Here a kid was hit by another biker in a f-ing pedestrian zone. A place where kids (and adult) pedestrians should be reasonably safe.

Similar thing last week here. It was not a fat bike, and the kid here was five or something, but yes. And the teenager here drove off without stopping, and is still at large.

Well, try getting this through the assholes thick skulls. Good luck with that.

That said, regulation sucks and it’s be way more fun to just go 50kmph on a bike with just a throttle. But then you are not really a bike anymore. Probably more of an electric motorcycle and would need a license and be constrained to roads.

Indeed, then they should fall under the same legal definition as a motorcycle, with tags, insurance, driving licence, etc.

How much will regulation do if there are a few inquisitive teenage minds working on ways to get around such restricttions?

Same here. The bikes don’t even need to be fat for that.

The same bikers that rightfully complain about cars parking on bike lanes have absolutely no qualms of recklessly speeding through pedestrian zones moments later. And they not only hunt pedestrians - this week a teenager ran over a child on a bike and sped off without stopping. At least the childs’ presence in the pedestrian zone was legal due to the childs age.

That’s true, but there’s a wide range of things that can be tried before dipping into harmful territory.

Problem is that most people don’t know about how far this range goes.

We should be cultivating an environment of critical thinking.

Indeed we should, but keep in mind that when you among people, half of them has an IQ of <100.

If the reaction is to always immediately defer to experts then you get issues of people taking up healthcare resources for the tiniest issues.

People tend to ask medical questions in places like this usually because googling has not helped so far. I think at this stage the problem is far off the beaten track that random information from random strangers is not going to cut it.

Additionally, if you can’t trust people to have a bit of sense when applying remedies, then what makes you think they’ll choose the correct “experts” to listen to?

I cannot make them listen to voices that tell them “go see a doctor”. I can only hope that when they see a wall of similar responses a small spark of common sense makes a difference. A determined idiot can still scroll down past all those messages to find the fellow idiot who recommends dewormer to cure cancer and everything.

In the version of the Sinners Bible or Wicked Bible from 1631? Would fit the GOP family agenda.

Provided that the advice isn’t harmful,

And that is the key problem: The stupid internet has no idea what will be harmful in a special case and what not.

Amazingly smart for an American “football” player.

Why the heck was that money still there in the first place? If a company still has assets in Russia, F them.

Yep. Americans would shit their pants if they saw 14 year olds drinking beer or wine - legally.

Exactly the painting my wife and I thought about - simultaneously…

That your police system is inept to self-reflect and that there are no real external control factors to curb this kind of behavior is one big chunk of the American police problem.

You will need a change of the whole police system in the US and bring it up to (civilized) world standards. For that, You’ll need the right politicians. Voting for better ones on local level could be a start.

The punishment is first and formost for being terminally stupid. It is high time to stop cuddling the idiots. They broke the law, they should serve. Or do you think that law is just a joke?

That’s why you should treat guns and ammo with care. Have you never learned to count?

It keeps complete morons off the streets and out of reach of firearms.

Because people who completely lack the necessary care and disciplin should not be armed.

Wow. What kind of paint must one drink to get that delusional?

I hope they turn that police department upside down for not noticing that they had a complete basket case running around with a uniform and a gun.

Keep in mind that legal systems in other countries might actually work differently.

Bring along a Kinder surprise egg into the US and see how understanding and friendly the US legal system is to people who made a honest mistake.