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March 24, 2005
Free Bikes Stolen
This was a great idea, but unfortunately not very realistic.
The Community Bike Program started March 10, when city employees placed 16 bikes in four bike racks located around the city, near parks or trails. Each bike is set up with a helmet. Anyone can borrow a bike for the day and return it by dark.
The bikes are ones recovered by local police but that have never been claimed by their owners. As you can imagine, almost every one of the bikes put out by the program are now missing. Too bad, because it was a great idea.....though I can't think of a street in Bentonville I would dare ride a bike on because of the traffic and extraordinarily stupid drivers. (Like the guy yesterday who sat behind me at a light blaring his horn because I wouldn't make a left turn until after an on-coming car had cleared the intersection. I'm like hello, moron. Just because it has its signal light on does not mean it's really going to turn. This is Arkansas, where half the driving population leave their turn signals on constantly.)
Anyway, it's too bad about the community bikes that were stolen. It's always the selfish assholes that ruin things like that for the rest of us.
Posted by Rita at March 24, 2005 07:24 AM
Comments
I hope that no one is actually surprised by this.
Posted by: Craig at March 24, 2005 08:16 AM
I don't know about the program's organizers, but I certainly wasn't.
Posted by: rita at March 24, 2005 10:38 AM