From Adelaides Advertiser. May a pox be upon on the house of that frigging car passenger. grrrrrr.
Courage in face of cowardice
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17625675%5E12428,00.html
By DAVID VALENTE. 21dec05
PASSIONATE cycling bunch La Squadra Adelaide has vowed to continue riding undaunted by a reckless and cowardly attack by a motorist that could easily have killed them all.
On a recent Sunday morning ride 10 cyclists were riding in a bunch on Bridge Road at Para Hills when a utility slowed so the passenger could smother them with the suffocating cloud from a a fire extinguisher.
Peter Larvin, a cyclist of more than 40 years who founded the group in 1986, said it was a miracle no-one was killed by the "reprehensible" stunt.
"I was in the middle of the group.
"All I saw was this white cloud and it got into my eyes and my lungs - how we never came off is a miracle," Larvin, 57, said. "It's amazing nobody was seriously hurt or killed. We could've gone under cars."
Larvin said first the men were "very angry" but later were just disappointed people could deliberately set out to so gravely endanger others.
"I just can't believe that with all the hype with the (Eugene) McGee case someone would be so stupid. With all that publicity you'd think people would give cyclists a wide berth.
The Grange computer technician said this attack was the most serious of a long line of on-road incidents.
"You get the idiots who abuse you but this thing would be one of the worst. This was blatant because this guy must have been ready and waiting for somebody.
"But we'll just brush it off until the next time, I guess," Larvin said.
Courage in face of cowardice
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17625675%5E12428,00.html
By DAVID VALENTE. 21dec05
PASSIONATE cycling bunch La Squadra Adelaide has vowed to continue riding undaunted by a reckless and cowardly attack by a motorist that could easily have killed them all.
On a recent Sunday morning ride 10 cyclists were riding in a bunch on Bridge Road at Para Hills when a utility slowed so the passenger could smother them with the suffocating cloud from a a fire extinguisher.
Peter Larvin, a cyclist of more than 40 years who founded the group in 1986, said it was a miracle no-one was killed by the "reprehensible" stunt.
"I was in the middle of the group.
"All I saw was this white cloud and it got into my eyes and my lungs - how we never came off is a miracle," Larvin, 57, said. "It's amazing nobody was seriously hurt or killed. We could've gone under cars."
Larvin said first the men were "very angry" but later were just disappointed people could deliberately set out to so gravely endanger others.
"I just can't believe that with all the hype with the (Eugene) McGee case someone would be so stupid. With all that publicity you'd think people would give cyclists a wide berth.
The Grange computer technician said this attack was the most serious of a long line of on-road incidents.
"You get the idiots who abuse you but this thing would be one of the worst. This was blatant because this guy must have been ready and waiting for somebody.
"But we'll just brush it off until the next time, I guess," Larvin said.
