In high school I got a reckless driving ticket (a misdemeanor) for doing doing dounuts in a parking lot. I had to do a diversion program. Every kid there was there on some bullshit. One dude got a DIU at 17 because they were driving their dad home from someplace and dad insisted on cruising with an open container.
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I’ve heard of people leaving the key on the tire and crawling into the back seat and still getting some dick head pig with a hard on for justice making their life hell with an arrest, “tell it to the judge”
there’s been multiple news stories here about a cop in fort collins who regularly arrests people for DUI who blow 0.00% and he still has a job somehow. so the tldr is ACAB.
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I almost got a dui or arrested for I don’t know what law applied when my father crashed his car into a telephone pole at low speed, then abandoned the car with open containers in it and then blamed it on me. I was working the night shift in a factory at the time, and by the time they caught up with him I was in bed sleeping, whereupon I was the one who almost got arrested
Cool story I know
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Welp, got an email back from the chief inspector at the local cop shop. Acknowledges that it sets a bad example, has identified the officers, will talk to them himself and a record will be made on their files. I was not expecting a response at all, so this is pretty good.
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The newly painted bike lane on my old block is very very stupid. Bike lane should always be on the left side of a one way street. I thought this was a settled design.
Really? Why is that?
All the ones in Portland were on the right
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less dooring, interfaces better with buses. probably some other reasons too
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The bus thing is a good point. I would end up playing leapfrog with the buses on some days with the rh bike lane.
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Every car has a driver but only some have a passenger so putting the bike lane on the passenger side of the parked cars reduces dooring. Also the bus, but there’s no bus on Winthrop.
Case in point: had I not been paying attention, I would have been doored right after taking the picture.(well, I would have if I were actually riding IN the bike lane)
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All the one-way road bike lanes I’ve seen have been on the left but for oncoming bikes with sharrows painted in the car lane for bikes going the direction of car traffic.
i actually road that this morning and didnt even notice the new paint, just hung on the left.
love the asphalt!
my parents actually taught me to ride on the left hand side of the road when i was kid riding out in the country, still not sure about that but its stuck in my mind and im alive.
driver can do a better job of gauging the space between you and the fender so that he only hits you a little bit with the car
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The point of walking on the left is that you can see oncoming cars and dive into the bushes if they are about to hit you. I guess it makes sense on a bike as well, if you ride rural roads with few or no intersections.
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this is one of those things that is 100% true fact and everyone riding in cities should heed it
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I lost a really sweet customer to a sack of shit 18 year old drunk driver this morning.
I have their gravel bike in for service and I texted her with good news about the status of the repair this morning. Heard about the homicide (and injury to another rider) this morning and based on time of day an location I knew immediately it was going to be someone I either new or a friend of someone I know. 5 hours later. Here we are. I hate this so much.
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that’s horrible, I’m really sorry to hear that
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Damn that sucks. Hugs Braden.
Fuck
i had my first real life interaction with real life nazis today. so i show up to my local home depot and there are two motorcycles parked AT the doors. not in a parking spot near the doors. AT the doors, so everyone else has to walk around them.
then i walk past a dude in a motorcycle jacket (iron horse motorcycle club) (from ohio, naturally) with an SS tattoo on his cheek. i think about saying something and then decide better of it.
but as i walk around i get more and more angry. and it turns out when i go to the self checkout, i’m right next to SS guy and his buddy (who is probably 6’5 and 240 pounds) who has a humongous 1%er tattoo.
they finish first and go to their motorcycles. of course these are right at the door so i don’t really have a choice but to walk past them
by this time i’ve thought of what to say, which is something that is just right on that fine line of “is he serious or just fucking with us because we’re nazis”
so i say “you guys make such a cute couple!” and this sets them off calling me a f*ggot and all sorts of other nice nazi things
then on my way out of the parking lot (safe in the confines of my cage) they give me the double bird so i rolled the window down and said “i love your costumes!”
so then they are fully on tilt and people are staring, by which time i was gone
maybe not the best choice of comments or actions but i’m glad i said something because if i hadn’t, i’d be here feeling like a huge coward right now
overall 10/10 adrenaline rush, 1/10 intelligence move for me
open to critiques on my nazi-hating skills, this is a new achievement for me
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