BAGHDAD (AP) — A booby-trapped bicycle exploded near a cafe serving tea and food during Ramadan fasting hours Sunday, killing at least five people in a religiously mixed area in northern Iraq, police said. ... In the late-morning blast in Tuz Khormato, 130 miles north of Baghdad, witnesses said a boy left the bicycle bomb near the cafe. ... No one claimed responsibility for the attack. ... "We do not assess that he was operating alone, there is an investigation and continuing operations that are focused on ensuring that all people who were involved in this attack or in this murder will be detained," said Rear. Adm. Mark Fox, a U.S. military spokesman.
Can we get our law enforcement to arrest all those punks with "this bike is a pipebomb" stickers? In New York they'll arrest you for dropping chalk on the sidewalk from your bike...
Is this some kind of far reaching scheme run by fixie hipsters to surround us with pipebombs? Or are they just pawns in this massive terrorist plot?
Rogelio
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:56 pm
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I feel perfectly safe with Iraqi street violence not having reached the North-American Northwest quite yet. If a security contractor started firing off in the middle of Pioneer Square I'm sure some shit would go down. I must say though that reminders of my fleeting existence strapped to this frail body are always bothersome.
So, try to be happy and live life until your hopefully unexpected demise, and if you wish, if it makes you smile, if it brings some light to your soul: call in a bomb warning at the sight such stickers and have the fuzz water-cannon that adhesive backed counter-culture icon right off that fixie frame.
Oh, and don't eat during fasting hours... it's frowned upon.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:15 pm
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Two 13 year-old girls struck by car in Snohomish County
06:19 PM PDT on Saturday, September 15, 2007
KING5.com
SNOHOMISH, Wash. – Two teenage girls remain in critical condition after they were hit by a car Friday night while biking near Lake Stevens.
The girls, both 13, were airlifted to Harborview Medical Center and both underwent surjery on Saturday.
Shortly before 6 p.m., the bicyclists were hit by a driver on the Machias Cutoff Road in Snohomish County. Snohomish Fire and Rescue said the motorist, a woman, was driving eastbound when she became distracted by a dog inside her vehicle. The car hit the girls and then hit a utility pole.
There are no bike paths, lights, shoulders or sidewalks. Locals say the stretch of road where the girls were hit is dangerous.
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Aaron
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:06 pm
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There is a band called This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
They had stickers made and someone had a bomb squad blow up their bike that had one on it!
Remington
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:24 pm
Joined: 23 Jan 2006Posts: 457Location: Remington Country
TrikerTrev wrote:
bike bombs dont, but this might...
Two 13 year-old girls struck by car in Snohomish County.
I heard this one today too. Terrible...
This story hits much closer to home than my excuse to make fun of all those stickers.
It's interesting that they point out that that road is dangerous, because, of course, on a plain 2 lane road like that there really is little room for error, either for the cyclists or drivers, but in this case it wouldn't have mattered if there was a shoulder/bike lane/sidewalk, since the driver completely drove off the road into a utility pole. I hope they aren't implying that the girls shouldn't have been on the road as a way to draw any attention from the driver's error.
Aaron wrote:
There is a band called This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
They had stickers made and someone had a bomb squad blow up their bike that had one on it!
I learned about all this as I wrote my post. What a lame name for a band.
patr0ck
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:37 pm
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Aaron wrote:
There is a band called This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
They had stickers made and someone had a bomb squad blow up their bike that had one on it!
They are folk punk. I actually kinda like them.
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TrikerTrev
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:00 am
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Remington wrote:
TrikerTrev wrote:
bike bombs dont, but this might...
Two 13 year-old girls struck by car in Snohomish County.
I heard this one today too. Terrible...
This story hits much closer to home than my excuse to make fun of all those stickers.
It's interesting that they point out that that road is dangerous, because, of course, on a plain 2 lane road like that there really is little room for error, either for the cyclists or drivers, but in this case it wouldn't have mattered if there was a shoulder/bike lane/sidewalk, since the driver completely drove off the road into a utility pole. I hope they aren't implying that the girls shouldn't have been on the road as a way to draw any attention from the driver's error.
yeah...shitty road, from neighbor reports, accidents happen all the time there. No shoulder to ride on and in the north end, folks are waaaay less bike friendly. Not like it would matter when you riding on a road at 6 pm and some dumbass is fussing with their gawddamn dog while driving.
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not to ba a complete dick, but its a shame the driver wanst hurt...maybe it would teach them a valuable lesson...then again maybe not.
and the driver may not face any charges!!! WTF is happening with "the system" when a driver runs over or kills another and does not get in massive trouble? I dont fucking get it. if i were walking around town with a loaded gun and a permit to carry, and i get distracted and accidentally shoot somebody (lets not ask how this happens), whether or not i kill them, wouldnt one think id at least have my permit pulled and NOT allowed to own or use a gun ever again?!? Why is a gawddamn car any different?
fucking shitty bitches
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Foo
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:38 am
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
*sigh*
Well, I've got two small bikes and it's looking to be too late in the season to get that bike ramp together to launch them into Green Lake.
Who's up for Ghostbike part 2?
Damnit, I was hoping to at least make it a little longer than a goddamn week before having to do this again.
langston
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:45 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
I learned to drive out on those roads. It's a great area for riding, tons of rolling hills, quite farm roads and pleasent views. There are a few scary bits of road out there, and Machias Rd is one of them. I like trev's analogy about handguns and automobiles, but I am well aware of the mindset of privledge and "but I HAVE to drive" mindset that prevails out there.
Foo
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:55 am
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 583
I really don't care if people drive as long as they do so with at least a minimal amount of care for what they are doing. Running two people down because your dog needs attention is just stupid. If that dog was doing anything short of attacking the driver, she should have kept her damn eyes on the road.
Which one, the dogs not well enough restrained that they could get to the driver's seat or the woman who failed to restrain them?
Seriously though, I completely agree with the notion that this woman needs to have her licence rescinded. People this irresponsible WILL get in more similar accidents. This isn't a chance event or a poor road that caused the accident. Much like that Seattle rabbi who has had two car-bike accidents and a handful of near misses, she will eventually kill someone.
The fundamental problem is that at some point, operating a motor vehicle transitioned from a privilege to a right to a necessity for transportation. These accidents will continue until this attitude is fixed.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:50 am
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
Matthew wrote:
TrikerTrev wrote:
fucking shitty bitches
Which one, the dogs not well enough restrained that they could get to the driver's seat or the woman who failed to restrain them?
YES, all of the above!
Matthew wrote:
The fundamental problem is that at some point, operating a motor vehicle transitioned from a privilege to a right to a necessity for transportation.
DING, DING, DING!
We have a winner!
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keyholefish
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:03 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 268Location: somerville, ma
I'm gonna get some po-po style strobes. And one of those 5 KT nukes with a deadman switch someone mentioned.
Remington
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:27 pm
Joined: 23 Jan 2006Posts: 457Location: Remington Country
langston wrote:
I learned to drive out on those roads. It's a great area for riding, tons of rolling hills, quite farm roads and pleasent views. There are a few scary bits of road out there, and Machias Rd is one of them
I've been riding on that area too, and it's nice, but it makes you realize how much trust you put in other people on the road, especially since a small distraction can have devastating consequences. There's an article in the PI today about making tougher laws against distracted drivers, but they don't seem like enough.
zuvembi
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:36 pm
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 942Location: Little Addis Ababa
Remington wrote:
langston wrote:
I learned to drive out on those roads. It's a great area for riding, tons of rolling hills, quite farm roads and pleasent views. There are a few scary bits of road out there, and Machias Rd is one of them
I've been riding on that area too, and it's nice, but it makes you realize how much trust you put in other people on the road, especially since a small distraction can have devastating consequences. There's an article in the PI today about making tougher laws against distracted drivers, but they don't seem like enough.
Exactly.
Now to get this thread back on topic:
I only feel safe when Remington is holding me. [1] Hold me you mad passionate fool!
[1] Well, or Patrick Swayze, but that's not germane to the topic at hand...
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