Posted on 07/26/2006 4:22:31 AM PDT by iowamark
An unidentified bicyclist lay under the Girls Gone Wild bus in the rain for approximately 20 minutes at the intersection of Burlington and Linn Streets on Tuesday evening after he collided with the tour bus, Fire Battalion Chief Jim Humston said.
Jody Braverman was stopped at the light while the bus slowly turned right onto Linn Street around 8:16 p.m., he said.
"I heard a sound like something sliding," he said. "I didn't know if it was the bicycle sliding and skidding, or if it was because the bus was locking its brakes, or if it was the bus dragging the bike."
Iowa City police Officer Carlos Trevno was the first responder at the scene. He said the man was fully conscious the whole time he was being pulled out from under the bus. Trevno said the bicyclist "wasn't really commenting about pain. He was just wanting the bus off of him."
The Fire Department had to use air bags to lift the vehicle from the bicyclist, Humston said.
"Our goal was to get him out in the 'Golden Hour' - allowing only an hour to pass while he was extricated," he said. "We had him out in about 20 minutes and transported by Johnson County ambulance."
The man was taken to UI Hospitals and Clinics, but a report on his condition was unavailable as of Tuesday night.
Joe Hitchon said he was working at the front desk of hotel Vetro in the Plaza Towers when Girls Gone Wild staff checked in around 8:30 p.m.
"There was a lot of excitement; you could say that," he said. "But they seemed pretty concerned." A total of 12 rooms had been reserved for the group members, who were stopping in Iowa City as part of a nationwide tour to promote their college-party-theme videos.
Hotel Vetro front-desk supervisor Ben Nielson said he was told the Girls Gone Wild representatives had plans to shoot an infomercial at the Union, 121 E. College St., Tuesday night.
When the Girls Gone Wild staff walked through the doors, "I heard someone say, 'This whole weekend is off,' " Hitchon said.
The accident was still under investigation Tuesday evening; traffic officials worked to gather measurements and photos of the scene.
Measurements of what?
wonder what the cyclist had his eyes on...
...part of a nationwide tour to promote their college-party-theme videos.
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My, won't Mom and Dad be so proud!
The busdriver can't possibly be held responsible.
How can you really be expected to keep your eyes on the road with all of that hot semi-naked lesbian kissing going on in the bus behind you?
Ahhh, help me out here. If he was sitting still at a light and the bus hit him, he did not "collide" with the bus. He got clobbered.
OK. The Jody Braverman who was stopped at the light is a witness. The bicyclist who was injured is "unidentified". We don't know exactly what he was doing.
Indeed. I'll be sure to give some advice to my future daughter; If you're going to star in a smut film while in college, at least get paid for it!
Amen to that. To be honest with you the most inane thing about Girls Gone Wild is that the college women who flash their breasts in those videos only get a t-shirt with 'Girls Gone Wild' emblazoned on it. Nothing else. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Yet the guy who started the company is a multi-millionaire living the good life.
That has to be one of the darnest arrangements this side of the world - and it just shows the lack of intelligence in the women who flash. They don't even get paid for it, and at the same time the owner of the company is getting cash hand over fist.
If I was the parent of one of those girls I'd be just as concerned with their lack of business acumen as with their lack of morals.
Nope They're "drunk" and "wasted" and "completely hammered". Have you ever seen a GGW video? Pathetic, really. Most of the girls are glassy-eyed and look like they're about to fall over.
There really isn't anything arousing about them.
I imagine that for most of these girls, Sunday morning is pretty hard. Not only are they suffering from a mind-crushing hangover, but eventually it dawns on them that they are now preserved for eternity on film. Will potential husbands see this video? Future children? Will they be on an infomercial late-night on Comedy Central?
And they didn't even earn a cent.
Evil cyclist, that's what you get for riding two abreast.
"GGW plays commercials on Fox Sports while I'm trying to watch Pride Fighting ...
These commercials are one of the reasons I can't enjoy watching a fight with my son."
Oh, the irony...
I'd be willing to bet the bicyclist was at fault. Have you ever seen a bicyclist obey traffic laws? Stop for stop signs and stop lights? Signal a turn?
Irony? How?
Lucky guy! Good way to get chicks.
Thanks a lot, a nice fresh cup of coffe, all over my screen...
you understandably disparage the trashy GGW, but do so chiefly because of the fact that it interferes with the enjoyment of another morally ambiguous spectacle.
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