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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:38:23 -0400
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On 3/11/2025 10:33 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 3/11/2025 8:58 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>> On 3/11/2025 6:47 AM, John B. wrote:
>>> On 11 Mar 2025 10:23:20 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> People form their own opinions and arrange their own
>>>>>>> behavior based on their own situation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are
>>>>>> horribly afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees,
>>>>>> graveyards and more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying
>>>>>> lethal weaponry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My daughter for example used to take the train to work in
>>>>>>> inclement or bitter cold Chicago winters.
>>>>>>> No longer. ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You're the anecdote master, Andrew. But IIRC you've not yet
>>>>>> found a horrifying anecdote about quiet bike paths in
>>>>>> suburban Florida, near our timid tricycle rider.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just because it can happen doesn’t mean it will happen, going out on 
>>>> limb
>>>> but I suspect that CatTrike Ryder will be perfectly safe with or 
>>>> without
>>>> carrying any guns on his rides.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect he knows this as well, but simply likes having the gun on 
>>>> him?
>>>>
>>>> Roger Merriman
>>>
>>> I spent more then a year in Vietnam where people did, on occasion,
>>> shoot at you and I can assure you that a firearm did give you a
>>> certain sense of security :-)
>>>
>>> Even when they weren't shooting :-)
>>
>> lol...yeah, let's compare an active war zone to a florida bike path - 
>> that's rational.....
>>
> 
> Well, there's Florida and then again there's Florida.  Goes both ways in 
> different areas and unlike Mr Tricycle I am not an expert on where/when.
> 
> A better comparison may be Vietnam in the 1960s to Chiraq yesterday 
> evening:
> 
> https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/tourist-walking-11-year-old- 
> son-shot-outside-streeterville
> 

None of which applies to a bike path in florida

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