Year: 2011

Thanks Troops Foundation

Colorado Springs is a military-heavy town, so stories like this are more obvious than in other places around the nation. This video seems to work only in Internet Explorer 🙁 I tried Chrome and Firefox and do not have Safari.

The story involves the Thanks Troops Foundation, a Springs-based organization that helps disabled veterans get back into life after the military. The Foundation provides Mountain Bikes (in this case) for vets to keep them away from the bottle and those ‘dark places’ when they return.

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Armored vehicle crushes bike lane parking scofflaw

Update: Video!

Vilnius, Lithuania apparently has a problem with entitled luxury car owners who use bike lanes as their personal free parking. It’s become so widespread that the mass media have picked up on the meme of people posting photos of these parking scofflaws to social media networks.

Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas decided to take action and “reminded [these drivers] of the rules” as he posted photos of a crushed Mercedes-Benz to his Facebook page.

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