<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">People of all classes ride bikes. I am currently in Amsterdam where just about everyone rides a bike... I took this photo (attached) yesterday when I was at a train station. pretty cool to see people of all ages, all nationalities, wealthy, poor, men in business suits, women in dresses, elderly on tandem, trendy girls wearing mini-skirts and plenty of people sporting mullets. If Boston could get even 1/4 of the percentage riding bikes we would be a whole lot better off.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">someone made a comment about gas prices forcing the facny / expensive SUV's off the road... the problem is the people who can afford a luxury SUV will be the last ones off the road. The laborer driving his / her 10 year old used car who needs a vehicle to transport tools or cleaning supplys or whatever in order to get to work and support their family will be the first ones off the road.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- Jon</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: "thom3@aol.com" <thom3@aol.com><BR>To: list@bostoncriticalmass.org<BR>Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:40:19 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [*BCM*] spoiled bitches of brookline.<BR><BR><BR>Agreed on the everywhere, but what's that gotta do with class? I think people of all classes ride bikes, drive SUVs and are assholes too...<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: TSmith4918@aol.com<BR>To: list@bostoncriticalmass.org<BR>Sent: Fri, 23 May 2008 8:03 am<BR>Subject: Re: [*BCM*] spoiled bitches of brookline.<BR><BR>
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<DIV>...and let's start some class warfare while we're at it! </DIV>
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<DIV>if one rides enough, one could tell this story about every urban and suburban community in the Boston area, or in other metro areas. Bad drivers are everywhere: it's the great class equalizer!</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/23/2008 1:04:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <A href="mailto:symboliceon@hotmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:symboliceon@hotmail.com">symboliceon@hotmail.com</A> writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Tahoma color=#000000 size=2>pardon my french, but nearly getting killed sorta pisses me off. <BR><BR>after work tonight i was riding home down harvard st. towards brookline village and this brand new SUV decided to pull a bullshit left turn right at me. thank god i reacted as quickly as i did as if i hadn't my consciousness would be on this fucker's windshield, rather than in this email. anyway, during the rest of my ride home, after pontificating the ways in which i could destroy this car with my u-lock, i thought that the driver may have been a recent grad of brookline high, whose parents had just bought him/her a brand new SUV (given current trends, it was most likely a she) for graduation despite the fact that their son or daughter have no idea how to drive. <BR><BR>for safety's sake, let's just say that i'm right, and
that everyone should be horribly careful around new looking SUVs in and around brookline. <BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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