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   "Curt"  wrote in message   
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   > "Matthew Beasley"  wrote in message   
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   >> "TailHooker7"  wrote in message   
   >> news:4smdnUCJgY5DQX7ZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@comcast.com...   
   >> > 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. .   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Then once the inevitable happens, they all want the car driver locked up.   
   >   
   > You would too, if the cager had hit your kid.   
   >   
      
   Not if my kid had swerved out in traffic with no chance for the vehicle to   
   stop.   
      
   I would feel bad for the driver, and punishing the driver would serve no   
   purpose.   
      
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