Critical mass violence

those crazy americans...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008074874_webcriticalmass26m.html

Surprise! That report is a one-sided load of old bollocks.

Here's what you get when the people involved have their say.

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/i_literally_got_run_over
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/another_eyewitness_weighs_in
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/report_from_a_critical_mass_eyewitness

Less bias in their follow-up:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008075512_reading27.html

Wow. I hope that never happens in London.

Sounds like all parties involved are partly to blame.

Wow. I hope that never happens in London.

Sounds like all parties involved are partly to blame.

how does it sound like all parties are partly to blame??????

the driver was fleeing the scene of a crime with a weapon, any one would be entitled to stop him under the power of citizens arrest, and use force to do so.

how many times do they need to say "jameson said"

a few more

The driver got out of his car, was hit in the back of the head and suffered a large gash, police said.

Sounds like he got a d lock to the back of the head.......good effort.

Classic quote of the day from one of the follow ups :

"I am annoyed by the Critical Mass riders and everything 'bicycle' at this point. Thanks, fucking hipsters, for ruining everything for everyone."

:-D

bloody hippies.

driver speaks
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_driver_speaks

'I'm gay and the passenger is lesbian and we were attacked by eco-terrorists, this is the most Seattle thing that could happen'

No, there wasn't a skinny hazlenut frappachino involved, and no one has mentioned grunge yet.

Plus Kelsey Grammar wasn't riding.

^Maybe caffine is to blame...

There seems to be some confusion, the artivle states "was hit in the back of the head, opening a large gash"
It fails to mention the blow caused the gash, or is the large gash was his. jamieson said.
For all we know (and this is Seattle) the lesbain female passenger could have been getting off on the violence..

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oh that's bad taste GS, bad taste.

Bad taste.

head is hanging in shame.....

which one?????!! roflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflrofl

“I hit two of their friends and they tore apart my car,” he (driver) says. “I’d rather not have anyone…be charged from any of this.”

=

i almost killed two of them, and then they rightfully stopped me from fleeing, but my dad happens to have paid for a good lawyer and i'm trying not to get done for murder here

Seattle Police Department - SPD. heh