The other day I blogged about an unpleasant encounter with an enraged, bicycle-hating motorist. That very night, I learned about the Morgan Stanley money manager who ran over a bicyclist and then fled the scene, leaving his victim for dead. You know, the Morgan Stanley money manager the local district attorney decided not to prosecute for felony hit-and-run. Because he’s rich. Yeah, that guy.
I guess I’m lucky. My antagonist might have been a rich guy, in which case he could have run me down and gotten clean away with it. Such is life in the American class system.
I was inspired to put together a little poster on the subject: