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"Roger Zoul" wrote in message ...
Ron McKinnon wrote: [...] I suggest that, in the future, you do your best to avoid second encounters with stupid people driving cars (assuming the first encounter was forced upon you). It can't be good policy for a cyclist. I agree. People are crazy. Its not even worth it (and not effective) to assert your rights to someone who is enraged about something else in their life and is taking it out on you with road rage. The fact that the guy had plenty of room to pass or at worst was slowed down for a couple of seconds demonstrates that this is not about traffic with the road-rager. He has something else going on, and it is best not to get involved in his problems. You won't "teach" him anything and risk more than you than expect. -H. |
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Jorma wrote:
Probably was a cop. Definitely an asshole, and apparently a coward, so almost certainly not a cop. Asshole cops never run in fear from confrontation with unarmed peasants. An asshole cop would at least threaten to arrest him if he didn't get on the sidewalk where he belongs. Mitch. |
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Jorma wrote:
Probably was a cop. Definitely an asshole, and apparently a coward, so almost certainly not a cop. Asshole cops never run in fear from confrontation with unarmed peasants. An asshole cop would at least threaten to arrest him if he didn't get on the sidewalk where he belongs. Mitch. |
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Sadly, I think the "other thing" that many people have going on in their
lives is an underlying frustration with bicyclists who constantly ignore the rules of the road and are frequently a menace to drivers as they weave in and out of traffic, ride on the wrong side of the road, and blow through traffic lights. Most of my riding is done out here on the roads of Long Island, where nobody bothers to teach or learn the proper and safe way to ride a bicycle beyond the end of the driveway. As a result, I am constantly on edge while driving around town, waiting for yet another kid on a Mongoose to come flying off the corner on the left side of the road - or worse, an experienced adult rider with an expensive bike flying through a red light so as not to fall short of yesterday's time. It seems that most urban riders are much more aware of safe and legal riding techniques, but I've certainly seen a lot of oblivious peddlers in New York City. This ****es ME off -- and I'm a cyclist. I can't imagine how it irks a driver who only wishes he/she had a bicycle! "H" wrote in message m... "Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... Ron McKinnon wrote: [...] I suggest that, in the future, you do your best to avoid second encounters with stupid people driving cars (assuming the first encounter was forced upon you). It can't be good policy for a cyclist. I agree. People are crazy. Its not even worth it (and not effective) to assert your rights to someone who is enraged about something else in their life and is taking it out on you with road rage. The fact that the guy had plenty of room to pass or at worst was slowed down for a couple of seconds demonstrates that this is not about traffic with the road-rager. He has something else going on, and it is best not to get involved in his problems. You won't "teach" him anything and risk more than you than expect. -H. |
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Sadly, I think the "other thing" that many people have going on in their
lives is an underlying frustration with bicyclists who constantly ignore the rules of the road and are frequently a menace to drivers as they weave in and out of traffic, ride on the wrong side of the road, and blow through traffic lights. Most of my riding is done out here on the roads of Long Island, where nobody bothers to teach or learn the proper and safe way to ride a bicycle beyond the end of the driveway. As a result, I am constantly on edge while driving around town, waiting for yet another kid on a Mongoose to come flying off the corner on the left side of the road - or worse, an experienced adult rider with an expensive bike flying through a red light so as not to fall short of yesterday's time. It seems that most urban riders are much more aware of safe and legal riding techniques, but I've certainly seen a lot of oblivious peddlers in New York City. This ****es ME off -- and I'm a cyclist. I can't imagine how it irks a driver who only wishes he/she had a bicycle! "H" wrote in message m... "Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... Ron McKinnon wrote: [...] I suggest that, in the future, you do your best to avoid second encounters with stupid people driving cars (assuming the first encounter was forced upon you). It can't be good policy for a cyclist. I agree. People are crazy. Its not even worth it (and not effective) to assert your rights to someone who is enraged about something else in their life and is taking it out on you with road rage. The fact that the guy had plenty of room to pass or at worst was slowed down for a couple of seconds demonstrates that this is not about traffic with the road-rager. He has something else going on, and it is best not to get involved in his problems. You won't "teach" him anything and risk more than you than expect. -H. |
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Mike wrote:
Ken (NY) Bin Laden's plea to the US: "ANYBODY BUT BUSH!" Actually, the reverse is true. PArticularly if by "bin Laden" you mean the Saudi bin Laden family who are such good and loyal friends of Dubya that they were allowed to flee the country after 9/11 while just about everything else was grounded... Apparently the CIA were none too happy that they were not allowed to interview these folks. But hey, they couldn't possibly have been bad guys - they were Republican donors! Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University |
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Mike wrote:
Ken (NY) Bin Laden's plea to the US: "ANYBODY BUT BUSH!" Actually, the reverse is true. PArticularly if by "bin Laden" you mean the Saudi bin Laden family who are such good and loyal friends of Dubya that they were allowed to flee the country after 9/11 while just about everything else was grounded... Apparently the CIA were none too happy that they were not allowed to interview these folks. But hey, they couldn't possibly have been bad guys - they were Republican donors! Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University |
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
Mike wrote: Ken (NY) Bin Laden's plea to the US: "ANYBODY BUT BUSH!" Actually, the reverse is true. PArticularly if by "bin Laden" you mean the Saudi bin Laden family who are such good and loyal friends of Dubya that they were allowed to flee the country after 9/11 while just about everything else was grounded... Apparently the CIA were none too happy that they were not allowed to interview these folks. But hey, they couldn't possibly have been bad guys - they were Republican donors! This was one of the first and easiest of MM's lies to expose. From /59 Deceits/ by Dave Kopel (http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fift...enheit-911.htm): "No commercial planes, including chartered flights, were permitted to fly into, out of, or within the United States until September 13, 2001. After the airspace reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between September 14 and 24. One flight, the so-called Bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on September 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Usama Bin Ladin. We have found no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace. The Saudi flights were screened by law enforcement officials, primarily the FBI, to ensure that people on these flights did not pose a threat to national security, and that nobody of interest to the FBI with regard to the 9/11 investigation was allowed to leave the country. Thirty of the 142 people on these flights were interviewed by the FBI, including 22 of the 26 people (23 passengers and 3 private security guards) on the Bin Ladin flight. Many were asked detailed questions. None of the passengers stated that they had any recent contact with Usama Bin Ladin or knew anything about terrorist activity. The FBI checked a variety of databases for information on the Bin Ladin flight passengers and searched the aircraft. It is unclear whether the TIPOFF terrorist watchlist was checked. At our request, the Terrorist Screening Center has rechecked the names of individuals on the flight manifests of these six Saudi flights against the current TIPOFF watchlist. There are no matches. The FBI has concluded that nobody was allowed to depart on these six flights who the FBI wanted to interview in connection with the 9/11 attacks, or who the FBI later concluded had any involvement in those attacks. To date, we have uncovered no evidence to contradict this conclusion." But again, why let the truth intrude on your outrage? Bill "read the rest of it while you're at it" S. |
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