Crazy driver harasses cyclists in Boulder

[Ronin13]

I live in North Boulder on a street heavily used by cyclists. If I were to put a video camera out front, I'd have a very simple time recording AT LEAST 200 cyclists per hour, all day, any day of the week, blowing through the 4-way stop sign as if it didn't exist.

I've been given the finger on multiple occasions when I proceeded at a 4-way stop when it was my turn....because a cyclist didn't see it their duty to stop at all.

A cyclist got honked at a bit? I'm weeping in sympathy...oh, the tragedy of it all

you should set up a cam and send it to the boulder police. email it to them and the boulder camera every day all day. maybe some state senators and congressman and get a bill set up to put these asshats in their place. either follow the laws of the road or get off it.

Now that's the best damn idea I've ever heard! I see it in Denver all the time and one of these days they're going to get creamed (I'm very fearful that I'll be the one to do it and get sued). What the hell? Maybe there needs to be some letter writing to our state legislature for more of an eye turned to this issue and perhaps educating the public a little better that if they disregard the law they could die. We don't need more laws (well maybe a licensing requirement to have a bike on roads), but we do need more attention on things like this.

[rondog]

I'm certainly not siding with the bicyclists here, I find most of them to be incredibly arrogant about "their rights" and such BS, and they tend to piss me off. I'm just saying that the SUV in the video certainly appeared to have plenty of room to just pass right by 'em, even without going over the double yellow line. Just makes more sense to me to pass 'em and get away from 'em rather than hang right behind 'em honkin' my horn like a fool.

Reminds me of these two fucktards that were behind me one day when I-25 still had an HOV lane. I was going well over the speed limit in the HOV lane, and these two wads were behind me honking and waving at me to move over. So I moved over, but they didn't speed up, they stayed in the HOV lane at the same speed, glaring at me because I dared to be a solo driver in THEIR HOV lane. Apparently they felt the need to be HOV lane police or whatever, but weren't smart enough to realize that the HOV rules were only for certain times of the day, and it was 2.5 hours outside that window.

Some peoples kids......

[Aloha_Shooter]

I'm just saying that the SUV in the video certainly appeared to have plenty of room to just pass right by 'em, even without going over the double yellow line. Just makes more sense to me to pass 'em and get away from 'em rather than hang right behind 'em honkin' my horn like a fool.

There is no way he could pass them with 3 feet of space as mandated by the law and not cross the double yellow line. None. It certainly seemed safe to cross the line to pass them but that wouldn't have been legal.

[Rucker61]

I'm certainly not siding with the bicyclists here, I find most of them to be incredibly arrogant about "their rights" and such BS, and they tend to piss me off. I'm just saying that the SUV in the video certainly appeared to have plenty of room to just pass right by 'em, even without going over the double yellow line. Just makes more sense to me to pass 'em and get away from 'em rather than hang right behind 'em honkin' my horn like a fool.

Reminds me of these two fucktards that were behind me one day when I-25 still had an HOV lane. I was going well over the speed limit in the HOV lane, and these two wads were behind me honking and waving at me to move over. So I moved over, but they didn't speed up, they stayed in the HOV lane at the same speed, glaring at me because I dared to be a solo driver in THEIR HOV lane. Apparently they felt the need to be HOV lane police or whatever, but weren't smart enough to realize that the HOV rules were only for certain times of the day, and it was 2.5 hours outside that window.

Some peoples kids......

Okay, new invention time. Directional bluetooth connectivity so that you can actually talk into another nearby car's sound system to "explain" things to them live.

[Teufelhund]

Okay, new invention time. Directional bluetooth connectivity so that you can actually talk into another nearby car's sound system to "explain" things to them live.

Actually pretty easy to do with a UHF transmitter. Only trouble would be getting the FCC to sign off on it.

[00tec]

[JM Ver. 2.0]

I've seen Boulder PD ticket douche bags on bikes for running stop signs... I love those cops...

[car-15]

Don't know if it has been posted yet but they ticketed the SUV driver.
The Colorado State Patrol has issued a citation to a driver who allegedly followed and harassed bicyclists in Boulder County.

75-year-old James Ernst of Erie, Colo. is charged with two counts of harassment, one count of impeding the flow of traffic, and one count of improper use of a horn or warning device.

Dirk Friel, a bicyclist, posted a video on a website on Sunday showing the driver slowly trailing the cyclists as the driver repeatedly honked the horn at them throughout the two-minute clip.

Friel tells the Longmont Times-Call he was worried the driver would cause an accident. He says his biking companion had to use his hand to push off as the vehicle finally passed them.
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/M...tml?mobile=yes

[Jer]

Now HE received a ticket for impeding traffic when the entire video was a double yellow line? That doesn't sound like mob justice at all. Enough people bitch loud enough and they're get anything these days. Someone stop this ride because I want off. I don't even want to play anymore.

[Irving]

All he had to do was go around them like he would anything else. If there was a dead elk on the side of the lane, and you can't go around it without crossing the double yellow lines, are you supposed to run it over or stop and honk at it?

EDIT: I don't think he should have gotten a ticket, for the record.