Dear Michael, In this day of association as motives in "crimes" we have both targets and groups given special concern as perpetrators. If what happened to Dar happened in a Gay Pride parade, one would be certain of an association. Or if the person were darkish, with whiskers sitting aside a women with her head covered, we would associate equally. A crime is a crime and we all do know about assaults. But if anybody for a moment thinks that those riding along on bicycles follows the socio-economic mix in proportions as Dar contends, must be smoking something. And maybe there is no rhyme or reason for general assaults against bicyclists--which I have seen for forty-five years as I remembered an incident with farm boys and their farm truck to me. It is strange how easy it is to squawk about motorists and their hangups and suggest Napoleon complexes and macho this and that--but why not consider attributing some psychologically possible motive to assaults against bicyclists. And to the expert on assault, does the car or truck have to hit some part of a bicycle to make it an assault?
Eric Westhagen _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
