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Old 05-25-2016, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Paper1 View Post
I had an unpleasant moment this morning on my bicycle ride. I was going by Stering Heights center and saw a woman waiting to go across street in marked crosswalk. I stopped my bicycle in lane to let her by and a car went by me on my left. I then had a golf cart pull out around me on my left and drive through the crosswalk. I hollered there was a crosswalk here and he very quickly gave me the single finger salute and was on his way. Do vehicles have to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks in Villages or are walkers free game? Being a nice person I gave cart driver benefit of doubt and assumed his Viagra was kicking in after a long dormant period and he was rushing home. That said I hope he was too late.
Your only mistake was you were trying to be nice on your bicycle. If you were driving a dump truck this never would have happened.