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Plastic Wrap Barrier Causes Motorcycle Crash
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^
| July 16, 2004
| DARRYL ENRIQUEZ
Posted on 07/19/2004 9:01:53 AM PDT by BluegrassScholar
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To: taxed2death
and throw a 1/4 stick out my upstairs window and have it land in his driveway next to his bedroom window. So every morning his wife and newborn would get a rude awakening. Either I am naive or just ignorant (possible in this case), but a 1/4 stick of WHAT?
To: Arthalion
I'da paid good money to see one of the twits get de-biked by a little Saran Wrap...to bad I didn't think of it at the time :) You probably would have ended up being charged with aggravated assault or attempted murder.
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posted on
07/19/2004 2:20:45 PM PDT
by
Modernman
("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
07/19/2004 2:22:17 PM PDT
by
mhking
(John Kerry & Al Gore: Cut from the same tree.)
To: Redbob
Harley with open pipes, he regularly takes these 1 AM rides;Where did the article say "Harley?" I doubt your average 22 year old bartender could afford such a ride.
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posted on
07/19/2004 2:33:07 PM PDT
by
al_c
To: BluegrassScholar
Attempted homicide or murder charges sound good here.
When these a$$holes go to jail send them to a jail with a lot of big old Hell's Angels and let the Hell Angel's whose coming to the party.
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posted on
07/19/2004 2:55:58 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I have to say that John Edwards is very beautiful'...)
To: BluegrassScholar
"What was their intention? This should make people more aware that pranks pricks like that are not as harmless as they seem..."
To: Rebelbase
Try 500 pounds of manure next time. That should keep 'em occupied!
To: BraveMan
He should have worn a closed face helmet.
68
posted on
07/19/2004 3:21:47 PM PDT
by
dc27
To: gitmo
We did the plastic wrap over the toilet bowl trick in college. Just as messy, but not dangerous. I used to think it was'nt dangerous. Beware the wrath of females.
69
posted on
07/19/2004 3:24:43 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: al_c
Where did the article say "Harley?" I doubt your average 22 year old bartender could afford such a ride. Harley Sportsters are dirt cheap and can be very loud... I have Screaming Eagle pipes on mine and I used to reguarly set off car alarms in Laguna Beach. I don't know what he was riding, but a Harley isn't out of reach for a bartender.
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posted on
07/19/2004 3:28:22 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Monthly Donors NEVER need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: Modernman
You probably would have ended up being charged with aggravated assault or attempted murder
Or not. When that dumba** kid rode into my tiger pit (a 3 foot deep concrete lined pit designed specifically to catch and forcibly dismount dirtbike riders coming up my road) his dad first tried to have me arrested and then tried to sue. In both cases, he had no case because the traps were set inside not only my property line, but my gated fenceline. That particular kid had actually knocked my brand new $300 gate over and gunned it up my road without knowing that there was an open trap ahead.
Both the police and the judge said the same thing...they were forcibly tresspassing, and the boys injuries directly resulted from that. I could have strung Saran Wrap, concertina, or a flipping piano wire across the road, and it's unlikely that I would have been held any more responsible. These people were destroying my property and had the attitude that they had the "right" to ride across my land because there was BLM land and legal riding roads on the other side. As the sherrif put it, I can put any blocade across my land that I want, and if they're dumb enough to cross my fenclines and run into them, that's their problem. I just can't shoot at them.
Luckily, the alterations that I put in place seem to have worked, and I haven't had a problem in over a year now.
To: yankeedame
Plastic wrap- Saran wrap- and the like comes in rolls of 200+ feet at the local grocery store. Some of the Restaurant supply stores sell larger rolls. Even if you take 3 or 4 rolls to run it from one side of the street to the other, it will stick to itself. I have used Saran wrap to wrap unusual shaped items when I have moved. Wrapped dining room chairs to protect the backs and seats. Wrapped the silverware dividers in the kitchen drawers and in my desk drawers. Tape with wide tape. Get to other end, cut with sissors, and put back into desk, etc. No muss, no fuss, and nothing spilled out. Cheap and easy, also.
No matter what, I feel it is attempted murder. Not funny.
To: SandyInSeattle
Yeah ... I forgot about the Sportster.
73
posted on
07/19/2004 3:36:48 PM PDT
by
al_c
To: bondjamesbond; All
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Jeeeze what morons !
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posted on
07/19/2004 3:40:38 PM PDT
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(Most people talk a lot, few are up for the moment. Welcome to Freerepublic.com)
To: al_c
I got mine when I first started riding; good starter "chick" bike. :-)
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posted on
07/19/2004 3:46:38 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Monthly Donors NEVER need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: MediaMole
1. Harleys are not off road bikes. These people are driving great big bikes that say "Harley-Davidson" on them, whether the bikes were intended for off-road use or not.
2. You will be caught.
If I were actually planning to do this I certainly would not be posting on an Internet forum with hundreds of thousands of readers. My original post was a way of expressing frustration that these people were bringing big motorcycles into a posted nature preserve and running people off the paths, and the cops can do nothing since it's in an off-road area. But it's seldom that I actually take the law into my own hands.
3. You will be charged with attempted murder.
Goodness, I thought they would just be harmlessly knocked off their bikes by the plastic, not hurt or killed. They aren't going fast. See how ignorant I am about motorcycles. Thank you for the advice.
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posted on
07/19/2004 3:56:40 PM PDT
by
Capriole
(DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.)
To: TheBattman
Either I am naive or just ignorant (possible in this case), but a 1/4 stick of WHAT? I'm presuming dynamite.
A quarter stick is small enough to be a hell of a big "firecracker" instead of a demolotion device (barely).
77
posted on
07/19/2004 3:56:52 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: SandyInSeattle
Did it ever occur to you that some people just might not like having a bike loud enough to set off car alarms in their neighborhood???
If so, you sir, are an ass.
If not you are an idiot.
Either way, I can't help but wonder what lack or, ummm, shortage, you have, to feel such a need to overcompensate...
78
posted on
07/19/2004 3:59:48 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
To: null and void
Well, gee. Where do I start?
First off, I'm not a sir, I'm a ma'am. So I don't think any lack or, ummmm, shortage I have is relevant.
Second, the bike came with those pipes. I don't happen to like them, myself.
Third, it wasn't a residential area, it was Pacific Coast Highway through downtown.
So... did I cover everything, or do you have some more insulting comments to make?
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:07:40 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Monthly Donors NEVER need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: SandyInSeattle
That pretty much covers it.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:09:02 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
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