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Don't Get Any Ideas : 23: Trauma - Don\'t Get Any Ideas

Sun, 5 Jan 2020 22:10:01 +0000

The wreck was back in 2001. I'm mostly over it, but sometimes "stuff happens".

Don't Get Any Ideas : 23: Trauma - Don\'t Get Any Ideas

Sun, 5 Jan 2020 21:16:56 +0000

What annoys me is people belittling my triggers after I was killed riding my bicycle (I came back after a few minutes, but the experience was Not Good). One of those is getting passed too close, as in "if I can touch the car you're Too Close", and other illegal passing, like when I knocked the mirror off the truck that passed me in my lane on the right while I was preparing to make a left turn. That one was really bad because 1) too close 2) on the right 3) there was only one lane in each direction so technically not legal to pass. Cop said the driver could sue me for smashing the mirror, I asked if the driver was going to get a ticket for the 3 illegal things he did and cop said I was in the wrong which was another trigger. I responded to that one by quoting the law that dictated where in the lane I was supposed to be including the designator (TX VC 551.103(b) at the time. Enough ranting, tl;dr I have triggers because of Traffic Violence.

Don't Get Any Ideas : 21: Lane Comes Home - Don\'t Get Any Ideas

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 22:13:39 +0000

Why does Simon assume that because it's vegan his chili is safe for everyone? I used to make a bean and tofu chili that I had a release and hold harmless agreement drawn up for. There were a lot of extremely hot peppers in that one.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Your Call Is Very Important To Us

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:13:19 +0000

Well, I counted 33 boxes visible in the comic, and anything over 24 is "a lot" of cookies. That's like $165 in GS cookies.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Your Call Is Very Important To Us

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:53:22 +0000

That is a lot of Samoas

Longmont Times-Call : Driver in crash that injured cyclist Dale Stetina sentenced to community service - Longmont Times-Ca

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:05:10 +0000

If the family is good with this I should be also, but I'm not. The article mis-states what happened to the rider in the wreck, making it sound like the wreck was partly the cyclist's fault, when the cyclist only barely missed hitting the SUV head-on by a fraction of an inch. This was 100% the fault of the driver pulling into a group of cyclists riding totally within the law and scattering them like a covey of quail. And the sentence handed down basically stated that's fine, unless the driver lost his license to drive for the rest of his life as a result of this wreck.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder agrees to pay injured cyclist $30,000 - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:21:36 +0000

Just saying, from personal experience, that the adrenaline rush you get from being in a wreck blocks pain. I have known people with undisplaced fractures walking away from wrecks only to collapse after getting home and the fracture displacing. I was || this close to losing a leg, and I barely felt anything. Until the adrenaline crash and then they had to put me in a coma...

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder agrees to pay injured cyclist $30,000 - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:59:30 +0000

Adrenaline can be quite a pain blocker. When I was hit the only injury I was aware of was what I thought was a hip injury, that was a broken hip, on top of a broken femur, on top of both cruciate ligaments and the meniscus of my knee, on top of a broken fibula and tibia with a giant hole in the front of the lower leg with muscles and blood vessels hanging out of it. Not to mention all the skin I left on the pavement after being propelled 50 feet over the ground and 16 feet up in the air and landing on my face... Like I said, all I knew was I hurt my hip, until the adrenaline wore off. That's when they put me in a coma...

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder agrees to pay injured cyclist $30,000 - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:50:02 +0000

The mode of wreck is what we cyclists call a right hook and is mostly caused by the motor vehicle operator failing to make a clean pass before turning right. The initial report had some discrepancies about if the motorcycle was far enough in front of the cyclist for the cyclist to even be able to see the turn signal, much less react to it. If the cyclist was filing for actual damages then the city is getting off light indeed. When I got hit my medical expenses exceeded $250,000, not counting loss of income from the 4 months I was bedridden and the loss of employment after my brain damage was discovered. On the positive side my IQ is now low enough to be hired as LEO...

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Nth Class

Thu, 4 Sep 2014 00:10:23 +0000

When we moved to Morocco back in 1969 our PanAm flight was so lightly loaded everybody in my family had an entire row of seats to themselves. And back then they would take the arms from between the seats and the seat bottoms were flat so my 11YO self had as close as you could get to a sleeper berth on an airplane. They were even letting people from 1st class into Economy to enjoy the space. Now the 1971 return trip was during the height of tourist season, so no beds on that flight.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder police: Cyclist hit by car on Arapahoe Avenue seriously injured - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:19:20 +0000

Hmm, I guess a more-accurate description for a segregated bike path would be a parallel road with equal priority (since they share traffic signals). But as I was pointing out what caused this wreck, that problem has been solved and that solution works, and has been proven to work to the tune of a 35% VMT share for bicycles, and a 50% trip share. But since it Was Not Invented Here I see little hope for it getting accepted in the US.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder police: Cyclist hit by car on Arapahoe Avenue seriously injured - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:38:17 +0000

Except the driver is turning across a lane of traffic to the right that has right of way. This is a design defect that needs to be corrected. The Dutch method of eliminating this conflict is to give cyclists separate green phases at intersections with motor vehicle traffic. The now-accepted method of doing this is to slightly extend the red for motor vehicles and institute a "green bike scramble" phase for cyclists, as cyclists seem to be able to not hit each other in an intersection with everybody going at once. Unlike drivers who manage to run into each other all the time, plus anyone else nearby.

KSWB-TV : Cyclist injured after crashing into car

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 05:14:42 +0000

Not hard to figure out, the driver violated the cyclist's right of way by pulling out in front of him, just the same as if he had been hit by a car on the street when he pulled out of the driveway. I would be willing to bet that LEO won't see it that way and will try to blame the cyclist for being there to get hit...

KIAH-TV : Bike Houston joins forces with Crime Stoppers, Mayor Annise Parker

Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:13:10 +0000

I think part of the problem is entitled sociopaths who think making them slow down and change lanes is a situation that calls for the death penalty on the person that made them slow down. Even if that is only one in a million that still means there are at least 8 of the homicidal maniacs in the Greater Houston area. I'm of the opinion that hit-and-run should be a loss-of-car violation, you hit-and-run and you get caught, your car goes to the crusher. No exceptions except for stolen vehicles that are reported prior to the wreck.

thevillager.com : Hoylman: Hit-run cyclists should be treated like drivers

Fri, 9 May 2014 19:15:23 +0000

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But nobody was asking to "do something" about bicycles, there is already an existing penalty commensurate with the potential harm a person riding a bicycle can do. Ditto your argument about brass knuckles vs. guns, nobody has been suggesting an increase in the penalty for (already illegal) brass knuckles. And while I proudly claim that title of "Cycling Zealot" (have you read my blog?) I'm also a pedestrian zealot, and I really like cars. There is a tag in my blog "Don't hit the pedestrians". I'm not saying hitting a pedestrian with a bicycle and leaving the scene isn't bad, I'm saying it doesn't warrant the same penalties as hitting a pedestrian with a motor vehicle and leaving the scene. And I stand by my comment about cyclists hitting pedestrians getting hurt as bad as or worse than the pedestrian, from experience as well as statistics. The UK has stats on bike v ped wrecks going back to WWII and beyond in some cities, and searching those stats will bear me out. AFAIK there are more cyclists killed by hitting pedestrians than there are pedestrians killed by being hit by cyclists. I do know there were several years where no pedestrians were killed by cyclists while 2 or 3 cyclists died in collisions with pedestrians. And AFAIK there were no drivers killed in any motor vehicle v ped collisions without a secondary collision ever in any part of the world. I have been researching bike wrecks for 8 years now and the number of wrecks between cars and cyclists or pedestrians that resulted in driver death is statistically insignificant. In fact the usual way for this to happen is the corpse of the victim comes through the windshield on the driver's side and crushes the driver's head or upper torso because the initial impact speed of the motor vehicle exceeded 80 MPH. There has to be a lot of energy in the wreck to get the body through the windshield and even more for the body to have enough energy to injure or kill the driver after going through the windshield. This cannot happen in a collision at normal city speeds.

thevillager.com : Hoylman: Hit-run cyclists should be treated like drivers

Fri, 9 May 2014 01:33:23 +0000

Two simple points on this one. The last time a pedestrian was killed by a cyclist was 2009, five years ago. The last time a pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver was Tuesday? (or maybe Monday and I read about it Tuesday). Second point, when a driver hits a pedestrian they might damage their vehicles enough to require a trip to a body shop for some sheetmetal work, when a cyclist hits a pedestrian odds are the cyclist is going to be hurt as bad as the pedestrian, or maybe worse. So with such wildly different outcomes from the same events between motor vehicles and cyclists vs pedestrians, why should the penalties be the same?

Daily Camera.com: : Competency review rescheduled for Patrick Ward in Lyons DUI crash that killed cyclist - Boulder Dail

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:01:25 +0000

AFAIK from reading earlier articles the driver had a stroke and was at one time about as aware of his surroundings as a rutabega. Apparently he has moved up the ladder considerably, but not completely alert and aware yet.

KIAH-TV : Houston cyclist uses 3-foot pole to keep drivers in their lane

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:29:46 +0000

It's a visual representation of a Houston law requiring 3 feet or more passing clearance. He's not "regulating" anyone, just showing what the law requires. And as a cyclist who has been hit 6 times since 2001 while riding completely legally (except for the two times I was hit waiting at a red light when technically I wasn't riding at all) I think his "demonstration" does not go far enough.

Loveland Reporter-Herald : Defensive driving on a bicycle - Loveland Reporter-Herald

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:56:54 +0000

It should be noted that hyper-vigilance is a symptom of PTSD. This suggests that PTSD is the normal condition of cyclists (it is for me but that's because some guy tried to kill me back in 2001 for riding my bike on "his" street).

Loveland Reporter-Herald : Ghost bike memorial emphasizes bicycle safety for riders, drivers - Loveland Reporter-Herald

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:45:50 +0000

Since it wasn't the cyclist that caused tons of steel to crush him but rather the actions of a driver proceeding blindly, and since cyclists rarely kill and drivers killed 35K humans with over 17% of those not in any motor vehicles at the time of their deaths, why does the author place the onus on cyclists to not get killed by ceding the roads to blind people with howitzers instead of asking drivers to wait until they can see before driving? Of to phrase it more directly, "You kill people when you drive while you can't see. Pull off the road until you can see." See, there the onus is on the people that kill, not the victims. And this would save not just cyclists, but pedestrians and other drivers.