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      CommentAuthorbschultz
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    Crazy, but overly sensationalized. Congratulations, Maxine Bernstein; you have now joined the ranks of Portland's worst journalists, e.g., Beth Slovic (Willamette Week).

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      CommentAuthorJennx
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    damn man, the comments are ridiculous

    • CommentAuthorkrystenr
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    Yates' mistake: chasing down a cyclist to tell him he was in the wrong.
    I'm not condoning what McAtee did, but I sure as hell wouldn't run around pointing the finger at anyone.
    You never know when someone has a gun. Or a...bike. Don't go asking for trouble, that's all I'm saying.

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    McAtee's mistake: riding drunk and THEN trying to assault someone with a deadly weapon.

    Shit I do both, but never together.

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    that was pretty poorly written

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      CommentAuthorgrimm
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008 edited
     

    I think the Oregonian is getting the response they wanted.

    Is it a bad incident? Yeah. But how many drunk altercations happen weekly? What about road rage? Plenty im sure. Some more aggressive than others. So what if one guy was in a car and another in a bike. F*ck the Oregonian front paging this. Makes me want to go not buy one of their papers ever.

    -edited-
    Needed to get rid of what could possibly be incriminating evidence. Cause we I dont need no legal trouble.

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    I think people would have to WANT to read the boregonian first.

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      CommentAuthorJennx
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    when i lived in vegas, i knew of someone who did that to all the starbucks in a 5 mile radius.

    • CommentAuthorkrystenr
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    I agree with jeezy and grimm - poorly written and shouldn't have been put on the front page.
    However, it was the first copy of The Oregonian I ever bought...so I guess they did their job.

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      CommentAuthorgrimm
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008 edited
     

    So that was like 50 Starbucks, right? ;)

    Its amazing what you can ruin with a little creativity.

    • CommentAuthorkrystenr
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     
    grimm:

    So that was like 50 Starbucks, right?

    Haha, word.

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    Shit I didn't know it was front paged on their paper...I just saw this link on the interwebs. Agreed...Shitty writing about a shitty situation. Either way I'll be on my traffic P's and Q's for a hot minute...

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    That was horribly written.

    I agree with Krysten.

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      CommentAuthortoa3t
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    Yates sounds like a douchebag.

    "Yates continued driving north on 20th Avenue, through another intersection, until he caught up with the bicyclist.

    Yates honked his horn, leaned out his window, and chided the bicyclist for making other cyclists look bad. Yates, a self-described bike advocate for more than 30 years, told the bicyclist that he was a responsible bike rider who gets upset when he sees fellow riders disobeying traffic signals."

    It's not like the drunk fuck did anything to harm Yates by blowing a red light that Yates was stopped at.

    I'm not down for everyone attacking West Burnside like it's a zoobomb, but if you track down, honk at, get out of your window and yell at any bike who runs a red... expect some sort of shit someday.

    I'd WANT to fuck up a car (not the guy inside) like that if someone did that to me.

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      CommentAuthorstumptown
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008 edited
     

    Moral of the story is to mind your own damn business whether you're a driver or a cyclist. Both parties are at fault, but I do feel sympathy for the driver getting his ass kicked in front of his wife and kids, and it's fairly ironic that he's a bike advocate...

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      CommentAuthortoa3t
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    i wonder what kind of bike the drunk dude was riding?

    it would take a whole lot of horse barbiturates to get me to try to use my bike as a weapon. that's why god invented u-locks (or, much less severely, water bottles)

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      CommentAuthorbicyCOLE
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    they really don't leave any information out of this article

    AND
    we could call Maxine

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    knowing the oregonian if it was a reckless brakeless fixed gear idiot they would have said it.

    • CommentAuthorcrossett
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     
    toa3t:

    i wonder what kind of bike the drunk dude was riding?

    it would take a whole lot of horse barbiturates to get me to try to use my bike as a weapon. that's why god invented u-locks (or, much less severely, water bottles)

    cipo knows whats up.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XxCZagAjk&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJomoEk81o4

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    SPEAK AMERICAN!

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    FYI hella info was left out of the article. like how the "witness" who socked the bike guy was actually a passenger in the car. Or this "bike activist" whos only activism comes by way of being a Bike Gallery salesman oh and a critical mass ride in 98. fuck this whole shit. hows this a huge front page story when Iran is testing five ICBM's today. Only thing that surprised me was that dickhead namedropping famegrabbing fuckbag from a certain well known blog didn't "uncover" this story. fuck the media in this town.

    PS this whole shit goes to what EVERYONE was talking about today. people need to mind their own fucking business. let that be your moral of the story.

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      CommentAuthorstumptown
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    yeah, all my non cyclist friends were just talking about how they saw that shit on the front page. all around a stupid story for all parties involved.

    oh and, http://koin.com check out the poll on the right side of the page.

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      CommentAuthorK_phomma
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     


    *Rage*

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    i probably get an f

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      CommentAuthorK_phomma
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    C at the most.

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    K_phomma:

    *Rage*

    RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

    • CommentAuthorcharlie
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    there was a high school party a couple of blocks from this lulz

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    lulz, high school parties. i heard micheals bars were messed up

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      CommentAuthorbicyCOLE
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     
    yung jeezy pdx:

    lulz, high school parties. i heard micheals bars were messed up

    me too, but i don't know the guy.

    • CommentAuthorcharlie
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2008
     

    he still hasn't changed them

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    haha, classic.

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      CommentAuthorgrimm
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2008 edited
     
    K_phomma:


    *Rage*

    Haha. Love it.
    The rules of the road were not written for us, they just put us under the umbrella of cars but then dont give us any respect or space.
    Hell most the time I even try to obey the rules pretty well, but I still roll stop signs if its clear.

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      CommentAuthorMIN
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2008
     

    "News at 5: A look into the unparalleled self-righteousness often associated with the liberal cycling left and people on meth."

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      CommentAuthorgrimm
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2008
     

    I love meth and cycling. Can I get on TV?

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      CommentAuthorvDECKERv
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2008
     

    oh shit he hit the guy with his bike? fuck even with no priors he will do 6 months for that shit... I give myself an A-

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