"CB" writes:
Subject: Death of a Pedestrian due to....
...a mountain biker, in San Francisco.

=v= It was a road bike, not a mountain bike. Why does "CB"
presume to make an assertion that is completely false?

This story was in the 16 Nov. 2011 'San Francisco Chronicle.'
The poor woman -- being a tourist, she obviously didn't know
that in San Francisco people are supposed to jump out of the
way and let the biker just ride through. This is the same
"entitlement" mentality ...

=v= That being their 5th article on this incident from that
newspaper (there have been 2 more since), it being the typical
overhyped nonrepresentative "news" story because the incident
is such a rarity. This is the only such San Francisco fatality
I know of in the last 21 years, but the _Chronicle_ and other
media haven't taken the time to provide that context.

=v= Speaking of entitlement, motorists kill a pedestrian every
21 *days* in San Francisco, but we don't get wall-to-wall news
coverage like this to be used as fodder to concoct stories with
(were they tourists? what was going in the drivers' minds? can
we just make up something mean?).
_Jym_