Or something like that.

Big surf competition at Huntington Beach, California over the weekend took a turn for the worse when some moron tossed a ketchup bottle into the crowd. Things escalated, and before you know it another moron is pitching a street sign through the window of this bike and skate shop. The LA Times says shop employees and locals defended the shop against the miscreants.

Full story at the LA Times: Huntington Beach riot: bike shop workers fought off looters.

You know how cyclists are often denied service at drive-through windows because of vague insurance rules?

Somebody tried it with a horse in Manchester, England. The rider wasn’t allowed to order from the drive-through window.

McDonald’s drive-thru policy is clear, the company’s spokeswoman clarified, with restaurants “unable to serve pedestrians, bicycle riders or customers on horseback”.

The woman then led the animal inside, where it “ended up doing his business on the floor”, a Greater Manchester Police spokesman said.

If the rider can’t use the drive through, I’m not sure what McDonald’s expected her to do. More at the BBC: Horse in McDonald’s: Rider fined after ‘drive-thru’ refusal.

The Register points out that “tanks, improbably long missile transportation trailers and giant dumper trucks” qualify as “motor vehicles,” which are allowed in McDonald’s drive-through policy, and invites readers to submit videos of themselves ordering their Big Mac from such conveyances.

Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG) hosts another round of community workshops to determine the vision of growth for the Monterey Bay region. AMBAG consists of communities in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties.

Santa Cruz Bike Party has moved from the fourth Friday to the second Friday of every month. This means no more conflict with San Jose Bike Party. It also means the next Santa Cruz Bike Party happens tomorrow, July 12, 2013. The theme this Friday is The Rainbow Ride.

People Power Santa Cruz announced a couple of wins this week at Santa Cruz city hall. First of all, the new city budget includes a position for a bicycle planner in the city’s transportation department. Second, the council finally decided to resolve a longstanding dispute regarding the city’s distribution of abandoned bikes. You can read the full sordid tale here, but the short of it is that the city agreed to open up the abandoned bike distribution program again.

Pro mountain bike Matthew Slaven shot and injured as he walked through a public park in Santa Cruz, California. The park where he was shot, San Lorenzo Park on Dakota Avenue, can be pretty sketchy. I avoid that area even during the day.

A new bicycle pump track will be built in Westside Santa Cruz.

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How Reason’s highway report works against urban areas.

A protected bike lane in Lincoln, Nebraska.

A gallery of Victoria’s Secret models on bicycles.

An important lesson about bicycle traffic from The System.

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