"Bike Accident" toy set!

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Permalink Reply by igz on January 16, 2012 at 2:41pm

looks like the lego bike is hipster color coordinated! 

 

but where is the obnoxiously large SUV that hit the cyclist?

 

where is the media downplaying the situation and placing fault on the cyclist?

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Permalink Reply by igz on January 16, 2012 at 3:07pm

but of course. how silly of me to fail to recognize that we have to buy more of the set to complete the picture. marketing!
Cameron Puetz said:

The SUV is part of the rest of the "City" themed sets

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Dirt-Bike-Transporter-4433

iggi said:

looks like the lego bike is hipster color coordinated! 

 

but where is the obnoxiously large SUV that hit the cyclist?

 

where is the media downplaying the situation and placing fault on the cyclist?

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Permalink Reply by Melanie K on January 16, 2012 at 3:11pm

Are you sure the cyclist wasn't trying to get to the train station and was then hit by the taxi picking up a fare or doored by the passenger?

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Train-Station-7937

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Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on January 16, 2012 at 3:30pm

We can all relax.  It was a bike thief running from the police.  He ran a red light and got hit.

Too bad Kenny...

 

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on January 16, 2012 at 3:34pm

When I was looking for bike-related kid-friendly clips on Youtube for the bike film fest, I had a hard time finding any narrative in which a bicycle didn't crash into something. The "bike"-"crash" connection runs deep in our collective psyche and is drilled into us from an early age.

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Permalink Reply by Tiberculosis on January 17, 2012 at 12:44pm

On the upside...a fun little stop motion with toys. Jushttp://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone/MG_sportnieuws/MG_extra/MG...

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Permalink Reply by blair on January 17, 2012 at 1:33pm

TRUTHBOMBZ

iggi said:

looks like the lego bike is hipster color coordinated! 

 

but where is the obnoxiously large SUV that hit the cyclist?

 

where is the media downplaying the situation and placing fault on the cyclist?

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Permalink Reply by David on January 17, 2012 at 2:53pm

That reminds me of playing "bike crash" when I was a kid.  We'd find a target, say a group of trash cans or something, ride towards them as fast as possible then leap off the bike into the grass at the last moment as the bike crashed into the cans and knocked them over.  Extra points if you leap *over* the target.  If we had had youtube and cell phones back then, I'm sure that half the videos I posted would have been videos of bikes crashing into things.  We found it endlessly entertaining.   

I bet Casey Neistat played the same game.

h' said:

When I was looking for bike-related kid-friendly clips on Youtube for the bike film fest, I had a hard time finding any narrative in which a bicycle didn't crash into something. The "bike"-"crash" connection runs deep in our collective psyche and is drilled into us from an early age.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on January 17, 2012 at 3:30pm

I think the hipster was walking on the sidewalk and tripped over Lego knobbies sticking up. They may have modeled this after a Chicago sidewalk.

iggi said:

looks like the lego bike is hipster color coordinated! 

 

but where is the obnoxiously large SUV that hit the cyclist?

 

where is the media downplaying the situation and placing fault on the cyclist?

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