So today I was riding home on a MUP when I see this guy rollerblading. He's not an ordinary blader though, he's flailing about with 2 ski poles. Okay, maybe he's not flailing just pushing with them. The problem is that he's taking up the entire path, all 6 feet of it. I had a disturbing vision of getting impaled on one of his poles so I cautiously approached and called out "on your left" to signal my intention to pass. No response, just more flailing about with the poles. So I call out louder, and then louder, almost shouting before he realized he wasn't the only person on the path and allowed me to pass. Has anybody else encountered these ski pole wielding rollerbladers? Is it a new trend that I need to watch out for? It could definitely make for some great headlines: "25 year old man gutted with ski pole while trying to pass a rollerblader" or "Man impaled on rollerblader's ski pole in stable condition." Crazy stuff.