Showroom7561A driver ran into a ghost bike memorial, and it’s a sad and awful metaphor
mrbubblesortTrue headline should be: "Traffic light that had a bike chained to it in middle of street"
Look, I'm on board with the "fuck cars" movement, but this is a shit article and a shit clickbait headline. No info here other than some random-ass tweet claiming there had been an accident.
yeah, im sure the lamppost got up and walked into the road
Planned maintenance? Wind or extreme weather? Random act of god? The only thing we got is a December 2022 tweet from a guy called "Bike Lane Uprising" with a picture of a pole in the road.
it appears the wind also carefully scattered car debris around the stump of the lamp post in the second photo contained in that tweet. i guess it was covering its tracks, trying to throw us off its scent.
but if u, like, need SUPER EVIDENCE PROOF to believe that, uh, cars are dangerous and run into things in the same place all the goddam time, here you go
Thanks for proving my point. If the video was that easy to find, why wasn't it included in the article? Read my comments, I'm not arguing the incident, I'm arguing against shitty clickbait.
Now you say:
Read my comments, I’m not arguing the incident, I’m arguing against shitty clickbait.
Earlier you said (emphasis yours):
No info here other than some random-ass tweet claiming there had been an accident.
You can do better than this.
Yes, exactly, provide proof or it's just a claim. That's it. We're circlejerking over a shitty clickbait article based off a tweet that provides no additional information. We can do better than this.
i... i'm not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.
look i'm sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn't meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but "this is clickbait" is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter--of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op's article was published.
at this point, i think you're actually mad about something else. i don't know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, "oh, thanks" and not... whatever this is.
(ps: it's interesting to me that you called BLU "a guy." it feels kind of like calling the ACLU "a guy.")
