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Got a parking ticket!
"Maggie" wrote:
Tom Keats wrote: In article .com, "Maggie" writes: The obvious answer is to ride instead of drive. No hassle. Well in Jersey it has been raining since Saturday...and the weather report says it will be raining all week. So wear raingear. cheers again, Tom OK, I've been posting for a long time now. You think I will go out biking with raingear on? If we can find some with a Dooney & Bourke label on it, you might. |
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Got a parking ticket!
Maggie wrote: Buck wrote: I got a parking ticket yesterday... on my truck. I have used the truck so little over the last year that I wasn't paying attention to when the tags were due. I had to drive yesterday so I could make an afternoon appointment. The local law spotted the expired tag and left me a little note to pay a fine. Bummer. Of course, I'm back on the bike today.... -Buck Some people on this NG think that motorists are not fined enough or given stiff enough penalties for bicycle/motorist related accidents. Around my area, there are checkpoints for all types of things. If you do one freaking thing wrong, you are stopped and ticketed. I've never seen anyone stopped on their bike. Not around here; cyclists are cited for various violations, but not nearly as many or as often as they should. Same with operators of motor vehicles; some get cited, but not nearly as many as should get ticketed. Ever. And some of them should be. They ride on the wrong side of the street, Bad, both from the operational and legal perspectives. they ride on the sidewalk...its ridiculous. Legal in some areas. chained to the parking meter is not ticketed. In some areas they are impounded. I love riding my bicycle, but I do believe suburbia basically leaves cyclists alone and harrasses motorists sometimes. Could be different in the city, but I have the misfortune of being in suburbia where 12 police cars show up with sirens blaring if your are pulled over for going 5 miles over the speed limit. Boy, I think I want to live where you live, where police actually try to control vehicular operation by the rule book. I can point out intersections on my commute where cars regularly (like, almost every time I am at the intersection - twice a day - so I assume it is happening all the time) run the red light, and often run it while driving in excess of the speed limit. I could probably point out 10 or so motor vehicle operator infractions for every mile I commute. Not many get caught. On the flip side, I see cyclists do dumb and illegal things all the time; occasionally they get stopped and cited. They invariably whine on newsgroups or mailing lists. More should be cited. In both cases. - rick |
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Got a parking ticket!
Maggie wrote:
Well in Jersey it has been raining since Saturday...and the weather report says it will be raining all week. Sometimes I have to drive. I am made of sugar.....I melt. Or am I the witch who melts with water. Maggie goes ummmmmmm. One of my favorite times to ride is while it is raining. Well, as long as I am on the "rain" bike - the one with fenders. In warm weather, I don't even bother with rain gear. When it gets cold, my rain jacket is usually enough to keep me warm even though my legs are getting wet. I love splashing through the big puddles. Of course, it's only fun if you know which puddles aren't associated with potholes. It's a bit scary when you can't avoid a puddle and you don't know what's underneath. I took one of my bikes out during tropical storm Allison when she dumped 23" of rain on my house. The water was nearly up to the top tube on that ride. But it was a good way to cruise the neighborhood and assess the damage. And yes, my house was flooded. And no, we weren't in a flood plain. A dumped couch had blocked the storm drain for the neighborhood. And finally, yes, I followed my own advice, and moved to a different house the very next week. But I still like riding in the rain! -Buck |
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Got a parking ticket!
"Rick" writes:
Maggie wrote: Buck wrote: chained to the parking meter is not ticketed. In some areas they are impounded. Why should it be illegal to chain a bike to a parking meter? It's a *parking* meter, I'm *parking* my bike at it. It's not like there's a useful number of bike racks everywhere one wants to park a bike. And if you try to use a regular car parking spot without chaining it up, someone will steal the bike or hit it with a car. -- Ben Pfaff email: web: http://benpfaff.org |
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Got a parking ticket!
"Maggie" wrote in message oups.com... I love riding my bicycle, but I do believe suburbia basically leaves cyclists alone and harrasses motorists sometimes. Could be different in the city, but I have the misfortune of being in suburbia where 12 police cars show up with sirens blaring if your are pulled over for going 5 miles over the speed limit. Come drive your car in Philadelphia, where you have to shoot somebody from your moving car in order to get the police to chase you. The lat time I saw somebody get pulled over for running a red light was never, and the speed limit is imposed by the rear of the car you're tailgating. Fun for cycling, too. RichC |
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Got a parking ticket!
Rich Clark wrote: Come drive your car in Philadelphia, where you have to shoot somebody from your moving car in order to get the police to chase you. The lat time I saw somebody get pulled over for running a red light was never, and the speed limit is imposed by the rear of the car you're tailgating. What do you expect when the local delicacy is cheese steaks made with meat rejected by the pet food companies. Folks just have mad cow desease- or worse. |
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Got a parking ticket!
Maggie wrote:
Could be different in the city, but I have the misfortune of being in suburbia where 12 police cars show up with sirens blaring if your are pulled over for going 5 miles over the speed limit. Maggie God, You are so right about the 12 police cars. I was once surrounded by police in Glendale, part of Los Angeles, because I was driving a car that fit the description of one used in a robbery getaway. Actually 6 cars, but all with guns drawn on me, which was really a wake up call to watch out for the police as much as anything else. After they figured out that the suspect was not even the same ethic group as me they still wore out their radios trying to find something to pin on me. Fast forward about 8 years and I went around a corner burning rubber trying out a friends Firebird 400HO, and didn't notice the group of cops parked under the shade tree until I had 3 cars surrounding me with guns drawn, again. I only burnt rubber up to the speed limit in first gear but damn, all those guns, just like a big time crook. I started to wonder who the cops were supposed to protect or if they pulled their guns just hoping someone would make a wrong move. I now have a stay out of Santa Clara California policy since that police force is totally corrupt. That was one incident out of many with them. I once had one walk into me an he got knocked on his butt by mistake but I got arrested for drunk in public and I was stone cold sober. It was my car he was sneaking around and I just wanted to go somewhere. I think all the commotion broke up their big drug bust or something, but they sure were ****ed that I wasn't the one who got knocked down. Too many cop/me experiences to go into here. Bill Baka |
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Got a parking ticket!
In article .com,
"Maggie" writes: Tom Keats wrote: In article .com, "Maggie" writes: The obvious answer is to ride instead of drive. No hassle. Well in Jersey it has been raining since Saturday...and the weather report says it will be raining all week. So wear raingear. cheers again, Tom OK, I've been posting for a long time now. You think I will go out biking with raingear on? Well, the other option is to drive and be hassled by your local traffic constabulary. Your choice. cheers again again, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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Got a parking ticket!
In article . com,
"Rick" writes: chained to the parking meter is not ticketed. In some areas they are impounded. That's so draconianly awful! Parking meters make the best "bike racks". And a bike locked to a meter isn't in anybody's way. Anyways, in civilized areas parking meters are designed to accommodate bikes and U-locks. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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Got a parking ticket!
Neil Brooks wrote:
"Maggie" wrote: OK, I've been posting for a long time now. You think I will go out biking with raingear on? If we can find some with a Dooney & Bourke label on it, you might. Dooney & Bourke might suffice for a casual bike ride but for anything more formal like an organized group ride Maggie strikes me as more of a Dolce & Gabbana, Yves St. Laurent, or Gucci girl. g Regards, Bob Hunt |
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