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Major league asshole deliberately takes out pack of cyclists

 
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Old 29-05.-2008, 04:26 AM   #16
bigjimpack@gmail.com
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From the country founded as a prison- people are criticizing an
AMERICAN..... How great is that!!!! They think wannabe racers deserve
to obstruct traffic.



On May 28, 9:30*am, "barry taylor" <taylo...@aapt.net.au> wrote:
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> * Australians are fools- they take away citizens' guns and drive on the
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Old 29-05.-2008, 05:16 AM   #17
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As ignorant as big jimp is he does have a point about the guns... Some
days the sun shines on a dog's ass.

An armed society is a polite society. It's not the bikes so much as
the spandex outfits that clearly show that there is no way that these
particular cyclists are packing heat. If these folks were dressed
regular and/or sporting luggage our armed motorist would have been
much less brave, or so my experience with the mobility impaired sort
has been.

If your jersey had the ruger logo instead of festina on the back...
well, then the moron probably would have felt it necessary to hit them
rather than to force them to hit him (I guess the net effect isn't
much different). Still fleeing the scene as he did would seem to
warrant the use of lethal force, but then I think you ought to be able
to cap a motorist if you smell alcohol at the stop light - You would
be defending life and limb from someone who was in the process of
committing a crime.
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Old 29-05.-2008, 05:31 AM   #18
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Bill Sornson <askme@ask.me> wrote:
> Pat wrote:
>
>> You have proven you have no place in civilized discourse. You have
>> nothing to add but hate and bigotry.
>>
>> <plonk>

>
> In case anyone wondered why I plonked "Little Jimmy Buttpacker" (a tribute
> to his homophobic gay-bashing, by the way), now you know.


I come back from a posting hiatus and what do I find but a nym-shifted troll?

> Bill "avoid the Christmas rush; block him today" S.


I should go and look for how many nym-shifts he's done now.

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Old 29-05.-2008, 10:28 AM   #19
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In article
<fb5ab118-986d-4fd9-80ce-770c6a89d68a@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>,
Rick <rickyb80126@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On May 27, 6:11*pm, bigjimp...@gmail.com wrote:
> <snip>
> > In mosy states hitting the rear of a vehicle puts
> > you at fault regardledd of reason. *

> <snip>
> Not true, the person hitting the rear is commonly found at fault,
> depending on the situation, but there is no "law" stating this as an
> absolute rule, at least in "most states". I rear ended a Porsche on
> the highway many years ago, when he pulled out from a stop in the
> adjacent lane right in front of me, and he got the ticket. It is
> uncommon but more than you think, and the cyclists were in a very
> similar situation, even more so when the driver slammed on his brakes
> purposefully - that is generally specifically against the law.
>
> Rick


Excepting generalized clueless douchebag driving, the generic name for
this maneuver is "the swoop and squat". It's a favored maneuver of
scamming insurance felons in the US. bigger cities == worser.
<http://www.google.com/search?&q=swoop+and+squat>

bad juju.

COOL LINK ALERT:
crap like this makes me consider more seriously the possibility of maybe
ordering from <http://www.supercircuits.com/> *(ultra teensie video
cams and DVRs) -- bike or car, it's sounding more and more attractive,
if nothing else then for my survivors to use in my wrongful death
litigation. :-/

..max
*if http://www.supercircuits.com/ catalogue doesn't make you paranoid,
you have a brain lesion.

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Old 29-05.-2008, 10:39 AM   #20
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On 2008-05-29, max <betatron@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> COOL LINK ALERT:
> crap like this makes me consider more seriously the possibility of maybe
> ordering from <http://www.supercircuits.com/> *(ultra teensie video
> cams and DVRs) -- bike or car, it's sounding more and more attractive,
> if nothing else then for my survivors to use in my wrongful death
> litigation. :-/


I'm thinking one of these

<http://www.supercircuits.com/Recorders/MDVR20>

would be cool for recording a commute or training ride. I like the micro-SD
card for storage.

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Old 29-05.-2008, 08:41 PM   #21
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:26:35 -0700 (PDT), bigjimpack@gmail.com wrote:

>From the country founded as a prison- people are criticizing an
>AMERICAN..... How great is that!!!! They think wannabe racers deserve
>to obstruct traffic.
>
>
>

Yeah, we just got the religious nutcases. I'd rather have the
criminals.
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Old 29-05.-2008, 08:45 PM   #22
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 13:16:17 -0700 (PDT), DennisTheBald
<DennisTheBald@gmail.com> wrote:

>As ignorant as big jimp is he does have a point about the guns... Some
>days the sun shines on a dog's ass.
>
>An armed society is a polite society. It's not the bikes so much as
>the spandex outfits that clearly show that there is no way that these
>particular cyclists are packing heat. If these folks were dressed
>regular and/or sporting luggage our armed motorist would have been
>much less brave, or so my experience with the mobility impaired sort
>has been.
>
>If your jersey had the ruger logo instead of festina on the back...
>well, then the moron probably would have felt it necessary to hit them
>rather than to force them to hit him (I guess the net effect isn't
>much different). Still fleeing the scene as he did would seem to
>warrant the use of lethal force, but then I think you ought to be able
>to cap a motorist if you smell alcohol at the stop light - You would
>be defending life and limb from someone who was in the process of
>committing a crime.


Ah yes, we should all carry guns. And then, when someone steps on
someone's toe in the subway, instead of angry words we can have
bullets flying. Good idea.
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Old 29-05.-2008, 09:00 PM   #23
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On May 28, 9:16 pm, DennisTheBald <DennisTheB...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> An armed society is a polite society. It's not the bikes so much as
> the spandex outfits that clearly show that there is no way that these
> particular cyclists are packing heat. If these folks were dressed
> regular and/or sporting luggage our armed motorist would have been
> much less brave, or so my experience with the mobility impaired sort
> has been.
>

<snip>

What to make of a society where the fear of being shot is required to
make people be polite?
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Old 30-05.-2008, 04:16 AM   #24
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Nothing more gentle and peace loving than a dead man


On May 29, 8:00*am, bookieb <tsgtest...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On May 28, 9:16 pm, DennisTheBald <DennisTheB...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>> An armed society is a polite society. *It's not the bikes so much as
> > the spandex outfits that clearly show that there is no way that these
> > particular cyclists are packing heat. *If these folks were dressed
> > regular and/or sporting luggage our armed motorist would have been
> > much less brave, or so my experience with the mobility impaired sort
> > has been.

>
> <snip>
>
> What to make of a society where the fear of being shot is required to
> make people be polite?


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Old 30-05.-2008, 07:37 AM   #25
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DennisTheBald wrote:

> An armed society is a polite society.


I guess by that standard the North End of Hartford CT (or insert other
city name of your choice) must be a model of how to get along


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Old 31-05.-2008, 04:40 AM   #26
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> Ah yes, we should all carry guns. And then, when someone steps on
> someone's toe in the subway, instead of angry words we can have
> bullets flying. Good idea.


Thanks!
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Old 31-05.-2008, 06:21 AM   #27
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> What to make of a society where the fear of being shot is required to
> make people be polite?


If you're not comfortable with it feel free to move to the UK, go on
the dole, become a bone idle drunken lay about and all that. I think
this motorist's actions go way beyond being impolite. A society that
prohibits folks from defending themselves from such criminal acts of
violence isn't worth a bucket of polite spit.

At the end of the day, I find a cold steel way more protective than
magic styrofoam.
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Old 03-06.-2008, 07:13 PM   #28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DennisTheBald

> What to make of a society where the fear of being shot is required to
> make people be polite?


If you're not comfortable with it feel free to move to the UK, go on
the dole, become a bone idle drunken lay about and all that. I think
this motorist's actions go way beyond being impolite. A society that
prohibits folks from defending themselves from such criminal acts of
violence isn't worth a bucket of polite spit.

At the end of the day, I find a cold steel way more protective than
magic styrofoam.


Yeah dennis, if just one of the cyclists in this pile up had been carrying a weapon for protection (howls of laughter) the accident would never have happened. In fact the styrofoam would have been more useful.

So how would a gun have prevented this from happening?
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