On Nov 14, 7:37 am, The Historian wrote:

into in Central Park on a Sunday when I was seventeen. I'm going about 30
mph

Okay, so you were speeding recklessly...

That was certainly an excessive rate of speed for a multi-use path.

with the right of way

Can you explain this statement? I'm not sure I comprehend
a claim to having the right of way on a bicycle, unless say,
there are signs everywhere prohibiting other forms of traffic
(for instance, a bikes-only trail).

Trail users, regardless of how they are moving, should follow normal
traffic patterns for road use. However, many pedestrians, either from
ignorance or to feel safer with all those big bad bicycles around,
walk against trail traffic. Still, bicycles should brake for
pedestrians in all cases. Cyclists are the 18 wheeled trucks of the
bike path, even if they aren't riding a Surley Long Haul Trucker.

and he stands perpendicular to me, right in my
path.

Okay, so he suffers from a delusion that the path in
Central Park belongs to him, and him alone.


This used to happen around here all the time; but of
course, all those silly squirrels are now dead. :(

Wasn't the path big enough for Mr. Gordon to go around the child?

Go around? Are you kidding, this guy believes
he *owns* the path. Let everyone else get out
of *his way*, or suffer the consequences!


And if traffic was so heavy that he couldn't pass the kid, why was
he
clocking 30 MPH?

I think maybe the kid obstructed *his path* deliberately,
as in a twisted sense of humor -- cause a crash, make
someone panic. Like when you used to throw rocks
from that overpass at the cars below, or when you had
that magnifying glass, and would terrorize ants with it --
remember?


There has to be more to this story.

Okay. So that kid went on to bigger and better
things. His name? Lex Luthor, as I recall. He made
a brief appearance later in the movie "Marathon Man",
starring Dustin Hoffman -- he knocks DH down while
he is running in Central Park, during a shoot.


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