Forget cars on cycle-tracks, this guy takes it to a whole new level

[ShawnoftheDread]

@thucydides 38597 wrote:

How about driving on a bridge path: http://www.marinij.com/larkspurcortemadera/ci_22218398/larkspur-man-way-dmv-wedges-his-car-into?source=most_emailed

The tow truck driver “said that if there was a sign marking the pedestrian pathway, he didn’t see it.”

This seems to be the path entrance in question.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=37.939375,-122.516801&spn=0.000004,0.001725&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.939375,-122.516801&panoid=aKusCrjHzfgMdNS1e3Pjwg&cbp=12,46.96,,0,0

[Certifried]

@ShawnoftheDread 38604 wrote:

The tow truck driver “said that if there was a sign marking the pedestrian pathway, he didn’t see it.”

This seems to be the path entrance in question.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=37.939375,-122.516801&spn=0.000004,0.001725&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=37.939375,-122.516801&panoid=aKusCrjHzfgMdNS1e3Pjwg&cbp=12,46.96,,0,0

how did he get up that spiral bikepath?!! They better give the old man his license after pulling that off, I couldn’t even do it sober!

[Certifried]

http://goo.gl/maps/xaTGT

that looks to me like exactly where he was stuck. Backup out of street view and moving south a bit, you can almost see how it could be mistaken for an access road of some sort… if you’re half blind…. and 87… driving an old toyota with dirty windows.

[baiskeli]

“He said the incident occurred when he was on his way to the DMV office in Corte Madera to drop off the results of an eye exam. The DMV made him get tested when he tried to renew his license recently.”

Well, yeah.

[jabberwocky]

Makes me think of the “Grey Dawn” episode of South Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Dawn

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Certifried 38612 wrote:

http://goo.gl/maps/xaTGT

that looks to me like exactly where he was stuck. Backup out of street view and moving south a bit, you can almost see how it could be mistaken for an access road of some sort… if you’re half blind…. and 87… driving an old toyota with dirty windows.

I see how you could drive up to the trailhead and say “hmmm, clearly this isn’t a road, guess I’ll turn around”, but I’m betting he just said “screw it…I’m old and I’ll do whatever the hell I want!”

http://goo.gl/maps/oo0VX

[DaveK]

@TwoWheelsDC 38617 wrote:

“screw it…I’m old and I’ll do whatever the hell I want!”

http://goo.gl/maps/oo0VX

Sounds like someone’s been watching Florida drivers.

[consularrider]

@Certifried 38608 wrote:

how did he get up that spiral bikepath?!! They better give the old man his license after pulling that off, I couldn’t even do it sober!

Nah, probably just got on the path from the apaptly named “Lucky” Drive where there is no barrier or signage. Note the dirt track down to the water on the left, he could have just as easyily have ened up drowned!

[KLizotte]

The trail needs a bollard! As an act of charity, I think the citizens of Arlington should send them one of our’s.

We really need to look deep into our soul’s on this one.

Let’s send them a bollard, tis the season after all.

[consularrider]

@KLizotte 38642 wrote:

The trail needs a bollard! As an act of charity, I think the citizens of Arlington should send them one of our’s.

We really need to look deep into our soul’s on this one.

Let’s send them a bollard, tis the season after all.

It would have had to have been one of the old style (or maybe one of the many surplus ones around the Wilson Bridge?) since the new ones would just bend over.

[KLizotte]

@consularrider 38671 wrote:

It would have had to have been one of the old style (or maybe one of the many surplus ones around the Wilson Bridge?) since the new ones would just bend over.

I’m sure the Wilson bridge could spare one.

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