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The "Real" Risk: Bicycles!
=v= Check out this bizarre Op-Ed piece in the _Daily_News_:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html =v= I did a web search on the author and found that she's head of one of those anti-environmental junk science groups. Hence her dismissal of the dangers of toxins and carbon monoxide, etc. =v= What's bizarre is that her idea of a "real" risk is being run down by a bicycle. This in a tabloid newspaper that has a seemingly unending supply of lurid stories and photos about cars and SUVs running down pedestrians! I think she comes off as a real idiot by freaking out over bicycles. =v= I do of course think it's hazardous and wrong to operate a bicycle in an unsafe manner, but to call this THE "real" risk is really kind of loopy. _Jym_ |
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Jym Dyer wrote in :
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html I have to wonder which cabinet position this person will get??? |
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Department of Transportation, of course.
"Alan Acock" wrote in message 6... Jym Dyer wrote in : http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html I have to wonder which cabinet position this person will get??? |
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Robert Haston wrote:
Department of Transportation, of course. I'd think the keen insight into relative risk assessment would be most valuable at Homeland Security, replacing Tom Ridge. "Alan Acock" wrote in message 6... Jym Dyer wrote in : http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html I have to wonder which cabinet position this person will get??? |
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Alan Acock wrote:
Jym Dyer wrote in : http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html I have to wonder which cabinet position this person will get??? laughing Yep. --- Stop Elmer Fudd web site: http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ Covert text file server: http://www.notserver.com/ Scientology crooks: http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html "And by the way - about the name you keep calling us -- "rightards". Very nice of your liberal sorry ****ed up ass to come up with a name that debases mentally disabled persons." -- Charlie Wolf |
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Jym Dyer wrote in message ...
=v= Check out this bizarre Op-Ed piece in the _Daily_News_: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html =v= I did a web search on the author and found that she's head of one of those anti-environmental junk science groups. Hence her dismissal of the dangers of toxins and carbon monoxide, etc. =v= What's bizarre is that her idea of a "real" risk is being run down by a bicycle. This in a tabloid newspaper that has a seemingly unending supply of lurid stories and photos about cars and SUVs running down pedestrians! I think she comes off as a real idiot by freaking out over bicycles. =v= I do of course think it's hazardous and wrong to operate a bicycle in an unsafe manner, but to call this THE "real" risk is really kind of loopy. _Jym_ You tell my friend, the mother of a 17 year old boy knocked down by an unlit bicycle riding on a pavement in the dark when her son was knocked down, fractured his skull and subsequently died that there is no risk from bicycles. Cyclists seem to think they can be both pedestrians and motorists. We need more cycle lanes to give them their own place to go. |
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