🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <CzCuB0.Mwn@metronet.com>, tharding@metronet.com (Ted Harding) writes:
> Blah, Blah, Blah, Yak, Yak, Yak.  You bicycle guys are so funny.  You 
> spend all of this time talking about your rights, and what the law is, 
> and being kind to the cycle rider, etc, etc.  Pure rubbish.  You cycle 
> riders ought to excercise YOUR RIGHTS in the Dallas/Ft Worth rush hour 
> traffic.  The way the cowboys drive here in this neck of the woods, the 
> score would be pickup truck: 1, cyclest: 0.  Better still, make it a 
> group outting for the day.  The score?  pickup truck: 6, cyclest: 0.

	Evidently a firm believer in "might makes right"?  I do cycle in
Dallas, sometimes even during rush hour.  I know many others who do as
well.

> The point is this.  Start wobbling that "two-wheeler" into the road in 
> front of a car or truck and your probably going to get your ass run 
> over.  Pure and simple guys.  The law and justice is after the fact.  At 
> worst for the car/truck driver is that he goes to jail for a short time.  

	No, most drivers seem to be much more courteous and attentive
than that.  Yes, even in Dallas.

> The worst for the cyclist: HE IS DEAD.  Yup, thats right partner.  For 
> all of your talk, you can still look like "Willie Coyote" flat as a 
> pancake laying their drying in the sun in the middle of the road.  Why 
> in the heck you cycle guys want to argue your rights when a few thousand 
> pounds of massive metal is heading right for your skinny ass, I don't 
> know.  It sure is silly to me.

	Well, I at least give you good marks for creative writing, however
your ability to kill is not a right granted to you by a drivers license.

[rest of the inflamitory drivel deleted.  As someone who knows a cyclist
who was killed (Migi Roech, a National Champion), I am not finding the
humor in this anymore]

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