Posted on 07/11/2011 10:27:11 PM PDT by george76
A Panama City man is recovering after a black bear attacked him while he was riding his bike to work.
John Hearn said he saw something out of the corner of his eye early Thursday morning. The nearly 300-pound bear smacked him off his bicycle and then fled into some nearby woods. Passing motorists stopped to help
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Just a bear doing the job I’m not fast enough to do. Hate bicycle morons.
Bear says, “mmmm spandex and it comes with its own water bottle to wash it down.”
Bear hit and run. It never stops.
Even the black bears are wilding.
A Black Bear? I guess Ray Lewis was right when he said NFL players would turn to crime if the lockout dragged on too long!
(Nah, at only “almost” 300 lbs., this Bear is way too light to play in the modern-day NFL....)
How much did the bicyclist weigh?
If they get into a Black Berry patch the next thing you know there will be bear flash mobs.
lol...funniest line of the day award to you!
Meals on Wheels.
If you don’t mind my asking, why are people who ride bicycles morons, and why do you hate them?
:-) ty
There it is. The after dinner toothpick.
Ummm, I was GONNA, uh, say something, uh, about “the other, uh, white meat”, but ummm, well, uh, you know.
"What makes you think people are welcome at BBQs?"
Morons they are or not I don't know, but there is an easy way to develop a dislike for bicyclists. Here is how.
Buy a house that sits on a narrow 2-lane road that is several miles long. Add a misfortune of that road being well paved, scenic and twisted. Now try to get to or from your home. You will find that bicyclists are riding on that road, and since the road is twisting and the visibility is limited you can't pass them safely. You basically have two options: you either wait for a long time for a good moment to pass, or you risk your life and lives of others.
Other situations involve city roads. You are in the right lane. There are bicycles in that lane, but you can't share the lane safely. The road is packed. What options do you have?
In other words, bicycles aren't capable of keeping up with traffic. As result, they are a hazard. Many bicyclists are killed, so the danger is there. Car drivers have to find ways to drive around such obstacles; such maneuvers are statistically dangerous. Lack of lane width forces drivers to pass bicycles too close for comfort.
So the mutual dislike between car drivers and the bicycle riders is largely caused by the obvious fact that they can't share the road. It's not a matter of diversity training, it's a matter of physics and geometry. A bicycle needs at least half the lane to be passed safely, which means that the car driver has to take half of the opposite lane to pass. Sometimes he does that where passing is not allowed. If an accident happens, who gets blamed - the car driver who made the hasty decision or the bicycle rider who created the situation in the first place?
Yet another aspect of this issue is in fact that a lot of that bicycling is completely optional. In essence, bicyclists use the public road as their personal gym and their personal sighseeing location. You may want to get home ASAP but get stuck behind a bicyclist who just takes his sweet time and enjoys the ride. You, on the other hand, enjoy nothing - you have a job to do, a place to get to, etc. Bicyclists are not singled out as such problems; car drivers will not like any vehicle that is disrupting the flow of traffic; but if it is a farm vehicle you at least know that the farmer has to drive it, he has a need, and he is using his right for the road not to annoy you but because some field needs work. There is no such purpose for most bicyclists - people in spandex ride because they like riding. Illegal Mexicans on bikes gather more respect in this sense - they ride a bike because that's all they have; it's not something they choose to do for fun.
I'm sure bicyclists would be similarly annoyed if dog walkers and octomoms are using bike paths to walk their dogs and children. Pedestrians would be likewise annoyed if large tortouses are randomly crawling on sidewalks. People like order in their lives; seeing a bicycle ahead of you is a small disruption of that order.
Hardly an attack. Should read:
Dumbass on bicycle rides into path of fast moving bear.
Excellent!
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