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[winneganfake]

Last  night's ride home was... interesting.

Now let me preface this by saying simply this much: if I catch this guy, or anyone else pulling this kind of shit again, i don't care if I know you or not, so help me, you're getting called in to the police, and well, if I get the chance to stop you personally, I'd probably be willing to pull a good old fashioned curb-stomping for this kind of bullshit.

So, yesterday's commute home. There I was, driving up Dexter towards Fremont, when what should I see? Another scooter, driving merrily along. Normally not a cause for concern, except that this guy was busy driving along in the cyclist lane. And I'm not talking about just ducking into it to avoid a car, or using it to filter through parked traffic at a stop light- both of which are pretty valid uses/needs to get into that space. No, I mean he was driving along the entire time in the bike path, to the point that he was forcing bicyclers out into regular traffic. Including driving through the bike lane across Fremont bridge- otherwise known as the regular pedestrian sidewalk- that's right, endangering foot traffic as well.

So, please- if anyone sees this particular motherfucker (unfortunately, I lack his license #, as I couldn't get close enough to him to catch it  unless I was to pull some of the same shit he did), do me a favor- and knock his ass down. I don't care what excuse he wants to try and pull- whether it's that his engine is too small, or he pisses himself when he gets within ten feet of a car, or whatever- there is NO excuse for that kind of crap. NONE.  EVER. We willingly take the risk on of potentially tangling with a larger vehicle when we get on a scooter or motorcycle. That's how it is. People who are walking, or obeying bicycle laws by using the bike lanes are supposed to be safe from regular traffic. Including us. A scooter may not be a car, but it's still two to three hundred pounds of metal and fiberglass- when you drive it in non-traffic areas, you're pretty much wielding it like some kind of weapon- the odds of you hitting someone and doing them serious damage, if not killing them, skyrocket.

So congratulations, motherfucker, wherever you are. You're doing your absolute best to give every single one of us on the road a bad name, increase the possibilities of motorcycles and scooters not getting more legal protection as traffic vehicles,  not to mention the very real risk of damaging a good number of people physically, between the ones you've forced into normal traffic and the ones who risk you crashing into them because you're driving in their lane.  I can only hope that poetic justice is headed your way soon in the form of someone timing it right and launching you off the bridge next time you pull that shit.

Comments

[prairieflower.livejournal.com]

Nice. What an asshole.

I don't have the composure you do and would have been tempted to do what you didn't.

Thank you for following the traffic laws and just ranting about it instead.

Shame on him.

[jedimomma.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that rant, D--from a bicyclist, a scooter-driver and a car driver! Those people deserve to be drawn & quartered.

[cynickal.livejournal.com]

using it to filter through parked traffic at a stop light

In Washington state this is illegal too.
You can't split the lane regardless.
And scooting to the front of the line when the vehicles behind you out weigh and out accelerate you (even if it's only in the long haul) is asking for some road rage douche to make you a road pizza.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Knew I should've clarified that one better. I was meaning to turn at an intersection and the like- not to bump yourself to the front of the traffic queue.

[cynickal.livejournal.com]

I used to split the lanes in L.A.
Lots of fun
It was interesting.
Took out a lot of mirrors by passing cars.