I know, it’s been 2 whole days without your Feed, and you’re going into withdrawal. I feel your pain. Actually I can’t feel your pain because I’m too busy feeling my pain, but hey pain is pain and I’m feeling it. If you need to know why then just scroll down a bit in my blog from this post and all will be made crystal.
While I was gone a very bizarre report has been making the rounds about a man in NC who was shot at because he was riding his bicycle with his son on a child safety seat on the back of the bicycle, while his wife rode with them. The bullet passed through the helmet the guy was wearing and according to one report left the inside of the helmet and passed next to the man’s head then back into the helmet and out the side. That’s about as close as you can get to being shot in the head without actually being shot in the head, and without the helmet to record the path of the bullet there would have been nothing to show how close the man came to losing his life. How you can avoid a similar situation, how would you even get in a similar situation? The guy with the gun was a nutjob, “You won’t be safe by my standards so I will kill you to make you be safe.” I wear a full face helmet, maybe I could get one with a ballistic level Kevlar shell? Won’t stop bullets, but it does make the deadlier ones mushroom and kills their velocity to levels that will bounce off a normal skull. Aside from that a Madonna del Ghisallo pendant on a silver chain? Mace? An Uzi in a shoulder holster? What will force the nutjobs out there behind the wheels of WMDs to leave us alone and not try to enforce their own made up laws on us?
An update on the CO rider that was hit from behind on the shoulder of the road earlier this month. Injured cyclist upgraded to serious condition and Bicycle-Car Collision in Windsor Leaves Cyclist Critically Injured and what appears to be an identical article to the first one linked Fort Collins bicyclist improves to serious condition at MCR; driver issued citation Kudos for issuing a citation, as weak as it is. And good luck and speedy recovery to the cyclist along with a huge settlement from the lowlife’s insurance company.
A demonstration of the lethality of motor vehicles when one hits you at even 5 MPH. Oak View cyclist struck by pickup, injured Yes getting hit at even 5 MPH when you don’t have time to prepare for it can cause life-threatening injury, and yes in this case a helmet might have reduced the extent of his injuries, but let’s be honest here, who’s more at fault, the cyclist for not wearing a helmet or the driver in the truck for hitting the cyclist in a crosswalk? And for you following at home this qualifies as a left cross. Also as a driver not paying attention to what was in the road in front of him if he was really going 5 MPH.
Another one killed in OK. Bike Rider Dies After Accident The driver drove off the road and a cyclist is dead and the killer gets? Not even a ticket…TANJ!
A drunken driver kills another cyclist in OH. Driver kills bicyclist along Cemetery Road The driver didn’t even know where he was and claimed the cyclist came out of an intersection that wasn’t near where he hit the cyclist. Flog him with bicycle chains until he gets some sense. As for how to avoid drunk drivers on the wrong roads late at night, that’s what the rear view mirror is for. Drunks usually hit you from behind except when they drive through intersections without looking, and there is nothing you can do about drunks that drive through intersections without looking.
Another report on a death in the RAGBRAI. Crash near state park kills Missouri RAGBRAI rider Lost control of his bike in a single vehicle wreck…
And finally is a report from Oz that has a remarkably familiar ring to it, something about shooting cyclists… Cyclist injured, car damaged in Baldivis shooting Given the level of gun control in Oz, this can’t happen, so it must be the car’s imagination that it was shot 
Once again this is random violence where the victim just happened to be a cyclist, nothing anyone can do for themselves to prevent it, except not be there. and that really isn’t a viable option, because that cedes places and times to control by terrorists which means they won, they pwn u.
And that’s all for today, more if I don’t start throwing up from the meds I’m taking. Bleah, and BLEAH!
Billed @$.02, Opus
