{"id":3674,"date":"2007-04-04T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:20:37","slug":"bicyclists-hooligans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/bicyclists-hooligans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclists = Hooligans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, at the same time as they loudly protest that motorists don&#8217;t treat them with equal respect even though they&#8217;re pedalling vehicles as entitled to the road as actual internally combusted or hybrid cars and trucks, they&#8217;re blowing through traffic control devices at their convenience.  I could have told you that bicyclism breeds hooliganism, as became obvious in the cradle of loving-your-neighbor known as San Francisco when a mob of the two-wheeling thugs <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/04\/04\/BAGF7P12RN23.DTL\" target=\"_new\">attacked a minivan containing a mother and two children<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nConfusion, however, quickly turned to terror, she said, when the swarming cyclists began wildly circling around and then running into the sides of her Toyota van.<\/p>\n<p>Filled with panic, Ferrando said, she started inching forward until coming to a stop at Post and Gough streets, where she was surrounded by bikers on all sides.<\/p>\n<p>A biker in front blocked her as another biker began pounding on the windshield. Another was pounding on her window. Another pounded the other side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seemed like they were using their bikes as weapons,&#8221; Ferrando said. One of the bikers then threw his bike &#8212; shattering the rear window and terrifying the young girls inside. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A mob, but a green-thinking mob lashing out against the global warming suburban mindset.  Because that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, at the same time as they loudly protest that motorists don&#8217;t treat them with equal respect even though they&#8217;re pedalling vehicles as entitled to the road as actual internally combusted or hybrid cars and trucks, they&#8217;re blowing through traffic control devices at their convenience. I could have told you that bicyclism breeds hooliganism, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18175,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/18175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}