Oil Drunk whOregonian Clubs Cyclist with Hatchet
When is a hatchet a blunt instrument? Imagine this, if you can: Andre the Giant, Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or more probably one of their incredible fantasy movie characters lifting a 20lb bike over their head and clubbing a poor schmuck repeatedly. Hard to believe….. but, at least possible with the strength of 3 men in one. Incredible perhaps? Well credibility is definitely the issue here. The latest whOregonian full front-page photo and headline reads: “Cyclist clubs driver with his bike”; a very blunt hatchet job. Does anyone remember the full page photos and headlines that they ran every time a biker was killed by a car in Portland: “Driver kills biker with his car” ? No? Well, that’s because they never ran such a headline.
I want to waste a couple of words to say directly how ridiculous such an assertion of “clubbing” is in the context of a large bike and how marvelously biased the whOregonian is against biking. Well, I won’t take the time to get into it because it’s not news to anyone…. and neither is this story.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’m not very strong myself, but I know I can lift 20 lbs over my head several times repeatedly. It doesn’t require superhuman strength to do this. Maybe you should get some more exercise. If you can’t lift 20 lbs than you’re in much worse shape than me.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:59 am
I let this comment through, even though it is a simple ad-hominem attack, because it was humorous. I bench 215 (on a good day… not to say that I’m not in bad shape) and still don’t think I could CLUB someone with a bicycle. What made me really laugh here was this visual of someone doing calisthenics “repeatedly” with a 20lb bicycle.