Well, we got this message from LZP and then there was a delay in posting because we were fooling around in iphoto and didn’t know if we had a before and after shot or not. So finally we just posted the peeps, the spam and the perp.

Here we are preparing Peeps-ka-bobs, You can see the little ghostie peeps are happy next to the spam cubes on a stick and under the little spam blanket waiting to get warm and snuggily in the microwave

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The kids were talking yesterday about a moment of silence that had been observed at school for someone who had died in a cycling accident. This morning I was looking it up on the Internet when I came across another article. You have heard of people who have Googled “How to commit murder” on their computers, well, this might be of interest to them

This article is about a cyclist in Britain who while cycling at a high rate of (cycle) speed, saw a young woman ahead of him and shouted, “Move because I am not stopping.” I don’t know if her reflexes were off or if she was just shocked by the impending event, but she didn’t move and he hit her . . . and killed her when she hit her head on the pavement. The cyclist admitted in court that he could have avoided her or slowed down. He did neither.

The cyclist was fined about 2,200 pounds. That’s it. I investigated to see if there was a follow-up to the way this unfolded but I couldn’t really find much other than her parents were outraged.

So, theoretically, a hit man could take his victim to a jurisdiction in Britain, maneuver them into a street, shout, “Move because I am not stopping” and run them down. Would this work with a car? Would it work with a gun? “Move or I am going to shoot you?” Let’s cover ourselves here: We are on a shooting range and people have been warned not to cross a certain point. But one does, and we see him. Let’s say he walks over and stands in front of the target. We see him before we are anywhere near pulling the trigger, but we choose to yell, “Move because I am going to shoot.” Do we just pay a fine?

What if the person in the street had been a child, old enough to understand the warning of “Move because I am not stopping” but not old enough to do anything but freeze in fear and confusion?

Or someone sits down at a table in the cafe and we say, “Move your foldover or we will sprinkle arsenic on it” and they leave the foldover where it is?

It just seems that this deliberate hitting was, uh, wrong?  He could have hopped off his bike and begun a tirade about people getting in bike lanes, hopped up and down and swore. But he powered right into her.

And for him everything was fine(d).