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Stand Up Sex Cops are not real cops, their purpose is to deter teen sexual activity.
Parents hire them to follow their "suspect" promiscuous teens when they go out at night or on a date.
When the moment is right they intervene.
Spoiling any potentially sexual or romantic moment with poor jokes,
disturbing behavior and liberal distribution of private information supplied by parents.
http://bicyclesafe.com/
http://bicyclesafe.com/
a great resource. [ryokan, Jul 24 2009]
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A chapparone service, interesting idea. |
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Cock blockers for hire? Nothing new there, my mom did that to
me when I was in highschool. I didn't get much until I figured
out how to spot the blockers and ditch 'em. |
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so we (teenagers) recognise them because they are "standing up" - like meercats? simples! |
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meet me round behind the bike shed... |
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//my mom did that to me when I was in highschool// |
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We finally know the source of 21 Quest's bitterness. We should all pitch in to get him a hooker. |
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If you do, make sure she's clean. I ain't dealing with the clap
again. A week of antibiotics followed by 2 weeks of abstinence... I
swear, it nearly killed me. |
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Could use a condom. Nothing wrong with teen sexual activity, if they use condoms. Don't get the clap, don't get aids, don't get pregnant etc... Yeah condoms. |
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//I ain't dealing with the clap again//
More over-share. |
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Again... that's funny coming from a guy named 'copro'. |
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What about lying-down sex? |
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Some kinky kids might just like the background banter while they neck and spoon and knife. I'm presuming no physical coercion would be used by the ex-comedians. |
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On my way to the bike shed as fast as I can. |
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Think smart, [21]. Not only is that kind of slang fourty years out of date, you need to save your (un)civil disobedience for serious matters. |
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I wasn't disobedient. I put the phone back in my pocket... until I
got around the corner. Kinda bullshit, though, about the riding
on the sidewalk. Who is that endangering? Really, it's not as if I
was
hauling ass, I had both hands on my phone! How many
pedestrians are killed by cyclists each year? Have you ever even
heard of one? I also stopped at
each intersection and looked both ways before crossing. Riding
in the street downtown in stop-and-go rush hour traffic is
dangerous for everyone, and I told him that. He insisted that it's
safer than riding on the sidewalk, so I obliged him and rode in
the street... again, until I got around the corner. |
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o.k. pedestrians - watch out for 21 on his bike. |
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he may not kill you but he might very well break a few bones or knock out a few teeth. |
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Hi [vfrackis] - have you noticed the correlation between fishbones and fun-spoiling yet? If you had just come up with some sort of chaperone avoidance decoy things could have been so different. |
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//about the riding on the sidewalk. Who is that endangering?//
Even if we accept the implicit assumption of this anno that endangering requires a real risk of death, rather than having it encompass physical damage of a less binary nature, the wilful ignorance of an attitude that takes no account of the elderly, the frail and the unborn when it comes to assessing the balance of personal convenience is most alarming. |
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Actual chaperones are one thing, but surely the most likely outcome of this idea is that your children, having been provoked by the accumulation of poor jokes and proxy parental rudeness, will have riskier and stupider sex, just to make a point, than they would otherwise have had. |
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//How many pedestrians are killed by cyclists each year? Have you ever even heard of one?//
Apparently 1 or 2 a year in the UK (figures obtained via secondary sources, admittedly). Haven't been able to find any official stats as yet though.
re: the actual idea. I agree with pertinax. |
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I know a lot of cyclists are struck, and many of those killed, by
cars each year in my town. It's a pretty hot-button issue here. I
just prefer to take a safer route and ride on the sidewalk. If
there are a lot of people on the sidewalks, I'll go into the street
to pass the crowd, then get back on the sidewalk when it's safe
to do so. I don't just barrel through crowds of pedestrians. |
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//riskier and stupider sex// - yay! |
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//I don't just barrel through crowds of pedestrians.// |
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May I suggest affixing a plough to the front of your bike to facilitate
crowd-navigation with the greatest of ease? |
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[21], I'm all with you on the riding on the sidewalk issue, I do it myself. It's your comment " Lucky for the cop " that carries all the baggage. |
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In London, far more cyclists are killed by cars than pedestrians are killed by cyclists. Yet children are legally obliged to ride bikes in the traffic instead of on the pavement. I never understood that. |
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not if the bike has stabilisers... |
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I meant that if he actually fined me, I'd have sued on safety
grounds. |
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//far more cyclists are killed by cars than pedestrians are killed by cyclists//
It's Darwin's way of telling you not to wear lycra. |
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Well, in MY town... Haha.. just kidding. I don't live near people. I'm what some people call a "recluse" or a "sociopath", and occasionally "psycho killer", but only by fans of the Talking Heads. Anyways, if I hear one more story about your life... |
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Riding on the sidewalk may FEEL safer, but it is not. A good explanation is at "Collision Type #3 : Crosswalk Slam" at bicyclesafe.com (linked). The author also links to several quantitative studies to support his claims. |
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I bike regularly (in Texas, not some Scandinavian bike-friendly paradise) and agree completely. Unless you're dismounting & crossing like a pedestrian (no jaywalking), biking on the sidewalk sets you up for some nasty accidents at intersections & driveways. |
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I checked the link. What they're advocating as the safer alternative is riding in the lane as though you were a car - perfectly legal, and technically adviseable, but boy, you ought to see people's reactions. Having to treat you like you were an equal REALLY pisses them off. |
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Should we get back on topic or just continue on about bicycling? |
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My local laws really do require riding in the street... but specify that you should ride as far to the right as you safely can. But the current subject blows, Norm! |
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I've ridden two abreast down the main drag in the lane - legal, visible, safe, and fun, but some drivers hate having to share their road with what they consider an inferior. |
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//I've ridden two abreast down the main drag in the lane - legal, visible, safe, and fun// |
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Not legal here. Nor is it safe. Here, as previously stated, you have to ride as far to the right as possible, single-file. Which is only fair. If a car is driving significantly slower than the speed limit, they are expected to move over as far as possible to let traffic pass, and can be ticketed if they don't. Bicycles usually go significantly slower than the posted speed limit, and are narrow enough to ride on the shoulder or alongside the curb. Why should they be allowed to slow everyone else down? For something as narrow and as slow as a bicycle to ride in the center of the lane seems incredibly selfish to me, and I *ride* a bicycle. Besides, as I previously stated, it's just plain safer. |
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The sex cops are people? I was thinking cardboard cutouts or scarecrow-type things, set up around parking areas. |
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The closest I've ever come to being hit was back when I
thought it was safer to ride on the sidewalk. Cars at
intersections, at driveways other crossings are expecting
to see other traffic moving, and bikes do qualify, they are
not expecting people to be going 10+ mph on the sidewalk
and don't allow for it. |
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The requirement here is also to ride as far to the right as
practical (may say safe instead of practical, can never
remember). Since the only thing defining that is the
cyclist, it allows options. No, the cyclist should not
generally ride out in the middle of a one lane road for
miles at a time. Doing it for a few minutes until there is a
safe place for you to get closer to the edge and let the
traffic pass is another story. If it is a multi-lane road,
there is nothing preventing the car(s) from passing you
exactly like they would any other slow moving vehicle, so
you're under no obligation to ride dangerously close to the
edge so they can squeeze by. Use common sense, ride
predictably, and make yourself as visible as possible. |
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