| Re: Holy shatz! Cop stops bicycle!
"Paul" <UPS_SUCKS!@slower_traffic_get_to_the_right.com> wrote:
>"Daniel T." <postmaster@eathlink.net> wrote in message
>news ostmaster-C0C7A5.11023712062004@news6.west.earthlink.net...
>> In article <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406120010490.8911@alumni.engin.umi ch.edu>,
>
>> I'm new to this car vs bicycle debate, yet is sounds very familliar to
>> the debate over in rec.boats; there it's motor-boat vs sailboat.
>> Different vehicles, but the same facts. How much property damage can a
>> bicycle do compaired to a car? Can DUI bicyclests ram through the wall
>> of the local McDonald's killing and injuring happy meal eaters?
>
>A DUI bicyclist could pull many types of idiotic maneuvers that could cause a
>car
>operator to lose control of his vehicle and plow into a McDonalds.
And a DUI driver could pull many types of idiotic maneuvers that could
cause a bicyclest to lose control and plow into a McDonalds... Oops
actually that's not the case is it, the bicyclest *can't* plow into a
McDonalds.
Your ignoring the central fact; a bicyclist simply *cannot* do the kind
of damage that an auto driver can do. Because of this central fact,
there really isn't as much need to ensure that bicyclests are skilled
compared to auto drivers.
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