There is an article about this on "Floridatoday.com". According to the article, this was a group of about 40 guys who race in a pack through an urban neighborhood at speeds of 30 mph to 35 mph. The driver was pulling out of an apartment complex driveway into the street. Neighbors say the view of a driver from that driveway might be obscured by the parked cars on the street.

As the car pulled out, the pack, moving at 30 mph, piled into the car. And the bikes in back piled into the bikes in front. The driver got a ticket for not yielding the right of way to the cyclists.

I think the story MUST have been invented by a reporter who abuses drugs (Note to DocRay, who is working on his 4th grade "learn to read" project...I don't really think the reporter invented this story...there probable ARE 40 cyclists who combine the amount of astounding amount of stupidity and arrogance that the story describes).

But, I've never met a cyclist who thought it was safe and sensible to ride in a pack of 40 riders at 30 mph through an urban neighborhood. Parked cars, driveways every thirty feet, kids playing, old ladies crossing the street, cars passing and making right turns into your path, oncoming cars making left turns into your path...there might be something more dangerous than a pack of bikes riding at 30 mph through an urban neighborhood, but I can't think of what it is.

When I ride through such a neighborhood, I'm happy to be going 10 mph or 15 mph. When a kid walks out from between a parked car (and he will) or a car passes me and turns into a driveway directly in front of me (and he will) it is easy for me to slow down and not get hurt, or hurt someone else.

Sue the driver? The driver is entitled to a jury trial. If the news story about the behavior of the cyclists is true, I don't think there is any jury in Florida that will be feeling like giving them ten cents.