They closed the tax office an hour early today, and the Feed

Cutting to the chase, they closed the GISD tax office as I was walking up to it at 1600. The line of people out the door were very vocally unhappy about getting turned away, to the point that police were on hand for crowd control. I think that this may have been a planned thing, because the police were there long before the office was closed. I know this because I was walking up to the door as they closed it and there was a cop inside already.

Up first is good news from just a half-day’s ride east from WoaB World HQ in the Beautiful Suburbs of Hell. Injured cyclist rides again following months recovering WoaB and employees very happy to see this. Her recovery period was about the same as mine.

LAPD shows NYPD how it’s done. Suge Knight Arrested For ‘Suspicion Of Murder’ After Fatal Hit-And-Run This was a pedestrian death on a closed film set, but still, NYPD should be taking notes.

Speaking of NYC, they had another fatal pedestrian right hook. Woman Fatally Struck By Nassau County Bus Driver In Queens And in spite of a bus full of witnesses NYPD failed to arrest of even charge the driver.

Another article on the loss of who may have been the world’s oldest active cyclist. Long Beach loses its 106-year-old symbol of cycling

And that makes for a great segue into our next link, our Daily Ted. Morning Links: Atwater paper calls legal cyclists lane hogs, a handful of links and a long list of upcoming events

Update on a cyclist that a road-raging driver tried to kill. Donations help injured cyclist recover at home I like the remodeled bathroom, Mrs. the Poet wants a shower like that, too.

Infrastructure news from VA via DC. Bills in the Virginia General Assembly would hurt and help transit and cyclists I’ll withhold comment on this because I haven’t read the full text for any of the bills.

A hit-and-run driver gets a gentle caress on the wrist from a CO judge. Woman gets probation for hitting Fort Collins cyclist, fleeing They totally ignored the sentencing guidlines for felonies of this nature. According to one commenter if this had been treated like other crimes of this grade of felony the minimum sentence would be 2 years with the possibility of probation.

A little legal infrastructure in action in Jolly Olde. Marjorie Trappenden accelerated into Kevin Lane on High Road, Woodford Green, on February 9 Another dead cyclist with the killer getting community service in the UK.

I find it interesting that a surviving cyclist elicits more severe punishment than a deceased cyclist. Diabetic driver mum jailed for crash which left cyclist seriously injured

Another “bicycle safety” article from people who haven’t been on a bike since elementary school. Life in the bike lane: Riding responsibly Once again too much emphasis is placed on helmets to prevent wrecks.

Another article that should not have to be written, but was because too many drivers have the morals of a Chaotic Evil kinder. Attorney John Nojima of Lederer & Nojima, LLP Reminds Cyclists to Carry Uninsured Motorist Coverage in Light of News Regarding Hit-and-Runs Now if they would just provide a source for this insurance that doesn’t require buying a car and getting a license first…

A little humor from Spokesmama. 10 Reasons Not To Get A Cargo Bike The one I thought was hilarious was the one about not supporting the poor oil companies… HA!!

Last link is a bit of bike culture from the most deadliest state in the US to walk or ride a bike. Critical Mass Set To Take The Streets Friday

And I’m out of links again.

Billed @€0.02, Opus the Poet

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On a Friday dark and dreary as I pondered weak and weary, and the Feed

Don’t worry, there are no talking ravens or any other birds speaking to me here at Casa de El Poeta in the Beautiful Suburbs of Hell. It’s just a chill and grey day here. I’m actually wearing a shirt with my usual shorts and socks to fend off the chill, and I had to turn on the lights in the office/bedroom where I work. That’s how chill and grey the day is. The “weak and weary” part is up for speculation, but I submit for your consideration the lump on the back of my neck and the Rice Krispies noises coming from the muscles in the close vicinity of that lump. I’m getting tired of having my neck sounding like someone punching out a bowl of potato chips nearly every time I move it, does that fit the “weak and weary” part of the rhyme?

Up first, Y’all can stop sending me the links to this video now. Cyclist’s Camera Catches The Moment He Was Hit by a Deer and WATCH: Cyclist collides with deer during ride in California Also CHRISTMAS CONFLICT I have seen the links and the video. You know because I have posted them here. Stop sending me links to this video. PLEASE!

From the most deadliest state in the US to walk or ride a bike, why that is so in two articles. Collier County staffer suspended after threat to plow cyclist off road and Punishment issued for staffer who threatened cyclists The “staffer” basically threatened a cyclist with murder, so she got a paid vacation (leave with pay) before getting a few days off without pay and no jail time… And that’s another reason why FL is the most deadliest state in the US to walk or ride a bicycle.

To go along with the threatened violence in FL, a teen convicted of attempting to assault a cyclist in OR is arrested in conjunction with shooting up a school in the same state. Teen involved in throwing bricks at bike riders implicated in high school shooting Violence against cyclists is not just “road rage”, it is violence, assault or attempted murder. And violence against cyclists that goes lightly punished or completely unpunished leads to violence elsewhere.

Our Daily Ted. Morning Links: Arrest made in Anaheim hit-and-run; saddle up for Selle’s Christmas party in San Diego

One of the links mentioned in Ted’s post also showed up in the Feed. Opinion L.A.’s cyclists should need a special ‘info’ license in order to ride How about drivers should need a special license to drive in LA? Incidentally Gigi would love the comments section, the Stupid is strong with this bunch, except for Bill from SD…

Speaking of Stoopid… EFR tells riders to strive for helmet hair How about drivers should strive to not hit other road users? That would save about 30K people a year if 100% effective.

A driver right hooks a cyclist and complains about the traffic ticket? Halifax councillor fights traffic ticket The driver right hooks the cyclist she just passed and then leaves the scene and she’s fighting the ticket? I could give her 3 tickets and a felony charge if I was on the scene. She got off lucky.

Infrastructure! news from America’s Amsterdam. With or without Vision Zero, a safer Barbur might be an economic win What is the $value of a human life? Because they kill an average of 2 people a year on this stretch of road, reducing that by half would save the $value of that life in addition to the economic benefits.

It happened again. Cyclist left waiting over two hours for an ambulance after crash in central London Last time was about an hour and a half, so things are deteriorating for cyclists. Eventually they are going to be so late that a cyclist that would have lived dies from something that could have been caught had they gotten medical attention sooner.

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Another “safety” innovation that depends on you having the right kind of cell phone to work. Volvo to Demonstrate In-Car Cyclist Alert System at CES I’m sorry, but I can’t get behind or otherwise in favor of “safety” developments that are dependent on my having the right kind of ceel phone to protect me from a light armored vehicle.

E-assist fat bike for when you want to ride in snow or across loose sand. iGO Electric FatBike I never rode a fat bike, but they tell me they’re fun in the conditions I mentioned at the start of the paragraph.

And I seem to have run out of links again.

Billed @€0.02, Opus the unkillable badass Poet

Still hurting, and the Feed

I mentioned yesterday that all the standing I did on Saturday was painful, but what I didn’t mention was the lingering discomfort from that episode, mainly because it always hurts the day after I do something stupid like that. It is particularly noticeable in my foot, because the nerve damage was most noticeable there after the wreck because the nerves that were most damaged served my foot. Normally it takes a day to completely recover after spending too much time standing around but this time was much worse, I’m still getting twinges if I step down too hard, or get up too fast, or rest my foot in the wrong position. That last one is the real bother because what is a “good” position for my foot is a bad position for my hip, and vice-versa. About the only thing that doesn’t hurt either one is laying on my side, and do you know how hard it is to type in that position? 😉

Opening up the links today, cargo bike news from America’s Copenhagen. Portland cargo bike celeb Emily Finch gets a new bike Stolen cargo bike replaced, yay!

Bike wreck in Upstate NY. Bicycle versus car sends cyclist to the hospital The narrative reads like a textbook SWSS wreck at this time. Since this was an intersection wreck and there is a tiny chance the cyclist did come off the sidewalk from the intersecting street, intersection protocols to avoid or reduce damages, and get the infrastructure “up to Dutch” to prevent.

Moving closer to NYC is this LI wreck. Cops: Drunken driver critically injures Wyandanch cyclist Wow! will you look at the deleted comments on this link? Hit-from-behind wreck with a drunk driver, but there doesn’t seem to be much damage to the bike and the cyclist survived, it’s possible the drunk was driving slow to compensate for his known lack of reaction time. So protocols, yadda yadda yadda, Infrastructure, yadda yadda yadda. I think I need another vacation.

Another SWSS wreck report from another of my old stomping grounds. Cyclist injured in collision with car may face DUI charge I’ll withhold judgement on the DUI charge until after the tox screen, but the damage to the weapon vehicle is too far over to the left to support the driver’s claim of the cyclist pulling in front of the weapon vehicle. As for the rest, hit-from-behind protocols to avoid or reduce damages, and get the infrastructure right to prevent.

Not sure if this OH wreck was a tandem bike, two up on a single bike, or pedestrian collateral damages in a bike wreck. Car-bicycle accident on Northeast Side kills 1, injures 1 Seriously with the narrative as it exists as of this writing, any of those hypothesis are equally valid. There was nothing on the direction of travel for the bike, just the car, and the only thing connecting the killed and injured to the wreck is their proximity to the wrecked bicycle. I have nothing I can say about avoiding this for whoever was riding the bike, and only getting the infrastructure “up to Dutch” for preventing it.

A totally unavoidable wreck for the cyclist involved in the Great White North. Another bicyclist injured Yet another driver crosses the centerline to hit a cyclist and nobody is thinking “attempted murder”? Gigi seems to think it was questionable since she left a comment on the link from before I got there. The only thing I can say for this wreck is get the infrastructure “up to Dutch” to prevent a repeat performance.

Another wreck in the GWN with little to no usable information. Cyclist killed after colliding with car There was a car and someone riding a bicycle and the cyclist died enroute to the hospital. The driver of the weapon vehicle did not leave the scene. Yay! and that is pretty much the entire story as I have it now. So get the infrastructure “up to Dutch” and crush the weapon vehicle to prevent another wreck in the future? IDK.

A whole bunch of the post today is coming from a small area in the Great White North. Teen killed while cycling in Scarborough This one is seriously borked. Both vehicles were heading in the same direction, but the damage was to the side of the weapon vehicle, the driver’s side to be precise. This speaks of deliberate action on the part of the 16 YO driver, to me at any rate. Protocols to avoid or reduce damages, and get the infrastructure “up to Dutch” so that idiot drivers are kept away from squishy and easily-broken people riding bicycles.

This one is strange, one of The Doctor’s companions is a suspect in a cyclist’s injuries… Billie Piper questioned by police after car involved in crash with cyclist behind Kings Cross station Not sure of what happened here because of the UK’s stringent media laws.

Our Daily Ted is highly informative as usual. Morning Links: Cyclist in critical condition after Koreatown shooting; was Marco Pantini murdered? And why don’t the criminal set understand that when you shoot someone there is a high danger of prosecution, but when you run someone over with your car you get trauma counselling?

A sort of Infrastructure! article from Gothamist. A Beginner’s Guide To Biking The Bloodthirsty Streets Of NYC

A little lifestyle from Canuckistan> Temporary parklet being proposed in memory of cyclist killed on Whyte Avenue

And WHEW! those were all the links that gave me fits or giggles today. Typical for a Monday there were way more fits than giggles.

Billed @€0.02, Opus