In the beginning I was amused (the baldy had a problem with the "Chicks dig my ride" shirt)..but when the shoving started,it was really pissing off.. And the mount carmel,christ collge shit was exactly that..pure SHIT..what an idiot..
> In the beginning I was amused (the baldy had a problem with the "Chicks dig > my ride" shirt)..but when the shoving started,it was really pissing off.. > And the mount carmel,christ collge shit was exactly that..pure SHIT..what an > idiot..
We have the most incapable officers at BBMP. Everytime you meet them, you feel like trashing them and dumping them into the dustbins.
He is the Tree officer to chop all the trees. So ridiculous.
>> In the beginning I was amused (the baldy had a problem with the "Chicks
>> dig my ride" shirt)..but when the shoving started,it was really pissing
>> off.. And the mount carmel,christ collge shit was exactly that..pure
>> SHIT..what an idiot..
> We have the most incapable officers at BBMP. Everytime you meet them, you
> feel like trashing them and dumping them into the dustbins.
> He is the Tree officer to chop all the trees. So ridiculous.
this was during the sankranti day morning ride. there is a long thread on
this somewhere if you want to dig. or wait 2 days for me to find out. (not
that i need so much time - net conn. ia bad).
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Sameer Panchangam <
>>> In the beginning I was amused (the baldy had a problem with the "Chicks
>>> dig my ride" shirt)..but when the shoving started,it was really pissing
>>> off.. And the mount carmel,christ collge shit was exactly that..pure
>>> SHIT..what an idiot..
>> We have the most incapable officers at BBMP. Everytime you meet them, you
>> feel like trashing them and dumping them into the dustbins.
>> He is the Tree officer to chop all the trees. So ridiculous.
So called educated people of Namma Bengaluru. I feel like thrashing that
black bugger pushing Rohan. Useless and brainless people. and a waste cop
watching TAMASHA.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM, B.M. <mr.b.mis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> this was during the sankranti day morning ride. there is a long thread on
> this somewhere if you want to dig. or wait 2 days for me to find out. (not
> that i need so much time - net conn. ia bad).
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Sameer Panchangam <
> sameer.panchan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When was this..
>> --
>> Thanks!
>> Sameer Panchangam
>> Status Updates: http://twitter.com/psam >> Mobile: +91 988-531-2104 / 995-955-1518
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Anush Shetty <m...@anushshetty.com>wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, varun murthy <varun.s.mur...@gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>> I came across this on youtube.. (Im sorry if this has already been
>>>> discussed here..dunno because its been uploaded by Rohan)..
>>>> In the beginning I was amused (the baldy had a problem with the "Chicks
>>>> dig my ride" shirt)..but when the shoving started,it was really pissing
>>>> off.. And the mount carmel,christ collge shit was exactly that..pure
>>>> SHIT..what an idiot..
>>> We have the most incapable officers at BBMP. Everytime you meet them,
>>> you feel like trashing them and dumping them into the dustbins.
>>> He is the Tree officer to chop all the trees. So ridiculous.
can someone throw some light on this..want to know how did the altercation
start in the first place..cos of the slogan on rohan's shirt..?? if so..then
i feel like smashin thse ppl's heads..
On 2/2/09, Sameer Shisodia <get.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
I wudn't say that all officials in the govt are useless as we met Mr. Gaurav Gupta during the workshop and he really wishes to do something for the biking community (even with the limited powers vested with BMLTA). Unfortunately instead of giving suggestions we ended up suggesting him to buy a bike. Pranav from praja.in suggested working with the officials with solutions (technically sound) and you would be able to make more sense at least to those listening. Wanting to try this approach as well.
Thanks for sharing this video... Will post on Praja.in when free (if someone can do it gr8). It was gr8 this was captured. Thanks for sharing.
o__
_> /__
(_) \(_)... Burn fat not fuel - Byke along to a healthier life and cleaner world! :)
Sameer Shisodia wrote:
> Possible to use this as evidence and initiate some action/at least > approach higher ups at Lalbagh to get an apology ?
> - sameer
> -- > Sameer Shisodia, Bangalore
> Find ANYthing on ur phone
> http://zook.in or SMS ur query to 57575665
> (c) +91-98451-80207
It seems that baldy Jagadeesh had a terrible sex life during his peak
days it seems... He is irritated that no chick ever digged him. I can
understand his feelings... :)
Our country is full of such rotten people....
On Feb 2, 12:44 pm, Sameer Shisodia <get.sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
[mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mayank
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:24 PM
To: Sameer Shisodia
Cc: Bangalore Bikers Club
Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
If you have a report on the same and you want visibility kindly post the
I wudn't say that all officials in the govt are useless as we met Mr. Gaurav Gupta during the workshop and he really wishes to do something for the biking community (even with the limited powers vested with BMLTA). Unfortunately instead of giving suggestions we ended up suggesting him to buy a bike. Pranav from praja.in suggested working with the officials with solutions (technically sound) and you would be able to make more sense at least to those listening. Wanting to try this
approach as well.
Thanks for sharing this video... Will post on Praja.in when free (if someone can do it gr8). It was gr8 this was captured. Thanks for
sharing.
o__
_> /__
(_) \(_)... Burn fat not fuel - Byke along to a healthier life and
cleaner world! :)
Sameer Shisodia wrote:
> Possible to use this as evidence and initiate some action/at least > approach higher ups at Lalbagh to get an apology ?
> - sameer
> -- > Sameer Shisodia, Bangalore
> Find ANYthing on ur phone
> http://zook.in or SMS ur query to 57575665
> (c) +91-98451-80207
Those guys manhandled Rohan , this is horrible.. I am glad we got them
on camera. We gotta teach them a lesson.
Good for nothing lazy corrupt buggers !
On Feb 2, 12:58 pm, "Nikhil Eldurkar" <nikhil.eldur...@altair.com>
wrote:
> [mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mayank
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:24 PM
> To: Sameer Shisodia
> Cc: Bangalore Bikers Club
> Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
> If you have a report on the same and you want visibility kindly post the
> I wudn't say that all officials in the govt are useless as we met Mr.
> Gaurav Gupta during the workshop and he really wishes to do something
> for the biking community (even with the limited powers vested with
> BMLTA). Unfortunately instead of giving suggestions we ended up
> suggesting him to buy a bike. Pranav from praja.in suggested working
> with the officials with solutions (technically sound) and you would be
> able to make more sense at least to those listening. Wanting to try this
> approach as well.
> Thanks for sharing this video... Will post on Praja.in when free (if
> someone can do it gr8). It was gr8 this was captured. Thanks for
> sharing.
> o__
> _> /__
> (_) \(_)... Burn fat not fuel - Byke along to a healthier life and
> cleaner world! :)
> Sameer Shisodia wrote:
> > Possible to use this as evidence and initiate some action/at least
> > approach higher ups at Lalbagh to get an apology ?
> > - sameer
> > --
> > Sameer Shisodia, Bangalore
> > Find ANYthing on ur phone
> >http://zook.inor SMS ur query to 57575665
> > (c) +91-98451-80207
But I feel even we have something for us all in this.
May be it is not a good idea to sport such things in front of
conservatives. I am not saying that we don't hv any rights to display
such things. In a country like India where people get pushed around
for no serious reasons, we need to be a bit thoughtful. Things could
hv turned worse.
Lalbagh - 50yrs - digging - cycling - Not gonna work :)
On Feb 2, 1:09 pm, "Sri." <srikanth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Those guys manhandled Rohan , this is horrible.. I am glad we got them
> on camera. We gotta teach them a lesson.
> Good for nothing lazy corrupt buggers !
> On Feb 2, 12:58 pm, "Nikhil Eldurkar" <nikhil.eldur...@altair.com>
> wrote:
> > It was captured by a by-stander whom we gave our contact details and
> > requested for a copy. It was nice of him to oblige.
> > [mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mayank
> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:24 PM
> > To: Sameer Shisodia
> > Cc: Bangalore Bikers Club
> > Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
> > If you have a report on the same and you want visibility kindly post the
> > I wudn't say that all officials in the govt are useless as we met Mr.
> > Gaurav Gupta during the workshop and he really wishes to do something
> > for the biking community (even with the limited powers vested with
> > BMLTA). Unfortunately instead of giving suggestions we ended up
> > suggesting him to buy a bike. Pranav from praja.in suggested working
> > with the officials with solutions (technically sound) and you would be
> > able to make more sense at least to those listening. Wanting to try this
> > approach as well.
> > Thanks for sharing this video... Will post on Praja.in when free (if
> > someone can do it gr8). It was gr8 this was captured. Thanks for
> > sharing.
> > o__
> > _> /__
> > (_) \(_)... Burn fat not fuel - Byke along to a healthier life and
> > cleaner world! :)
> > Sameer Shisodia wrote:
> > > Possible to use this as evidence and initiate some action/at least
> > > approach higher ups at Lalbagh to get an apology ?
> > > - sameer
> > > --
> > > Sameer Shisodia, Bangalore
> > > Find ANYthing on ur phone
> > >http://zook.inorSMS ur query to 57575665
> > > (c) +91-98451-80207
Nikhil, I just spoke to the DCF Hubert , he said "*There is no tree warden in the forest department by name M C Jagdish." *. So need to chek if this guy is from Horticulture Department/Forest Department. Will somebody tell me from which department this guy is ! murali
He just said he's the tree warden at Lalbagh, don't know anything else
about him but for that. I'm not sure it's worth trying to get even. We
want them to respect cyclists. I just hope they don't get all frenzied
the next time they see a cyclist with a helmet. For now that's the image
that they have of us.
[mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of murali hr
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:27 PM
To: Bangalore Bikers Club
Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
Nikhil,
I just spoke to the DCF Hubert , he said "There is no tree warden in the
forest department by name M C Jagdish." . So need to chek if this guy is from Horticulture Department/Forest
Department.
Will somebody tell me from which department this guy is !
murali
I was shocked to see that the oldies of bangalore are so bad at
enjoying a "sense of humour" :|
Man its just a T-Shirt !... We see guys of all ages sporting FCUK T-
Shirts and Sweat Shirts here.. did this gentleman ever question any
one of them !!??
Guys this just gets real funny ... Next time we wear a T-Shirt we have
to carry a Dictionary to explain the meaning of the words/prove its
meaning :)
Check this out ...
dig verb (used with object), dug, dig⋅ging. Slang.
1. to understand: Can you dig what I'm saying?
2. to take notice of: Dig those shoes he's wearing.
3. to like, love, or enjoy: She digs that kind of music. We really
dig each other.
Origin: 193540; perh. < Ir (an) dtuig(eann tś mé?) do you understand
me? and parallel expressions with tuigim I understand (see twig 2 )
Does any one has the man's address or any contact??
I think he really needs to get back to School.
There is a huge group who don't work and wont let others also work for
something good.
I know i would be silly / what ever one calls it to be, but i cycle at least
24 Kms a day to work n back home and some times it even crossed 30 Kms and i
would want to come face to face with such guys and dig every thing out of
them.
This is just rampant hooliganism! It's a violation of personal space,
they just have no goddamn right to jostle people around as and when
they feel like it... This should be splashed on the news channels to
see how depraved these morons are! This is just disgusting...
And it's obvious those people are out of their depth! What was that
puerile nonsense about going to MCC or Christ College? When the hell
are they going to get out of their tunnel vision? We should seriously
take those buggers to task somehow. I'll explore ideas and see what we
can do.. The authorities might or might not help... but we should talk
to the media!
(One issue with the media is that we should be a bit careful how we
use them).
@ Rohan : If we are to have an impact against these buggers with
evidence, maybe you should tone down your YouTube video annotations a
bit. What say?
On Feb 2, 4:47 pm, Shyam Sundar <shyamsundars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does any one has the man's address or any contact??
> I think he really needs to get back to School.
> There is a huge group who don't work and wont let others also work for
> something good.
> I know i would be silly / what ever one calls it to be, but i cycle at least
> 24 Kms a day to work n back home and some times it even crossed 30 Kms and i
> would want to come face to face with such guys and dig every thing out of
> them.
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Anush Shetty <m...@anushshetty.com> wrote:
> > He is probably looking for a job with Rama Sene.. Officer for Morals :P
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Ananth <mail.anant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is just rampant hooliganism! It's a violation of personal space,
> they just have no goddamn right to jostle people around as and when
> they feel like it... This should be splashed on the news channels to
> see how depraved these morons are! This is just disgusting...
> And it's obvious those people are out of their depth! What was that
> puerile nonsense about going to MCC or Christ College? When the hell
> are they going to get out of their tunnel vision? We should seriously
> take those buggers to task somehow. I'll explore ideas and see what we
> can do.. The authorities might or might not help... but we should talk
> to the media!
> (One issue with the media is that we should be a bit careful how we
> use them).
> @ Rohan : If we are to have an impact against these buggers with
> evidence, maybe you should tone down your YouTube video annotations a
> bit. What say?
> On Feb 2, 4:47 pm, Shyam Sundar <shyamsundars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does any one has the man's address or any contact??
> > I think he really needs to get back to School.
> > There is a huge group who don't work and wont let others also work for
> > something good.
> > I know i would be silly / what ever one calls it to be, but i cycle at
> least
> > 24 Kms a day to work n back home and some times it even crossed 30 Kms
> and i
> > would want to come face to face with such guys and dig every thing out of
> > them.
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Anush Shetty <m...@anushshetty.com>
> wrote:
> > > He is probably looking for a job with Rama Sene.. Officer for Morals :P
Here's how it started: Rohan and I came out of Lalbagh on our bikes
after the last part of the 'Road safety week....' event (see
attachment). We were stopped by these grand gentlemen and asked whose
permission we had to go inside on our bicycles in an offensive tone. We
tried explaining to them but they continued replying offensively and
that's how it turned out. We were there for easily over 15 minutes. The
video covers only that last 3or 4.
[mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sharath Raju
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:16 PM
To: Bangalore Bikers Club
Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
Am still wondering what triggered such a rough confrontation from them.
Coz nikhil's mentioned they were initially just enquiring.
Sharath.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Ananth <mail.anant...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is just rampant hooliganism! It's a violation of personal space,
they just have no goddamn right to jostle people around as and when
they feel like it... This should be splashed on the news channels to
see how depraved these morons are! This is just disgusting...
And it's obvious those people are out of their depth! What was that
puerile nonsense about going to MCC or Christ College? When the hell
are they going to get out of their tunnel vision? We should seriously
take those buggers to task somehow. I'll explore ideas and see what we
can do.. The authorities might or might not help... but we should talk
to the media!
(One issue with the media is that we should be a bit careful how we
use them).
@ Rohan : If we are to have an impact against these buggers with
evidence, maybe you should tone down your YouTube video annotations a
bit. What say?
On Feb 2, 4:47 pm, Shyam Sundar <shyamsundars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does any one has the man's address or any contact??
> I think he really needs to get back to School.
> There is a huge group who don't work and wont let others also work for
> something good.
> I know i would be silly / what ever one calls it to be, but i cycle at
least
> 24 Kms a day to work n back home and some times it even crossed 30 Kms
and i
> would want to come face to face with such guys and dig every thing out
of
> them.
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Anush Shetty <m...@anushshetty.com>
wrote:
> > He is probably looking for a job with Rama Sene.. Officer for Morals
:P
[BBC] Road Safety Week: proposal to highlight cycling no Wed Jan 12
Folks,
This week is "Road Safety Week" in Bangalore. Some of us on Hasiru Usiru (who are also cyclists) felt it would be a good occasion to showcase cycling and safety related issues.
The suggestion is for folks to assemble tomorrow Wed, Jan 12 at 8 am at the Traffic Police Park on St Marks Road (opposite the State Bank) and do a 30 min tour of central roads (something like the Critical Mass idea) at commute time. Participants should print appropriate slogans in big font and pin them to their backs.
If we can get 30 odd cyclists tomorrow, that would be great. So far about 4 cyclists from HU have confirmed, and we'd like to know how many people from this list might be available.
Please let me (ONLY ME) know if you can make it. I will send out an update email to the list late afternoon.
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What these guys did was condemnable, they could have easily gone on
talking and resolved this. It did look like the guard acted
unilaterally, maybe to please his boss, That's how the government
works, I guess.
But one thing that bothers me about some of the mails in the thread, I
think by slandering the guy, we are not achieving anything. Is there
anything wrong if he finds a slogan offensive? Everyone should be
entitled to their point of view and just because his views may be
different doesn't give us the right to judge him. Let's take offense
on the pushing and shoving, not the fact that he had a difference of
opinion.
I'm not trying to defend him, but if you look at it from his point of
view, he probably views people with fancy bikes as some rich people
who are far removed from the reality of life in Bangalore. It will be
easy to say screw him, guys like him are never going to get it, but
the fact is that he represents one kind of Bangalorean, the guard
represents another and I think we need to think about how to reach out
to people like them. Maybe, we just need to take the message to him in
a different way. Any suggestions?
<nikhil.eldur...@altair.com> wrote:
> Here's how it started: Rohan and I came out of Lalbagh on our bikes after
> the last part of the 'Road safety week....' event (see attachment). We were
> stopped by these grand gentlemen and asked whose permission we had to go
> inside on our bicycles in an offensive tone. We tried explaining to them but
> they continued replying offensively and that's how it turned out. We were
> there for easily over 15 minutes. The video covers only that last 3or 4.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sharath Raju
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:16 PM
> To: Bangalore Bikers Club
> Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
> Am still wondering what triggered such a rough confrontation from them. Coz
> nikhil's mentioned they were initially just enquiring.
> Sharath.
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Ananth <mail.anant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is just rampant hooliganism! It's a violation of personal space,
> they just have no goddamn right to jostle people around as and when
> they feel like it... This should be splashed on the news channels to
> see how depraved these morons are! This is just disgusting...
> And it's obvious those people are out of their depth! What was that
> puerile nonsense about going to MCC or Christ College? When the hell
> are they going to get out of their tunnel vision? We should seriously
> take those buggers to task somehow. I'll explore ideas and see what we
> can do.. The authorities might or might not help... but we should talk
> to the media!
> (One issue with the media is that we should be a bit careful how we
> use them).
> @ Rohan : If we are to have an impact against these buggers with
> evidence, maybe you should tone down your YouTube video annotations a
> bit. What say?
> On Feb 2, 4:47 pm, Shyam Sundar <shyamsundars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does any one has the man's address or any contact??
>> I think he really needs to get back to School.
>> There is a huge group who don't work and wont let others also work for
>> something good.
>> I know i would be silly / what ever one calls it to be, but i cycle at
>> least
>> 24 Kms a day to work n back home and some times it even crossed 30 Kms and
>> i
>> would want to come face to face with such guys and dig every thing out of
>> them.
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Anush Shetty <m...@anushshetty.com> wrote:
>> > He is probably looking for a job with Rama Sene.. Officer for Morals :P
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Kanishka Lahiri" <kanishka.lah...@gmail.com>
> To: <bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:28:17 +0530
> Subject: [BBC] Road Safety Week: proposal to highlight cycling no Wed Jan 12
> Folks,
> This week is "Road Safety Week" in Bangalore. Some of us on Hasiru Usiru
> (who are also cyclists) felt it would be a good occasion to showcase cycling
> and safety related issues.
> The suggestion is for folks to assemble tomorrow Wed, Jan 12 at 8 am at the
> Traffic Police Park on St Marks Road (opposite the State Bank) and do a 30
> min tour of central roads (something like the Critical Mass idea) at commute
> time. Participants should print appropriate slogans in big font and pin them
> to their backs.
> If we can get 30 odd cyclists tomorrow, that would be great. So far about 4
> cyclists from HU have confirmed, and we'd like to know how many people from
> this list might be available.
> Please let me (ONLY ME) know if you can make it. I will send out an update
> email to the list late afternoon.
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Jagannath, You've made a good point. Its important to reach out to various people, and understand more povs.
However, those efforts are better made as equals, and not when one gets pushed around. I totally buy that the gentleman may not have understood the slogan, but not understanding something is not reason enough to suspect it and adopt an offensive stance immediately - we must insist that if others seek to engage in dialogue, they do as equals. I in fact am impressed how Rohan maintained his cool with the gentleman, and tried explaining things. I'd have refused to even speak to someone till they spoke politely with me.
Rgds, Sameer
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jagannath Moorthy <jaganm1...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What these guys did was condemnable, they could have easily gone on > talking and resolved this. It did look like the guard acted > unilaterally, maybe to please his boss, That's how the government > works, I guess.
> But one thing that bothers me about some of the mails in the thread, I > think by slandering the guy, we are not achieving anything. Is there > anything wrong if he finds a slogan offensive? Everyone should be > entitled to their point of view and just because his views may be > different doesn't give us the right to judge him. Let's take offense > on the pushing and shoving, not the fact that he had a difference of > opinion.
> I'm not trying to defend him, but if you look at it from his point of > view, he probably views people with fancy bikes as some rich people > who are far removed from the reality of life in Bangalore. It will be > easy to say screw him, guys like him are never going to get it, but > the fact is that he represents one kind of Bangalorean, the guard > represents another and I think we need to think about how to reach out > to people like them. Maybe, we just need to take the message to him in > a different way. Any suggestions?
-- Sameer Shisodia, Bangalore Find ANYthing on ur phone http://zook.in or SMS ur query to 57575665 (c) +91-98451-80207
> You've made a good point. Its important to reach out to various > people, and understand more povs.
Kudos! to Rohan for standing his ground(to be frank, I'd have probably rode off and called them dickheads inside my head!). Its amazing to see from all the mails as to how supportive the biking community is in Bangalore, I don't think any other city has such a community in the first place.
In order to make biking more popular and acceptable, we should ride within town(rather than outside) as a huge group on weekends. Probably head to coffee house or something, get noticed and show people our solidarity. As they see the numbers increasing, they'll learn that chicks dig our rides and respect will follow ! I don't know if such 'rallies' happened earlier but being born and brought up in Bangalore, I haven't seen one. Any takers?
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jagannath Moorthy <jaganm1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What these guys did was condemnable, they could have easily gone on
> talking and resolved this. It did look like the guard acted
> unilaterally, maybe to please his boss, That's how the government
> works, I guess.
> But one thing that bothers me about some of the mails in the thread, I
> think by slandering the guy, we are not achieving anything. Is there
> anything wrong if he finds a slogan offensive? Everyone should be
> entitled to their point of view and just because his views may be
> different doesn't give us the right to judge him. Let's take offense
> on the pushing and shoving, not the fact that he had a difference of
> opinion.
> I'm not trying to defend him, but if you look at it from his point of
> view, he probably views people with fancy bikes as some rich people
> who are far removed from the reality of life in Bangalore. It will be
> easy to say screw him, guys like him are never going to get it, but
> the fact is that he represents one kind of Bangalorean, the guard
> represents another and I think we need to think about how to reach out
> to people like them. Maybe, we just need to take the message to him in
> a different way. Any suggestions?
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Nikhil Eldurkar
> <nikhil.eldur...@altair.com> wrote:
>> Here's how it started: Rohan and I came out of Lalbagh on our bikes after
>> the last part of the 'Road safety week....' event (see attachment). We were
>> stopped by these grand gentlemen and asked whose permission we had to go
>> inside on our bicycles in an offensive tone. We tried explaining to them but
>> they continued replying offensively and that's how it turned out. We were
>> there for easily over 15 minutes. The video covers only that last 3or 4.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com
>> [mailto:Bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sharath Raju
>> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:16 PM
>> To: Bangalore Bikers Club
>> Subject: [BBC] Re: Another instance when Im ashamed of Bangalore..
>> Am still wondering what triggered such a rough confrontation from them. Coz
>> nikhil's mentioned they were initially just enquiring.
>> Sharath.
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Ananth <mail.anant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is just rampant hooliganism! It's a violation of personal space,
>> they just have no goddamn right to jostle people around as and when
>> they feel like it... This should be splashed on the news channels to
>> see how depraved these morons are! This is just disgusting...
>> And it's obvious those people are out of their depth! What was that
>> puerile nonsense about going to MCC or Christ College? When the hell
>> are they going to get out of their tunnel vision? We should seriously
>> take those buggers to task somehow. I'll explore ideas and see what we
>> can do.. The authorities might or might not help... but we should talk
>> to the media!
>> (One issue with the media is that we should be a bit careful how we
>> use them).
>> @ Rohan : If we are to have an impact against these buggers with
>> evidence, maybe you should tone down your YouTube video annotations a
>> bit. What say?
>> On Feb 2, 4:47 pm, Shyam Sundar <shyamsundars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does any one has the man's address or any contact??
>>> I think he really needs to get back to School.
>>> There is a huge group who don't work and wont let others also work for
>>> something good.
>>> I know i would be silly / what ever one calls it to be, but i cycle at
>>> least
>>> 24 Kms a day to work n back home and some times it even crossed 30 Kms and
>>> i
>>> would want to come face to face with such guys and dig every thing out of
>>> them.
>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Anush Shetty <m...@anushshetty.com> wrote:
>>> > He is probably looking for a job with Rama Sene.. Officer for Morals :P
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Kanishka Lahiri" <kanishka.lah...@gmail.com>
>> To: <bangalore-bikers@googlegroups.com>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:28:17 +0530
>> Subject: [BBC] Road Safety Week: proposal to highlight cycling no Wed Jan 12
>> Folks,
>> This week is "Road Safety Week" in Bangalore. Some of us on Hasiru Usiru
>> (who are also cyclists) felt it would be a good occasion to showcase cycling
>> and safety related issues.
>> The suggestion is for folks to assemble tomorrow Wed, Jan 12 at 8 am at the
>> Traffic Police Park on St Marks Road (opposite the State Bank) and do a 30
>> min tour of central roads (something like the Critical Mass idea) at commute
>> time. Participants should print appropriate slogans in big font and pin them
>> to their backs.
>> If we can get 30 odd cyclists tomorrow, that would be great. So far about 4
>> cyclists from HU have confirmed, and we'd like to know how many people from
>> this list might be available.
>> Please let me (ONLY ME) know if you can make it. I will send out an update
>> email to the list late afternoon.
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