<DIV>Below are a few choice phrases from the article that I found hilarious.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><U>Ahhh... the 'Yester-year' quote. Everything smelled like apple pie back then.</U></DIV> <DIV><EM>"...When I was growing up, we were the good guys. Eco-friendly wholemealites with a progressive, faintly Dutch-smelling attitude to life. We were virginy students with handlebar baskets toppling with books; teachers with jacket tails blowing in the wind..."</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV><U>The vandalism quote.</U></DIV> <DIV><EM>"...'CYCLIST IN £250,000 TYRE-SLASH RAMPAGE!' says a headline in the Birmingham Post, after Ashley Carpenter was caught sending a 'warning' to 'inconsiderate motorists' with a sharpened screwdriver..."</EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><U>The perverted quotes</U></DIV> <DIV><EM>"...a two-wheeled sex pest who 'uses a racing bike to travel around the west of Scotland trying to lure children into posing for indecent
pictures' ..."</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM>"...ride-by thief' who has been terrorising mums..."</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM>"...Cyclists, it appears, have gone naughty..."</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV>The yester-year quote is just somebody remembering things better than they really were. Now they want to return "back" to this ridiculous postcard in time. This is a difficult thing to achieve unless you are Norman Rockwell.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The vandalism quote is interesting because it wasn't long ago (few years) when a similar occurrence happened with paintballs & pellets. I remember that it made the news, and then the next night the damage doubled because lots of kids (I assume kids) heard about it and thought this was a good idea. I can imagine if tire slashing happened around here there would be more than a few cyclists
that would join the 'cause'. (not that I condone that behavior). This could be looked at three ways, an outcry for better riding conditions, as revenge against bad drivers, or just stupid kids. I wish that slashing tires would raise 250k spent on fixing roads & educating drivers... but I'm not sure the mayor would see it that way, perhaps that could make for an interesting BCM ride... the tire slash ride -- jk</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The perverted quotes... well its just silly to think that grown men wearing florescent & spandex would harm children.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Summing up, I guess that all bicyclists are aggressive, sexual deviants that vandalize & terrorize women, children, & property. If that is what the news & magazine articles are saying it must be true.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- Jon</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>turtle <turtle@zworg.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Boston Critical Mass <LIST@BOSTONCRITICALMASS.ORG>wrote:<BR>> How bout... saying "well yes they're crazy, the<BR>> city streets trained them to be crazy. so make a sane environment for them, and<BR>> they will be sane." <BR><BR>That's a good one. I like it!<BR><BR>Honestly, that's exactly what I'm saying. Society breeds disrespect. <BR>So we'd do well to add a whole lot more respect to the equation. <BR><BR>-Turtle<BR>who usually tries to say it in a nicer way, but hey, if it comes from a<BR>cyclist...<BR>----------------------------------<BR>"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we<BR>seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must<BR>pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Boston Critical Mass mailing
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