He Tried to Chase Me Down on Foot
08-18-21, 01:15 PM
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I fully understand moderation/censorship or whatever else you want to call it where it comes to maintaining decorum on a forum. Us bunch a heathens would be at each others throat in every sub forum here.....
08-18-21, 01:36 PM
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08-18-21, 01:58 PM
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Censorship, schmensorship. The forum's owner is free to make and enforce whatever rules it desires. If that gets your Underoos is a twist, you are free to, you know, not post here. Sheesh. Is it that hard to grasp?
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08-18-21, 02:48 PM
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I also think the reasonable judgment has been made that allowing people to go on and on about certain topics is just going to drive out discussion about bikes and bicycling. Does anyone seriously think it's hard to find a place to talk about the shooty shooty if you can't talk about it here?
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08-18-21, 06:43 PM
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In your case you got lucky. Look at this as an opportunity to become more aware of non-traffic trouble as a habit. Cycling in sketchy hoods is not relaxing, Zen, or meditative. Pay attention to EVERYTHING. It can be exhausting in a different manner, and you stay in great shape by keeping your speed up.
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08-18-21, 06:48 PM
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thought that was the on the road voluntary bicycle donation program?
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08-19-21, 09:12 AM
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I also think the reasonable judgment has been made that allowing people to go on and on about certain topics is just going to drive out discussion about bikes and bicycling. Does anyone seriously think it's hard to find a place to talk about the shooty shooty if you can't talk about it here?
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08-19-21, 11:01 AM
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I was out riding my bike a couple of weeks ago in my neighborhood and a teenager got out of a parked car as I passed it and started running towards me as fast as he could. I turned my head to see what that noise was - it was his shoes slapping on the pavement as he ran. I had pepper spray on me, but I was able to outrun him fairly easily. He chased me for about five houses before seeing that he couldn't catch me. I can only assume that he was going to try to steal my bike. This really shook me up, as you can imagine. I've been a bit careful about passing through that area again but have done so several times now w/o any further incident.
08-19-21, 11:21 AM
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No, I didn't. I probably should have. I will if it happens again. I'm hoping that it was a one-off thing. I will keep my speed up when riding through there again. If I hadn't ran a stop sign the guy would have probably caught up to me.
08-19-21, 11:31 AM
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That "you either value.. or you don't" statement is ridiculous. The forum owners also have rights of expression to define the scope of the forum. Your freedom of expression doesn't extend to forcing someone else to promote your views. For freedom of expression to be meaningful, there has to be some balance of who gets to speak about what where. Otherwise all forums would be a similar-looking morass of people babbling on and no one listening.
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08-19-21, 12:00 PM
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Most discussion forums these days have restrictions on hate speech, anything related to violence, weapons, etc. You have to abide by their rules or you move on in protest.
08-19-21, 12:02 PM
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And with that, this thread has veered too far off topic.
Thread closed.
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