Non-event indeed. I tried to include all the pertinent data in my first post. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough for all to totally understand. I'll try to clarify a little bit more...

What kind of pea brained, no account, idiotic, stupid, morons would take three big dogs and one big bike hungry dog out onto a busy bridge on a bike trail in the middle of a city without the leashes required by law? Have these people traded in their common sense for gas money? Are they really so short sighted as to not have realized that other people also live in this city? Has it really eluded these micro mental beings that some innocent person could get seriously hurt while trying to elude their dogs? Remember, I stated that the age range went from very young to quite old. Cause a cyclist to fall and it's just a crap shoot as to whether or not serious bone or tendon damage will occur.

Remember, we are not talking out in the big old country here....this is in a city!

Oh yeh, to answer another question....I passed two uniformed Police on Bike Patrol a couple of miles farther down the trail. They just happened to be heading towards the bridge. I held my silence and decided to let karma take it's natural course.