Pat wrote:
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> For all that you-all hate about cities -- the cars, the people, the
> pollution, the SUVs, the lack of places to peddle, road rage and
> everything else -- why don't you get the heck out and find yourself
> someplace decent to live so that you can enjoy your lives?
I used to live in a small town until 4 years ago. I liked it, but I
wouldn't ride my bike there.
Driving around there I saw people in their 90's driving. They would
never have dared to drive in "the city" because it was "too dangerous."
Yet I routinely saw them drive through red lights that they just "didn't
see."
There was a bicyclist that was killed a few years ago while standing 30
feet off the shoulder of the road. That's a long way off, but the judge
said it was just a "tragic accident." When judges use the word "tragic"
that is shorthand for "no penalty."
It occurs to me now that when growing up in the country and riding my
Schwinn Varsity to school every day, a distance of over 7 miles, that if
some dumbass had driven up behind me at 65 MPH (the allowed speed limit
at the time on country roads) and plowed into me, the judge would have
ruled that it was just a "tragic accident."
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