To all the Berkeley crybaby "progressives-in-training," if you follow the rules that everyone else is expected to follow, you wouldn't get a citation.
Are all of you taking remedial English? Are dweebs on bikes entitled to special privileges?
what?
Posted on 12/13/2010 11:23:36 AM PST by SmithL
The natural evolution of totalitarianism. The noose tightens on all—a classless society of equal oppression. The idiots in Berkeley thought they were the Chosen ones. In a way, they HAVE been chosen. The commies will start taxing Birkenstocks next—by the mile.
UC Berkeley students expect to be exempt from traffic laws? Who’s a thunk it!
I’m not sure what the big fuss is all about. This has been the law in CA since I was riding a bike to elementary school in the 1960s! As others have said - Bikes have to follow the same rules that Cars do.
In hauling my son to high school every day we would come to a specific stop-lite. It was our custom to figure out how many violations the bicyclists could commit just by crossing the street when the light would go green.
1) Riding the bike in the Crosswalk.
2) Not waiting for the green light.
3) Riding the Bike onto/from the sidewalk (a real popular violation..)
4) Riding on the wrong side of the street.
5) Not wearing a helmet...
That was average.
Several states have changed their laws so that cyclists can treat stop signs and lights as yields. It's safer for cyclists and improves traffic flow.
How is it safer?
“WTF - you people miss the point. A $220 fine for locking your bike in the worng place?”
I dunno, what’s the fine for parking a car on the sidewalk or some other non-designated place that obstructs traffic ? I assume that bike racks are located “out of the way” and anywhere else is potentially “in the way.”
I’ve got a better idea - punji pits!
“What’s the fine for farting?”
Depends on the location where one farts. Outdoors, 20 feet from a building and any exits, it’s permissible and encouraged... going brown if you will. (This also may be outlawed in the future as “studies” have “proven” that human flatulence combined with Canadian cow flatulence leads to global warming and a host of other ecological “disasters”).
Indoors you could be subject to arrest regardless of the fart content. Indoors are designated as “Fart Free”. Fart contents have been studied by the government and found to have dangerous additives resulting in overproduction of methane. Fart content not only is a bio hazard but a fire hazard also.
Recently the Surgeon General declared that a new “study” has proven that the smelling of ONE FART can lead to a persons demise by some means at some undertermined point in the future.
My suggestion is that if you must fart, try to use the SBD method. Even then you will draw condescending looks and comments from your betters. Some might even confront you about their right to breath flatulence free air.
If a confrontation should ensue, go nuclear...shit your pants.
I hope it comes here too. We see way to many cyclists disobey laws on a regular basis.
“The obvious solution is to go to another school instead of Berkeley.”
Other universities/colleges and the cities where the colleges/universities are in California have been doing this for decades.
Californicator land was in a tight money crunch then and in a serious recession. So people were getting tickets for anything to help the local budgets.
We know a young man, who dared to ride his bike at on a Friday at midnight from the computer lab to his apartment and go 5 miles over the speed limit. Yep, he was radared and had several law enforcement agencies after him. He went home on bike lanes/paths that the cops couldn’t follow. He never saw red light nor heard a siren. He was charged next week based on the based on witnesses that he had riden his bike to and from the Computer lab. There were no witnesses re his so called high rate of speed.
He ignored the first ticket until he was summoned and threatened to be hauled in by the local police/sheriffs for not showing up at his kangaroo trial.
His Dad stopped this by telling the mayor, dean, university cops, chief of police and sheriff’s dept that they would be reading about this case in their worse nightmares if they didn’t drop this ridiculous case. Apparently, there were several serious crimes committed in that area on that night, and the officers went after this “dangerous bike rider” that Friday night. Then weeks later, they were dogging and harrassing the young man, a ‘dangerous’ bike rider, who never had any moving violations while driving a motor vehicle, bike or walking then and now.
The Dad had several heavy hitting friends up and down the state ready drop the “You have to be kidding” bomb on the authorities including the judge. The charges were dropped when they realized the Dad was going to hammer them and make them look ridiculous. Needless to say the Dad never drove in the university city after that.
The young man went to another university in another state for his Masters Degree. That cost the Ca University system, the city/county and the state about $30,000-40,000.
So libs are finally starting to get pissed at what they have wrought.
F’ em
To all the Berkeley crybaby "progressives-in-training," if you follow the rules that everyone else is expected to follow, you wouldn't get a citation.
Are all of you taking remedial English? Are dweebs on bikes entitled to special privileges?
what?
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