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1 posted on 05/12/2007 3:21:56 PM PDT by SmithL
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Oh yeah, “Critical Mass” in SF...

*cough* moonbattery *cough*


2 posted on 05/12/2007 3:24:27 PM PDT by Baladas
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It’s Bushes Fault.


3 posted on 05/12/2007 3:25:56 PM PDT by Psycho_Runner (Honey, does this dress make my carbon offset look big?)
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I can’t stand cyclists. If you can’t drive the speed limit, get the heck off the road.


4 posted on 05/12/2007 3:26:02 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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I cant stand bicyclists. Until they start paying taxes for licenses and inspection stickers like car drivers have to do, then get OUT of the street and get your bike on the sidewalk.


5 posted on 05/12/2007 3:26:22 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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I hope the San Francisco Police Department is appropriately ashamed of itself.
6 posted on 05/12/2007 3:28:55 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (<--- "Crazy Aunt" Conservative)
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the driver of that van lived out a hidden fantasy of millions of drivers that day.

I think our road could be more accomodating of bikers. That said, it’s a major annoyance when they clog up traffic. My state has a law where a vehicile must pull off of the road if five or more vehicles are backed up behind it and it is impeding traffic.

A law, needless to say, that is never enforced.


7 posted on 05/12/2007 3:29:53 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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"Hey! You got your van stuck on our bicycles!" "You got your bicycles stuck under my van..."

Where's an earthquake when you need it, to open up the earth and swallow up the moon bats.

8 posted on 05/12/2007 3:30:34 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Never bring a bicycle to a van fight.


10 posted on 05/12/2007 3:38:19 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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Solution =
11 posted on 05/12/2007 3:40:46 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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The mini van driver ...

Go ahead, bike boy, make my day

12 posted on 05/12/2007 3:43:34 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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...bicycle activist Jason Meggs.

How much you want to bet this guy is a faggot?

13 posted on 05/12/2007 3:45:33 PM PDT by nwrep
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On the video, three bicycles are seen stuck beneath the right front tire of the vehicle and bicyclists trying to remove them

Maybe the driver thought he was in a Clint Eastwood movie

15 posted on 05/12/2007 3:50:09 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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These cyclists ignore the traffic laws and drive en masse right through stop signs, red lights, etc. They dare the cops to stop them. The cops just pretend it doesn’t happen out there. A few weeks ago they terrorized a mother and her children in a minivan, breakng windows out and scaring the children horribly. These guys are thugs on bikes. In my state, they’d get shot for this kind of thing.


16 posted on 05/12/2007 3:50:20 PM PDT by DesScorp
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Boycott Berkeley


19 posted on 05/12/2007 3:50:57 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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What does “dozens of cyclists” mean? 36? 150? 500?

One of the leaders “said the cyclists had a green light when they entered the intersection, but he did not know if the light had changed before they’d all made it across the street.”

In other words, there were probably so many damned bikes that they expected traffic to sit there and wait through several green lights. I don’t object to bicyclists, but they have an obligation under the law to stop for red lights and let other traffic go through.

It used to drive me crazy when messenger bikes zipped through red lights in NYC during the rush hour and never even looked to see if cars were coming.


21 posted on 05/12/2007 3:51:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Jason Meggs

The poor queen is one giant victim on the road.... The Man just won't leave him alone!

23 posted on 05/12/2007 3:52:55 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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I hate bicyclists. They need to decide if they are traffic or pedestrians and stick to it. However, they want the best of both worlds. They want to ride in the street, and then if there is a lot of traffic, red lights, stop signs, etc. they jump up on the sidewalk, etc.

I’d love to drive a van threw a whole swath of them if I could be certain I wouldn’t cause serious injury.


24 posted on 05/12/2007 3:55:14 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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Critical Mass does this routinely, frequently riding in violation of the laws of motoring and common manners. The intent of their rides is to take over the streets from automobiles. Provoking/creating/inventing an incident is part of their M.O. The fact that their ‘taper/spokesperson’ says the P.D. blamed them for this one is a good indication of whose fault it was.


28 posted on 05/12/2007 3:58:40 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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I’m not particularly fond of Earth First activists, nor gay bicyclists or whatever, but some of the replies in this thread reek of fat cat upper crust republican hate mongers, which is really all the conservatives need at this point.
33 posted on 05/12/2007 4:04:25 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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... participant who videotaped part of the fracas said today.

That's all that I needed to read.

-PJ

36 posted on 05/12/2007 4:07:25 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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