[pct-l] Manslaughter Charge for Bicyclist

[Dan Jacobs]

Can you two guys take your personal beef off list or drop the personal
BS please?

Thank you.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Zorglub <azorglub at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gourmet,
>
> You're a funny guy.  Should we ban hiking on the PCT because people jay walk all the time on city streets? Or maybe, we should not let anybody who has a moving violation hike the trail. This non sense has about the same level of relevance to being on the trail as your post. The rest of your tirade is just FUD, FUD, and then....er, how could it say.... more FUD. :)
>
> You can't even spell my pretend name right.
>
> Anyway, all that hand wringing must make it hard for you to get through life.  Apparently, the sight of a bicycles gets you in quite a panic.  I would hate to live like this.  It might be even harder this year as I expect that the number of cyclists on the PCT can only increase.
>
> Finally, there are quite a few ways to get to the PCT via  legal trails such that your ridiculous tactic would not even work.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Timothy Nye <timpnye at gmail.com>
> To: Zorglub <azorglub at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 6:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Manslaughter Charge for Bicyclist
>
> The more I ruminate about Zorglub's attempt to distinguish the recent vehicular manslaughter case as one in which the bicyclist: "was apparently racing through crowded streets and ran a red light, resulting in the death of an old man who did not see him coming"' the more irritated I get about the attempt to distinguish situations where there is no difference.  As presumably everyone but Stoll, er, Zorglub, can see it is precisely the same potential unsafe use of speed and failure to yield in an environment where there is nowhere to get out of the way for the unfortunate hiker by a group consisting without exception of law breakers in the first place.


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