BSNYC in the NYT (Comments: 0)
Author: Jason Crane
Date: 9 August, 2008
Category: Bike news, Jason Crane
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Moving Targets
By JAN HOFFMAN
Published: August 8, 2008IT seemed like a good idea at the time.
Save gas money, be environmentally correct, lose weight — just by biking to work. And so after two decades, Dan Cooley, 41, saddled up a silver 21-speed Raleigh in April to make the daily two-mile commute to his nursing job at a senior citizen center in Louisville, Ky. In four months, he lost 15 pounds. Way to go, Dan!
Friday morning, July 25, around 6:50 a.m., he was pedaling on a residential street, wearing his green hospital scrubs, when a Volkswagen roared out of a driveway in front of him. Swerving to avoid the car, Mr. Cooley cursed loudly and rode on.
The driver and his passenger cursed back. As Mr. Cooley pulled over to the sidewalk, the car turned onto a driveway, knocking him off his bike. In Mr. Cooley’s narrative, the passenger, swearing, jumped out and pummeled him. Then he got back into the car, which zoomed away. Mr. Cooley lay prostrate on the sidewalk, bloodied, with a concussion and a torn ligament.
The rest of the article, which bravely quotes Bike Snob NYC, is at the New York Times site.
Quite possible the greatest part of this story is that the Times is forced by its editing conventions to refer to him as “Mr. BSNYC” throughout the article.
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