<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have to second this. I've almost been hit in boston by buses, fancy suv's beat up old cars, and other cyclists who don't know how to ride. "Bad drivers are everywhere"! Not just in Brookline. Additionally, I've had many more bad experiences with male drivers than female - just a note.<div><br></div><div>I will say I agree, however, with the statement that parents (in general) buy their children new cars without really taking to time to make sure their children know how to drive safely. Drivers need a longer learning period, and more serious penalties for unsafe driving.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my 2 cents.</div><div><br></div><div>-E<br><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 23, 2008, at 8:03 AM, <a href="mailto:TSmith4918@aol.com">TSmith4918@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div id="role_body" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7"><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <div>...and let's start some class warfare while we're at it! </div> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <div>----------------------------</div> <div> </div> <div>In a message dated 5/23/2008 1:04:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, <a href="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> <div></div> <div> </div></font><br><br><br><div><font style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><hr style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. <a title="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002" href="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002" target="_blank">Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food</a>.</font></div></div> _______________________________________________<br>Boston Critical Mass mailing list<br><a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a><br>http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list<br>To unsubscribe email list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>