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- From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
- Subject: Re: Crazy and incompetent drivers. (Was: Punishment for the Driver!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.151109.2506@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
- References: <30325@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1993Jan23.005508.24326@adobe.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:11:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.005508.24326@adobe.com>, zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern) writes:
- |> It seems the place where Linda Scates committed this murder had a pretty
- |> good bike lane. I lump this in the same category as people walking into
- |> consumer electronics stores, pulling out semi-automatic weapons and blowing
- |> away a bunch of customers.
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- |> Past cases in the Bay Area have resulted in light penalties for
- |> drivers murdering/maiming bicyclists. (The guy who ran over Mark Anolick and
- |> the woman who ran down four cyclists while fishing for a cassette come to
- |> mind.) I'm open to suggestions on what the cycling community can do about
- |> this.
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- Yeah, I would liken this to walking into McDonalds wearing a blindfold with a
- nail gun and wasting a load of customers, I can't see the difference between
- careless misuse of one tool and another. However you can bet in the nail gun
- case there would be none of this agonizing by the CHP over whether it could be
- 'accidental' or not.
-
- David.
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