Re: bike path news

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:50:15 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:56:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/10/2025 8:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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People form their own opinions and arrange their own behavior based
on their own situation.

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Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are horribly
afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees, graveyards and more.
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Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying lethal
weaponry.
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My daughter for example used to take the train to work in inclement
or bitter cold Chicago winters.
No longer. ...

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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.
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The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.

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Which does not mean it's even remotely likely on the bike path where Mr.
Tricycle Rider rides. It was a one in a million event, thousands of
miles away.
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His fear is as unrealistic as fear of dying from a spider bite. It's
almost as unrealistic as fear of walking past a graveyard. It's a
phobia, and his quasi-macho defense strategy is even less admirable than
clutching a teddy bear.

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And you know that how? Known the guy for years, your wife and his wife
are friends?
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Or your sole knowledge comes from a post on the Internet?
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My guess is the latter which make you a fool.

Krygowski is an angry little man who can't take being called a wussy
because he knows he is one. What kind of a "man" pursues such a
totally risk free lifestyle as he has done.

--
C'est bon
Soloman