Posted on 07/26/2008 5:29:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase
The man tried to back up, but bumped into a biker. "This enraged the group," Jamieson said.>
The driver tried to drive away, but hit another bicyclist.
Critical Mass riders cornered the car again and started spitting on it and banging against it.
One bicyclist punched the driver through his open window, and another used a knife to slash the Subaru's tires, Jamieson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Typical King County Liberals — in Clown Suits...
Hey - at least it isn't an AP article!!!
Upon reading the whole article, I feel the fellow did all he could to not hit someone. He should have been perfectly justified if he had chosen to back up over anyone who wouldn't get out of the way, then pull forward, running over anyone who wouldn't get out of the way.
More liberal enviro-freak, nutcases who are more concerned with self than with anything else.
Good thing the peaceful protestors carry knives with them.
I would have just floored it and ran the filthy scum over.
Looks like another example showing the need for full-capacity magazines and CCW of pistols.
From what I read in the article, you are right. Concealed Carry is the only way to prevent this type of crap........Well, maybe not but it sure helps.
An equally bad attitude on the part of the driver could have helped him out in crushing a few bikes
It gets interesting around here each February, as there's a huge charity ride called "Tour De Palm Springs", and the hundred mile category comes right through our neighborhood, known as the "La Quinta Cove"....makes sense due to about a four mile loop with hills and curves and no traffic signals.
We've pretty much learned to bookmark that Saturday as a "stay home" day because cyclists pour down our residential street by the hundred...for hours. They have the right of way and there's no way I'm even getting out of the driveway.
The problem is that all the Armstrong wannabes pre-play the course for days ahead of the rally -- running totally amok of traffic, stop signs, road courtesy, you name it. THEN is when I have my bitty bit of fun. If I'm at one of our stop signs and see a "peleton" charging, I exercise my legal right and proceed........pisses the hell out of 'em.
The thugs should be thrown in jail.
This is different. These kooks are political agitators who want to ban automobiles. We used to have them every Friday in San Francisco. They went away. I always assumed that the mayor cut some kind of deal but maybe they just moved north.
Poor Seattle.
I don't mind the serious ones. They are aware, follow most of the rules and I have one that I meet every morning on my drive. I hold his line for him down a very steep, curvy spot to the river ford. He hits close to the speed limit and that is fine with me. I coast and save gas! We wave at each other as I pass him after the river ford. He keeps his lane, wear a helmet, wears clothes that can be seen.
Sadly most others I'd love to be able to call in a license plate on them. They have NO business on the road. They need to stay on the “all purpose trail.” Licensed cyclists would give drivers a chance to call in unsafe cyclists. If every other vehicle on the road needs to be licensed, bicycles should be too.
They shouldn’t be identified as “bicyclists,” but what they really are — “terrorists” and “anarchists” — using the healthy bicycling movement to perpetuate their anti-social behaviors.
Blocking all the lanes is no way to promote a message of “sharing the road.” It merely raises the hostility and enmity level so that the citizens attack each other without provocation and discrimination.
It’s quite a deliberate exploitation of a community’s inability to make “valid” discriminations from arbitrary ones. That has hurt and handicapped urban centers like Seattle and Portland from taking the lead of civilization into the 21st century — from the obviously decaying cities of the 20th century, ie., New York and Washington.
Fortunately, the Internet changed the balance of power to smaller urban communities, where people still behave civilly and respectfully to one another, because they actually know one another, rather than just these generalizations and labels of what the “other” people are like.
These tactics are just another way to exacerbate the divisions and partisanships so people are disposed to fight one another — at the least provocation.
Somebody in Seattle, wake up and think!
perhaps a loaded paintball gun on the seat at all times while driving in Seattle?....
These whacko’s are just another fringe element of the far left hate America crowd....
The thing is...these idiots on their bikes want to be treated as if they are a car. They will pedal along in front of you and make left turns in the car left turn lane in downtown Seattle. Keep your stupid bikes on the bike paths you asshats!....
Although I'm inclined to agree, but I wouldn't want to give the rest of the paintball players (myself included) bad press.
- Traveler
Washington State is "shall issue" CCW
CCW doesn't do you a damn bit of good unless you actually get the license and actually carry
So these bike nuts randomly mass together and screw up traffic. Innocent people get caught in the pandemonium and if they accidentally bump someone in the midst of the chaos, these nuts use it as an excuse to assault them. Sounds like these bikers purposely create a situation where they have an excuse to attack people.
This is the point at which I would have just mowed the whole pack down, as in that incident in Mexico last month.
15-pound bicycle, 5,000-pound car. Do the math. Solve the problem.
I can’t wait till some driver losses it and mows down a couple of dozen of em. Put me on the jury and he will walk....
I carry one of those BIG bear spray models in my truck and car. Drop’em in their tracks at 25-30 feet!
I’m around 15 years on mine. And I do.
Not in Washington state, though.
Looking back and thinking about the long season ahead I believe I will start using a cell phone and call the local sheriff about the 'road hazards'.
I’m an old retired guy...generally pissed off about something.
I pulled up next to some of these bike bozos at a stop sign last week. (I have a big SUV).
One of them starts giving me grief about how they have as much right to the road as an automobile and I should wait for them instead of pulling around them.
I told him to go F himself - then the guy gets off his bike and comes over to the passenger side window which I had opened to respond to him.
He was just about to lean in the window when my Rotweiller (Abby) who was riding with me decided that she was not at all interested in what he had to say.
She almost got a mouthful of spandex and yuppie meat.
We’re going for a ride tomorrow (Sunday) morning to see if we can’t find another herd of them to mess with.
Looks to me like a "liberal on liberal" crime.
Subaru... those non-union, extremely reliable, American-built Subarus that I can drive in all conditions... they’re liberal? Sheesh.
Remember the scythed chariot in Ben-Hur? Time to get "retro".
They pull this crap “share the road”; yet they pay exactly zero to PAY for the road. No license plate, no gas tax, no anything. About four years ago here in St. Pete (FL) an old guy either got tired of them or maybe didn’t see them. Around 11 bikers were hogging the road in their clown outfits and bicycles, and he got riled and ran them all over like bowling pins. No one got killed, but it was hilarious. The bikes looked like they were smashed by a steamroller. And the Spandex crowd were pissing and moaning. Guess the old man didn’t share the road.
Not the car, but the driver. Subarus are typically driven by the same types as Volvos. Typically, but not always.
Not something I would ordinarily do, but about 15 years ago, in Irvine, about 50 of these clowns tied up the entire right turn lane, on a six lane boulevard, for about 30 yards. I was already late for work, and it took a full five minutes to negotiate a turn that should have taken 15 seconds. I was poor, back in the day, and my old clunker was an oil burner, in need of a valve job. After getting past “the pack” by about 20 yards, I dropped it in neutral, and revved it up real good, while coasting down a slope for about 1/2 a mile. I got a real kick out of watching those bass turds try to hold their breath for as long as I dared to stick around.
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A serious cyclist -- not the arrogant idiots & libs, we have too many of those -- will behave this way. There was one commute, once, where I had to ride outside of the bicycle lane because it was very full of tire-shredding trash (and I commuted on as iron-plated wheels as I could), but it was a downhill route where I could keep pace with traffic.
Here is an article from 2007. Same situation, but an elderly couple, and there is video. Gee. So this isn’t an isolated incident. Big surprise here. I am going to NOT side with the cyclists, given the propensity of these people to engage in this confrontational behavior. I cannot find the video on Youtube, but I saw it last year. These jerkoffs terrorized an elderly couple.
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Elderly couple caught up in altercation with Critical Mass bicyclists
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, May 13, 2007
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An angry confrontation erupted during Friday night’s Critical Mass bike ride in Berkeley when cyclists accused a motorist of trying to run them over, a participant who videotaped part of the fracas said Saturday.
But police said Saturday that participants of the monthly bike ride threw their bicycles in front of the motorist to impede him.
The incident, similar to an altercation during a Critical Mass in San Francisco in March, occurred at about 8 p.m. as dozens of cyclists rode through the intersection of The Alameda and Monterey Avenue in North Berkeley, said bicycle activist Jason Meggs.
A 72-year-old man driving the Chevrolet minivan and his 70-year-old wife were surrounded by bicyclists who rocked their vehicle, police said, adding that two witnesses told them that three riders threw their bicycles in front of the minivan to block its path.
Tempers flared on both sides and the minivan’s windshield was shattered and a wiper bent, but Berkeley police did not make any arrests, said Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, department spokeswoman.
“There’s nothing to suggest in the report or documentation thus far that the driver intentionally or had an intent to hit anybody,” she said. “The driver and his wife, both of them were very confused and, in their words, feared for their safety being encircled by this group, who they characterized as being quite aggressive and angry.”
But Meggs disputed that account, saying the man drove toward the cyclists, prompting the confrontation. On a video of the incident filmed by Meggs, cyclists are seen trying to remove three bicycles stuck beneath the right front tire of the van.
“Everybody, back away!” one person is heard shouting. Cyclists are seen and heard pounding on the vehicle’s hood and windows.
“What the f — ? What’s your f — problem?” one cyclist demands of the driver, who is inside the vehicle with the windows closed.
Firefighters at a nearby Berkeley fire station heard the commotion and summoned police because it appeared that “an angry crowd was surrounding a minivan,” Kusmiss said.
Meggs said two cyclists were hurt but declined medical care.
The incident evoked comparisons to a March 30 fracas during Critical Mass in San Francisco.
In that case, Susan Ferrando of Redwood City said she found herself in the middle of a group of bicyclists and tried to drive through them. Hundreds of bicyclists surrounded her minivan, she said, pounding on it and riding in circles around it. Eventually, she said, someone used a bicycle to smash the rear window.
Some cyclists, however, say that Ferrando accelerated recklessly, hit a rider and kept driving until the bicyclists surrounded her.
A portion of the video shot during the incident Friday night in Berkeley can be seen at bclu.org/20070511.
The stoatmobile does not stop for mass*****.
“I would have just floored it and ran the filthy scum over.”
“Gee officer, after I was struck in the head and then saw the knife, I was in fear of my life.”
The five key words are bolded.
I was involved in a 3 car chain reaction.
2 cars in line, in the same lane stopped at an intersection.
Third car from behind is oblivious to anything including
the red light, bangs into me. I bang ahead into the car
in front of me. And the car stopped at the front of the intersection, that I hit and pushed forward has 2 bicyclists in front of it playing
‘automobile’. One of them got pushed into oncoming traffic
and was run over. The other one got lucky. These adults
on bicycles playing ‘automobile’ have no sense of what safety is....there too preoccupied with their ‘rights’
and more time than not...they are grossly more unsafe than
your typical teenager who tools around on bikes as a means
of transportation.
“After I emptied my pepper spray they just kept coming, officer. I had no choice but to use my .45. I feared for my life!”
I don’t carry pepper spray, guess I would have to skip step one.
Jack
exactly
LOL
Critical mass or critical asses?
Just another bunch of socialist enviro-weenies.
Critical Mass’ idea of a protest that will bring people to their way of thinking is to shut down Hwy 99 Northbound from the viaduct (the heart of downtown Seattle) on a Friday night at 6:00.
Sure is a great idea to shutdown one of the two ways home from work (to the North) on a Friday evening if you want to get car owners to “respect” your bicycle riding rights.
But I did notice what appeared to be a bottle of water thrown from oncoming traffic (50 mph) into a mass of the bicycle riders. Hit one of the riders square in the chest.
Liberals need very little to take their masks off.
Once in control, they will take our heads off...
Buy up a few dozen bags of jack rocks and when you know these two wheeled terrorists are coming, scatter them across the roadway.
Those thin bicycle tires aren’t going to handle being punctured nearly as well as a car tire.
A few dozen of them whining with flats would be a laugh riot.
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