Dear Paul,
I have yet to see one car driver jump out and wrestle another to the
ground and go into a kicking assault. Nor have I heard of car divers
following another home and going into such an assault. Of course there
are obnoxious people from all walks of life and traveling around
variously. In certain neighborhood, they simply shoot each other. But
just face it. This was an obviously upscale biking couple of a serious
biking level--if the guy had a time trial bike--who did this and should
be dealt with.
Eric Westhagen
Paul T. O'Leary wrote:
---- John Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In my own experience as a dog-walker, I had a parallel encounter with
a biker on a path where I'd pulled my leashed dogs to the side and had
them sit when bikers were approaching (vs. create a leash trip wire
for wheels). The bikers saw me holding the dogs and assumed that they
were unleashed, and one snapped (it sounded like a snap as they sped
by) "Get a leash!"
I was offended, but before I could explain that the dogs were leashed
and held, and just sitting so as be even less of a worry for the
bikers, they were 100 yards away, and I thought better than to yell
"Got one!" at them because they'd probably only hear "STFU @$$hole!"
and not the actual content. This sort of drive-by communication can
quickly cycle downward into arguments, and apparently fisticuffs.
Perhaps "Thanks, I have one," with the emphasis on the "Thanks". But indeed, even the most positive in-earnest response, with the friendliest of intonations, can be misinterpreted / misheard, esp. given the possible preconceptions of the other party.
WRT the original story, how often does this go on, EVERY day, between car drivers? Or between car drivers and pedestrians/cyclists? And how remarkable is it that, the ONE time it happens among bicyclists (analog to the hackneyed "black on black violence"), it makes the paper?
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Paul T. O'Leary
Chronic Nuisance
Madison, WI USA
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