This is the second time in the past year cars have killed or maimed somebody right where I’ve been known to stand or sit. Christ. One minute you’re sitting there eating a hot dog and the next minute you have no foot. Why? Because of speeding fucking cars! As one comment says: Giuliani put cattle…
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Just days after the start of the Citibike Share, I took what should have been a very minor fall (bizarrely close to where I last fell, nine years ago). This recent fall was entirely operator error. For no particular reason, while going uphill at slow speed, I scraped a concrete wall with my left handlebar.…
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Is this real or an onion parody? The strange thing is I think it’s real. [thanks to J.B.]
In the BBC.
“NYPD busts crazed, half-naked man in Queensboro Bridge attack on cyclist.” The story in the Daily News. At 6:45 AM. This is why I only ride over the bridge at night, when it’s safe.
From the Wall Street Journal: A new helmet law reduces bicycle deaths among the affected age group by about 19%. It doesn’t affect older riders. Since serious bicycle accidents are rare, however, the absolute numbers are still small, about eight fewer deaths a year among kids 5 to 15 than would otherwise occur in the…
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I hate honking cars. Probably more than most people. I mean, have you thrown eggs at honking cars? And that’s only after getting pissed off, putting on pants, leaving my house, and talking to the offending driver. And they still honk?! Usually, when the eggs flew, they were honking at the garbage trucks. That’s a…
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A horrible story from the West Coast: Witnesses said the SUV came speeding south on the street, hit the first bicyclist head on, and then hit the second less than a block away at 24th Street. The driver roared east about a mile to the corner of 23rd and Pennsylvania streets, where he hit the…
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He’s actually charging a driver for killing a bicyclist. Usually to get away with manslaughter all a driver has to do is stay at the scene and not be drunk. By the normal rules, the bicyclist would be blamed for biking without a bell.
That headline is as rare as “man bites dog”! Of course it took the driver, Christopher Thomas Thompson, a medical doctor, to tell police that he wanted to “teach them a lesson.” And it wasn’t the first time he tried to kill bicyclists. His M.O. is to pass the bikes–who were, in this case, actually…
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