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December 3, 2008
Near Miss
I was walking outside of my office building downtown when I noticed the following.
A bus was pulled over dropping off passengers. A large motorcycle—Gold Wing most likely—carrying a large person unhelmeted in shirt sleeves passes the bus in what remains of the lane. The bus driver, not seeing the motorcyclist passing starts to move off from the sidewalk. The motorcyclist honks his horn, swerves into the oncoming lane of traffic to avoid the bus, and then shouts "Mother----!" He continues along Copper Av, having just barely avoided an accident that easily could have been avoided altogether.