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From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
Message-ID: <5055@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 17:58:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 17:58:12 1985
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References: <1370@reed.UUCP> <124@kontron.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (Richard Gillespie)
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Summary: 

In article <124@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>
>> One woman said that she had
>> children  and  was  against a bicycle route because it would
>> somehow (she didn't  say  how)  endanger  to  her  children.
>
>The woman isn't *completely* a bozo --- the bike path down Venice Beach
>here in California has had a stack of injuries and few fatalities involving
>overzealous bicyclists running into pedestrians.  It *can* happen.

I've ridden that bike path plenty of times and have almost run into 
people but sure wasn't MY fault.  The path runs right through the middle
of the beach and in the summer there are thousands of people (and probably
more bozos :-)) wandering around. They pay no attention to where they are
walking and will walk right into the path of a bicycle. What am I supposed
to do, ride at 1 mph? Also, to show the stupidity of the beach goers, last
summer I was almost decapitated when someone decided to roll up their
kite string across the bike path - I saw it at the last second and slammed
on the brakes. They didn't even apologize!
-- 

			       Rick Gillespie
				  rick@ucla-cs
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	"She turned me into a newt! . . . I got better."