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Originally Posted by kneedrachen
I agree, but people are dumb at times, like the woman that drove on the course during the crit this summer.
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Agreed on the stupidity. Oh, my. You seem to have triggered an old memory there. It happened a long time ago, but seems germane:
I once volunteered as a check-point man for a desert motorcycle race. Course included some public gravel roads, which the support crew legally blocked with volunteer vehicles.
F-tard rancher drives up, hears there's a motorcycle race on, looks annoyed. He tells us to f- off and proceeds to drive up the side of a hill to get around our (police-sanctioned) roadblock.
That move puts him on an active race course, running salmon-style against pro-level motorcyclists on 600cc crazy-modded racers. The racers, of course, are running all-out with no clue there's an idiot on the course trying to kill them in an F350.
My buddy who ran the race claimed afterward that he was running 100+mph through that section. It still makes me a little sick to think of what might have happened.
The riders didn't have radios, so there was no way to stop the race or even warn them to slow down. I really do hate that feeling of sick, helpless anticipation of imminent tragedy. I thought for sure someone would end up dead that day. The only saving grace was the moron did it between packs.
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