{"id":3761,"date":"2007-05-16T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2017-11-29T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:14:38","slug":"wilding-on-two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/wilding-on-two-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilding On Two Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Critical Mass in Berkeley, another attack on a motorist.  Instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/bicyclists-hooligans.html\" target=\"_new\">a mother and her kids<\/a>, this time the hooligans targeted <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/05\/15\/BAGQKPR2AC1.DTL\" target=\"_new\">a 70-year-old man<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Friday clash between a Berkeley minivan and Critical Mass bicyclists continued to generate conflict Monday as the van driver said the bicyclists placed bicycles under his front tire during the violent melee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A certain number of the bicyclists were prepared to do this with malice aforethought,&#8221; said Harlan Head, 70, driver of the Chevrolet minivan. &#8220;They shoved bicycles under the car and attempted several other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critical Mass organizer Jason Meggs, 38, who filmed part of the incident on his digital camera, called Head&#8217;s accusation &#8220;outrageously ridiculous.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How <i>convenient<\/i> that the leader of the bihadists had a video to upload to YouTube.  So that next month&#8217;s Critical Smash event is even more popular amongst the brown jerseys who think they&#8217;re not only above the laws of the road, but the laws of the land as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Critical Mass in Berkeley, another attack on a motorist. Instead of a mother and her kids, this time the hooligans targeted a 70-year-old man: A Friday clash between a Berkeley minivan and Critical Mass bicyclists continued to generate conflict Monday as the van driver said the bicyclists placed bicycles under his front tire during [&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-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18087,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/18087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}