largest hummer he can find (an SUV does not really offer enough protection from enraged cyclists [roll eyes])

I'm sure he has no appetite for driving after what happened. If I were him I'd stick to walking.

I somehow don't think that his wife, being a busy lawyer type will agree to being a chauffeur. Though I voted "Won't leave the house", I tend to agree with the comment about the SUV....

I know this isn't answering your poll, but I've been getting fed up with news coverage on this story and general interest in the "bad behaviour" of bike messengers. To actually answer your question, I'm voting for "stay in the house".

Bryant is anything but ashamed of what he did to Darcy. The only thing Bryant is probably ashamed of is tarnishing his career.

Besides, Bryant is "innocent of all allegations" at least, that is what the cue cards from Navigator LTD told him to tell us.

I invite Mr. Bryant to get on a bike, it would be very heartwarming :)

He can bum a ride with me.

As long as he's got smokes.

I should expect chauffeured by a Navigator Spin Doctor all safe and warm in the back seat of a Lincoln Navigator SUV, of course sporting a 'Think Green' bumper sticker, smiling and doing the Royal wave for us plebs ...

It is rightly said above that Bryant is only ashamed of his own career. Haven't anyone realized that earlier? The expression on his face after he was released, wearing suit, bore no remorse or regret, rather, he displayed an agressive furious look warning the public that he is too superior, no one can do him anything. Bryant is sorry for himself only, not for Sheppard.So, Bryant, go ahead, do justice to ur attitude when you were released, drive ur convertible.... You are very powerful. I am sorry for both Bryant & Sheppard. Bryant: everything that rises must converge.
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It is rightly said above that Bryant is only ashamed of his own career. Haven't anyone realized that earlier? The expression on his face after he was released, wearing suit, bore no remorse or regret, rather, he displayed an agressive furious look warning the public that he is too superior, no one can do him anything. Bryant is sorry for himself only, not for Sheppard.So, Bryant, go ahead, do justice to ur attitude when you were released, drive ur convertible.... You are very powerful. I am sorry for both Bryant & Sheppard. Bryant: everything that rises must converge.
John Doe

Bryant if you think you were very brilliant and very powerful...time to think again: there is a Superior Power above us all...He is always watching. It is only when you reached the door step to the Premier Chair, that God acted. If you think that you were very powerful and very well connected politically, you need to think again: God showed us that it needed only an ordinary bike courier, SHeppard, to bring you down from top to bottom...from SUV convertible to side-walking. Bryant's accident is a wake up call for all those who believe they are above every body else. Bryant, if you never taught your children about equity & social justice, now, you can, at least, teach them, "Everything that rises must converge." Bryant I would love to say hello to you when I see you walking in the Bloor & Avenue area, I live nearby there...

Bryant, if u really were the right man with substance to rule the province of Ontario, then, it would have been a high profile political rival in an election that would have defeated u. But, this was a good lesson, a wake up call, u were not really what u believed urself to be. God passed the judgement: He sent an ordinary cycle courier, a native born with the lowest wage salary to bring down a british/irish/scottish white man with a high political profile, viewed as the next Ontario Premier, obviously as one of the most highly paid with a SAAB CONVERTIBLE. Moreover, why was the name of his wife given as Mrs. Susanne Abramovitch and not as Mrs Susanne Bryant: r u trying to play the racial game: connecting to some other roots to reinforce ur position? Ha ha haaaa !!!!
Rememeber, u r on the land of the Autochtone... learn to respect them ....Who deserves most respect: Bicycle owner or Saab Convertible owner?

this is in bad taste.

Your a freaken lynch mob people, get off your high horses or your freinds bare back...whatever...you will find Bryant is innocent and you wont like it because all of you that ride bikes daily downtown don't understand that you are a visitor on the roads because you don't have licencing and you have not been trained properly to ride on the roads. If you want say, start paying up some cash for these roads like the rest of us, which means if you don't want a ticket, stay behind the vehicle or bike in front of you (rules of the road) I don't know who you think you people are but you are not above the law.....If I open my car door and you ride into it, your at fault for following to close....If I drive close to the curb and you fall off your bike because you were right beside me in my blind spot, your at fault for following to closely and illegal lane change not to mention if you do any damage to my vehicle (and you take off like you allways do) thats hit and run followed by numerous other charges and most of all if you threaten me in any way on your bike, I will do whatever it takes to get away from an unstable person especially if I smell booze. Its not using a vehicle as a weapon its called getting away from a phsyco at any cost to protect your family or freinds you have onboard your vehicle...I CALL ON ALL DRIVERS TO START LAYING CHARGES AGAINST CYCLISTS ON THE ROADS TO PROVE WHO IS WHO!!!!!!

We're visitors? Cyclists live and work downtown...

You're the visitor, lazily driving in from a great distance, yet everyone's taxes go to pay for the very expensive upkeep of roads and often at the expense of where it should be directed----mass transit.

As far as Bryant goes...whether he is found criminally liable or not, he's a bloody coward for not stepping up like a man and defending himself and his family---that meant, in this case, actually stopping his vehicle instead of putting pedal to metal.

One of the brightest legal minds in the country and he shows such shocking lack of judgement...unreal...

At one of the busiest intersections in the city, he couldn't go toe-to-toe with some unarmed cyclist who's had a few beers?

Bloody wimp and a disgrace, even if he walks...

This poll sponsored by CAMH Internet Access & Outpatient Services department...

geez, I thought this was a bicycling forum...

Had I known Toronto was full of so many loonies who rode bikes and had internet access, i'd have stayed in Kapuskasing...

visiters to the road........figures heh
So its ok for a cyclist to drive on the roads intoxicated and if Bryant had got out of his car and fought him (like a man as you would say) and killed him there in a duo till the death, would that suit your standards or would he have to set an example and get his head kicked in...your the disgrace with the chip you carry...get behind the other vehicles on the road and be quiet!!!!sheesh.....I imagine if your driving a car, theres alot of road rage in your world :)

The issue is abt bryant killed Sheppard in an accident. It is not abt Sheppard past. Whether Sheppard has had hundreds of fraud cases, whether he was drunk, whether he had an altercation just before the accident. Assuming all these cases abt Sheppard is true, then: Does this give Bryant the right to drag sheppard on his car and hit him on an electric post and the run his car over sheppard's body: can anyone come forward and say : Yes, Bryant has the power to kill Sheppard. Plz, I remind u, always keep in mind, the case is whther Bryant has the right to kill Sheppard...and NOT abt Sheppard past on fraud, alcoholisms and his relationship with his girlfriends? Be fair, and be afraid, there is a GOD above us all...who sees everything ...
As regards Sheppard cases of fraud and etc, he should have been judged in a court and not on Bloor street under the wheels of Bryant....Thank u....

I'll give you bad taste.
A friend of mine was run over by an asshat driving a cement mixer who seemed to think their "privileged" use of the road superceded others right of safe road use. My friend has been wheelchair bound ever since.
His name is Jocelyn Lovell.
Michael Bryant has alot of courage with a Saab in his hand.

I guess my first thought is "who cares." The judge seems to be doing his job by putting everything on hold until this case is finished. I do not know much about this situation but there seems to be a lot of anger out there. The judge must rule by law and not by emotions. casino en ligne

You can only pray that this entire situation is treated as fairly as possible. Let's hope the judge keeps a clear head does whatever the law prescribes. Life must go on.

Dear Random Idiot,

Your comment has a few gross inaccuracies:
- Cyclists pay for the roads through property taxes, and many are also drivers too, so yes cyclists pay for those roads.
- If you open your car door and hit a cyclist YOU are guilty not the cyclist
- If you collide with a cyclist then you need to be able to prove that you were acting responsibly, as a driver you are expected to be aware of your surroundings.
- If you use a vehicle to intimidate, or assault a cyclist then you would be charged under the law much in the same way Michael Bryant was.

I hope that helps.

Dear "...diot":

• Roads, the traffic lights, etc. are paid by motorists with license fees and gas taxes
• Motorists pay property taxes too
• I hardly seen a cyclist obeying all the rules and regulations in Ontario
• Cyclist should go through training same way as motorists go (half of them would not pass anyway)
• Cyclists should have license plate to loose the anonymity they have
• Cyclists (as any other vehicle) suppose to keep safe distance from other vehicles (what never happens)
• Cyclists should use only roads and not sidewalks
• Cyclists should have mandatory lights and use them
• Cyclists should have mandatory helmets on state roads

I hope this helps (save some lives).

Everyone is focused on what happened AFTER **Sheppard grabbed the car. There is about twenty three seconds of video no media organization is showing of what happened **BEFORE Sheppard grabbed the car.

The video is not the best quality but it does show the sequence of events which is something that not one single Toronto news organization has been able to get right so far. At around 8 seconds in Mr. Sheppard has taken the lane. At around 12 seconds in he has turned his head back towards Michael Bryant and has made a hand gesture, in response to what we don't know as there is no audio. What happens next is that Bryant then jerks the Saab forward. I thought that may have been the so called altercation. Then I watched with shock as after a brief pause Bryant guns it and rams Sheppard square on. This does not look like an accident.

To many it clearly shows that Sheppard was most likely deliberately and willfully attacked by Bryant and his Saab long before Sheppard even got back up off of the ground and touched the side of the car.

Sheppard was a drunk aggressive man? Funny that he was obeying all the traffic laws on that night then isn't it? Well he was until he was maliciously run down.

We all can imagine what we would do if a drunken and abusive man attacked us while driving in a convertible. Many have said they would do the same thing. How many of us though will answer the question what we would have done if a sober and abusive man purposefully ran us down?

Watch the video and see for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/user/honestedits#play/uploads/3/ufM...

One of the ironic things here is that in a Toronto Star story Michael Bryant claims that quitting politics gave him the freedom to be able to "give the bird to a neighbour who's cut you off" yet he clearly lost it when he was given the 'bird'. If he had simply waited 30 seconds everyone would have gone their own way.

http://www.thestar.com/article/689770

" Roads, the traffic lights, etc. are paid by motorists with license fees and gas taxes "

Actually PK the license fees only pay a small percentage of the overall cost of maintaing and building our roadways, the majority is paid out of property taxes. The gas tax revenues you mentioned go towards highways and not municipal roads, but again, it is one of several revenue streams.

I hope you feel better informed now.

You are right, this is not about Sheppard's past. The poor guy died for no good reason and should still be here. It isn't right to dissect a victim's past that is unconnected with the issue at hand, all that does is prejudice people against him.
However, if there is a god "who sees everything" then what was he doing? Seems like, if one did exist, it was asleep at the switch.
The new video shows Bryant rammed Sheppard prior to Sheppard grabbing the car that sped away from the collision. I think now it seems more likely all the garbage coming out about Sheppard's personal life was dragged out by PR firm scum. Many suspected it and it sure had that feeling. One of Bryant's first calls that night before police came was to Navigator (as reported in the papers).

I am a fellow cyclist in Hamilton, Ontario who has a suit against Michael Bryant and staff at the Ontario Human Rights Commission that was dismissed by Justice Lofchik on August 21st per rule 21 with abundance breaches of rule of law particularly breaching the United Nations Treaty and the MAG Act, and the Preamble in the Human Rights Code that everyone is equal. I will be appealing Justice Lofchik's decision that includes one side generalized endorsement record refusing to be bound by the UN Treaty, and the code preamble. How does this relate to the recent events well... institutional bias and preferred treatment is given to Mr. Bryant. We saw that with his release with no posting bail. The crown will need to hire judges outside of this province to avoid institutional bias. There is a lot of imaging in our Justice System and one law for the rich and powerful and another for the more vulnerable members of society particularly the poor.

The following sites has information regarding lack of Government Accountability:

losierwhistlebg - Sociological Justice System in Ontario based on ...The moving party is Claudette Losier who commenced judicial at: losierwhistlebg.livejournal.com/331.html

Democracy Watch homepageDemocracy Watch is an Ottawa-based non-profit, non-partisan citizen advocacy organization that focuses ondemocratic reform, government and Canada's government accountability system is worse than many other countries! www.dwatch.ca

Global Integrity 2008 Report Drops Canada From "Strong" to "Moderate" Level in World's Most Detailed Assessment of Government Integrity and Democracy
The Report details what it will take to build real democracy and create genuine stability around the globe, and is available on the Global Integrity website at: http://report.globalintegrity.org In Global Integrity's six categories in its Integrity Indicators Scorecard, Canada had its worst scores in categories (To see the full report on Canada, click here): 3. Government Accountability (Weak at 64% overall, especially in the sub-category of Judicial Accountability with a Very Weak Score of 31%); 4. Administration and Civil Service (Moderate at 76% overall, with a Weak score of 61% in the sub-category of Civil Service Regulations), and; 6. Anti-Corruption and Rule of Law (Moderate at 77% overall, with a Very Weak score of 58% in the sub-category of Law Enforcement).

Crown's Attorney side:
In a criminal case, It is commonly understood that an accused's flight from the scene of a crime is evidence that the accused believed he was guilty of the crime. From that inference another inference, that the accused was in fact guilty, naturally flows. An inference of guilt then may be drawn from circumstantial evidence such as flight from the scene of a crime or the fabrication of lies or the destruction of evidence relating to the offence in question. Evidence of flight is therefore commonly admitted as relevant to the material issue.

1) Why did Mr. Bryant not call the police with the first incident and instead took off in his car when the cyclist did not think the matter was resolved after being hit by his car?

2) After taking off why did he not put the breaks on and stop the car when he knew the cyclist was hanging on to his car?

3) After rolling over the cyclist why did he not immediately stop his car instead of driving it around to the hotel?

for everyone involved. i am not taking sides, merely pointing out that the poll does not help anything.

This was very important news in Toronto at the beginning of the September week about the social, political and economic differences between Michael Bryant and Darcy Sheppard. Then a week later Michael Moore announces his new film coming out "Capitalism: A Love Story" whose theme is capitalism is evil as it goes on to denounce the American plutocracy. Very interesting times and events since the majority is waking up to things they used to ignore before regarding the very rich.

When is the last time anyone saw a guy or woman riding a bike and KILLING someone who was in a car driving it? How much does a bike weigh? How about a Saab? Five pounds of metal against 1500 lbs of metal.

It was EASY, be patient, be courteous and WAIT A DARN MINUTE for someone to move. Watch the VIDEO. One SEES Bryant move up to intimate the cyclist. Then SECONDS later Bryant RAMS him. Obviously Mr. Sheppard was trying to stop a HIT AND RUN. That was Darcy 's LIVELIHOOD that Bryant so callously and thoughtlessly rammed into. Then Bryant couldn't take what he had just dished out and tried to leave-- dragging Darcy with him and OH and yeah, using every thing he could to rid himself of "the pest". That INCLUDES speeding up the wrong side of the road and putting OTHER cars and people in serious peril. What if a Mother were on that sidewalk with a baby in a carriage. Bryant is LUCKY he never killed anyone else in his fit of rage.

AND if you are going to "use" the line "Darcy had a hold of the steerting wheel" crap, Darcy did NOT have his FOOT ON THE GAS PETAL.

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people who post this kind of nonsense on the Internet rarely sign their real names, I suspect that whoever posted this did it to harass the real Mike Kudolo. I can't say for sure, but this has the hallmarks of this kind of fraud.

The poll is closed? minets

...before he knocked him off his bike, from behind. What a slimy gutless act, done by a slimy gutless creep.

...before he knocked him off his bike, from behind. What a slimy gutless act, done by a slimy gutless creep.

slimy gutless pompous asshat.

who cares about the dead alcoholic cyclist?