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THE BIG STORY/The People d. Sharrows!
THE BIG STORY
The People d. Sharrows!
BY RICK BOETTGER
Konk Life Staff Writer
Last month, I describe
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Rick, I appreciate your attempts to bring reason to bear with regard to bicycle safety in this town. I’m once again commenting on this subject yet I’m finding that it is a total waste of time and a no-win situation. There is certainly more than 5 bikers out there who disregard not only safety but any rule of the road. It’s so bad that I curse myself everyday for not installing a dash-cam in my vehicle to capture the insanity I see on a daily basis . . . and this does not exclude idiot motorists too! Notwithstanding, this subject seems to be some sort of sacred cow and any critical opinion about the poor practice of bicycle safety in this town seems to fall on deaf ears. Consequently, I’ll pick and choose my battles and advise motorists to drive defensively. In the meantime, I will indeed install that dash-cam to protect myself from lawsuit and insurance rate hikes when that rouge bicyclist eventually ends up under my car and the finger is pointed at me.
Jim, I think you’re doing what you have to do–taking a deep breath, and living in the imperfect world we have–while doing what YOU can control, installing the dash cam. I think this is in the spirit of the One Human Family, which respects not only surface diversity, but also each others’ foibles and failings.
I try to be a very considerate biker, but I space out. I expect to get run over at Florida and Albury as I regularly drift through the stop sign. I feel I should post the flowers pre-emptively. I have instructed Cynthia to pay $5,000 to any motorist who kills me when I am running that or a similar stop sign, ear buds in and practicing my karaoke, to help alleviate THEIR pain and suffering in having run over the idiot.
Hope it’s not you, Jim.