On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:55:08 -0600, "di" <di0000@cox.net> wrote:

"United we Stand" <send@me.some.spam> wrote in message
news:1212688.LShhszTYyy@yahoo.com...

"Me first, ***** you" a.k.a. MFFY - that is how atheists drive, because

they

don't care about anyone but themselves. The way I see it, this is America,
One Country Under God (TM). Atheists should not be allowed to get driver's
licenses here, or even allowed on the road as bikers. We should at least
include questions about Jesus on the written part of the driver's license
tests, to weed them out.

Does anyone know why all these losers are migrating to this list?

Look at the headers. It's crossposted to:
rec.bicycles.misc,
rec.autos.driving,
alt.religion.christian,
rec.bicycles.soc,
alt.atheism

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:22:39 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:

I can't even begin to remember all of the times that I was cut off by
some fool with an xtian fish on his bumper.

LOL!!! I am forced to concur with that observation. For a while I
thought Pisces was the sign for aggressive drivers, but then someone
explained to me that those fish decals have nothing to do with
Astrology...

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:22:39 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:

I can't even begin to remember all of the times that I was cut off by
some fool with an xtian fish on his bumper.

LOL!!! I am forced to concur with that observation. For a while I
thought Pisces was the sign for aggressive drivers, but then someone
explained to me that those fish decals have nothing to do with
Astrology...

johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> writes:

In article <1212688.LShhszTYyy@yahoo.com>,
United we Stand <send@me.some.spam> wrote:

MFFY - that is how atheists drive, because they don't care about
anyone but themselves. The way I see it, this is America, One
Country Under God (TM). Atheists should not be allowed to get
driver's licenses here, or even allowed on the road as bikers. We
should at least include questions about Jesus on the written part
of the driver's license tests, to weed them out.

I can't even begin to remember all of the times that I was cut off by
some fool with an xtian fish on his bumper.

Oh, it's worse than that. Before they moved us to another building,
my commute to work was along Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, CA.
About 200 meters into Menlo Park, heading north (just past Willow
rd.), I'd go past an office building that apparently had a Planned
Parenthood clinic in it. Naturally, the "Christian" anti-abortion
nuts were out in force picketing, complete with horror-movie signs.

At one point, while riding a bicycle into work, I stopped and asked
one of them if they wouldn't mind moving the sign to the opposite side
of a narrow cross street because the sign's position would block my
view of vehicles on the cross street to the point where I couldn't
make eye contact with a driver, and explained the safety issue in some
detail - if a driver doesn't see you and moves out across the bike
lane into your path, your choices are an accident with him or a sudden
swerve that will risk an accident with an overtaking vehicle, and
while you can mitigate the risk by slowing substantially, you can't
completely eliminate it.

Instead of showing any concern for anyone's safety, this guy told me
that I shouldn't be riding on that road (which had few intersections,
a 35 mph speed limit, and full-sized traffic lanes with adjacent bike
lanes) adding that the road was "very dangerous." I don't aways
suffer fools gladly, so I told him that the most dangerous thing on
this road was his f___ing sign.

He replied, "Did you use the 'F' word?" And ordered me to leave the
area (I was on a public street.) That's what mattered to him, not the
safety hazard he was creating. The next day, I went to a climbing gym
over lunch, and told some people working there this story. *Everyone*
was practically rolling on the floor laughing, with one rolling his
eyes and joking about "virgin ears."

Last I heard, the "Christian" I had a disagreement with ended up in
the hoosegow for some illegal activity. I just saw a line-item in a
newspaper (with a a picture that resembled the dude), but I really
don't remember the details.

I did cause them some trouble though. The guy's attitude - a complete
lack of concern about my safety plus ordering me to leave a public
area where I had as much right to be at as he did - pissed me off, so
I sent a written complaint to the city, which was fowarded to the city
attorney, who no doubt had received a lot of complaints about these
nuts (they had also picketed the home of someone on the city council,
displaying their gory signs in a residential area where there were
lots of small children.) The attorney immediately picked up on the
obvious - that I had complained about a safety hazard that was
independent of the content of the sign, and that this complaint was
thus useful for getting rid of this group, since the content-free
nature of the complaint prevented a counter argument based on the
First Amendment).

All they would have had to do to avoid this reaction on part was to
say that they hadn't realized the safety issue and would simply move
the sign 20 feet to where it wouldn't block one's view of a vehicle
stopped at the intersection's stop sign. They were too arrogant to
even do that, even though my first request was very polite. All I
wanted to do, after all, was to ride a bike into work without some
people adding unnecessary risks to my commute.