SFPD needs to crack down on Bicyclists with No Lights (& SF-GG Bridge-LarkspurRide Report)

Jym Dyer wrote:

=v= People yearn for an escape from their malled-in existence
and a lot of them were fooled into buying SUVs that were
marketed as such an escape. Bragging about how your pre-SUV was
The Real Deal and how the plebes who later bought came along and
bought SUVs just feeds into this misperception.
_Jym_


I became "keeping up with our joneses".

doofy wrote:
Jym Dyer wrote:

=v= People yearn for an escape from their malled-in existence
and a lot of them were fooled into buying SUVs that were
marketed as such an escape. Bragging about how your pre-SUV was
The Real Deal and how the plebes who later bought came along and
bought SUVs just feeds into this misperception.
_Jym_


I became "keeping up with our joneses".

"It became", not "I became". No SUV's for me. No sir. Uh uhn.

doofy wrote:

I knew Suzuki Samarai's were roll-over risks long before it came out in
the media, or through statistics. I pulled up behind one, estimicated
the ratio of height to width, and said "****, that thing ain't safe."

What do I get for being so damned smart?

Not too much, because the Samurai's were actually no worse than some
other top-heavy, narrow SUVs of the era.

SMS wrote:
doofy wrote:

I knew Suzuki Samarai's were roll-over risks long before it came out
in the media, or through statistics. I pulled up behind one,
estimicated the ratio of height to width, and said "****, that thing
ain't safe."

What do I get for being so damned smart?

Not too much, because the Samurai's were actually no worse than some
other top-heavy, narrow SUVs of the era.

But, but...this was before anyone was saying anything about it.