And if you participate in the Wisconsin Bike Fed’s Ride Across Wisconsin (RAW) that may be just how you will feel when you finish. Or it may be their Bike Week that has you confused, running June 1-11. …And here I thought a week was seven days.
Or you may simply be dismayed by all those bicyclists running through stop signs and then making obscene gestures when you call them on it. Yes, they like to take up an entire drive lane, flaunting their rights as bikers in your face, slowing down traffic, but hey, the law is on their side. Then they just piss on the law as they will not stop for anything.
This vehicle crashed into several obstacles racing through our neighborhood Memorial Day weekend. Finally it snagged the support cable of the power pole and ripped the middle out of it. Note the top of the pole hanging in mid air. Power was out for sometime.
The four occupants, three shirtless, pants around the crotch underwear showing, males and one female exited the vehicle. The dislodged piece of the pole, broken in two came to rest under the truck, which kept them from fleeing. The owner of the truck who claims he was not initially driving hopped back in and tried to set the truck free one more time. He failed, left, but returned, as being the owner there was little he could do to escape justice. A wise decision considering.
His three buddies ran back to Miller Park and claimed the truck had been carjacked. They were arrested for obstruction. These were all white people by the way. I would not be surprised if they told the authorities that black people stole their truck though a dozen of us neighbors watched them as they stumbled away in flight.
Errant bicyclists aside the city streets have become increasingly dangerous. I would say that two out of every three times I drive in the city these days I see cars driving at extreme excessive speeds, running stop lights and signs, and acting in an outright reckless fashion. Someone attempted to steal our neighbors car this morning. As of this moment, four hours after calling the police, there had been no police response. They have security video of the incident. It is impossible to get in or out of our neighborhood without being on somebody’s security video.
Yes, the problem is growing exponentially worse, and it is spreading beyond Milwaukee. And the first hot spell of the Summer has just arrived.
I am glad I got me a new bicycle helmet this spring at the Bike Expo.
WORS is having a fantastic season by the way. It is where the mountain bike action is for good clean living people of all types.
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