Dutch tourist pulled over by cops

[sunvalleylaw]

for cycling in her mini-skirt. Puhhleeaassse!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz1PCFQJSOy

I guess she distracted him from his next turn to the doughnut shop.

[Dexter Inferno]

WTF

[Knox in Box]

Probably a publicity stunt (didn't get cops name). Free advertisement.

I appreciate the leg shot though.

On a side note: I love summer in Europe. Bike trails all ove3r the place. Yummy.

[wahcat]

I would just keep following her!

[reverend1]

I would just keep following her!

This

[dodgechargerfan]

Ban the bike couriers in their spandex sausage casings!!!

[Denverdave]

There are many worse driver distractions......just saying.

[cfgsteak]

I just crashed my computer into the side of my cubicle! Nice legs...

[rusholmeruffian]

I hope she didn't get on the bus or subway wearing that skirt, though. Good way to get a venereal disease.

[Elias Graves]

Would.

The cop just wanted a better look.

EG

[Dew Knot Hump]

I'd sniff her seat.

[Prages]

Why has nobody mentioned the picture of the singer from The Pretty Reckless at the bottom of the page?

[Elias Graves]

Why has nobody mentioned the picture of the singer from The Pretty Wreckless at the bottom of the page?

I never looked below the cyclist's arse.

EG

[Coda]

...she got Jeff Goldblum face...

[Elias Graves]

...she got Jeff Goldblum face...

I never looked ABOVE her arse.

EG

[Help!I'maRock!]

it doesn't even say where she was riding. if it was on the Brooklyn Bridge, like in that shot, then the only people she was distracting were the pedestrians who were walking on the wrong side of the line that seperates the bike lane from the walking lane.

no drivers are going to notice her skirt. well, maybe when they hit her as she speeds through a red light. but that's it.

[Coda]

it doesn't even say where she was riding. if it was on the Brooklyn Bridge, like in that shot, then the only people she was distracting were the pedestrians who were walking on the wrong side of the line that seperates the bike lane from the walking lane.

no drivers are going to notice her skirt. well, maybe when they hit her as she speeds through a red light. but that's it.

...you KNOW it was somewhere in Brooklyn though...she reeks of Hipsterness...

[Tig]

...she got Jeff Goldblum face...

Must be the glasses. Here's a better set O'pic's.

[Elias Graves]

Good marketing if you ask me.
Cool bike, too.

EG

[Coda]

Must be the glasses. Here's a better set O'pic's.

...a much better picture...

[Help!I'maRock!]

...you KNOW it was somewhere in Brooklyn though...she reeks of Hipsterness...

there's about 4 or 5 places in Brooklyn that hipsters live. Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Red Hook, and Fort Greene. Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park, etc are all yuppies. The rest of Brooklyn isn't exactly someplace you want to be. Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Rockaway, etc. not exactly destinations for hipsters. or anybody that doesn't want to get shot.

[Mark Wein]

there's about 4 or 5 places in Brooklyn that hipsters live. Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Red Hook, and Fort Greene. Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park, etc are all yuppies. The rest of Brooklyn isn't exactly someplace you want to be. Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Rockaway, etc. not exactly destinations for hipsters. or anybody that doesn't want to get shot.

my sister lived in Flatbush as recently as 5 years ago.

[Help!I'maRock!]

my sister lived in Flatbush as recently as 5 years ago.

i was born in Flatbush (actually, i was born in Borough Park and we lived in Flatbush). one side is Hasidic. the other side is rough.

[Coda]

i was born in Flatbush (actually, i was born in Borough Park and we lived in Flatbush). one side is Hasidic. the other side is rough.

...Ive been the Hasidic part...

[Help!I'maRock!]

...Ive been the Hasidic part...

you must be larger than i previously suspected.

[Coda]

...typo ...Ive been to the Hasidic side...

[Help!I'maRock!]

...typo ...Ive been to the Hasidic side...

[Tralfaz]

i was born in Flatbush (actually, i was born in Borough Park and we lived in Flatbush). one side is Hasidic. the other side is rough.

[rusholmeruffian]

there's about 4 or 5 places in Brooklyn that hipsters live. Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Red Hook, and Fort Greene. Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park, etc are all yuppies. The rest of Brooklyn isn't exactly someplace you want to be. Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Rockaway, etc. not exactly destinations for hipsters. or anybody that doesn't want to get shot.

What about all the incredibly uncool nabes like Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and so forth? I can't imagine that they're dangerous.

Also, I've read that Flatbush--or at least Ditmas Park--is becoming increasingly popular as a place for hipsters to move when they get married and have kids. They buy Victorian single- and two-family houses and fix them up. Basically, it's what Park Slope was 20 years ago.

[Tralfaz]

Anyhow to bring the thread back on topic... Confuscius say, "Man who get between girl and bicycle seat in Brooklyn end up in Flatbush."

[rusholmeruffian]

Anyhow to bring the thread back on topic... Confuscius say, "Man who get between girl and bicycle seat in Brooklyn end up in Flatbush."

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[sunvalleylaw]

Good marketing if you ask me.
Cool bike, too.

EG

I saw some of those bikes when we were over in Holland late March and April, along with tons of other cool bikes. A lot of folks commute around on the old Batavus frame styles that have been built since the war. The whole country nearly was set up for cycle transport, and the people just ride around everywhere. Except for club type riding, no one is wearing cycling gear, or even helmets most of the time. We did a really fun bike tour, GPS guided, from Haarlem to Leiden to Gouda to Utrechte (sp?) and a train ride to Amsterdam then back to Arnhem where we were based out of. Really nice way to see the country, and nice easy family cycling, what with it being so flat. The only disappointment was the beer. Not much going on there. They all drink Heineken, which to me is just holland style budweiser.

[Help!I'maRock!]

What about all the incredibly uncool nabes like Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and so forth? I can't imagine that they're dangerous.

Also, I've read that Flatbush--or at least Ditmas Park--is becoming increasingly popular as a place for hipsters to move when they get married and have kids. They buy Victorian single- and two-family houses and fix them up. Basically, it's what Park Slope was 20 years ago.

Bay Ridge is for when you want to get beat up by Italians and Irish people.
Bensonhurst is definitely not a place you want to go.
Dyker Heights sounds like a rough place. a rough, embarrassing for males place.

Ditmas Park is definitely changing in that Park Slope manner. but because of the Park Slope comparison, it's more yuppies than hipsters. hipsters don't fix anything. or breed. they just make things trendier.

[gibby mcfender]

I never looked below the cyclist's arse.

I never looked ABOVE her arse.

[reverend1]

I saw some of those bikes when we were over in Holland late March and April, along with tons of other cool bikes. A lot of folks commute around on the old Batavus frame styles that have been built since the war. The whole country nearly was set up for cycle transport, and the people just ride around everywhere. Except for club type riding, no one is wearing cycling gear, or even helmets most of the time. We did a really fun bike tour, GPS guided, from Haarlem to Leiden to Gouda to Utrechte (sp?) and a train ride to Amsterdam then back to Arnhem where we were based out of. Really nice way to see the country, and nice easy family cycling, what with it being so flat. The only disappointment was the beer. Not much going on there. They all drink Heineken, which to me is just holland style budweiser.

When did the helmet thing start? I understand it if you're mountain biking, trail riding that kind of thing, but now all of the kids wear them riding around the neighborhoods. What a bunch of sissys. If I showed up on my bike wearing a helmet, the other kids would have used it to beat me.

[warren0728]

there's about 4 or 5 places in Brooklyn that hipsters live. Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Red Hook, and Fort Greene. Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park, etc are all yuppies. The rest of Brooklyn isn't exactly someplace you want to be. Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Rockaway, etc. not exactly destinations for hipsters. or anybody that doesn't want to get shot.

i took this picture in brooklyn....

[Elias Graves]

i took this picture in brooklyn....

That's GOTTA be my cousin's place. He moved there a few years back.
Nobody but a redneck could trash a place like that.

EG

[Help!I'maRock!]

That's GOTTA be my cousin's place. He moved there a few years back.
Nobody but a redneck could trash a place like that.

EG

i invite you to stroll through Clinton Hill one day. yikes.

[Elias Graves]

And you city boys make fun of us hicks for being trashy.

EG

[sunvalleylaw]

Helmets became widely used beginning in the late '80s after Giro helmets received a boost from Lemond's win in the tour. That was the beginning of the light, foam style, helmet thing. They since have since become almost mandatory in the sense that you are seen as a bad parent if you send your kid out on a bike without one. Having fallen hard and seen how a helmet can help save a face, much less a head, I wear one. these pics would have been a lot worse without one.






Notice how the upper part of my face was protected by the front edge of my helmet. That helmet has all sorts of gravel ground into the front now.

[Tig]

Silly rabbit. Beers are used for medicinal value, not ice packs!

And you call yourself an offroad cyclist... Sheeesh!

/Seriously... The last time I rode without a helmet was in 1987. I still can't remember that day, nor the car that hit me.

[jbj]

When did the helmet thing start? I understand it if you're mountain biking, trail riding that kind of thing, but now all of the kids wear them riding around the neighborhoods. What a bunch of sissys. If I showed up on my bike wearing a helmet, the other kids would have used it to beat me.

I'm pretty sure brain protection ranks higher in the evolutionary table than not looking like a sissy.

The problem with being on a bike isn't necesarilly anything you do, but the amount of fuckwits in cars that are not paying attention, intentionally or unintentionally put cyclists in dangerous positions and generally creating a situation where if you don't go out with a hat, you're asking for big trouble.

I cringe every time I see a person out on the road without a helmet, even a relatively minor accident could kill them if they fall the wrong way.

[reverend1]

Helmets became widely used beginning in the late '80s after Giro helmets received a boost from Lemond's win in the tour. That was the beginning of the light, foam style, helmet thing. They since have since become almost mandatory in the sense that you are seen as a bad parent if you send your kid out on a bike without one. Having fallen hard and seen how a helmet can help save a face, much less a head, I wear one. these pics would have been a lot worse without one.






Notice how the upper part of my face was protected by the front edge of my helmet. That helmet has all sorts of gravel ground into the front now.

I'm pretty sure brain protection ranks higher in the evolutionary table than not looking like a sissy.

The problem with being on a bike isn't necesarilly anything you do, but the amount of fuckwits in cars that are not paying attention, intentionally or unintentionally put cyclists in dangerous positions and generally creating a situation where if you don't go out with a hat, you're asking for big trouble.

I cringe every time I see a person out on the road without a helmet, even a relatively minor accident could kill them if they fall the wrong way.

I agree with all of that, and I wear a helmet when riding on the road or trail riding. What Im talking about is my neighbors kid who are 11 12ish who ride up and down their 1/2 mile driveway at half a mile an hour wearing a helmet. Just seems overly couscous to me.

Then again I still play drop in hockey without a helmet so what do I know.

[Modern Saint]

Must be the glasses. Here's a better set O'pic's.

...a much better picture...

+1

[Help!I'maRock!]

That's GOTTA be my cousin's place. He moved there a few years back.
Nobody but a redneck could trash a place like that.

EG

looks like the old Williamsburg waterfront. there's a boardwalk there now. and new apartment buildings with studio apartments that start at $3k per month.

[Lerxst]

I agree with all of that, and I wear a helmet when riding on the road or trail riding. What Im talking about is my neighbors kid who are 11 12ish who ride up and down their 1/2 mile driveway at half a mile an hour wearing a helmet. Just seems overly couscous to me.

Then again I still play drop in hockey without a helmet so what do I know.

IIRC, roughly 1/2 the states have mandatory bicycle helmet laws for children. Many parents adopt the approach that any time the kid swings a leg over the seat, they have to have their helmet on.

[BlackCat]

there's about 4 or 5 places in Brooklyn that hipsters live. Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Red Hook, and Fort Greene. Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Park, etc are all yuppies. The rest of Brooklyn isn't exactly someplace you want to be. Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Rockaway, etc. not exactly destinations for hipsters. or anybody that doesn't want to get shot.

I haven't been back to Fort Green since living there in 89'. No gentrification at that point. Crack dealers on the corner and gun play on my block were the order of the day. Come to think of it that was the last time I owned a car in the city. The fecker was broken into nightly and ended up being stolen from in front of my building.

[Help!I'maRock!]

I haven't been back to Fort Green since living there in 89'. No gentrification at that point. Crack dealers on the corner and gun play on my block were the order of the day. Come to think of it that was the last time I owned a car in the city. The fecker was broken into nightly and ended up being stolen from in front of my building.

yeah, it's like a completely new place. course, half the city is a completely new place now.

[sunvalleylaw]

Oh, now I get it. It is a conspiracy with these people!!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4...ld-cup-scandal

[jaxn slim]

Yeah. I'd say that's pretty dangerous.