BIKE: more No Justice

[rcbaker]

On 1 Dec 2003 at 14:03, Michael Bluejay wrote:

> 
> On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 01:19  PM, Aaron Pollack wrote:
> 
> > And can we please pass a city ordinance prohibiting cars from
> > parking in the bike lanes?  Has anyone tried to get this before?
> 
> Oh, that's rich.  Here's a better page than the one Joel posted:
> 
>  http://BicycleAustin.info/bikelanes.html
> 
> 
> Mike Dahmus done said:
> 
> > Out of curiousity - why did it make any difference when the trial
> > happened? Don't you think you would have gotten the same publicity
> > either way? A week's not that long in judicial time; and the local
> > suburban-centric media would have jumped all over the case of the
> > (probably communist) lunatic blocking hard-working 'merkins from
> > their god-given right to drive home as quickly as possible.
> 
> Well, that's a good point.  Probably the reason is that I knew the
> second I heard a negative verdict I'd be all fired up to go do it,
> while finding out when the verdict was already old news was kind of
> anti-climactic.  I'll keep this in mind for next time, though.  But
> I'm not sure that I'd be willing to go through with this particular
> plan again.  At the time I planned it I was kind of suicidal anyway so
> I didn't have any fear that some idiot in an SUV could angrily (or
> incompetently) drive right into the mess of bicycles.  These days it
> might be a little different....
> 
> Then again, if I got killed while protesting a cyclist being killed --
> man, THAT would be irony, huh?  Where would it end?
> 
> -MBJ-

But on the other hand, if you got killed while protesting another 
getting killed, there would be a sort of political multiplier effect at 
work there, and that together with nearly any kind of publicity effort, 
well -- lets just say the sky's the limit here. Then when you compare 
this with trying to attract much attention with the boring everyday 
stuff. What I mean is, lets not be too fast to write off any promising 
possibilities for creative media work. -- Roger