From: Tom Kunich <cyclintom@...>
Subject: Re: [CCC_Bicycle_Club] Fw: Incident on Mines Rd..
To: "CCC Yahoo Groups" <CCC_Bicycle_Club@yahoogroups.com>, "Michael F. Lynch" <lynchmf1@...>
Cc: "Fred Hoffman" <hoffman@...>, "Ray Varanese" <rvbike@...>
Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 2:55 PM

My hope is that they are chastised but not too badly slapped around. It sounds like they were being normal smart-assed teenagers. No paint in the paint gun suggests that they didn't think that it was dangerous - only mischievous. If you push such things too far you make enemies instead of correcting behavior.               Tom --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Michael F. Lynch <lynchmf1@comcast. net> wrote: From: Michael F. Lynch <lynchmf1@comcast.. net> Subject: [CCC_Bicycle_Club] Fw: Incident on Mines Rd. To: "CCC Yahoo Groups" <CCC_Bicycle_ Club@yahoogroups .com> Cc: "Fred Hoffman" <hoffman@alamedanet. net>, "Ray Varanese" <rvbike@gmail. com> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 2:35 PM This is something everyone should know about... - Mike --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Barb Hailey <jb_alaman@yahoo. com> wrote: From: Barb Hailey <jb_alaman@yahoo. com> Subject: [Triple08] Incident on Mines Rd. To: tnt_cycle_alumni@ yahoogroups. com, Triple08@yahoogroup s.com, "Triple Crown 2005 Cyclists" <2005double3x@ yahoogroups. com> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 7:25 AM Hi all,   This story from a fellow GPC cyclist was just posted.  I thought you should all know about it and keep a watch out in that area.  There are more of them out there.   Barb ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *** Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:34:05 -0700 Subject: [GPC] Mines Road From a Lawrence Livemore Lab Cyclotrons member. Yesterday evening (about 5:30 pm), while cycling up Mines road just  south of Tesla Rd I was shot (with paint gun) by a passing vehicle.   At first I thought it might have been a badly timed rock coming off  the vehicle, then I felt the burning sensation, then noticed  passengers in the passing white mustang pop their heads back up from  the back seat and realized I'd been shot.  I wasn't sure if it was a  pellet gun or bb gun.  I immediately flagged down the next vehicle and  asked if they could get the license number of the vehicle but the  mustang had already gone to warp speed so the chances were slim.  I  did not have my phone.  A few minutes later, when the shock wore off,  I realized the weapon was most likely a paint gun (sound was familiar  from my one experience with that sport).  Fortunately it only grazed  my back and was not a direct hit (no paint). This kind of e-mail usually ends with "be on the lookout for..." ....not this time! Remember, I was going south on Mines.  There are not too many escape  routes for the average vehicle. I continued on my ride eventually arriving at the Del Valle kiosk..   Did you see a white mustang come though here in the last half hour? I  asked the attendant.  "sure did" was his reply. That's when the story turns to the cyclist favor. Three troupers, a bunch of park rangers, and a patrol helicopter  narrowed the search quickly. They found the teenagers (white mustang and friends in white pickup)  on the southwest end of the lake, took significant video footage of  them from the air engaging a number of activities to warrant trouble  in court, surrounded them and placed them under arrest in the middle  of the grass field in their wet clothing on a cold evening extracting  a full confession. Turns out at least one of the teenagers actually lives on Collier  Canyon Rd.  He asked the officer if he could apologize to me in  person.  When he did, I shared with him that I have kids his age and I  tried to get him to visualize what he would do if one of my kids had  shot his mom or dad while they were out riding their bike trying to  stay in shape. My hope is that this experience for this group of teenagers serves to  at least reduce the number of aggressive vehicles out there by one  white mustang and one extended cab white pickup, especially in the  area of Collier Canyon and Del Valle/Mines Rd. -Patrick Dempsey