what's this about a traffic stolen ?

farked in less than 50 hits.

Awwww isn't that cute, let's just all give the filthy thief a big huge and a basket of cookies.

I'd hit it

/with a car

Ah Wordpress. The crappiest blog software known to man. I've never seen a working Wordpress site..

littlesin79: Worst. Greenlight. Ever.

I agree. Subby is so full of FAIL

Less than a 350 hit Fark...

Was the bike made of orbs?

What I learned from this is that I should paint my bike white, and then it will be steal-proof.

I know that there is a war between pedestrians/
bicyclists and automobiles

Damn right there is a war!

I'm gonna get into my BMW and go piss off more obnoxious, traffic-law breaking bicyclists who knowingly put themselves in danger and then blame drivers for the accidents they cause.

Militant bicyclists are scum.

/Lives in Portland.
//Rides a bike within the law and with respect for EVERYONE on the road.
///Emaciated, hysterical, vegan farkholes on bikes give us all a bad name.

Great Caesar's Toast

Awwww isn't that cute, let's just all give the filthy thief a big huge and a basket of cookies.


The thief obviously read the Fark thread about that preacher who turned himself in for a murder he committed years ago.

Mark my words, that Ghost Bike will be stolen again... by a ghost.

'Traffic Stolen' killed a memorial? What???

Also, site is farked.

PunkTiger: Was the bike made of orbs?

Funniest thing I've read all day!

Great Caesar's Toast: Awwww isn't that cute, let's just all give the filthy thief a big huge and a basket of cookies.

Someone tried to give me a big huge once.

/i didn't take it
//didn't want it
///thats all i got

I rode a bicycle to work for a year and followed the law perfectly. 99% of drivers were great... but I had a half-dozen verbal altercations with people who just didn't realize bikes are allowed on the road too. It was just too much grief... now I drive.

/doesn't live in Portland
//few bikers here follow the rules

No doubt dr-shotgun. Fark the cyclists who insist that they be considered equals to the cars on the roads while they disobey red lights and proper turning procedures because 'they're on a bike'.

It's as if they want the best of both the pedestrian and automotive worlds.

You guys stfu. My mom was killed by a traffic stolen.

shucherfase: You guys stfu. My mom was killed by a traffic stolen.

Thats nothing. I had a view of a bike path the day the memorial was stolen!

Why? WHY? Why did they have to kill the Ghost Bike by traffic stolen?

LEAVE THE GHOST BIKE ALONE!

google cache (new window)

How did they know it was gone if it's a ghost?

nashBridges: No no. Traffic stolen killed the cyclist. It only wounded the memorial.

I disagree. Traffic stolen clearly killed the Ghost Bike. Allow me to perform a postmortem:

1. Ghost Bike placed as a memorial to a cyclist
2. Killed by traffic stolen

Therefore, Ghost Bike (placed as a memorial to a cyclist) was killed by traffic stolen.

The bike.


Linked directly. Don't know if it'll show.

favourite bandanna

Mmm... favorite banana.

Traffic stolen big huge fails are not my favourite.

I had to read that a few times to understand that headline. Also, FARKED.

I have a big huge and I'm getting a kick out of all these replies

"Thief realises the significance of the bike its a fricken GHOST BIKE! and returns it"

FTFY

/were they pirates that became ghosts or ghosts who became pirates?

penthesilea: The bike.


Linked directly. Don't know if it'll show.

Why are the ghost bikes always in good shape? Don't they have friends with 4X4s to run'em over a couple of times to make'em look authentic??

That's a pretty shiatty looking tribute.

/ghost bike = old, white 10 speed.
//expected cool sculpture

poot_rootbeer: What I learned from this is that I should paint my bike white, and then it will be steal-proof.

You're also likely to get harassed/beaten for riding a memorial to the dead.

Whenever I come across a Fark link with an "Error establishing a database connection" message I make sure to hold my Shift key and click the Reload button on my browser a good 5-10 times before closing the page. Sure it's the Internet equivalent of kicking a man when he's down but it brings me pleasure nonetheless.

howdyyall9999: were they pirates that became ghosts or ghosts who became pirates

Guys! Guys! Guys! Fighting isn't gonna solve anything! Don't you see?! This is exactly what those Ghost Pirates want us to do!

Run a DNA trace on the bandanna and find the thief!

/Hopefully it's a sweat filled bandanna and not some other body fluid.

fatal_exception: That's a pretty shiatty looking tribute.

You don't expect me to trash one of my good bikes for this, do you?

:)

Wait... how can a Ghost Bike be killed?

Silver stick through the spokes?

altinos: fatal_exception: That's a pretty shiatty looking tribute.

You don't expect me to trash one of my good bikes for this, do you?

:)

Well I don't know; I mean the thief gave up a prized bandana. That shiat's bandana's, B-A-N-D-A-N-A!

wwwavenger: poot_rootbeer: What I learned from this is that I should paint my bike white, and then it will be steal-proof.

You're also likely to get harassed/beaten for riding a memorial to the dead.

How far away is the dead?

Me get greenlight?

Roadside memorials are a god damn menace and should be outlawed. We have all of this valuable real estate called "cemeteries." If you want a memorial for a loved one to exist for all eternity (or until they want to build a new football stadium in 120 years) you stick it there.

I am tired of dodging your "memorial" when it blows out onto the highway. Littering fines should cover this crap...

Having to accept the death of a loved one is a horrible experience I wish upon no one, but I assure you that you can do it without building a shanty town out of fake flowers and a cockeyed cross made out of garden stakes.

It's a pretty big issue in Portland. A few years ago, something like 14 cyclists were killed by drivers here in Portland, and since Portland prides itself on being very bike-friendly, there was a real rift that developed between motorists and cyclists that hasn't closed yet. The Willamette Week newspaper did a cover story by one of their reporters who had been hit and injured by a car that year, and there was a lot of backlash about it from both sides. The driver of the car who hit her had been unapologetic which only stoked the fire, and he tried to blame her for the accident even though it occurred during an illegal turn.

That sort of attitude is seen as the status quo by a lot of cyclists, just as the cyclists who disobey the laws of traffic are seen as the status quo by a lot of motorists. There's fault on both sides, really. I see cyclists riding up fricking Hawthorne at rush hour, when there's a dedicated street for an east/west bike route literally two blocks to the north on Salmon. I see motorists try and run bikes off the road or just give them the finger as the go past. My girlfriend almost got repeated honks and a finger for riding across the Sellwood Bridge--on the pedestrian path! One time while running I saw a woman biatch out a cyclist who was riding in the regular traffic lane--not on the side, but in the middle. Contrary to the motorist's belief, that's perfectly legal, and since it was heavy traffic it's not like she was slowing down other cars.

There's a ghost bike about 10 blocks from my apartment that I walk past on a regular basis, and even though it's been two years since the accident, his family and friends are still leaving trinkets, pictures and letters, and they even planted flowers in a small patch of dirt. I didn't think of it as a dangerous intersection (SE 26th and Stark), but I almost got run over by a car there myself when I was running.

ippolit: Whenever I come across a Fark link with an "Error establishing a database connection" message I make sure to hold my Shift key and click the Reload button on my browser a good 5-10 times before closing the page. Sure it's the Internet equivalent of kicking a man when he's down but it brings me pleasure nonetheless.

You are not the only one that does that. I usually open 2-3 tabs up so atleast one will load.

^that's warewolf bike! Ghost Bike dies after a bell rings. No. Wait. Dang it! I don't know! How can we kill Ghost Bike?!?!

Great Caesar's Toast: Awwww isn't that cute, let's just all give the filthy thief a big huge and a basket of cookies.

Lets throw oreos at him!!!

/seems like the right thing to do

Great Caesar's Toast: Awwww isn't that cute, let's just all give the filthy thief a big huge and a basket of cookies.



A huge what?


Hur hur hur!


/funnah!

how do you NOT know that the bike that is painted all white, chained to a light post, surrounded by dead flowers and pictures/poems and the like, isnt a memorial bike? i knew exactly what bike they were talking about just by reading the fark headline, its hard not too since it was all over the new here in portland.

but this is portland, he was probably on meth.

Traffic Stollen?

/mspaint. i suck.

TheNewJesus: Roadside memorials are a god damn menace and should be outlawed.

I couldn't agree more.

Near home, there was a memorial for a couple of schoolkids who decided that a Ford Fiesta could take a hairpin bend at 90. Three days after the flowers started arriving, another kid from the same school stopped to place flowers, stepped back to admire the display and...you can guess the rest.

Darwin's always watching.