[*BCM*] tonight's ride

Jim Leonard jim_bcm at xuth.net
Fri Oct 31 23:14:31 EDT 2008


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:33:53PM -0400, David St.Germain wrote:
> Riding on Storrow Drive at night was a bozo move.  Frankly, I'm  
> surprised the cops didn't do more than stop a few folks.  What kind of  
> solidarity would you have liked?  Should the entire mass have stopped  
> in the middle of Storrow and yelled at the cop?  We're not talking  
> about a human rights march here -- the idiots at the front of the mass  
> decided to risk endangering the rest of the riders, and if they get  
> tickets as a consequence, too bad.

Except that (assuming I'm not mistaken in my history, please correct me if I'm wrong) courts have already agreed that bicycles are allowed on Storrow.  Unless there's some other reason why you say it's a bozo move.

--jim

> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 22:59 , jennifer thomson wrote:
> 
> > hey all,
> >
> > just wanted to say that tonight's ride was awesome.  especially  
> > riding on storrow!
> >
> > however, it wasn't ok that the ride abandoned the people who got  
> > stopped by the cop on storrow.  we need a lot more solidarity in  
> > situations like these.
> >
> > jennifer
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