What stoketh thee...

[holddown]

Being mentioned in Doc's blog

[Doc]

I was thinking considering a post about the wind today!

Your beach was looking pretty sorry today.

Doc

[smithgrind]

Receiving the kama aina discount in HI when I live in OR. Shaka!!!

[Neck Deep]

Try getting the Jack discount next time you are passing through Abertawe with that complextion. Yeah, not f*ckin' likey at all, boyo.

[Neck Deep]

[bluesilver]

Naked old people are rated as the #2 most dangerous animals in the water, right after sharks.

[jerichv]

thats one LONG arse...

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

The 21 year old kid that drove several blocks with a Bicyclist clinging to his hood for dear life.

I wish I had seen that.

[Doc]

I can't always tell...

Were you for or against the cyclist being squashed into the pavement?

I think he was a liberal...

Maybe even a leftist.

Doc

[speelyei]

YIN

Bicyclist: I got on moving car's hood to save my life

04:33 PM PDT on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

By kgw.com Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The bicyclist who was chased by an alleged drunk driver during a case of road rage in southeast Portland told KGW he jumped on the car's hood to avoid getting run over.


"There was no life flashing before my eyes, just me going, 'Wow, this dude is crazy,' and I'm hanging onto this thing, he's going fast and yelling, 'Get off my car, get off my car, you a-hole, I'm going to kick your @ss,' " Jason Rehnberg said.



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Cyclist clutches car hood

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He believes his quick decision saved his life. And he's not the only one who thinks so.


One witness who saw the driver speed away with Rehnberg on the hood told KGW she thought the cyclist was going to die.


The southeast Portland neighbor, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she watched as Rehnberg hung on for dear life.


"I was afraid he [the cyclist] was going to get killed. I thought he [the driver] was going to knock him off and run over him," she said.


The road rage incident between Rehnberg and driver James Millican ended with the cyclist on the hood of the car and a witness got it on video, according to investigators. The video, taken on a cell phone, was seized as evidence in the criminal case.


Another witness, Dewey Caron, said he also saw the whole thing.


"He [the driver] really went fast all the way to the corner and then slammed on the breakes at the corner really trying to push this guy off...I was scared. I was scared for the fellow," Caron said.


"It almost looks staged to me, but it appears to be legitimate," said Sgt. Brian Schmautz with the Portland Police Bureau.


It all started Sunday near the intersection of SE 58th Avenue and SE Washington Street in Portland, when Rehnberg, 37, yelled profanities at Millican, 21, and told him to slow down.


Schmautz said at that point, Millican stopped his car and began to chase the victim. Rehnberg initially escaped, but a short time later, Millican spotted the cyclist behind his car.


“The victim stated that the suspect then backed up in an attempt to hit him with the car. The victim jumped off the bike just before the suspect hit the bike, damaging it,” Schmautz said.

Comment: Car/bike tensions? | kgw.com viewers take sides

Two witnesses told investigators that they stood in front of Millican’s car, along with Rehnberg, and tried to get his license number.


“As they did so, the suspect drove his car toward the three people. The two witnesses were able to get out of the way, but Rehnberg ended up on the hood of the suspect's car,” Schmautz said. He believes that Rehnberg climbed onto the hood to avoid getting run over.


Millican then allegedly sped off with Rehnberg on his hood, clutching his windshield wipers to keep from sliding off.


“With the victim hanging on to the suspect's windshield wipers, the suspect drove northbound on 58th at a high rate of speed. When the suspect reached Southeast 60th Avenue, he slowed down enough for the victim to get off the car,” Schmautz explained.


One witness got video of the cyclist on the hood of the car and gave it to investigators.


"I've never seen anything like this. It's very unusual," Schmautz said. "We do have a lot of tension between bikes and cars trying to share the roads, but to have a bicyclist end up on the hood like this is very unusual."

Also: Driver says he was attacked

Millican was eventually arrested on several charges including attempted Measure 11 assault, DUII, kidnapping, criminal mischief and reckless driving.


The case will go to a grand jury next week.

YANG

Driver says cyclist attacked him with his bike in Portland

06:32 PM PDT on Thursday, July 10, 2008

By TERESA BLACKMAN, kgw.com Staff


Cyclist accused of attacking driver

Driver attacked

Raw: Bike's eye view of PDX
In an unusual case of alleged road rage, a driver said he was attacked by a cyclist in Southeast Portland last weekend.

And in an added twist, the driver of the car was also a well-known cycling advocate in the community.


Colin Yates, 47, used to work for Bike Gallery and he was driving with his wife and kids in the family car when the incident happened last Sunday.


Yates described the scene in a phone interview with KGW Thursday. He said he saw a bicyclist run a red light on Belmont Street and then pulled up next to him and told him he was making other bikers look bad. Then, Yates said the cyclist got off his bike and started smashing it against his car hood and windshield.


KGW file photo

Colin Yates
Moments later, Yates said he got out of his car and the cyclist, later identified by police as Steven McAtee, hit him with the bike. Yates suffered some cuts and bruises and has a mark on his arm from the bike chain, but he was not seriously injured.


“In about 30 seconds, it turned into a very chaotic and violent situation,” Yates told KGW in a phone interview. “I would say that as a cyclist, people really should bear in mind that there is recourse for your actions. And as a motorist, I would say that being aware of cyclists on the road is also very important.”


Yates said passers-by soon got involved and one of them reportedly knocked the cyclist to the ground while someone else called 9-1-1.



KGW graphic



Andy Suing lives across the street from where the incident happened. He told KGW loud noises woke him up and he went outside to see what was going on.


“When I walked out there was a guy on the ground and another guy over the top of him, yelling at him,” Suing said. "It's not something I want going on on our street by any means."



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Police arrived to find an angry crowd of about 25 people surrounding Yates's Subaru.

Read Bike Portland blog on 'us-them mentality'

McAtee was eventually arrested and charged with drunk driving and assault. He works for the City of Portland Transportation Department and his employer told KGW he was not at work Thursday. Reporter Erica Heartquist also visited McAtee's home for comment, but no one responded to the door bell.


With gas prices increasing, more cyclists are taking to the roads and many say the bicycle culture is changing in Portland. Bike rider Jed Mitchell told KGW he thinks Portland cyclists and drivers need to find a better way to roll with these changes together.

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"I guess I wish there was a little more understanding between cars and cyclists in terms of the use of the road. I think there are situations where I've been on a bike and I've probably blown through a light or a stop sign and I shouldn't have and there are also situations where I've seen cars not recognize that cyclists have a right to be on the road as well.”


As for the alleged road rage incident, the city said it planned to conduct its own internal investigation.


Meantime, Yates moved to Colorado on Monday but said he's more than happy to come back to Portland for a trial, if necessary.

[Neck Deep]

The footage is quite remarkable. And the cyclist has a killer nickname 'Flow.'

watch the footy

http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2008/07/bicyclist_tells_his_story.html

and then check his account of it:

WOW i had no idea this would go so far

so here is what happened as far as i can recall
im riding up 58th it is quite a steep hill im near the middle of the road
because im going around a large green oldsmobile parked on the road
when over the hill comes a car going very fast in a residential area
i yelled "slow down gashgole"
as he buzzed me by two feet
he locked up his breaks leaving 65 feet of skidmarks and fishtaleing as he stoped
i turned around and rode about half the distance between us
whitch put me close to 58 and washington
james "the driver " proceeded to run after me saying "im gonna kick your @ss "and other profanities
i told him i would not fight him and i rode down washington
which happens to be a culdisac in that area
so i had to turn around and go back to 58th
i stoped on 58th to see if the driver had moved on
and noticed he was backing up very fast
i steped off the bike in time not to get hit but he did run over the front tire
destroying the tire and bending the fork
at that point me and several neighbors steped in front of the car to get the plate number we were directly infront of the car when james sped forward
i had nowhere to go but on the hood of the car
james sped down 58th skided thrue the intersection onto stark and sped up stark with me on the hood of his car almost to 60th where i was able to roll off to the side

yes i used some profane language
i was freakin pissed that this guy would endanger me or anyone else by driving so fast in a residential area

was my life in danger
YES
from his initial speeding my life was in danger or any pedestrian or child or pet
for that matter

after my intial comment of "slow down gashole" i said vrey little
but dude was just flying off the handle
he tried to run me down two more times

backing over my bike and then speeding off with me infront of the car then on the hood of the car for four blocks

so some say i should not have said anything and just rode off peacefully

well f@#K that there could have been a kid in the road the next time

and silence equells death

and the reason i ride
is because i beleive in living every moment to the fullest

my peacefulness showes in that i ride everywhere i go and will not buy bood oil that i did not engage in a fist fight with james

every peddle is a prayer for peace
in this crazy world we live in

i want to thank all portland peddlers
for the support and concern over this issue

flow

[smithgrind]

a 4 hour long and counting MLB all star game...If you're a baseball fan, it's been pretty good.

[nm]

One day board....

Blank to glassed board in 8 hours.

[speelyei]

and the reason i ride
is because i beleive in living every moment to the fullest

my peacefulness showes in that i ride everywhere i go and will not buy bood oil that i did not engage in a fist fight with james

every peddle is a prayer for peace
in this crazy world we live in

i want to thank all portland peddlers
for the support and concern over this issue

you know, it has been said that when wars are waged over basic, regular, needs and wants... like desire for oil, sea port control, natural resources, etc.. the armies will fight just hard enough to conquer and defend. The victor will hoist new flags and business will relatively quickly get back to normal.

But when the clashes are ideological in nature, that's when the real cruelty and brutality comes about. When people are seen as less than human because of their religion, color, or practices, that's when the real perverse horror often comes into play. Because the antogonist believes that they are morally superior, that their way is the true way, that they are doing right by their actions...

imagine this sort of mentality applied to something so absolutely freakin trivial as pedalling a goddamned bicycle around a major US city? or the length of one's surfboard? or a type of music? or a sexual orientation? or food choices?

these things would not be an issue if we weren't simply drowning in our own offspring. The problem isn't cars, bikes, dories, or SUP'ers... the problem is too many people competing for the same resources.

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

He was just really really angry and intense

No shite hippy.




That dumb@ss kid is so going to jail....as he should....

Glad Flow (the name makes me want to run him over) did not get hurt....but that footage was sweet!