Zigzagging: Most Dangerous Driving

I've led the police into some wild chases in my scooter without them
ever catching me once.*

*And then I wake up.

 

No, but he was until he heard the sirens behind him. Splitting lanes
is preferred in gridlock because the cop up ahead (wherever he is,
there's always one somewhere) is watching the break down lane. Once
the lane-splitter realizes Johnny Law is behind him (usually aided by
Johnny using the siren trying to move traffic out of his way) all bets
on inconspicuous are off, and it's off to the races, so to speak. At
this point you get to the edge of the breakdown, since high-speed lane
splitting through grid locked traffic isn't usually wise.

I've seen that move too. That'll shut down a car most of the time,
but on a bike there is usually still a hole big enough for you
somewhere.

That's the direction they should be going! If the locals around here
used those instead of these VW sized cruisers, they might catch
someone once in a while. Still, he's not catching a dual-sport in the
dirt, so if there's a trail coming up the dualie is still out. If
it's more urban and dude can't find a trail, that bike is likely to
keep tabs on him nicely.

So they say. I'm from the Northeast, and I don't see that guy often
if ever. Never on TV, never in the news, and never involved in a
chase. I also know some guys who have done their share of running,
and they've never been caught that way. I think it's a West Coast
thing.

On a sport bike? You'll get away every time in a one cop town running
from one cop. I contend that people can get away a good portion of
the time even in cities with many cops with multiple cops perusing
them. In a place like LA where there are cops everywhere and choppers
on call they may get caught, but the suburbs of Boston or Savannah I'm
betting on the bike.

 

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair

I think the paper on which I'd write to my Congressman (woman) could
be put to better use. It's all about money, you know...

'And what does Detroit think about all this? They love it. Why?
Because when they sell an SUV, they're selling their lowest-tech
vehicle that has the least R&D expense and costs the least to produce,
since its basically the same product they've been selling -- as a
truck -- for the last 50 years. Come on, people! Challenge Detroit!
Ask for a product they have to break a sweat to design and build! "No
thank you," says Mr. and Mrs. America, "even though we spent the 1980s
and 1990s putting down American cars as being technologically inferior
to European and Japanese products, we've changed our minds now and
want to buy cars that American manufacturers were good at making -- in
1950."

So much for the idiotic decision to buy an SUV that America has been
making in showrooms for the last ten years. What about SUVs on the
road? Let's face it: Most people aren't very good drivers and even the
best drivers have bad moments. This is one reason SUVs are popular.
When I rant about SUVs to my friends (many of whom drive SUVs), they
often respond that they feel "safer" in an SUV. They're right, in one
sense: Surrounded by a ton of unnecessary extra steel, they're likely
to come out of an accident with a normal-sized car better off than the
people in the car. But they don't ask themselves whether being in the
SUV may have contributed to the accident in the first place: With a
higher center of gravity, poor handling and terrible stopping power
due to the extra mass of the vehicle, I think this is a real factor in
a lot of accidents. But, please, let's not think about what we're
doing, OK? Let's just wrap an extra ton of steel around the kids.'

http://www.gregburch.net/cars/suvs.html

My effort go toward THE REVOLUTION. Hey, it may never happen, but I'm
having fun...

By the way, you think the monkeys will ever learn to drive?


What do you think of the monkeys?
Well, put your headphones on --and grab a banana-- before you can
enjoy/cry over what these stupid monkeys are doing...



Oh, we should add that some of them want to believe themselves to be
lions...

***

Hey, I don't want to leave you depressed with those stupid monkeys.
Some monkeys really know how to have fun...

Do you imagine life as a monkey would be like?



A lot of fun, for sure. I sure like to play with those lady monkeys.

Hey, if you are really proud of who you are, you may consider this T-
shirt:

"Have you felt like monkeying around without any apparent reason and
with a sense of guilt? Well, now you know what to do..."

http://www.zazzle.com/product/235602224199217660

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote

THE BANANA REVOLUTION
http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote40


__________________
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" -M.L. King

 

It's my contention here that a very modern trend is rooted in a very
primitive behavior: MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO. Yeap, those who got money
and power (the top monkeys) ride big shiny SUVs, so the rest of the
troop quickly learns the trick. IF YOU WANT TO STAND OUT AND SURVIVE
IN THE JUNGLE YOU BETTER HAVE AN SUV. The hope, however, is that we
can turn around that bad behavior by changing those monkeys at the top
--or simply changing their behavior-- so the other monkeys would
follow...


(THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY BY KEN KEYES, JR.)

This book does not deal with petty matters.

It tells how to operate our lives - and our world.

It tells us how to stay alive!

The mess we've brought upon ourselves is a most perilous and
challenging one.

The broad picture pieced together here will show you the immensity of
the nuclear dangers, the futility of any defense or protection, the
power of the new awareness and your role in the unfolding drama.

There is a phenomenon I'd like to tell you about.

In it may lie our only hope of a future for our species.

Here is the story of the Hundredth Monkey:

The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, has been observed in the wild for
a period of over 30 years.

In 1952, on the island of Koshima scientists were providing monkeys
with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the taste
of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.

An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem in
a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates
also learned this new way and they taught their mothers, too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys
before the eyes of the scientists.

Between 1952 and 1958, all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy
sweet potatoes to make them more palatable.

Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social
improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain
number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes - the exact
number is not known.

Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99
monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet
potatoes.

Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey
learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet
potatoes before eating them.

The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an
ideological breakthrough!

But notice.

A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the
habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea -

Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys
at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes!*

(*Lifetide by Lyall Watson, pp. 147-148. Bantam Books 1980. This book
gives other fascinating details.)

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new
awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may very, the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it
may remain the consciousness property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a
new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is
picked up by almost everyone!

Your awareness is needed in saving the world from nuclear war.

You may be the "Hundredth Monkey" . . . .

http://secretthink.blog-city.com/from_a_100_monkeys_can_we_learn_their_lesson.htm

 

And of course those same automakers who would make this a futile effort
paid those Congresscritters to tax them. I'm sorry, but if you think
that politicians are "all about money" you don't have a clue about
politicians.

For the automakers the money that it's about is the CAFE tax, which I
assure that they do not want to have in place and do not want to pay.

When you get that part through your head, that SUVs exist mostly as a
tax dodge for the auto manufacturers, _then_ you may be on the path to
doing something about them.

Have you noticed that you hardly ever see a station wagon anymore? Have
you asked yourself why?

 

Look more closely at that photo and the forum of which it is a part.

Are you saying that a cop on a dual-sport automatically can't catch
someone else on a dual-sport? If so, you've got a big fat surprise
coming one of these days.

Define "northeast". NYC certainly has police helicopters. So does
Boston. So do the NY, CT and MA staties.

Unless he got your license number and told the staties which way you
were going.

So you think that Boston and Savannah don't have "choppers on call" and
"cops everywhere"?

 

I should have been more specific. Most dual-sports I see around here
(MA & NH) are dirt bikes made barely street legal. Tons of travel, no
cargo boxes or gadgets, and most importantly off-rd biased tires.
Those bikes would smoke someone on a bike like that most of the time,
assuming both riders have at least some skill.

Absolutely not. I'm saying that of two riders, both capable, one on
that bike and the other on your average in-use, not showroom dual-
sport, the guy on the other bike will win in the dirt. The average
dual-sport is likely to be set up far better for off-rd. I'd also say
that if you can't get into the woods or trails soon, that bike will
catch the average dual-sport, because it's set up to be able to lean a
bit in turns and generally handle on pavement. Dual-sports are a
giant compromise from the start, and the police bike shown there made
a lot more compromises on the dirt end to keep the bike very street-
ish. I still wouldn't want to be running from one, on or off-road,
given the choice.

MA & NH. You'd be amazed how often people just choose to run when the
police hit the blues, and how often they get away. It is not
something that makes the news, not even the papers, but get a scanner
or hang out in fast bike or fast car crowds for a bit.

True. However, many bikes don't have the plate readily visible, and
they are small to begin with. As for the radio call, that's a given,
but direction and streets will be changed over and over fast.

I do. I don't think that the response is the same it is in places
like L.A. I see chases in LA on TV in MA & NH. I rarely see MA or NH
chases on TV.

I have personally seen the police head over to a large group, be it
motorcycles, cars, dirt bikes or back in the day kids on pedal bikes.
Often times, one or two people run. Some do it just for fun, because
they're confident they won't get caught. Other guys were just doing
wheelies or smoke shows, and they "see the fuzz coming and don't want
to get busted". Go to a sport bike show/meet and watch a few times.
You'll see it at some car gatherings too, though those guys have a
much harder time getting away.

 

What, exactly, is an "artic"?

Bob M.

 

You are just confirming IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY, both in poltical
contributions and in dodging CAFE taxes.

The politicians though are not all about money, but about POLITICAL
SURVIVAL, and this usually takes money, so you can figure it out
yourself.

 

Whereas what we'd call a "semi", Yanks would refer to as a "chubby".

 

I thought it was a typo, but since I now know what it means, I can
assert that probably the best drivers in America are bikers (because
their own survival is at stake) and truck drivers. No wonder, they go
through some serious training, denied to the average American driver.

They are probably the only ones that know that "lane discipline" is
not standing in a queue at the local supermarket.

 

And what we refer to as "chubby" the merkins call "anorexic".

 

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So who paid to get CAFE enacted?

Again, where did this money that got CAFE enacted come from?

 

Well, the mentality here is not that bad since drivers usually don't
pay much attention to what's going on the roads. They worry about not
spilling the coffee, or what the person on the other side of the cell
phone is saying. They don't even worry about signal lights that much.

 

Enlighten me. Who the lawyers? I know they write the laws so they know
how to break it.