Situation Critical: reflections on an ill-fated ride
At a post about the recent Critical Mass debacle at Big Blog, P.I. commenter J.P. Patches Pal succinctly sums up the two-wheeled terrorists:
Let's be honest. A lot of these riders are just passive-aggressive twits trying to make drivers mad. The riders I've talked to who believe in the concept of CM usually go along for one or two rides and then get so turned off by the idiots in the group they don't go out with these toads again.Couldn't have said it better myself. One can only hope that last Friday's stupidity marked the beginning of the end for this misguided group of local "activists."
One thing is certain: the next time these jokers go out on a ride, there will be probably be more cops in the crowd than actual bicyclists.
What you got against cyclists, people go to watch baseball together, make that illegal, make it illegal for soldiers to watch in-step, up in Redmond, they got little kiddies, on their tiny trikes to0 do a pprocession with a cop car front and back, one kid kept going around in a circle to gawk at the cop car following him, he ended up as the tal escort, he got to follow the tail squad, whichis probably as good as leading out a St Pat's in Chicago, the South Side, not the queer one up towards boytown, darn democrats, we should have let the Poles run the joint.
Passive-agressive twits is right. I would also add irresponsible and arrogant. I am tired of byciclists acting like motor vehicles when it suits them and pedestrians when it suits them. They yell at passing motorists who get mad becausse the bikes will cruise down the center of the lane 20 miles under the speed limit, demanding that they be treated as equals with cars. Then the same bikes blythley cruise through red lights while cars wait, forcing the same cars to take chances passing them yet again. And making them even angrier. A thought they should consider with more ocncern.
In West Oakland, I think they ate their cyclists. THese two people tried to find out where West and East Oakland was, if you wanna find West Oakland, listen for the automatic gunfire.
East meets West etc.
http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland-Magazine/September-October-2006/Being-There-East-Meets-West/
Watch the casings.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Mayor Ron Dellums said Wednesday there's a perception that crime is on the rise in his city, but it's not the reality.
Dellums' comments come after a wild shootout early Wednesday morning that left one neighborhood littered with bullet casings.
Gunmen in two cars opened fire on one another in the 900 block of Kirkham Court in West Oakland about 3 a.m.
Wednesday afternoon, there was another shootout on 7th St. and Adeline St., also in West Oakland.
I was talking cycles with a chap who sits at the entrance of Botanic park, that's Belfast, next to Queen's Unversity.
guess what, he points at two girls and says they're from Seattle, I'd just been to starbucks as well, they were on a peace and reconciliation gig,
I guess that means, you know Belfast, that stuff, well I made a Gary, Indiana joke, mostly I tried to be nice,
I gave them a pointer to my old band, I've been holding out on the SCB, I made a bundle out of metal records in the US of A. I was on drugs at the time, give me a break.
My respectability as a cash in hand benefactor to the teamsters is betrayed by a shadey past, yeah, those girls, I just wanted to hear that accent, because I was lonely for it,
I might have over done it, I pointed them to my girlie music persona, and told them about my bring a shovel parties in E. Berlin. I did thrash metal, and I did post industrial kraut, gothic angst.
If I did thrash metal, I did it for money, the literacy lessons in helping musicians (?) to spell their stripper girlfriends names, was just me putting something back into the industry.
I started boosting trucks because I had to get some "what do you do for a living" into my life, I could hardly tell people I badly damaged ear-drums from sea to shining sea.
So I had to steal trucks as a hobby, what the heck it was Southie, being a little anti-establishment isn't going to get anybody blackballed.
anyway I will get you posted if I meet the girls again, conflict resolution, go figure, it is not as if Belfast is like, Beirut or anything, well, not recently.
It's like those Irish kids flown to Boston, two sets, Jaffas and Micks, and the Mick kid who is like about eight years old, says, "I hated Protestants all my life, and I didn't know why, now I do"
What has Seattle got, Tourist to wee'an, "Does it ever stop raining here", Kid, "How should I know, I'm only six, get back to me when I'm in high school".