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BERKELEY BIKERS BAWL
According to San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia:
A motorist plowed into a group of peaceful demonstrators carrying signs against global warming and supportive of bicycles on the monthly Critical Mass demonstration in May. Police sided with the attacker, denying the rights of the demonstrators. Three bicycles were crushed and at least two bicyclists sustained injuries. Kids cried.
Well, of course they did; as the site points out, the attacker “looks like Cheney”. Also, he “brandished a knife”, was “drunk”, “honked repeatedly and shouted as he attacked”, and “ran a red light to attack”.
None of this is apparent in video of the “attack”, which reaches a comic peak when the cyclists scream: “There’s somebody under the car! There’s somebody under the car!” At that point the car hadn’t moved for some time; evidently this Cheney doppelganger’s SUV is able, while stationary, to lure Berkeley bicycle bolsheviks beneath its killin’ wheels.
He does look like Dick Cheney, lucky for critical mess he wasn’t carrying his shotgun at the time.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 13 at 02:49 AM • permalinkLooking at the video the driver appears to have a disabled sticker on his number plate - does this mean he is disabled in some way, it may explain some panic on his behalf when he was confronted by that pack of feral cyclists - they hemmed him in and surrounded him before the bikes ended up under the SUV.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 13 at 02:58 AM • permalinkLove the JPG. name for the crying kids photo.
“640_crying-kiddos-so-sad.jpeg”Pure propaganda of the lowest form. Same stuff used by refugee groups, palestinians, and greenies the world over, start shit=bring kids into shit=film shit=other sides fault.
The old turkey should have had a set of
these little buggers on his hubs.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 13 at 03:06 AM • permalinkWhat can be gleaned from the video?
There appears to have been a low level impact between a vehicle driven by an elderly disabled man and at least one bicycle. Who ran into who is not clear. There are no apparent injuries or damage.
The elderly couple in the car are surrounded by a mob of fairy floss brats with mange on wheels. They quickly increase as crowd hysteria kicks in. Like seagulls around a dying trapped fish they reach a tipping point and get brave. They abuse the elderly helpless pair and threaten them by thumping on their car.
The mangy brats single out the old lady passenger for particular abuse. At some point someone produces a couple of young kids who understandably become frightened and distressed at the scene.
I agree with the Berkeley Critical Mass “reporter” on one point. What can be seen from the video would certainly warrant a police investigation. It would be probably useful if everyone in that ugly mob was charged.
“Many felt the motorist was drunk.” If it was felt, you must find guilt. (Bad poetry. Johnnie Cochran, help me out.)
Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 13 at 03:24 AM • permalinkdean martin
“If we thunk it he must have drunk it”?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 13 at 04:03 AM • permalinkRichard McEnroe, is that you? Is that your idea of a peaceful counter protest?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 13 at 04:39 AM • permalinkBunch of enviro-pussies, that damage will buff right out.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 05 13 at 04:44 AM • permalinkUnless hes drunken, their thories derbunken!
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 13 at 05:08 AM • permalinkLook, sorry about that, it was all Wronwright’s fault at one remove.
We were running road trials on the Pleasant Automotive Corporate Association’s new riot control system. It has an artificial intelligence and the new ‘peaceful penetration module’. For hilarious riot control, you understand. The artifical intelligence in the Dark Lord Doppelganger SUV’o'DOOM was based on Wronwright’s brain patterns. VRWC Henchmen being trustworthy.
<take that sniggering bastard outside and flog the soles of his feet with red hot barbed wire, Howard!>
Only when it was recorded, he was… erm… how to put this politely….. pissed out of his tree on Sumerian mead.
So the P.A.C.O. DLSUV’o'D was looking through beer goggles at the smelly hippy chicks and liked what it saw. There WAS one under the SUV’o'D and she was having a whale of a time. She closely resembled the whale.
The bong-addled smelly hippy gayboys were all damned upset because with Wron’s large if artifically enhanced intellect goes something else….. large.
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC“There’s somebody under the car!” At that point the car hadn’t moved for some time; evidently this Cheney doppelganger’s SUV is able, while stationary, to lure Berkeley bicycle bolsheviks beneath its killin’ wheels.
At about 2:38 one says “People are being injured right now by what you are doing” (You may have missed that among the screaming and hysteria.) It is Berkeley. They may have given human rights to bicycles.
Pumpkin girl is certainly mewling like Dick Cheney just sucked the soul from her cat (her only friend) skinned it with his pitchfork and is dismembering it with his teeth. Or maybe she is visualizing peace?
The cameraman saying (2:08) “Guess who started it! Guess who did it!” like a bratty 5 year old makes me want to run him down.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 05 13 at 07:37 AM • permalinkThree bicycles were destroyed and two demonstrators were injured and bleeding, although they refused medical treatment at the scene. Two children who were traumatized cried; a young woman who was injured cried.
Now visualize these people given control of foreign policy. How tough would they be with the Islamist wild eye ones?
Personally, based on looking at how the bicycles were neating lying under the van, it looks a bit contrived to me. Now on the other hand, if they had a ambulance with a hole on top where the cross lies, well that would be more convincing.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 13 at 08:35 AM • permalinkIn the last two years, I’ve done 8500 kms commuting on the pushbike. At my speed, that’s about 400 hours in the saddle. In all that time, I have never had grief from an oldie or from a 4WD. Never.
Taxi drivers, couriers and fuckwits in a red BMW 318 with a full body kit though are another matter.
Cowards intimidate in packs like this. Sad to say, but I usually see at least one cyclist a day that I want to deck.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 13 at 09:11 AM • permalinkKids cried.
“...People died?” he asked hopefully.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 05 13 at 09:14 AM • permalinkThe Critical Massholes deserve whatever they get, whether it’s being run over, encountering a bit of piano wire strung across their path, or volleys of grapeshot.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 05 13 at 10:08 AM • permalinkCritical Mass stage these monthly temper tantrums hoping to create an incident, riding en mass through stop sign and red lights and blocking traffic is part of the “protest”. The local police are well aware of these stunts, but claim they “can’t ticket all of them”, so these fuckwits act like they own the town.
I feel sorry for the old folks who were
harassedassaulted by those overgrown spoiled brats.Piano wire sounds like a good idea, Rob.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 13 at 10:43 AM • permalinkThe grapeshot sounds better, Spiny.
Or maybe one of one of these might be in order.Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 05 13 at 11:02 AM • permalinkNo need for grapeshot—a kilo of tacks would sort the Massholes out right quick.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 05 13 at 02:03 PM • permalinkThe better solution for these incidents is the Cannister round. Basically, you aim the round just in front of the crowd such that the individual ‘elements’ can bounce off the pavement.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 05 13 at 02:49 PM • permalinkdeanmartin—if it was felt, then pay danegelt?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 13 at 04:15 PM • permalinkIn the very first part of the video of the ‘accident’ it looks like only one bike being anywhere close to being under the van. I wonder if there’s more video available and whether you could see the other two bikes and their earlier positions. One should be very recognizable. It appears to be the same bike seen earlier in the ride—it has a milk crate basket on the back.
It looks like another put-up job. Most of those male bikers need a good ass-kicking. What a bunch of wussies.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 05 13 at 10:53 PM • permalink
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Two observations:
1) The small children whose father didn’t think should be wearing bicycle helmets. It’s one thing if grown ups decide to stand for a Darwin Award, it’s quite another to expose their kids to head injury.
2) Did you notice the woman wearing a ‘kaffiyeh’ around her neck, standing in front of the van? Haven’t these people heard of another Darwin-Award candidate, Rachel Corrie?