Posted on 07/26/2008 5:29:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase
The man tried to back up, but bumped into a biker. "This enraged the group," Jamieson said.>
The driver tried to drive away, but hit another bicyclist.
Critical Mass riders cornered the car again and started spitting on it and banging against it.
One bicyclist punched the driver through his open window, and another used a knife to slash the Subaru's tires, Jamieson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Typical King County Liberals — in Clown Suits...
Hey - at least it isn't an AP article!!!
Upon reading the whole article, I feel the fellow did all he could to not hit someone. He should have been perfectly justified if he had chosen to back up over anyone who wouldn't get out of the way, then pull forward, running over anyone who wouldn't get out of the way.
More liberal enviro-freak, nutcases who are more concerned with self than with anything else.
Good thing the peaceful protestors carry knives with them.
I would have just floored it and ran the filthy scum over.
Looks like another example showing the need for full-capacity magazines and CCW of pistols.
From what I read in the article, you are right. Concealed Carry is the only way to prevent this type of crap........Well, maybe not but it sure helps.
An equally bad attitude on the part of the driver could have helped him out in crushing a few bikes
It gets interesting around here each February, as there's a huge charity ride called "Tour De Palm Springs", and the hundred mile category comes right through our neighborhood, known as the "La Quinta Cove"....makes sense due to about a four mile loop with hills and curves and no traffic signals.
We've pretty much learned to bookmark that Saturday as a "stay home" day because cyclists pour down our residential street by the hundred...for hours. They have the right of way and there's no way I'm even getting out of the driveway.
The problem is that all the Armstrong wannabes pre-play the course for days ahead of the rally -- running totally amok of traffic, stop signs, road courtesy, you name it. THEN is when I have my bitty bit of fun. If I'm at one of our stop signs and see a "peleton" charging, I exercise my legal right and proceed........pisses the hell out of 'em.
The thugs should be thrown in jail.
This is different. These kooks are political agitators who want to ban automobiles. We used to have them every Friday in San Francisco. They went away. I always assumed that the mayor cut some kind of deal but maybe they just moved north.
Poor Seattle.
I don't mind the serious ones. They are aware, follow most of the rules and I have one that I meet every morning on my drive. I hold his line for him down a very steep, curvy spot to the river ford. He hits close to the speed limit and that is fine with me. I coast and save gas! We wave at each other as I pass him after the river ford. He keeps his lane, wear a helmet, wears clothes that can be seen.
Sadly most others I'd love to be able to call in a license plate on them. They have NO business on the road. They need to stay on the “all purpose trail.” Licensed cyclists would give drivers a chance to call in unsafe cyclists. If every other vehicle on the road needs to be licensed, bicycles should be too.
They shouldn’t be identified as “bicyclists,” but what they really are — “terrorists” and “anarchists” — using the healthy bicycling movement to perpetuate their anti-social behaviors.
Blocking all the lanes is no way to promote a message of “sharing the road.” It merely raises the hostility and enmity level so that the citizens attack each other without provocation and discrimination.
It’s quite a deliberate exploitation of a community’s inability to make “valid” discriminations from arbitrary ones. That has hurt and handicapped urban centers like Seattle and Portland from taking the lead of civilization into the 21st century — from the obviously decaying cities of the 20th century, ie., New York and Washington.
Fortunately, the Internet changed the balance of power to smaller urban communities, where people still behave civilly and respectfully to one another, because they actually know one another, rather than just these generalizations and labels of what the “other” people are like.
These tactics are just another way to exacerbate the divisions and partisanships so people are disposed to fight one another — at the least provocation.
Somebody in Seattle, wake up and think!
perhaps a loaded paintball gun on the seat at all times while driving in Seattle?....
These whacko’s are just another fringe element of the far left hate America crowd....
The thing is...these idiots on their bikes want to be treated as if they are a car. They will pedal along in front of you and make left turns in the car left turn lane in downtown Seattle. Keep your stupid bikes on the bike paths you asshats!....
Although I'm inclined to agree, but I wouldn't want to give the rest of the paintball players (myself included) bad press.
- Traveler
Washington State is "shall issue" CCW
CCW doesn't do you a damn bit of good unless you actually get the license and actually carry
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