[geeks] Race Tracks

[sammy ominsky]

On 22/04/2007, at 20:30, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Oh, yes, I've seen people lane split with cars.

I've had it done to me, on my bike.  I was sitting at a stoplight  
(behind a car, as it happens), and slightly off to the right side of  
the lane instead of centered.  A woman in a tiny little Fiat or  
SUbaru or something figured there was enough room and pulled in next  
to me.  For some reason my left foot was turned out perpendicular to  
my bike rather than parallel, and she pulled right *ONTO* my foot and  
stopped.  Her windows were closed so she couldn't hear me yelling,  
and ignored me banging on her car, probably figuring I was upset, but  
wasn't going to respond.

When she finally rolled off my foot, I pulled over to the curb and  
was going to park and give her hell (Traffic was really bad in all  
directions, with construction in the busiest intersection in the  
city) after she turned the corner.  I couldn't though.  As soon as I  
got off my bike she smashed into a truck and totaled her car.  I know  
it was wrong of me, but I just stood there laughing.  Happily my foot  
was fine.

---sambo