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Foot Notes

Ian Walker hates pedestrians.

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 9:03 am and is filed under Cyclists, Etc., Pedestrians. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Foot Notes”

  1. Michael Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Nice lesson in the use of irony there in rewording the usual anti-cyclist rant.

  2. Yokota Fritz Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Genius. I missed Ian’s post before.

  3. wes kirkman Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    Wow, I concur with:

    Donny said…

    “Awesome satire.

    I must admit though that it took me about half of the article before I recognized it as such. I guess I’ve talked with too many people that actually seem to think like this.”

    In fact, I thought it was real until I read the comments from people who seem to read Ian’s blog regularly. Definitely think it has to do with a large number of people that actually think that way.

    The Vehicular Cyclists that read this blog should heed the underlying message in this person’s satirical response:

    Purple Squirrel said…

    “All this separate pedestrian infrastructure is a bunch of expensive nonsense. People should just take a class from the League of American Footmen on how to be Vehicular Pedestrians. Get out there and walk like a car. That way we can get rid of all the sidewalks and make more traffic lanes.”

    Hilarious

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