Was bound to happen?

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/05/23/family-of-dead-man-found-on-tustin-lawn-is-asking-for-help-finding-killer-confused-why-friends-left-him/

Family of dead man found on Tustin lawn is asking for help finding killer, confused why friends left him

SANTA ANA The family of a 24-year-old man found shot to death on a Tustin lawn over the weekend asked on Tuesday, May 23 for the public’s help in finding the culprit and is mystified why his acquaintances would leave him there.

“He was a good, young man with a lot of dreams and would help anybody,” Maria Soto told reporters Tuesday of her brother-in-law. “We are asking, we are pleading for anyone with information to come forward.”

Jose Peralta, of Orange, was an innocent casualty of gang-related gunfire, detectives said.

He was described as a young man who liked to joke around, had a girlfriend and enjoyed soccer. Peralta worked construction and other labor jobs.

Early Sunday morning, May 21, a resident in the 600 block of West Main Street in Tustin found the body on a neighbor’s yard.

The shooting is believed to have happened Saturday night, May 20 and or early Sunday. Peralta and two other men were attending various family functions and celebrations in a Santa Ana neighborhood, homicide investigator Sgt. Julian Rodriguez said at a press conference attended by Peralta’s family members at Santa Ana police headquarters.

“Ultimately, the three of them (drove) off to continue their night of festivities,” Rodriguez said.

At some point the car was parking along the curb in the area of 200 South Cedar Street in Santa Ana, and a suspected gang member fired shots, at least one striking Peralta inside the car. The two other men were not injured.

Investigators believe the suspect was firing at a different target, other gang members. Shell casings were at the scene.

“We believe that (Peralta’s friends) panicked, and they didn’t know what to do at that point,” Rodriguez said.

Santa Ana police said they believe Peralta likely died shortly after he was shot and before he was left on the lawn.

The friends drove him to a random Tustin home and left him on the lawn. Investigators have not found any connection between Peralta and the place he was abandoned.

“One of them sought some counsel from family and ultimately turned himself in later that afternoon to authorities,” the sergeant said.

The second man was found soon after. Both are cooperating with the investigation and had not been detained or accused of any crime.

Soto, Peralta’s sister-in-law, said the family is agonizing over the fact he was left alone.

“We are confused,” she said. “He trusted them. … We don’t understand it.”

Peralta’s family is planning his funeral arrangements instead of his birthday party, which had been planned for the upcoming weekend.

“He was working and sending money to Mexico to take care of his sick mother and his two young nephews,” Soto said tearfully.

Peralta had been in the United States for four years and was planning on returning after five. His tearful girlfriend and brother were also at the press conference. Peralta’s brother, Carlos Peralta, could barely muster words.

“We were the only two men among seven sisters,” he said. “He counted on me, and I counted on him.”

He asked anyone with information about the shooting to come forward: “We don’t want another family to suffer like we have.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Santa Ana police, who are leading the investigation. Tipsters may receive up to $50,000 through Santa Ana’s Gang Homicide Reward Program for information leading to the arrest of a suspect.
 
http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/256798146-story Along another flood control channel Bicycle trail. :x
By: Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio Posted: May 24 2017 07:07PM PDT
Updated: May 24 2017 08:06PM PDT
CULVER CITY, Calif. (FOX 11 / CNS) - A bicycle theft on Wednesday in Culver City led to the discovery of what police described as a makeshift bike "chop-shop'' at a creekside homeless encampment.
Officers were sent about 2 p.m. to the Culver City Julian Dixon Library at 4975 Overland Ave. to investigate a bicycle theft.
They checked the area and located the stolen bicycle and a suspect in a homeless encampment under a bridge in the area of Ballona Creek and Centinela Avenue.
"A search of the encampment revealed that it was being used as a makeshift chop-shop for bicycles,'' according to a police statement.
"The detectives recovered welding equipment, paint and tools commonly used to piece bicycles together. Along with the aforementioned, detectives recovered approximately 50 bicycles that are most likely stolen.''
No information about the arrested suspect was immediately available.
 
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/a-home...and-politicians-siccing-police-on-him-8135568
I have a clean conscience and I sleep peacefully knowing well I've never stolen anything from anyone." says Abeleno De Jesus Jimenez in Spanish. He's been homeless on the Santa Ana River Trail for more than two years, currently living in an encampment made of wood and green tarps surrounded by bike parts. It's this cycling collection that has led to numerous resident complaints and visits by the Santa Ana Police Department.

The Guerrero native became homeless after falling from a ladder while he was on a painting job. He's been on disability ever since, but the money isn't enough to rent even a bedroom in SanTana. So to supplement his income, Jimenez says he collects bikes from junk yards, trash bins and sidewalks to fix them and sell. "The most profit I make from the bikes I fix is $20," he says. He's still nursing bruises on his chin and arms, the result of another homeless man beating with a bat just a week ago to take a Mongoose bike that Jimenez had just patched and painted. "Often, my bikes get stolen. I wish I could donate them to children who want bikes but can't afford them. At least this way, my work would be appreciated rather than just stolen."

Jimenez wears an orange vest and has a silver necklace around his vest with dog tags, a Bible and a wrench charm on it. As he speaks, police are on sight checking his workshop. "We've received a complaint about stolen bikes, but we checked, and none of the bikes or bike parts have serial numbers on them that can identify they've been stolen," one officer says.
 
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...over-injuries-in-collision-with-car-1.3103092 :(
Cyclist loses damages claim over injuries in collision with car
Judge says man was ‘highly negligent’ for cycling without lights
A man who was injured in a collision between his unlit electric bicycle and a car has lost his High Court action for damages.

Peter Duffy (59) from Drimnagh, Dublin, had sued Patrick Lyons (42), Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin, over the accident in Crumlin on the night of September 8th, 2014.
The court heard Mr Duffy, a school teacher who also teaches yoga and works as an actor, was making a right turn on his electric bike from the Crumlin Road onto Rafter’s Road at about 9.15pm as Mr Lyons’ car approached the junction in front of him.
He accepted he did not have lights on the bike and was not wearing a helmet but said he was wearing a hi-vis vest and had reflectors on the bike.
He said he believed he had plenty of time to make the turn.
Mr Lyons told the court Mr Duffy came out in front of him from between two cars. He said he had no time to react and when he hit the brakes, the car skidded and hit the rear wheel of the bike.

The court heard Mr Duffy suffered lacerations and abrasions to his skull and face, soft tissue injury to his left shoulder and two fractures to his left ankle.
Dismissing the case, Mr Justice Anthony Barr said he was satisfied Mr Lyons had had no chance to avoid hitting Mr Duffy.
As a grown man, Mr Duffy was “highly negligent” to cycle from the city centre to Drimnagh without lights on his bike, the judge said. He was also negligent in failing to wear a helmet, he added.
 
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/...-gets-first-california-tryout-in-canoga-park/ 8)
CANOGA PARK – The new street seal gushed from a downpipe Saturday onto Jordan Avenue, then spread like paint to turn a half block of black into a sea of gray.

The morning temperature of the black asphalt in the middle of a nearby intersection read 93 degrees. The new light gray surface on Jordan Avenue read a cool 70 – on what would turn out to be the first heat wave of the year.
“It’s awesome. It’s very cool – both literally and figuratively,” exclaimed Councilman Bob Blumenfield, whose Los Angeles district includes Canoga Park, squinting into the laser handheld thermometer. “We are trying to control ‘the heat island effect’?” – or hotter temperatures caused by urban sprawl.
“The downside: we won’t be able to fry eggs on the streets.”

Los Angeles, which had pioneered the use of compressed natural gas trash trucks and other vehicles, is now at the forefront of developing a “cool pavement” to lower temperatures along its thousands of miles of baking asphalt streets.
For the first time in the Golden State, it is testing a reflective street surface officials say could cut public road temperatures, cool the insides of nearby buildings, lessen air pollution and reduce the threat of deaths linked to increasingly hotter heat waves.

Before afternoon temperatures could push 100, city street workers spread a thin gray coating of CoolSeal into the heart of one of its hottest neighborhoods.
“The city’s going to get hotter because of climate change, particularly this neighborhood of the west San Fernando Valley,” said Greg Spotts, assistant director of the Bureau of Street Services, who doubles as its acting chief sustainability officer. “The phenomenon called the heat island effect means the city is hotter than the surrounding countryside.
“We’re exploring ways to reduce the heat island effect by reducing the absorption of heat in the built environment.”

Street Services, working in conjunction with GuardTop LLC, an asphalt coating manufacturer based in Dana Point, had first tested the cool pavement seal in the Sepulveda Basin.
Asphalt at a parking lot at the Balboa Sports Complex once averaged 160 degrees in summer. After the seal was applied two years ago, company officials say, surface temperatures dropped to between 135 to 140 degrees.
Now, after rigorous testing for durability and wet skid potential, the CoolSeal coating was being slathered across a half block of Jordan Avenue just north of Hart Street near the headwaters of the Los Angeles River.

If the new seal could boost solar reflectivity -and dramatically cool a street lined with two-story apartments in the hottest region of the San Fernando Valley – it could do it anywhere, city officials said.
The experiment will soon be duplicated in 14 other council districts before the end of June. If successful, city officials hope to encourage manufacturers to help develop cool pavement that could be incorporated into a multimillion-dollar drive to fix a backlog of L.A.’s failing streets.
“I’m thrilled to be here. This is a great day for all of us. We look forward to seeing what the results will be,” said Kevin James, president of the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.

A CoolSeal coating could cost an estimated $40,000 per mile and last seven years, city officials said. But that’s subject to change pending pavement innovation.
“We’re going to try to make Los Angeles as cool as possible,” said Jeff Luzar, national sales director for GuardTop, a privately owned firm that has covered coated mostly playgrounds and parking lots. “We’re going to be the coolest island in Southern California.”
Average temperatures in Los Angeles have risen 5 degrees in the past 100 years on account of the heat island effect produced by miles of asphalt freeways, roads, parking lots, roofs and more, climatologists say. In summer, temperatures have risen an average 10 degrees.

In addition, extreme heat days near 100 degrees have risen from two a year in 1906 to 24, while their duration has increased from a few days in a row to heat waves of two weeks, said climatologist Bill Patzert of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“I’m all for it,” Patzert said of the cooler pavement. “We could certainly stop the rise – and perhaps reverse it.”
Unfortunately, he added, the urban forest across Los Angeles is dying because of insufficient watering during the recent drought. “They can paint the streets gray,” he said, “but when all these trees die, you’ll see a dramatic increase in the heat island effect in the whole Basin.”
The residents of Canoga Park were astonished, even thrilled, to see black asphalt turn a light shade of gray within 30 minutes.

“I think it’s awesome,” said Partha Ghosh, 30, who lives at an apartment at Jordan Avenue and Hart Street, staring at the battleship-like surface. “Not too bright. Just perfect.
“I hope it could cool off my apartment.”
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cyclist-ellen-law-drivers-driving-bike-1.4143365 :x
A Sackville cyclist says he was hit by a car hours after Ellen's Law came into effect in New Brunswick.
Avid cyclist Harold Jarche said he went for a bike ride around 1 p.m. Thursday to celebrate the law having gone into effect earlier in the day.
"They actually hit me and I wound up pounding on their car saying, 'Hey, I am here,'" Jarche said. "The noodle was fine, don't worry about the noodle. … I was hit."
Ellen's Law was passed after the death of Canadian star cyclist Ellen Watters. She was struck by a car while on a training ride in Sussex on Dec. 23 and died four days later.
Luckily, Jarche said, he was hit at a slow speed, about five kilometres an hour, and he and his bike are fine.

"I was making the right turn," he said. "Oncoming traffic made a left turn. There was a car and I looked and I said, 'OK, I think the driver has seen me.' I continued on the secondary street, the driver made a sharp right turn right into me, as they were trying to exit the street into a parking lot."
He said the elderly driver didn't see him.
"He completely cut me off, there was no place for me to go," Jarche said.
"I just couldn't believe it because I had my blue bike, the orange pool noodle, and I was wearing a bright yellow T-shirt that said, 'Share the road.'"
Jarche, who is 57, described the hit as "almost like a gentle bump."
He said his noodle wasn't even a metre long.
"I wasn't able to get a pool noodle that was long enough that would show the 39 inches or the one metre from the handlebar, which is basically the edge of the cyclist," he said.
He said he finds the Sackville area has an anti-bicycle culture and cyclists don't get the respect they deserve.
"Even as a pedestrian, I get more respect."

On Friday morning, he saw a driver do what is known as "threading the needle," Jarche said. In this manoeuvre, a driver passes a cyclist quickly "and zooms back in with oncoming traffic, and the oncoming traffic is forced to move off to side of the road."
Under Ellen's Law, that's technically illegal, he said.
"You are only allowed to pass if there is room in the oncoming lane."
Jarche said he thinks the new law is inadequate. One metre doesn't provide enough clearance between drivers and cyclists when cars are going 100 kilometres or more, he said.
"Drivers can't judge the distance, as even just my little sample showed. They don't know what a metre is."
Jarche said he's had many close calls on his bicycle.
"Most drivers are good, but there are still a lot of drivers who are distracted and then there's a small percentage of drivers who are actually aggressive."
For safer roads, there should be driver testing for people after they're 60 or 65 years old, more investments in bicycle infrastructure, and a reduction in speed limits on town streets, from 50 kilometres an hour to 30.

Jarche said people in the community had a positive reaction to his excursion with the pool noodle. Some gave him a thumbs up when they drove by, and others told him it was a good idea. Some confessed they didn't realize how much space a metre required.
The pool noodle idea came from a cyclist in Toronto "to help keep cars at a distance," Jarche said.
Cycling is his main transportation, and he doesn't own a car. He's been cycling for 27 years and does it year round, covering at least 8,000 kilometres a year.
 
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...ty-barriers-on-capitals-bridges-a3557326.html Talk about closing the barn door after the horses got away. :x


London terror attack: cyclists claim security barriers on London bridges are 'unsafe,' hours after they are installed
Sebastian Mann, Eleanor Rose |
15 hours ago|

Cyclists have complained that new security barriers on London’s bridges make roads less safe for them, just hours after they were installed to protect pedestrians from terror attacks.
Campaigners said the reinforced fences, which have been set up in cycle lanes to shield crowds walking on bridges, were a “crush risk” and showed a “total lack of consideration” for the welfare of cyclists.
The sturdy partitions were put in place overnight on crossings at Waterloo, Lambeth and Westminster in response to the deadly terror strike in the heart of the capital on Saturday evening.

In the attack, three men drove a white van on to the pavement and mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge before going on a knife rampage through Borough Market, leaving seven dead and dozens injured.
Hours after the safety barriers appeared, cyclists expressed concerns about the effect they would have on vulnerable road users on major routes through central London that are popular with riders.
Officials face questions over why barriers were not built earlier
Transport blogger and cyclist Mark Treasure said the fences left “anyone cycling totally unprotected” and suggested they should be between the cycle lane and the road instead.
He added: “I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by the total lack of consideration for the safety of any human being cycling here, but hey ho.”
Guardian journalist Peter Walker, author Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World, tweeted: “The high concrete barriers on Westminster (and one side of Lambeth) bridge make sense for security, but could be perilous for cyclists.”
 
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/06/06/swat-bust-on-facebook-live-orig-vstan.cnn

So a guy has a live video on Facebook, talking about all the money he's making dealing drugs. You hear a bullhorn in the background. It's the local police with a search warrant. He doesn't shut the stream off. . . .
 
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/sto...cargo-e-bikes-hit-the-road-in-the-netherlands 8)
First Coca-Cola Cargo E-Bikes Hit the Road in the Netherlands
By: Journey Staff | May 31, 2017
Coca-Cola is constantly looking for sustainable transportation solutions to minimize the environmental impact of the "drink in your hand".
In the Netherlands, Coca-Cola is turning to pedal power to green up its service fleet. Said to be home to more bikes than people, it should come as no surprise that the electric Coca-Cola service bicycle is making its debut in the Netherlands, on the streets of the city of Utrecht.
Utrecht, like many urban areas, is looking for ways to tackle congestion and pollution. In an effort to reduce the number of service and delivery vans driving in the city center, Coca-Cola Netherlands, driven by Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) recently kicked off a pilot program with field service teams swapping their vehicles for cargo bikes.

The idea is the brainchild of Hans van Genderen, a Coca-Cola field service technician. "I challenged myself to find a more efficient and effective way of working in my service area, the city of Utrecht," he explains. "I had been contemplating the idea for some time, but two years ago I took the first step. I wrote a plan to no longer visit my customers in the service van, but on a service bike."

Van Genderen adds, "After months of preparations and building excitement from colleagues for my plans, I picked up the very first Coca-Cola cargo bike, I immediately took the bike for a spin, driving it home from the supplier in just four minutes and 42 seconds. Not a bad start."
He proudly looks back on his first day riding the Coca-Cola e-bike. "On Monday morning, July 6, 2015, I made my first client ride. It was all new – I had to think about where to park the bike, and also to make sure I was carrying everything I needed. But once I started peddling, I felt good. And Utrecht had gained a green 'Coca-Cola'mechanic."
Van Genderen's wife, Elza, an entrepreneur, calculated the advantages of the new system and quickly saw that the benefits of the idea were clear. Not only was the service bike kinder to the environment, but it was also more efficient, leading to faster service delivery speeds. Elza recognized the potential and, together with Coca-Cola, approached the city council. In a time when sustainability is more important than ever, the city council decided to support the project.
And the CityServiceBike initiative was born.

More companies, including KPN and Douwe Egberts, have joined Coca-Cola in the CityServiceBike pilot in Utrecht. The city center houses many restaurants, cafes and businesses, all of which require daily maintenance. The cargo service bikes offer a solution for the growing number of service and delivery vans entering the city. Fewer cars means fewer carbon emissions, and it benefits the overall quality of life.
It also makes life easier for service mechanics, saving them the difficulty and cost of parking and ensuring a quicker, more cost efficient and environmentally friendly way of servicing clients. It's also a good conversation starter, as clients enjoy seeing the Coca-Cola bikes. And if they are lucky, they may even get to take one for a spin.
 
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/essex-cy...ison-for-cycling-through-red-lights-1-5053515
Essex cyclists warned they could face large fines or prison for cycling through red lights
PUBLISHED: 11:25 08 June 2017 | UPDATED: 14:42 08 June 2017
Andrew Hirst
Cyclists are being warned they will face prosecution if caught flouting the rules of the road in Essex and pose a danger to the community.
Officers from Essex Police are urging people riding bikes to follow the Highway Code or face large fines and possible prison sentences.

The warning comes after Jamie Hood, 20, unemployed, of Malborough Road, Braintree, was fined a four figure sum in compensation after admitting dangerous cycling at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Monday, May 15.
He cycled through a red light in New Writtle Street on Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at 12.30pm and knocked a 90-year-old woman over as she crossed the road. She was taken to hospital with a broken femur.

Pc Matt Noone who investigated the collision, said: “Cyclists who fail to abide to the Highways Code by cycling dangerously and running red lights put themselves, pedestrians and other road users in danger. In some instances, people are seriously injured and even killed.
“This recent sentence shows that pedal cyclists are just as liable to prosecution as any other road user. Essex Police takes all reports of dangerous cycling serious and will they will be fully investigated.”
Visit here for information on the Highway Code.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0c031eab644_story.html?utm_term=.00c2f1314a33 :cry:


Cyclists are told to use crosswalks, but Maryland law left them unprotected

By Katherine Shaver

June 10 

The Toyota 4Runner struck Frank Towers as he rode his green Trek bicycle — a recent Christmas gift — across a busy Montgomery County road exactly where he was supposed to: in the crosswalk.
But six months after Towers, 19, died in the December 2015 collision, the Toyota driver was acquitted. It turns out that hitting a cyclist in a crosswalk isn’t illegal in Maryland.
Alyx Walker, Towers’s housemate, was outraged. In addition to being a close friend, Towers had been a beloved teacher and children’s birthday party supervisor at her family’s Rockville gym, Dynamite Gymnastics Center.
The driver “killed someone,” Walker recalled thinking. “How is this possible?’”

A Montgomery judge agreed with the driver’s lawyer that Maryland law gives pedestrians the right of way in a crosswalk, but it doesn’t say anything about cyclists or others on wheels. That includes skateboarders, people on roller skates, or children in a stroller or being pulled in a wagon. The driver had been charged with passing another vehicle stopped at the crosswalk.
It was a legal loophole that Montgomery police and prosecutors said they had never come across.
“We were sort of thrown when the argument came up,” said Assistant Montgomery State’s Attorney Kyle O’Grady, who prosecuted the case.
Towers’s death and the fact that no one was held accountable for it spurred Walker, Montgomery prosecutors, police and bike safety advocates to push to get the law changed. It worked.
Beginning Oct. 1, Maryland law will give anyone on nonmotorized wheels — including bicycles, children’s play vehicles, and even unicycles — the right of way in crosswalks. The new penalty for hitting someone on wheels will be the same as it is for striking a pedestrian: up to a $500 fine and two months in jail. The law will apply only where local ordinances allow bicycles and play vehicles on sidewalks.

Under current law, O’Grady said, motorists can be charged with hitting a cyclist in a crosswalk only if prosecutors also can prove that the driver was speeding or driving negligently. Under the new crosswalk law, drivers can be charged with failing to yield the right of way to a cyclist or play vehicle, overtaking a vehicle stopped for a cyclist or play vehicle, or failing to exercise due care to avoid striking a cyclist or play vehicle.
The Maryland General Assembly probably created the legal loophole inadvertently years ago when it changed the law to allow cyclists to ride in crosswalks, O’Grady said. Lawmakers failed to also include cyclists in another part of the law that grants pedestrians the right of way in crosswalks. That legal protection now covers only people who are walking, in wheelchairs or riding an “electric personal assistive mobility device,” such as a Segway.

One week after the driver in Towers’s case was acquitted, another cyclist, 31-year-old Oscar Mauricio Gutierrez Osorio, of Silver Spring, was killed after being hit in the same crosswalk — where the Matthew Henson Trail crosses Veirs Mill just west of Randolph Road.
The driver in Osorio’s death was not charged, O’Grady said, because he couldn’t avoid hitting Osorio. The law protecting pedestrians — and soon cyclists and others on wheels — also restricts them from darting into traffic, he said.
The District and Virginia both grant cyclists the same legal protections in crosswalks as pedestrians, according to the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA).

Safety advocates have long called for better protection on roads designed to move traffic, not walkers and cyclists. Moreover, many increasingly poor suburbs have struggled to adapt their auto-centric road networks as more residents like Towers, who couldn’t afford a vehicle, turn to riding bicycles or walking to public transit stops.
Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Montgomery), who sponsored the legislation along with Del. David Fraser-Hidalgo (D-Montgomery), said he was surprised to hear a police officer describe a frustrating legal scenario: A family gets hit in a crosswalk. The father is on foot, the mother is on a bicycle, a son is on a skateboard, and a daughter is on a Razor scooter. Under current law, police said, the driver would be charged only with hitting the father.“If you’re following the rules to be in the crosswalk, you should have some protections,” Madaleno said. “To me, it’s just a sensible thing to happen as the result of a tragedy, especially when we’re encouraging people to use crosswalks.”

The crosswalk where Towers and Osorio were hit is particularly dangerous — and busy, safety advocates say. The cyclists, runners and dog walkers on the popular Matthew Henson Trail must cross six lanes of Veirs Mill Road traffic often moving at or above the 45 mph speed limit. The crosswalk is in a dip, so vehicles coming both ways can pick up speed heading downhill.
The road has “Trail X-ing” signs with yellow flashing lights that are activated when someone wanting to cross pushes a roadside button. But that often does nothing. On a recent weekday morning, hitting the button 10 times resulted in vehicles stopping three times. The other seven times, traffic whizzed past as usual.
A spokesman for the Maryland State Highway Administration said a full traffic light will be installed at the crosswalk by midsummer. The signal will flash yellow at all times, warning motorists to proceed with caution. When someone wanting to cross pushes the roadside button, the light will turn to red, requiring traffic to stop.
 
See, this isn't a hole in the law. It's a special exception for cars. Substitute literally any other object, let alone a proven dangerous weapon like a car, and the driver would be facing charges. But when it's a car, the presumption of guilt is assigned to the victim.

Try it: "It's not against the law to hit a cyclist with a 2x4 in a crosswalk." It's absurd. The authorities wouldn't care that there's no specific law about smashing cyclists with lumber; they'd treat it as assault or at least criminal negligence. But with cars, they assume it's OK unless it's specifically prohibited.

It's like almost everybody is sick and deranged and can't understand simple ideas if a car is involved.
 
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ :x
Thief steals wheel off 'ghost bike' memorial to slain SF cyclist
By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE
Updated 1:13 pm, Monday, June 12, 2017
San Francisco's bike theft problem has gotten so bad that even bicycle memorials to dead cyclists are being targeted.
A heartless thief pulled the front wheel off a "ghost bike" memorial to a cyclist killed last June by an alleged hit-and-run driver at Seventh and Howard streets.
"Ghost bikes" are bicycles stripped of their fly wheels, gears, seats, chains and tires, and then spray-painted white. Cycling advocates place them as roadside memorials for dead cyclists, especially those slain or seriously injured by motor vehicles. Often decorated with flowers or personal items, they are also meant to remind passing drivers to watch for bicycles and share the road.
Katherine Slattery, 26, was struck and killed at the intersection at 8:24 p.m June 22, 2016, by a BMW SUV that police say ran a red light and fled the scene.
The driver of the BMW, 32-year-old San Francisco resident Farrukh Mushtaq has pleaded not guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor hit-and-run in the incident.
An Oakland man got a surprise in the mail last weekend. It was a bill for damage caused by his bicycle when he collided with the back of an Oakland police vehicle.
Less than two hours after Slattery died, 41-year-old bicyclist Heather Miller was riding in Golden Gate Park when she was also hit and killed by a driver who fled the scene of the accident, according to police.
 
http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/1...s-out-at-25-mph-perfect-for-trails-and-parks/ :mrgreen:
Brea’s new patrol vehicle tops out at 25 mph, perfect for trails and parks
By Anthony Mendoza | anmendoza@scng.com | Orange County Register
June 14, 2017 at 10:50 am
A new vehicle is patrolling Brea, but it looks nothing like others in the fleet.
Assigned to patrol The Tracks at Brea trail, the Polaris Gem Global Electric Motorcar has a top speed of 25 mph and a battery life of 98 miles on a full charge.
“It is used primarily by our downtown liaison officer to patrol the downtown entertainment district as well as the park trails,” Brea Police Department Lt. Darrin Devereux said. “Given the length of the Brea Tracks Trails, this is a much quicker and easier way to patrol them quickly, versus on foot or on a bicycle.”
Introduced at the recent Centennial Parade, the all-electric vehicle has been in use for about three weeks. It cost around $21,000; the city used money received from the Air Quality Management District.
“We think it is important to monitor all of our amenities in Brea so that they can be used by everyone in the manner intended,” Devereux said. “We will patrol (the trail) as we do all of our other parks, so they don’t become a hangout for those wishing to cause problems.
“Most of our parks are easily accessible and visible to an officer driving a patrol car,” he said. “The linear nature of these parks make the small electric vehicle perfect for routine patrols.”
 
We may not be saying bound it happen yet, but what will we be saying AFTER Michael Phelps races the shark? What does the shark get if it wins?

https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/06/16/michael-phelps-is-seriously-gonna-race-a-great-white-shark/22364696/
 
http://www.keyt.com/news/san-luis-o...uck-and-killed-by-vehicle-in-kansas/549754574 :cry:

SLO man struck and killed by vehicle in Kansas
Bicyclist was participating in Trans Am Bike Race
By: Travis Schlepp 
Posted: Jun 18, 2017 04:19 PM PDT
Updated: Jun 18, 2017 04:19 PM PDT
WICHITA COUNTY, Kan. - A San Luis Obispo man was killed Saturday evening in Wichita County, Kansas after he was struck by a vehicle while riding a bicycle as part of a cross-country race.
KAKE, a news station that covers the state of Kansas, reported that the crash happened at around 10:10 p.m. local time on K-96 (a highway in southern Kansas.)
The cyclist was traveling eastbound on his Trek mountain bike when he was struck by a vehicle from behind.
The man died on scene.
He has been identified as Eric Fishbein, 61, of San Luis Obispo. Fishbein was participating in the Trans Am Bike Race, a cross-country race that begins in Astoria, Oregon and concludes in Yorktown, Virginia.
The Trans Am Bike Race released a statement on their Facebook page offering support to fellow riders and condolences to the Fishbein family.
KAKE reports that no one else was injured and the crash is under investigation.
 
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