[ET_SoCal]

So yesterday I'm at my desk and a co-worker calls me and say's a bunch of them are walking to the corner to see the motorcade pass by on it's way to the library...
I think, "So what, sure it's a president, but he's dead"...
10 minutes later I think maybe I'll just grab the bike and ride the 200 yards just to get out of the work I'm staring at. So I jump on the commuter and pedal slowly to the corner, I notice a rather large crowd cheering and clapping.... I hop off the bike, get my camera out and just them the hearse passes by so I take a quick shot.
That's it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Skookum]

Well......
Now....
There you go again......

 

[WestCoastHucker]

funny, there were 5 limo's and nancy was in the one without tinted windows......

was that pic taken from the corner of madera and cochran?

 

[ET_SoCal]

... corner of madera and cochran?

Yup. My work's next to Costco.

 

[dh girlie]

I think it's just horrific that this poor dead bastards body is being hauled all over the freakin country like an art exhibition! I mean...put the poor guy to rest and hold a memorial or something...it's like...coming to a town near you...the dead ex president...sheesh! Lord have MERCY!!!

 

[Skookum]

With that alzheimer's i've considered him mostly dead for years. What a terrible way to go......

 

[MMike]

i've considered him mostly dead .

But now he's "all dead"?

 

[WestCoastHucker]

Yup. My work's next to Costco.

funny, i work across the street in the chamber of commerce building. not for the CC though, but an architecture firm upstairs

 

[ghostrider]

I got a surprise glimpse of the Ronnie parade on my way to work from my morning ride out by Point Mugu. I found it an intersting spectacle, but I'm with DHG on this one, it really is weird to be carting his carcass all over the continent for "viewing". Most of the people I observed were treating it more like a celebrity sighting than a respectful observance of a great American passing by. One lady couldn't even shut her mouth long enough to allow a moment of silent reflection, and another dude was doing a bizarre play-by-play into his mobile phone: "A police motorcycle just went by. Two more police motorcycles. Now there's three, no four more. Ok, I've lost count of the motorcycles..."

 

[ET_SoCal]

...across the street in the chamber of commerce building...

Where's that? Which building?

'tis funny that, were so close - yet so far away...

Hey! let's ride! I do a 45 minute Lunchtime Roadie sprint Tue & Thur

 

[ET_SoCal]

..." ... police motorcycle... Two ...three ...four ... ."

When I first got there I saw crowd/traffic enforement in place, stopping everyone & everything from the intersection, a few seconds later two police motorcycle's blazed through the cross at extremely high speed, easily going over 90mph... I could'nt believe how fast they were moving, it seemed real unsafe with all the people around

 

[WestCoastHucker]

Where's that? Which building?

'tis funny that, were so close - yet so far away...

Hey! let's ride! I do a 45 minute Lunchtime Roadie sprint Tue & Thur

the building just to the west of the marie callendars(sp?) on the south side of the street....

i'm afraid i wouldn't be much fun on a roadie sprint, i don't have a road bike. unless you just beat around on a mtb......

 

[BigMike]

I didnt even know they were doing that. I'm just not looking forward to Friday when I have to drive into work in DC and its funeral day

 

[reflux]

Excuse my ignorance, but I only grew up during the 80s and don't have much recollection of the RR era. Can someone please explain to me why this man is considered by many to be a great American hero?

 

[BigMike]

Excuse my ignorance, but I only grew up during the 80s and don't have much recollection of the RR era. Can someone please explain to me why this man is considered by many to be a great American hero?

He was a president.



Most people DON'T like him, but, since he was an American President, he gets special treatment. We have not had a presidant die in quite a while, so it is a big deal.

This is just the beginning, sadly, some of the other former US presidents are very old, and they shall pass in short years to come.

 

[Skookum]

But now he's "all dead"?

sheesh you're pretty dim sometimes..... yes mostly dead. That feasibility of being mostly dead has been proven by Miracle Max, i'm sure you know of his work....