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   "TailHooker7"  wrote in message   
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   > You part of the problem quite honestly Paula, and I'm sure some immature   
   > dreadlocked bicyclist is going to flame this because they can't handle the   
   > truth, is that most bicyclists think that they own the road. They try to   
   > make the point that it is their "right" to be there too, which I won't   
   > argue with. But the truth of the matter is that people make mistakes, we   
   > are all human. And the biker with the attitude that thinks that he is   
   > making a point by blocking traffic is sooner or later doomed to get hit by   
   > something that weighs 100 times more that he. Not very bright if you ask   
   > me. Then again, it is my opinion that most of them are so self centered in   
   > their own granola world that they can't reason what it sometimes takes for   
   > a 5000lb. vehicle to stop. They are literally only inchs from traffic and   
   > it only takes one small mistake for tragedy. My message to the bicycylists   
   > is to watch out for traffic and stop trying to make some ridiculous self   
   > sacrificing point lest you yourself end up hurt. Reminds me of the girl   
   > who stood in front of the bulldozer to stop it... She lost. A tragedy yes,   
   > but pretty damn stupid. Get a clue folks! You can't change the law of   
   > physics. Don't ASSume that everyone is going to SEE you; because sometimes   
   > they won't and then it is YOUR loss.   
   >   
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   Then once the inevitable happens, they all want the car driver locked up.   
      
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