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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

I saw a cyclist with what looked like a three month old in the basket on the front of her bike. That person should be arrested.

In 2023, 559 children were killed in cars in motor vehicle accidents, 136 died as pedestrians, and 31 died as cyclists after being hit by cars. That same year, 29 kids died from being left alone in hot cars. In 2022, over 2,500 children died from firearms. The statistics seem pretty clear that, if you’re really concerned about keeping children safe, bikes should be among the least of your worries.

THE TOP THREE CAUSES OF DEATH BY AGE GROUP

0 to less than 28 days after birth:
Conditions due to premature birth (short gestation) and low birth weight
Developmental and genetic conditions that were present at birth
Maternal complications of pregnancy

28 days through 11 months after birth:
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Developmental and genetic conditions that were present at birth

1 to 4 years:
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Developmental and genetic conditions that were present at birth
Homicide

5 to 9 years:
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Cancer
Homicide

10 to 14 years
Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Suicide (intentional self-harm)
Cancer


Automobile accounts for the largest number of accidental deaths. All infants and children should use the proper child car seats, booster seats, and seat belts.

Other top causes of accidental death are drowning, fire, falls, and poisoning.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001915.htm#:~:text=Accidents%20(unintentional%20injuries)%20are%2C,death%20among%20children%20and%20teens.&text=0%20to%20less%20than%2028,that%20were%20present%20at%20birth

Looks like bicycles are pretty safe. Gun deaths mostly due to youth criminal activity, gangs, drugs in later teen years.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

I saw a cyclist with what looked like a three month old in the basket on the front of her bike. That person should be arrested.

In 2023, 559 children were killed in cars in motor vehicle accidents, 136 died as pedestrians, and 31 died as cyclists after being hit by cars. That same year, 29 kids died from being left alone in hot cars. In 2022, over 2,500 children died from firearms. The statistics seem pretty clear that, if you’re really concerned about keeping children safe, bikes should be among the least of your worries.

If it only saves 1 life…

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

I saw a cyclist with what looked like a three month old in the basket on the front of her bike. That person should be arrested.

In 2023, 559 children were killed in cars in motor vehicle accidents, 136 died as pedestrians, and 31 died as cyclists after being hit by cars. That same year, 29 kids died from being left alone in hot cars. In 2022, over 2,500 children died from firearms. The statistics seem pretty clear that, if you’re really concerned about keeping children safe, bikes should be among the least of your worries.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

Yes, we’d still be grateful. Arrest All Lawbreakers. Happy?

The average American commits three felonies a day completely unknowingly. You personally may not be committing three felonies day every day but I would be willing to put money down that if "arrest all lawbreakers" was implemented unilaterally you'd be in jail sooner rather than later.

Our entire society is predicated on those authorized to commit violence on behalf of the state using good discretion in doing so. If they weren't allowed to we'd all be in jail.

A family of any color peacefully drinking alcohol in the park deserves that discretion. And if your only argument is "well they broke the law" then you deserve to be in jail right alongside them, because chances are you did too.

Local dumb guy weighs in from the bar.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

Yes, we’d still be grateful. Arrest All Lawbreakers. Happy?

The average American commits three felonies a day completely unknowingly. You personally may not be committing three felonies day every day but I would be willing to put money down that if "arrest all lawbreakers" was implemented unilaterally you'd be in jail sooner rather than later.

Our entire society is predicated on those authorized to commit violence on behalf of the state using good discretion in doing so. If they weren't allowed to we'd all be in jail.

A family of any color peacefully drinking alcohol in the park deserves that discretion. And if your only argument is "well they broke the law" then you deserve to be in jail right alongside them, because chances are you did too.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

I saw a cyclist with what looked like a three month old in the basket on the front of her bike. That person should be arrested.

She should be given a civic award for bucking the trend of driving a giant suv just to haul around her 15 pound infant

Your comment inadvertently proves the point. Bicyclists seem to have completely deluded themselves about the risks they run. It's their right to get themselves killed but they shouldn't be allowed to take children with them. It's not the kid's fault they were born to a moron.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

I saw a cyclist with what looked like a three month old in the basket on the front of her bike. That person should be arrested.

She should be given a civic award for bucking the trend of driving a giant suv just to haul around her 15 pound infant

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

I saw a cyclist with what looked like a three month old in the basket on the front of her bike. That person should be arrested.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

I think it would save kids' lives. The risks bicyclists take with their children's lives are mind blowing.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

You’re still here. Congratulations.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Maybe the kids would actually learn something about safety.

Fascinating how drivers are required to protect their kids in car seats until they’re like 12 years old (which is a little overboard but on balance probably fine) while cyclists can do basically whatever with a kid on board who has essentially zero protection if an accident happens.

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Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Aren't you worried about the trauma this would create in the children?

Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

I would love it if they started arrested cyclists for their blatant disregard for pretty much all traffic laws, especially when they have children on board.

Anonymous wrote:If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.

Yes, we’d still be grateful. Arrest All Lawbreakers. Happy?

If the Park Police were out there arresting UNC DINKWADs for letting Fido run around Battery Kemble with leashless abandon or impounding MD-played Lexuses that have run up thousands in unpaid speeding camera fines, would you still so be gleeful? It’s cute how excited you get when people are arrested for committing ticketable offenses you don’t partake in yet recoil in horror at the enforcement of other laws you willfully disregard.