tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post7544116656082353648..comments2023-08-18T11:40:19.852-06:00Comments on Los Alamos and Santa Fe Bikes: Colorado Supreme Court to hear Black Hawk Bike Ban CaseScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105951751896463667noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-73531355105069604062011-12-29T12:52:59.596-07:002011-12-29T12:52:59.596-07:00The Black Hawk case may well be the biggest case r...The Black Hawk case may well be the biggest case regarding bicyclists to come up to date; a Bicycle Colorado board member's law firm is doing the case pro bono<br /><br />A note of caution re the comment re Selz and it reliance on the Ga Lotte/Smith/Lotte appeals (three of them!)<br /><br />The only reason that the impeding statute violation came up was that Lotte (semi driver)asked for a civil jury instruction for negligence per se for Smith's slowing and making the turn when Lotte struck the Smith's combineChuck Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135578486955751337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-41063607893208588462011-12-22T15:33:59.232-07:002011-12-22T15:33:59.232-07:00I think there was a Boycott Black Hawk effort. But...I think there was a Boycott Black Hawk effort. But I also suspect that anyone reading these blogs wouldn't be spending much time there anyway, except in the way of passing through on the way elsewhere. Probably why they could care less.<br /><br />Maybe an Occupy Black Hawk effort would be worthwhile.Khalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11866897914538110672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-70565961914636606712011-12-22T14:58:48.059-07:002011-12-22T14:58:48.059-07:00A friend of mine got busted in Black Hawk. The cop...A friend of mine got busted in Black Hawk. The cops stopped him because he "looked like a hippy." Things escalated from there. He spent a couple days in jail and sustained injuries during the heavy-handed law enforcement tactics. They also gave him a good pepper spraying (apparently the preferred choice of fascists).<br /><br />I vowed never to go to Black Hawk and I never have. I also let the city fathers know that not a dollar of my extensive wealth would ever find its way into Black Hawk and I told them why. A while after that they came up with the bike ban. It cemented my resolve to stay the hell away from Black Hawk.<br /><br />The only way to change a town is through its coffers. If no one goes to Black Hawk or does business with them, there won't be a Black Hawk. I'm very surprised there isn't an organized "Boycott Blackhawk" movement already. Maybe there is. There should be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6955311294411328562.post-40376647616624932982011-12-22T13:06:01.286-07:002011-12-22T13:06:01.286-07:00Interesting about that precedent. It reminds me of...Interesting about that precedent. It reminds me of what a Texas trial judge said about that in a cyclist's case I attended. I'll do a post on it, but I'd be skeptical of using the case as a precedent outside Colorado, except possibly in an appeal situation. Unless the cyclists lose.Steve Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13650405341304401203noreply@blogger.com