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seeking info on the car that hit people on thursday
by geoff slagheap Monday, Mar. 24, 2003 at 10:54 PM
g@okcancel.org

looking for info (license plate # especially) on the person who hit people in the march thursday and who claims his vehicle was damaged. looking to possibly pursue legal action.

hello folks, this is geoff - i was in the march thursday night and i'm the cyclist who was hit and nearly run over by that gold car driven by some suit on his cellphone. this guy is one of the foci of the campaign to discredit the demonstrations, as he claims his car was vandalized. that part i did not witness, but from my understanding his license plate was half torn off. however, i did witness him hit a bunch of other marchers who were on foot (this is what prompted me to put my bike/body in front of his car) and i'd like to get in touch with these people as well as anyone else who witnessed the event or has any info on the car/driver.

my main purpose for this is to shed some light on the reasons for any vandalism that occurred to this hunk of metal, and discuss pursuing some kind of action against this jerk (maybe a cooperative lawsuit or police report?) . . . i hate the legal system, so i'm pretty hesitant about doing that, but we need to do something because this is insane (but not especially surprising) that people value this piece of property more than the humans who this dude rammed in his frustration about not being able to make it to the next red light because of the march.
hugs/revolution,
!geoff! ----> g@okcancel.org

ps all you haters out there, do you realize that a war is going on in which thousands of *living human beings* have died already, in which possibly millions will die, including many of your beloved americans, maybe friends, family and others close to you . . . yet as the bombs fall you accuse the protesters of violence cuz a few people broke a few metal boxes??? seriously, yer sense of perspective is whack.

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