BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.

Subject: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 03:58 PM

CNN President Bush while biking today collided with a policeman in Aberdeen. The policeman has an ankle injury and George has arm and leg road rash.

jeez this man is a hazard to himself and others behind handlebars.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Wesley S
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:01 PM

The policeman will be sent to Guantanamo Bay until we're sure he won't be a threat to other decent Americans.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:01 PM

Didn't the policeman know to give way? This is, after all, the most powerful man in the known world. Where was the man's sense of propriety?

(I hope he sues the bush's socks off.)

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:05 PM

George isn't used to anyone getting in his way and the policeman isn't used to people ignoring his directions.

George will be calling the policeman later to ...

A apologize
B check on his medical condition
C garner a cute photo op

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:05 PM

Hey. I thought the pedestrian ALWAYS had the right-of-way. Hmmm. How pedestrian of me.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:06 PM

Wesley opined:

he won't be a threat to other decent Americans.

"Other" decent Americans?   There weren't any of those in the incident, as I understand it; only GWB!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:46 PM

Here's a press report.

I reckon he's been at the pretzels again...

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 04:55 PM

How do you know who rammmed who???   Not that I enjoy defending him, but it sounds like wet pavement and we aren't sure who was at fault. Why jump to conclusions?    Maybe you have sources that we don't here in the U.S.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 05:18 PM

picture open for captioning

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/bushdrunk5.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 05:31 PM

I think the most likely thing is that someone loosened the training wheels causing poor Georgie to lose control, going ass over tea cup.

I bet somebody is laughing their ass off.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Jim McLean
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 05:46 PM

Aberdeen, Donuel?

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 05:47 PM

A couple of years ago, Bush endangered life and limb in the surrounding area by running berzerk on a Segway, just before he fell off of the thing (HERE).

The guy is Hell on wheels! (Runs the country pretty much the same way.)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 05:55 PM

Sigh....

And he has his hands on the nuclear triggers....

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Deckman
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 05:57 PM

Yet further proof that there really is a gawd in heaven! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Alba
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 06:04 PM

Well I was going to say it can happen to the best of us, you know your cycling along a Country Road, lost in thought....! That's when I realised that this was not the reason for the accident...GWB lost...but not in thought! To "think" one needs a Brain and as there is no mention of Snarl Rove cycling alongside GWB it would appear the only person involved in the accident that was thinking was the Strathclyde Policeman..penny for his thoughts...:>)

I mean what is it with this man...he's a prize klutz!!!
Now there he is at the G8 Summit, stumbling around the English language with Gravel Rash on his hands...Oh no...Does anyone know what I mean when I say I am feeling embarrased, that feeling one gets when you are watching TV or something and someone does something like singing really badly in public and you cringe for them...well if you know what I mean, then that's how I feel right now..lol

Very Pretzeldential GWB!!!
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 06:17 PM

Pretzeldential...LMAO

Gee George...how'd you get the boo-boos rashes? Were you sliding down the White House steps on your tummy again?

*shaking my head*

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 06:33 PM

"He is a member of the police department of Strathclyde, a nearby town," McClellan said.

Can't they get anything right. McClellen might have said the officer is a member of the Strathclyde Police Service. We don't have a Police department, nor do we have a town called Strathclyde. It is an area covering greater Glasgow, and surrounding areas.

Also Aberdeen has plenty of spikey statues, pointy fences, random drops, and Aberdonians. Why can't he have run into one of those....

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Amos
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 06:35 PM

His grace is on a par with his conscience...not in evidence.

A

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 06:40 PM

This really is just too funny! (except that his finger is on The Trigger)

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 06:43 PM

I guess we can be glad he wasn't anywhere near the Tour d'France.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 07:27 PM

Material here for a Times Crossword clue. 3 letters, gets on a wobbly bike.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 07:31 PM

You keep laughing Merikins... you voted the bugger in again!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:08 PM

Hopefully the Police will take a look at the bicycle GWB was riding to ascertain that it was roadworthy, with efficient brakes, correct reflectors and an audible warning instrument (usually a bell). Certain Cunstruction and Use regulations apply to bicycles in the UK, as does the fact that cycles are only permitted to be used on the road or dedicated cycleways. Cycling on pavements is prohibited as they are defined as footpaths.
The policeman is quite entitled tu sue GWB for assault.
No-one is above the law and I hope that, were there any transgressions, the full weight of the Courts would fall on the errant cyclist. If the US can have a "zero tolerance" policy then so should we.
Colyn.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:30 PM

Liz!! Tsk tsk!

"You keep laughing Merikins... you voted the bugger in again!!!"

Not me! No, sir! No, ma'am! No! Not me! Uh-uh! No way!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:36 PM

What a bunch of sick bastards.   Getting jollies by making bad jokes about a bicycle accident. I hope you keep your day jobs because the humor is not cutting it. I bet you can't wait for the next auto accident so you can have some more laughs.

I don't care how much I hate the guy, I do not wish him or anyone around him harm.   Apparently he was at fault - peddling too fast on a wet road. Not the smartest thing, but thankfully the injuries to him and officer were minor. It could easily have been worse for both.

By the way, at least he was getting exercise. I've seen some of the pictures that Mudcatters have posted and it wouldn't hurt for some of us to get on a bicycle every now and then. I promise I won't laugh when you fall on your ass.

Ron
Not a Bush supporter

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:50 PM

All righty then. We have all the proof we need that Iranians sabotaged the bike and caused this accident. Given that the entire world is full of bikes, the whole world should back Garge in a preemptive strike against Iran before millions are involved in bicycle accidents. Or was it the Panamanians? The Grenadians? The Cubans? The Koreans? The Borg? We will have to rely in the intelligence. Where is it? Oh, yeah...

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 09:02 PM

Gee, Ron. You are right. It is in poor taste.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 09:07 PM

Unfit at any speed...

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:26 AM

I wonder if the incident will show up on Funniest Home Videos? Poor taste? Yup, but it certainly would be at home on American TV.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:34 AM

That is just it, Ron.....the man has no brain. Sorry, but it IS funny to me.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:38 AM

Ron,
Mel Brooks once said "tradgedy is when you have a painful accident.
Comedy is when someone else has the stupid accident."

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: dianavan
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 02:40 AM

They were probably riding side by side. It was all slick with rain and Bush skidded out of control. What else is new.

He was either going too fast (thats George!) or he had his head in the clouds. Maybe he was riding with no hands in the rain!

I would like to see the video.

I wonder if he cried.

Maybe next time he'll shave his legs so he won't get road rash.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Kaleea
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 03:05 AM

The poor officer of the law was just attempting to do his job, never anticipating that one of the yahoos-ooops I mean leaders-- of the "free" world would attack him!    He's not usually as physically bumbling as President Gerald Ford--at least not at such big meetings. Maybe he'll barf under the table tomorrow. Now, Pres. Ford was terrific to the Saturday Night Live bunch.   dubblepewbush iz yoozyoowooley jist bumblin' wordz wif his mouf'.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 05:01 AM

What were his minders doing letting that idiot anywhere near a bicycle, and did the bike have a bell Bonecruncher ? for fecks sake he's only just learned to stand and talk at the same time.

He should be deported immeadiately for this unprovoked attack on a British national.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 07:27 AM

LTS...hardly.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Alba
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 08:06 AM

Ron...Life too short to take EVERYTHING so seriously.

He fell of a bicycle for jeez sake and your getting bend out of shape! Go get bend out of shape about people dying in Iraq.
Nobody willed him to fall of the bloody bike! He managed that all by himself..
May that be the worst that happens to him in Life.
wow..I can't believe what you posted.
Guess you don't look for humor in things...just critisicm of those that do.
I'll laugh at what I like when I like (there's very little in this sad Country that one gets to laugh about lately, GWB falling off a Bike at the G8 summit.....FUNNY!) .Too bad if you don't like what I find amusing.
I smell self righteousness...yuk!


Jude (an ardent NON Bush Supporter but I wish ill on NO-ONE and I mean NO-ONE)

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 08:17 AM

Hey! - he set himself up. He fell on his own. That's funny.

He hurt himself - colateral damge say I.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:00 AM

So how many of you are laughing at what happened today???

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: GUEST,Bainbo
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:07 AM

I don't understand the link you're making, Ron.

Powerful man bruises his dignity - funny. Mass murder in capital city - not funny. Why link them? What point are you making?

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Alba
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:17 AM

None of us actually Ron.
There is a VAST dieffrence between a klutz falling off a bicycle and a Terrorist attack. Why, do you find today's terrorist attack funny!!
I certainly don't.
You see that is what I meant when I said there's very little that one gets to laugh about lately.
Hopefully you see my point. I doubt that though.
Again I thought your previous post was uncalled for and this one takes the biscuit.
I don't like Games. Don't play them myself. You obviously do.
Best to stick to airing your indignant respones to the airwaves than attempting to belittle people here because they were having a bit of fun at GWB expense!.
How dare you suggest that anyone (who posted to the original still "humorous subject matter" of this Thread) would find it funny that people were injured and killed.
How dare you. Your way out of line Sir.
To use this Terrorist Attack as a tool for a comeback to those you critised on this Thread is not only a tad desperate but pretty sick!

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:17 AM

Yes Ron - Just a slight difference of degree here. Can you see that ?

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:22 AM

Couldn't have put it better myself Alba..... when I heard GWB blabbering on at the G8 today, and walking away from a question because he couldn't answer it, I wanted to push the bugger off a bike myself! Would that have made me responsible for blowing up a bus full of innocent commuters?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: GUEST,Bainbo
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:33 AM

Anyway -
seeing as we badly need something to laugh about, Radio 5 last night invited listeners to come with headlines for the Bush-bike story.

I couldn't decide whether my favourite was "Shock And Ow!" (very clever), or the more direct and to-the-point "Idiot falls off bike".

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 10:59 AM

Of course the barbaric attack is not funny. Neither is an accident that could have seriously endangered two people. Joking about either is a sick thing. When we take joy in other peoples ills, we are not far off from the twisted individuals that caused todays tragedy.    If we cannot find compassion in our hearts for a fellow human then we will never put an end to the strife that exists in the world. It isn't always the "other guy", it is us.

Of course we need to laugh, but not about tragedy or accidents. Black humor is one thing, but this is not the case. I know a person that was paralysed in a bicycle accident. A few weeks ago a man who works at a local supermarket was killed on his bicycle by a hit and run driver. This isn't about being "PC", but rather just using common sense.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: dianavan
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:12 PM

Ron - If he had been seriously hurt, it wouldn't be so funny. People often laugh when there is an accident with no real damage. Ever slip on a banana peel?

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: GUEST,The Phantom of the Uproar
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:12 PM

Ron, the principles of comedy say the following:

A man slips on a banana peel and injures his dignity. That's funny, particularly if he is a pompous ass.

A man slips on a banana peel and breaks his back. That's not funny, even if he is a pompous ass.

Go back to bed and try to get up on the right side of it, okay?

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:28 PM

I fell off a bike at the weekend and pulled ligaments in my ankle. Because of that, I didn't go to work this week.... so I wasn't on a London Underground train this morning at 8.50am..... I'm sitting here with my walking stick and my foot in a bandage and I'm laughing my ass off about my accident!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:32 PM

I suspect that the policeman's mates will be pulling his leg about this for a long time. And he'll be getting free drinks out of the story for years.

And Bush will probably try to get cheap laughs out of it in the odd press conference, if he still has those. It rather ties in with the President Homer Simpson image... After all, he hasn't got any more elections to worry about, he could try to build himself up as a kind of lovable buffoon.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:57 PM

Direct quote from the shrub: `When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall. Otherwise, you're not riding hard,'' Bush said.

This guy is a fucking idiot.

Subject: RE: BS: GWB rams policeman with bike.
From: dianavan
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 02:01 PM

He's a buffoon, alright. I think he has been working overtime to promote his image as lovable. In fact, I think thats why so many Americans like him. He's just a good guy capable of making mistakes. They don't want a capable leader. They want someone with all the human frailties; someone who makes silly mistakes. It makes their own vulnerability so much more palatable.