everywhere a sign
11-03-08, 12:09 PM
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everywhere a sign
Someone added this to one of the bike lanes in Seattle. The local bike club forum members are overanalyzing the hell out of it - but I think it's just plain funny:
11-03-08, 12:14 PM
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I'm not going to overanalyze it; but in a society where mowing down a cyclist with an SUV typically nets a driver nothing more than a 2 point moving violation, that stencil just isn't funny.
11-03-08, 02:06 PM
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it does seem a bit funny. I would not be surprised if it was another commuter who painted that in jest.
11-03-08, 02:09 PM
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11-03-08, 02:16 PM
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Those darn Republicans!
Another vote for funny here!
Another vote for funny here!
11-03-08, 02:53 PM
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funny. Perhaps offensive someone who has recently lost a dear friend in a bike/car accident, like me.
still .....funny.
still .....funny.
11-03-08, 02:56 PM
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I also figured who but a cyclist, would come up with such an idea, and carry it out with such accuracy - the taco-bent wheel, for example.
11-03-08, 03:06 PM
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I grinned.
11-03-08, 05:51 PM
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Those of us who are skeptical about the safety provided by a line painted on the road are vindicated by this!
Even the painted icon isn't safe!
Even the painted icon isn't safe!
11-03-08, 06:04 PM
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Heh. I don't see it as funny, but serious: "Warning, cyclists come to grief here. And their brains asplode."
11-03-08, 06:42 PM
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11-03-08, 07:42 PM
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I wish I were the one that painted it. I think it is funny.
OP, could you post a view of it from straight over head, so I can use the pic to make a stencil.
It has to fit into some 2 foot wide bike lanes though.
OP, could you post a view of it from straight over head, so I can use the pic to make a stencil.
It has to fit into some 2 foot wide bike lanes though.
11-03-08, 07:50 PM
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11-03-08, 08:06 PM
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11-03-08, 08:07 PM
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I agree with a previous poster about the taco'd wheel - seems like a cyclist did that.
And yes, it was teh funniez.