Thomas Lynch charged in 16-bike pileup near Chicago
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A Florida man is accused of causing a 16-bicycle pileup after
cutting in front of the group on St. Mary's Road in Libertyville
Township, authorities said.
Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Thompson said the incident
happened about 9:05 a.m. Saturday. He said three bikers suffered non-
life-threatening injuries.
Thomas Lynch, 57, of Fort Lauderdale, was charged with improper lane
usage and failure to provide aid and information. The charges are
misdemeanors.
Lynch was driving a 1996 GMC Sierra truck north on St. Mary's Road
near Everett Road when he passed the bicyclists on the left, cut back
to the right lane and slammed his brakes, Thompson said today.
All 16 bikers fell in a pileup to avoid the truck, Thompson said, with
some winding up in a ditch.
Chris McNally, 31, and Grant Davis, 26, both of Chicago, were treated
for minor injuries. Thompson said Robert Willems, 39, of Chicago, was
treated at Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.
Lynch kept driving after the cyclists went down and then telephoned
sheriff's police to report side-view mirror damage. Thompson said
Lynch followed a direction to return to the crash scene.
Thomson said Lynch first told deputies he heard a thump while he was
driving and thought a bicyclist punched his truck. Police said Lynch
later stated he jammed his brakes in front of the bikers because he
didn't want to hit a squirrel.
Read more about the story in Friday's Daily Herald.
psycholist
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T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
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William Asher
> Misdemeanor, my ass.
>
Around here, it's a really bad idea to ask people to misdemeanor your ass.
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Bill Asher
Dan Connelly
> psycholist wrote:
>
>> Misdemeanor, my ass.
>>
>
> Around here, it's a really bad idea to ask people to misdemeanor your ass.
>
I was recently told, by someone reviewing a draft of a paper I'm writing, that I use far too many commas. In this case, a comma is a wonderful thing.
Fred Fredburger
> psycholist wrote:
>
>> Misdemeanor, my ass.
>>
>
> Around here, it's a really bad idea to ask people to misdemeanor your ass.
>
Since everything is legal, you've got to do something pretty heinous!
Hob...@spnb&s.com
>Driver charged in 16-bike pileup near Libertyville
>By Bob Susnjara | Daily Herald Staff Writer Contact writerPublished:
>9/27/2007 11:39 AMSend To:
> A Florida man is accused of causing a 16-bicycle pileup after
>cutting in front of the group on St. Mary's Road in Libertyville
>Township, authorities said.
>
>Lake County sheriff's Sgt. Christopher Thompson said the incident
>happened about 9:05 a.m. Saturday. He said three bikers suffered non-
>life-threatening injuries.
>
>Thomas Lynch, 57, of Fort Lauderdale, was charged with improper lane
>usage and failure to provide aid and information. The charges are
>misdemeanors.
>
>Lynch was driving a 1996 GMC Sierra truck north on St. Mary's Road
>near Everett Road when he passed the bicyclists on the left, cut back
>to the right lane and slammed his brakes,
Yep, he's from Florida.
Bill C
What's the difference in intent between cutting over and stopping
dead, and backing over them? Not much IMO. this should've been assault
with a deadly weapon at least. Autos are just as much weapons as
firearms. They need to lock up scumbags who intentionally use either
to hurt others for a minimum of 5 years before the deabte even begins,
and ban plea bargains for those offences.
Aint gonna happen in either case though.
Just as an aside the NRA has been lobbying for this on firearms for
years.
Bill C
William Asher
In your case I would rather you use carriage returns and line feeds.
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Bill Asher
William Asher
You mean heinie-ous right?
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Bill Asher
William Asher
> What's the difference in intent between cutting over and stopping
> dead, and backing over them? Not much IMO. this should've been assault
> with a deadly weapon at least. Autos are just as much weapons as
> firearms. They need to lock up scumbags who intentionally use either
> to hurt others for a minimum of 5 years before the deabte even begins,
> and ban plea bargains for those offences.
I agree, the guy is a douche, but they probably can't hit him with anything
else. What will make him stand up and take notice are the civil suits
for injury and damages that will start coming in. The misdemeanor charge
should make it harder for him to claim he was innocently driving along and
shouldn't be liable for damages. But then, I'm only a dirtbag, not a
dirtbag lawyer.
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Bill Asher
Bill C
I'm sure we all hope they give him what he deserves. I'm not gonna
hold my breath though.
Bill C
Dan Connelly
> Dan Connelly wrote:
>> I was recently told, by someone reviewing a draft of a paper I'm
>> writing, that I use far too many commas. In this case, a comma is a
>> wonderful thing.
>
> In your case I would rather you use carriage returns and line feeds.
>
Gee, I thought all modern newsreaders wrapped lines....
groups.google.com certain does.
In any case, are you a DOS user or something?
Real OS's don't require "carriage returns" :).
b...@mambo.ucolick.org
wrote:
OS? What OS? Maybe Bill's reading Usenet on a
Smith Corona typewriter, smartypants.
A problem with no CRs is that Google Groups doesn't
insert LFs to break the lines when I follow up a post of
yours, so there's only one quote character at the beginning
of a long line. I was going to chide you about this again
today, but forgot.
Ben
Ewoud Dronkert
> A problem with no CRs is that Google Groups doesn't
> insert LFs to break the lines when I follow up a post of
> yours, so there's only one quote character at the beginning
> of a long line. I was going to chide you about this again
> today, but forgot.
It's because Dan uses the setting "format=flowed", I think. Turn it
off, Dan! (See, a whole bunch of commas. That's one of the things I
have to keep in mind while writing in English; it uses a lot less
commas than Dutch. Or, maybe, I use a lot of commas.)
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E. Dronkert
Gary
the important thing!
William Asher
> psycholist wrote:
>>> Misdemeanor, my ass.
>
> William Asher wrote:
>> Around here, it's a really bad idea to ask people to misdemeanor your
>> ass.
>
> Asking someone to felony your ass might be worse.
>
It's all a crime against nature.
Speaking of which, I notice the World's booted DiLuca, are now going after
Bettini, Bonds's 756th ball will be branded with an asterisk, and a cholera
epidemic is now starting in Iraq. Is this turning out to be a great
century or what?
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Bill Asher
William Asher
Fortunately for me, my newsreader interprets commas correctly. With Dan's
posts, I can read about half of each line and then have to guess about the
rest. It leads to some interesting conclusions.
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Bill Asher
Dan Connelly
> It's because Dan uses the setting "format=flowed", I think. Turn it
> off, Dan! (See, a whole bunch of commas. That's one of the things I
> have to keep in mind while writing in English; it uses a lot less
> commas than Dutch. Or, maybe, I use a lot of commas.)
>
>
Okay.... I shut it off. Perhaps a quote from Velonews is appropriate as a test: "During Wednesday evening's CrossVegas event Kona's Ryan Trebon won on a brand new pair of wheels from FSA, providing a good excuse to look at a few new deeper section carbon rims that debuted at this year's show. Besides FSA, both Easton and Reynolds have new or refined wheels for 2008. Titanium has also been a prominent product at this year's show, could it be that some, more traditionally minded riders are suffering from too much carbon fiber in their diet? We wouldn't go quite that far yet as it seems most of the industry is still gaga over string and glue construction for all types of components. Nonetheless Moots and Ritchey, among others, have been pushing out new products in the once wonder metal, titanium."
Davey Crockett
It doesn't look too nice here, but luckily using Gnus all that is
needed to fix it is W-w
RFC 2646 is also helpful
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt
[I'm sort of interested to see how this reads back - bot wanting to
annoy anyone]
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Davey Crockett - No 4Q to Reply
Fred Fredburger
Subtlety is not my strong point.
Fred Fredburger
You'll get no argument from me on that. I don't see it happening, though.
b...@mambo.ucolick.org
wrote:
No. It doesn't work, because you aren't wrapping your lines.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.racing/msg/247ff313811c767c?dmode=source
Email and news clients work better if the sender wraps lines
rather than the recipient. This may be a holdover from 24x80
green screens, but that's life. It also means that you control
how your message looks.
I like this for Thunderbird:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2351
Although really, it oughta be built in.
Ben
Davey Crockett
But this does - I just need to shift-W ; w and Gnus does it for me
| > Okay.... I shut it off. Perhaps a quote from Velonews is
| > appropriate as a test: "During Wednesday evening's CrossVegas
| > event Kona's Ryan Trebon won on a brand new pair of wheels from
| > FSA, providing a good excuse to look at a few new deeper section
| > carbon rims that debuted at this year's show. Besides FSA, both
| > Easton and Reynolds have new or refined wheels for 2008. Titanium
| > has also been a prominent product at this year's show, could it be
| > that some, more traditionally minded riders are suffering from too
| > much carbon fiber in their diet? We wouldn't go quite that far yet
| > as it seems most of the industry is still gaga over string and
| > glue construction for all types of components. Nonetheless Moots
| > and Ritchey, among others, have been pushing out new products in
| > the once wonder metal, titanium."
|
I was interested to see what came back on my previous post though
I can also change character encoding on the fly from the keyboard too
and do all kind of wonderful things - so long as I remember the
keyboard combination ;)
Ewoud Dronkert
> On Sep 28, 1:46 pm, Dan Connelly wrote:
>> Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
>>> It's because Dan uses the setting "format=flowed", I think.
>
Yeah, sorry, it's not the format=flowed; that means space before line
breaks except double breaks (paragraphs). That actually is helpful for
re-wrapping. But you (Dan) don't have line breaks. In my Thunderbird
version, it hides under Preferences > Compose > General > Wrap plain
text messages at [x] characters (or similar, I don't have the English
version). Or perhaps: Preferences > Advanced > General > Configuration
editor > mailnews.wraplength = 72 _and_ news.wrap_long_lines = true.
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E. Dronkert
Davey Crockett
|
|
| Yeah, sorry, it's not the format=flowed; that means space before line
| breaks except double breaks (paragraphs). That actually is helpful for
| re-wrapping. But you (Dan) don't have line breaks. In my Thunderbird
| version, it hides under Preferences > Compose > General > Wrap plain
| text messages at [x] characters (or similar, I don't have the English
| version). Or perhaps: Preferences > Advanced > General > Configuration
| editor > mailnews.wraplength = 72 _and_ news.wrap_long_lines = true.
What are you doing up at 3AM??
Dan Connelly
> Yeah, sorry, it's not the format=flowed; that means space before line
> breaks except double breaks (paragraphs). That actually is helpful for
> re-wrapping. But you (Dan) don't have line breaks. In my Thunderbird
> version, it hides under Preferences > Compose > General > Wrap plain
> text messages at [x] characters (or similar, I don't have the English
> version). Or perhaps: Preferences > Advanced > General > Configuration
> editor > mailnews.wraplength = 72 _and_ news.wrap_long_lines = true.
>
Okay.... I didn't realize it was possible to do this preferentially for news.
I had it set long, because I often, as you know, send out text files with tables
of aligned columns, which span more then 80 wide.
Anyway, problem solved.... thanks.
Dan
b...@mambo.ucolick.org
wrote:
That's what the extension I linked to earlier
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2351
is great for. It adds a menu entry for enable/disable
word wrap under "Options" in the Thunderbird compose
window, so you can turn it on and off quickly.
This is more or less the first thing I
installed when I started using Thunderturd for email,
as I also sometimes want to paste data tables and
such into email without having them "improved."
Ben
jshill
wrote:
> I was recently told, by someone reviewing a draft of a paper I'm writing, that I use far too many commas. In this case, a comma is a wonderful thing.
I'll bet that same person told you not to use hyphens either.
Michael Press
William Asher <gcn...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> psycholist wrote:
>
> > Misdemeanor, my ass.
> >
>
> Around here, it's a really bad idea to ask people to misdemeanor your ass.
Yes, it's a misdemanor.
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Michael Press