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- From: btwomey@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (William J. Twomey)
- Subject: Re: Rude drivers, was Re: Auto insurance laws in different state
- Organization: Attack Tribble Training
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:23:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.202334.7988@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- In article <64060005@hpcss01.cup.hp.com> twv@hpcss01.cup.hp.com (Terry Von Gease) writes:
- >>/ hpcss01:misc.consumers / camerons@NAD.3Com.COM (Cameron L. Spitzer) / 6:30 pm Jan 22, 1993 /
- >>
- >
- >...standard laments of a poor but honest bicycle operator deleted
- >
- >>Cameron
- >>Please help Usenet work: respect the Followups-To: line.
- >
- >Look sport, when you're out there pedaling your little heart out on your
- >child's toy you are mostly in the way. Not only are you in the way,
- >you pay not one dime in support of the roadways you claim a right to
- >use and you have no obligation to be financially responsible for any
- >damage or mischief you and your toy might cause.
-
- Did you know that just about all roads are paid for out of general
- funds? That is supported by anyone that is a taxpayer. The
- exceptions are toll roads, upon which bikes are not allowed. There
- are public roads which are supported by tax payers not tolls, upon
- which bikes are not allowed. So Cameron the bicycling taxpayer (he
- was posting from a .com site, so is probably employed and paying taxes,
- eh?) is paying for *your* use of most highways. So where do you get
- off having this, I-own-the-roads-attitude? You better thank him.
-
- Your concern over bicyclists blocking the roads is justified,
- but the biggest hazards on the roads are morons, in cars, who don't
- know how to drive. Bicyclists cause less problems than oblivious
- drivers. Why don't you complain about untrained and incapable
- drivers?
-
- >But it's the part
- >about being in the way that you don't seem to understand. No matter
- >how fast you little legs can pump, unless you've got gravity working
- >for you, relative to an automobile moving along at any sort of
- >speed at all, you're standing still. It's kinda like coming around
- >a corner and finding a sawhorse sitting in the middle of the road.
-
- Whaddya think about getting on the interstate and finding some
- blue-haired Mrs. Magoo blocking the left lane? Do someting about
- her.
-
- >I don't want to harm you but I want you to share my anxiety. I want you
- >to think your going to die.
-
- Hey chief, I expect to get damaged knowing that some moron thinks
- he has special rights to the road because he pays for it.
- BTW, this is no joke, one should drive defensively. Drive proactively
- expecting others to hose you.
-
- >If you want to finance and construct your
- >own bicycle road system or even add realistic bike lanes to the existing
- >road system, that's great. But you have to pay for it yourselves.
-
- There you go again. Look you supercilious twit, you don't own the
- road. Fight the real enemy, drunks and incompetent drivers (on
- bikes, AND in cars and trucks). When YOU construct and use only
- your own road system, then you can complain.
-
- >Until that time I want you to hang your toy on the garage wall.
- Such charm.
-
- >Terry
- Bill
-
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