Re: Overheard on the scanner

On Fri, 09 May 2008 00:26:18 -0400, Howard S Shubs <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

> In article <lde724tn8hgc442l43a36t64ip09tes96a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Joy Beeson <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Crossing a road on a recreationway is quite a lot like running a red
> > light -- perfectly safe if you do it *right*.
> 
> Agreed.  The times when I use my trail at an at-grade crossing, I'm very

> careful.  I can't and don't claim there aren't idiots out there.

If you make a habit of running red lights, sooner or later you are
going to do it wrong.  If you require people to cross a road where the
people using the road have no reason to expect to see them, sooner or
later somebody is going to die.  

You don't have to be an idiot to fail to be perfect thousands of times
in quick succession.  

But people who deliberately set up situations where only perfect
people can survive *are* idiots.  Or malicious.  

I'm a good enough rider that I enjoy riding through alleys -- but I'd
*never* lead a beginner through an alley -- not without making him get
off and walk.  And when I'm feeling the least bit tired or distracted,
I hop over to Market Street.  

-- 
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net