this bike is a pipebomb
"Emotions still running high after Critical Mass confrontation"
from the
Seattle
Times.
A
melee erupted Friday night in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood
between a motorist and a group of Critical Mass cyclists. The
driver and cyclists blame each other for escalating the incident
into a violent clash that sent two men to local hospitals, two men
to jail and a battered Subaru Impreza to an impound yard with
$1,500 in damages.
I'm commenting on this four days after it happened, which
officially makes me the slowest blogger ever; but speaking as
someone who commuted by bicycle for six years, bicyclists
hate cars. Fucking hate them! And I can guarantee that the
kind of crazy biker who attends a rolling protest isn't going to be
happy about some fat asshole who is
killing the planet to
get to a restaurant faster. Hitting a bicyclist with your car in
such an environment is somewhat equivalent to holding forth on the
genetic deficiencies of Africans in South Central Los Angeles circa
1992.
In any event, it'll be interesting to see the official
fallout.