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From: marko@mako.UUCP (Mark O'Shea)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
Message-ID: <732@mako.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 11:43:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 11:43:13 1985
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Reply-To: marko@mako.UUCP (Mark O'Shea)
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Summary: 

In article <1290@watdcsu.UUCP> dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) writes:
>In article <983@vax1.fluke.UUCP> tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) writes:
>>Secondly, and I'm not accussing anyone of doing this, but I haven't
>>had nearly the problem with motorists since I stopped passing them on
>>the right.  It seems motorists get annoyed when a bicyclist passes them
>>on the right (while waiting for a stoplight for instance) after this
>>motorist has just legally passed the bicycle.  I personally don't blame
>>the motorist.  
>
>I don't understand... what's *wrong* with rolling up to the stop light
>past the stopped cars?  If the only problem is that some drivers resent
>my doing so, tough shits.
>
>I occasionally encounter drivers who are too close to the curb, so that
>there's no room for me to get past them while they're stopped.  Before
>I decided that growing old was a worthwhile goal, I used to go around
>these guys *on* *the* *left*, and then when the light changed I'd get
>in front of them in the middle of the lane, and -g-o- -s-l-o-w- for
>about 10-15 seconds.  Just enough to get even without (I hoped) getting
>the driver angry enough to deliberately run me over.
>--
>	David Canzi
>
>Man: An animal [whose]... chief occupation is the extermination of
>other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such
>insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
>	Ambrose Bierce

Nice work.  Now I know why I've had bottles thrown at me, been run off the
road and even had one guy try to urinate on me from the back of a pickup.
Because some childish jerk behaved the way you described it, many of us
pay the bill.

If we put ourselves in others shoes we might see it differently.  Alas,
never give a fool advice you'll have better luck spitting in the wind.


Mark O'Shea