Mike Rosenfeld

Cripes Ron...I was born in the summer of 1972.

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From: "rondot@spiritone.com"
Sent: ‎6/‎27/‎2014 4:16 PM
To: "Hugh Givens" ; "obra@list.obra.org" ; "Mike Rosenfeld"
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

No. bragging...just a day in the life.
Summer 1972
Sleepy Corvallis, Oregon. About 6:45 AM.
I am on my “10 Speed Schwinn” heading for the M.U. for a donut and coffee breakfast before work down at Gill.
Heading West I blow through the stop sign at the the RR track crossing as the closest auto is about 3 blocks North of me and no others to be seen.
It happens that one car was a C.P.D. Cruiser and he nailed me for failing to stop. That was my last citation. I ended up paying the fine even though my needing to stop there was bogus considering the circumstances. My visual appearance and lifestyle at the time made me not want to garner the attention of “the man”.
That morning was just a few days after I attended the Rolling Stones show at Seattle Center. Opening act was Stevie Wonder. Maybe I just was not in a space to be obeying rules like Mike pointed out. My God! Richard Nixon was President and he was not doing good things!
Gotta say. The Stones were in their prime at the time (the Mick Taylor years) and the show was well worth the adventure. Stevie Wonder was at the same great level. Not sure I could say the same for the C.P.D. back then.
I am sure many of you have stories and the C.P.D. is much improved.
ron



From: Mike Rosenfeld
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 3:05 PM
To: Hugh Givens ; obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

Got pulled over for speeding and running a yellow light in downtown Portland...it turned red when I was sprinting through the intersection.

Motorcycle office was really torqued. Wrote me a warning and was super pissed I didn't have my ID on me. ...hey it was 1992 and I was a punk ass 20 year old.... The beauty of it was the warning was written out to Eddy Merckx...the name I gave him.

Officer never noticed that was also the name on my bike.

Should have kept the warning and framed it.

And hindsight being what it is....I shouldn't have given a false name to a police officer, but hey I already mentioned I was a punk ass kid.

From: Hugh Givens
Sent: ‎6/‎27/‎2014 2:24 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

I got a speeding ticket on an autostrada in Italy once. One of my proudest moments. You really have to be going fast to get ticketed there. Especially difficult to do in a Fiat Uno.
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No. bragging...just a day in the life.
Summer 1972
Sleepy Corvallis, Oregon. About 6:45 AM.
I am on my “10 Speed Schwinn” heading for the M.U. for a donut and coffee breakfast before work down at Gill.
Heading West I blow through the stop sign at the the RR track crossing as the closest auto is about 3 blocks North of me and no others to be seen.
It happens that one car was a C.P.D. Cruiser and he nailed me for failing to stop. That was my last citation. I ended up paying the fine even though my needing to stop there was bogus considering the circumstances. My visual appearance and lifestyle at the time made me not want to garner the attention of “the man”.
That morning was just a few days after I attended the Rolling Stones show at Seattle Center. Opening act was Stevie Wonder. Maybe I just was not in a space to be obeying rules like Mike pointed out. My God! Richard Nixon was President and he was not doing good things!
Gotta say. The Stones were in their prime at the time (the Mick Taylor years) and the show was well worth the adventure. Stevie Wonder was at the same great level. Not sure I could say the same for the C.P.D. back then.
I am sure many of you have stories and the C.P.D. is much improved.
ron

From: Mike Rosenfeld
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 3:05 PM
To: Hugh Givens ; obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

Got pulled over for speeding and running a yellow light in downtown Portland...it turned red when I was sprinting through the intersection.

Motorcycle office was really torqued. Wrote me a warning and was super pissed I didn't have my ID on me. ...hey it was 1992 and I was a punk ass 20 year old.... The beauty of it was the warning was written out to Eddy Merckx...the name I gave him.

Officer never noticed that was also the name on my bike.

Should have kept the warning and framed it.

And hindsight being what it is....I shouldn't have given a false name to a police officer, but hey I already mentioned I was a punk ass kid.

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From: Hugh Givens
Sent: ‎6/‎27/‎2014 2:24 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

I got a speeding ticket on an autostrada in Italy once. One of my proudest moments. You really have to be going fast to get ticketed there. Especially difficult to do in a Fiat Uno.
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Mike Rosenfeld

Got pulled over for speeding and running a yellow light in downtown Portland...it turned red when I was sprinting through the intersection.

Motorcycle office was really torqued. Wrote me a warning and was super pissed I didn't have my ID on me. ...hey it was 1992 and I was a punk ass 20 year old.... The beauty of it was the warning was written out to Eddy Merckx...the name I gave him.

Officer never noticed that was also the name on my bike.

Should have kept the warning and framed it.

And hindsight being what it is....I shouldn't have given a false name to a police officer, but hey I already mentioned I was a punk ass kid.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Hugh Givens"
Sent: ‎6/‎27/‎2014 2:24 PM
To: "obra@list.obra.org"
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

I got a speeding ticket on an autostrada in Italy once. One of my proudest moments. You really have to be going fast to get ticketed there. Especially difficult to do in a Fiat Uno.
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Hugh Givens

I got a speeding ticket on an autostrada in Italy once. One of my proudest moments. You really have to be going fast to get ticketed there. Especially difficult to do in a Fiat Uno.

Eric

Lots.

Long ago, I was riding with a friend through the ritzy community of
Atherton. At the time I was working in a bicycle safety program in Palo
Alto. I was on his wheel, overlapped slightly, maybe six inches. We were
pulled over for riding two abreast - there was and is no law against that
anyway. When I argued and demonstrated that I knew a lot more than the cop,
he kept getting more and more nervous. We finally let him go with my
lecture, no citations.

== Eric

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From: OBRA [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of
jon.ragsdale@comcast.net
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:53 AM
To: Chad Butler
Cc: obra
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

When I was a teen in Northern California I was going down a hill in a 35 MPH
zone doing over 50 when the CHP pulled me over. I was cited for no license
(which I couldn't figure that one out since I was on my bicycle and I didn't
have a driver's license) and 52 in a 35. I show up to court and the judge
looked at the ticket, looked at me, looked at the ticket and said "Do you
know how dangerous it is for you to be traveling that fast on a bicycle?" I
said "Yes, sir". He replied "Then if you're that stupid to do this, there
is nothing I can do. Case dismissed.

Jon

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From: "Chad Butler"
To: "obra"
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:19:20 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

It was a long time ago, and in Washington state, but I once got pulled over
on my bike for speeding in a 45mph zone. It was a descent on a rural road.
The cop was mostly upset that we were on the left side of the fog line which
he said was illegal and that we were holding up traffic. I pointed out the
conflict in that I couldn't really be speeding AND holding up traffic and
that because I couldn't accept the officer as knowledgable on the subject I
was only willing to speak to his supervisor. When his supervisor arrived we
were quickly released with no citations at all, though I really wish I'd
gotten that speeding ticket.

On a completely different end of the spectrum, when I was a bike messenger
one of my co-workers got ticketed for running a red light. Appearantly the
cop was following him and watched him run something like 15 lights but then
ticketed him for that 16th one. That was downtown Portland. It's hard to
even find 16 lights in a single run without getting back into the pattern of
greens but I guess he was just keeping it timed perfectly imperfect. I won't
give away the courriers identity, but his initials are Chris McDermot. :)

Do you have any bizarre stories that are unbelievably fun or give you any
kooky 'bragging' rights?

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Jeff Tedder

Good one Jon....

Kind of a bike story....When I was in grade school living in Fort Smith Ark.....we lived on top of Independence Hill....It would be like coming Cornell from Skyline.....
Me and a few friends use to steal the little kids Big Wheels in the neighborhood at night and race down from the top.....no brakes : ) and we got stopped one time flying through the light at the bottom, guessing doing over the speed limit on a Plastic Big Wheel.....The officer did not see any humor in at all.....Needless to say, he loaded the Big Wheels up in his trunk and took us home.....All the parents were not to happy, but my dad was pretty cool about it, and I quote, Why didn't I think of that : )
Dad was cool.....fun times....
Jeff
Happy Friday

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From: jon.ragsdale@comcast.net
To: Chad Butler
Cc: obra
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

When I was a teen in Northern California I was going down a hill in a 35 MPH zone doing over 50 when the CHP pulled me over. I was cited for no license (which I couldn't figure that one out since I was on my bicycle and I didn't have a driver's license) and 52 in a 35. I show up to court and the judge looked at the ticket, looked at me, looked at the ticket and said "Do you know how dangerous it is for you to be traveling that fast on a bicycle?" I said "Yes, sir". He replied "Then if you're that stupid to do this, there is nothing I can do. Case dismissed.

Jon

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From: "Chad Butler"
To: "obra"
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:19:20 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

It was a long time ago, and in Washington state, but I once got pulled over on my bike for speeding in a 45mph zone. It was a descent on a rural road. The cop was mostly upset that we were on the left side of the fog line which he said was illegal and that we were holding up traffic. I pointed out the conflict in that I couldn't really be speeding AND holding up traffic and that because I couldn't accept the officer as knowledgable on the subject I was only willing to speak to his supervisor. When his supervisor arrived we were quickly released with no citations at all, though I really wish I'd gotten that speeding ticket.

On a completely different end of the spectrum, when I was a bike messenger one of my co-workers got ticketed for running a red light. Appearantly the cop was following him and watched him run something like 15 lights but then ticketed him for that 16th one. That was downtown Portland. It's hard to even find 16 lights in a single run without getting back into the pattern of greens but I guess he was just keeping it timed perfectly imperfect. I won't give away the courriers identity, but his initials are Chris McDermot. :)

Do you have any bizarre stories that are unbelievably fun or give you any kooky 'bragging' rights?

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When I was a teen in Northern California I was going down a hill in a 35 MPH zone doing over 50 when the CHP pulled me over. I was cited for no license (which I couldn't figure that one out since I was on my bicycle and I didn't have a driver's license) and 52 in a 35. I show up to court and the judge looked at the ticket, looked at me, looked at the ticket and said "Do you know how dangerous it is for you to be traveling that fast on a bicycle?" I said "Yes, sir". He replied "Then if you're that stupid to do this, there is nothing I can do. Case dismissed.

Jon

----- Original Message -----

From: "Chad Butler"
To: "obra"
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 10:19:20 AM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] bragging rights infractions?

It was a long time ago, and in Washington state, but I once got pulled over on my bike for speeding in a 45mph zone. It was a descent on a rural road. The cop was mostly upset that we were on the left side of the fog line which he said was illegal and that we were holding up traffic. I pointed out the conflict in that I couldn't really be speeding AND holding up traffic and that because I couldn't accept the officer as knowledgable on the subject I was only willing to speak to his supervisor. When his supervisor arrived we were quickly released with no citations at all, though I really wish I'd gotten that speeding ticket.

On a completely different end of the spectrum, when I was a bike messenger one of my co-workers got ticketed for running a red light. Appearantly the cop was following him and watched him run something like 15 lights but then ticketed him for that 16th one. That was downtown Portland. It's hard to even find 16 lights in a single run without getting back into the pattern of greens but I guess he was just keeping it timed perfectly imperfect. I won't give away the courriers identity, but his initials are Chris McDermot. :)

Do you have any bizarre stories that are unbelievably fun or give you any kooky 'bragging' rights?

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Chad Butler

It was a long time ago, and in Washington state, but I once got pulled over on my bike for speeding in a 45mph zone. It was a descent on a rural road. The cop was mostly upset that we were on the left side of the fog line which he said was illegal and that we were holding up traffic. I pointed out the conflict in that I couldn't really be speeding AND holding up traffic and that because I couldn't accept the officer as knowledgable on the subject I was only willing to speak to his supervisor. When his supervisor arrived we were quickly released with no citations at all, though I really wish I'd gotten that speeding ticket.

On a completely different end of the spectrum, when I was a bike messenger one of my co-workers got ticketed for running a red light. Appearantly the cop was following him and watched him run something like 15 lights but then ticketed him for that 16th one. That was downtown Portland. It's hard to even find 16 lights in a single run without getting back into the pattern of greens but I guess he was just keeping it timed perfectly imperfect. I won't give away the courriers identity, but his initials are Chris McDermot. :)

Do you have any bizarre stories that are unbelievably fun or give you any kooky 'bragging' rights?