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Clarks
01-13-09, 01:10 AM
man oh man its hard to believe these guys are hitting cyclists on intention. i know lots of illegals hit and run but in this article it sounds like the illegals are the victims, theres too much hate in ny. I remember on election day when the racists in staten island ran down a ped but the ped they ran down was white not black, they accidentally ran down the wrong person.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11sun3.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/nyregion/12hate.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=nyregion

Dzrtrat
01-13-09, 04:49 AM
Sounds like Lawrence Downes is a hater, or did I miss something.
hotbike
01-13-09, 09:32 AM
man oh man its hard to believe these guys are hitting cyclists on intention. i know lots of illegals hit and run but in this article it sounds like the illegals are the victims, theres too much hate in ny. I remember on election day when the racists in staten island ran down a ped but the ped they ran down was white not black, they accidentally ran down the wrong person.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11sun3.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/nyregion/12hate.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=nyregion

Staten Island is not part of Long Island, and the only bridge connection is the Varazano Narrows, which has no bicycle lane.

Aside from that, I read the story in Long Island's Newsday (which actually has it's corporate HQ up near Albany), and the comments after the article were extremely anti-hispanic. ( I have just checked, and the comments were removed.)