Re: Touring Digest, Vol 97, Issue 101

(1) the *apparent* tone of your posting suggests to me that you'd taken e=
xception to mine where i, in fact, conciously declined to editorialize

(2) steven colbert=E2=80=94far from what you dismiss out-of-hand as "some=
 internet comedian" (try "world-reknowned political satirist")=E2=80=94ha=
s garnered wide acclaim and multiple prestigious awards (for some compreh=
ensive background info, may i suggest the entry:

http://tinyurl.com/6c35o3f

and/or

http://tinyurl.com/6jxsrvl

*we* should be so "some"!!!

i would suggest he was merely playing off this odd technicality of the la=
w where, yes, the minor's parent can=E2=80=94and most likely should=E2=80=
=94be held liable for her child's misdeed

(3) but, after all: the new york times=E2=80=94 that leftist propaganda m=
achine!!!? ;-)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:55:22 +0100
> From: Nathan Wajsman <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: hell on (training) wheels
> To: touring <[email protected]>
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> OK, so car drivers who accidentally injure or kill cyclists are felons,=
 but cyclists who injure or kill pedestrians are innocent? Yes, the girl =
was only 4 but if you read about the case in a rather more serious source=
 than some internet comedian, the NY Times for example:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/nyregion/29young.html
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> Then you will note some key phrases:
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> "under the supervision of their mothers"
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> and
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> "did not find that the girl was liable, but merely permitted a lawsuit =
brought against her, another boy and their parents to move forward."
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> If that 87-old woman had been my mother, then I too would sue the crap =
out of the parents of the girl.
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> Nathan Wajsman
> [email protected]
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> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
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> YNWA
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> On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Eric Sluyter wrote:
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>>> I can understand your opinion but every circumstance is different and=
 to draw a blank conclusion that an accident was caused by the motorist a=
nd to label them a felon is wrong. What if a cyclist causes the accident =
by blindly pulling out into traffic and gets run down because the motoris=
t couldn't stop thier vehicle in time. As an avid cyclist, but also one w=
ho has made a living driving I see both sides of the issue.
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>> at the other end of the spectrum, new york judge paul wooten recently =
ruled it permissable to sue the four-year-old?on traIning wheels?who ran =
into an 87-year-old pedestrian, on a sidewalk
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>> see "the enemy within?toddler edition" segment on the always-hilarious=
 "colbert report", at:
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>> http://tinyurl.com/6ap59hg
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