It's a great thing to have because maintaining proper tire pressure saves gas.
:)
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 ...
“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.
Ping.
And these creatures will be in Denver, full strength.
Driver was in a subaru, the car of envirowhackos.
Too bad the guy didn’t drive an Escalade with enough power to really drive over the lot.
It's a great thing to have because maintaining proper tire pressure saves gas.
:)
Not all of us are arrogant a**holes, but I'd like to know how the jack***es on this site can tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys while driving by in their car.
Probably by the way they act. Just a hunch.
Yes, please bring that with you. I will point to it as I explain to the officer why I was afraid for my life and acted in self-defense.
“but I’d like to know how the jack***es on this site can tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys while driving by in their car. “
Spitting on the guy and slashing his tires was probably a really good clue.
You failed your “Contextual reading” classes, didn’t you?
“A 72-year-old man driving the Chevrolet minivan and his 70-year-old wife”
Hmm....I think see a pattern forming, here.
Wonder why they don’t “intimidate”, oh, let’s say a group of Hell’s Angels or a big hairy guy in an F-250 with NRA stickers all over it.
Oh, yeah...I forgot...”A bully’s face conceals a coward’s heart”.
Never mind.
Lucky for you that you don't live in South Carolina. Our "conservative" Governor (that everyone seems to be so crazy about) recently signed a law that forbids honking at bicyclists. Or passing them "too closely".
That second one seems awfully subjective.
Of course, a couple of years ago, Sanford toughened the seat belt law, making it a primary offense, meaning that we can now be stopped and ticketed for not wearing the belt.
When the seat belt law was initially proposed here, we were assured that it would be a secondary offense, meaning that you had to be stopped for another offense first, before also receiving a ticket for not wearing the belt.
I remember reading an article at the time that quoted Sanford as saying something to the effect of: I am against the seat belt law, but if we have one, it should be a tough one.
But hey... We are the folks who keep giving ya'll Lindsey Graham.
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