“I can still see his face and his body hitting the ground.”
Southern California is currently in the midst of an e-bike epidemic. What were once tiny motors affixed to peddle bikes that allowed fatter riders to make it up hills without suffering massive heart-attacks have exploded into throttle-powered mega-wheels somewhere between a Harley Electra Glide Revival and a Honda Gold Wing in size.
These hogs, piloted exclusively by the lazy and selfish and/or young and spoiled, fly down bike paths, sidewalks, anywhere pedestrians amble at full speed cloaked in the gauze of “environmentalism” though I constantly wonder what happened to the human leg when they whiz by. Does it not work anymore? Is it a gross polluter?
Like clean coal?
Well, an out of control e-biker mowed down a six-year-old boy playing on a San Diego beach, days ago. Per the report:
“I was out in the water with my 2-year-old and my 4-year-old and I turned around to check on my 6-year-old who is playing in a sand castle with his friends,” said Davis. “And out of the corner of my eye, I see two young boys on e-bikes going really fast.”
Davis said one of the boys lost control of his e-bike, striking her 6-year-old son.
“I can still see his face and his body hitting the ground,” said Davis. “It’s awful.”
The boy was transported to a local hospital where doctors declared there has been a serious uptick in e-bike accidents this year. California doesn’t regulate the machines and I would have nothing at all against them, myself, if they were simply classified as motorcycles for weenies and forced onto streets where they can compete with Teslas and Rivians for superiority.
Win/win.
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Ebikes are for kooks. Get a motorcycle or pedal. Fags
a most amazing ride-along…with a fish net and a cig!
https://i.imgur.com/fJHns0r…
Yeah, and whatta ’bout those cunts in the wheelchairs?
“I was out in the water with my 2-year-old and my 4-year-old and I turned around to check on my 6-year-old”
Talk about family planning for the OCD
Shut up
I’m particularly annoyed by this problem because I can’t afford one. It would handy for this bastard hill on the way back which adds an extra 10 minutes home. Mind you, it’s good exercise.
What annoys me the most is that kids of all ages have them. My parents never would have bought me on of those things even if they had the money. Just out of principle.
The human leg? A future of wave height measurement is all it is good for… the lower portion of the German man’s that is.
A stick is your best defense
This stick? https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I’m glad doctors declared the uptick prior to stabilizing and patching up the young victim
A young girl riding the sidewalk on an e bike hit my passenger side door as I readied to turn right. Never saw her.
Jumped out, blood running cold as she picked herself up. Her stuff was everywhere, but she targeted her two ear buds and waved me off, she was “fine”.
The lady gardening begins yelling, I thought at me, but no, at the girl. The girl took one look at the woman and fled.
One minute later, another irate woman arrives saying that the girl knocked over her groceries when she buzzed the shopper walking home. I took that woman home as her bags had been ripped. She said the girl has become a problem in that hood.
I’m just glad I didn’t injure the kid, but now I have a good sized dent on my passenger side door.
“Cool E bike.” – nobody
It was just a matter of time before something like this happened.
Well, before E-bikes, everyone was equal, to enjoy a cruise at the beach you had to put a little work in.
Now, just like wave tanks, it’s all made too ‘easy’–which I believe will lead to a decreased level of satisfaction and personal joy, as something is handed to you, that you did not have to work for, even watching a sunset from your motorized 2 wheeler will be diminished I predict.
I think they’re a blot on humanity and should be banned at all public beaches.
Good point about decreased level of satisfaction. I have zero desire to surf the pool near me. Wonder what the satisfaction rate at pools Vs beach is?