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May 6, 2005
March of Dimes Walk 2005 (1)
Part of our fundraising weekend took place Saturday at the March of Dimes Walk. It started as a chilly, cloudy day. I convinced Karen to wear shorts, but we were both miserable for the first hour and a half, before the sun came out. The thing I couldn't believe was that PETA was protesting the walk. "Who protests helping babies?" was the refrain from our group. The protesters lined up at the start of the walk with signs displaying scads of dead animals. There was a billboard on a truck that showed baby monkeys and a grizzled old guy claiming to be a doctor who screamed about "kittens with their heads cut off" into a mega-phone.
But the March of Dimes folks had it all mapped out. As the walk started, and the protesters donned their safety-orange vests and blew whistles that had a screech of amazing proportions, an even larger group of March of Dimes folks moved in front of the protestors with their own signs. Many of the signs had pictures of a little boy or girl and the words "(insert gender appropriate name here) Thanks You." The Pro-protestors cheered walkers onward.
So there are 10,000 people on this walk. We are all walking along White Rock Lake. Near Karen and me at one point is a woman pulling her 2 children in a wagon. Wham! Some 55-plus (And quite crotchety, I might add) guy on a bike going the opposite direction of this large crowd runs into her. "Damn, lady!" He yells, "I tried to miss you!" He then gets back on his back and pedals onward into the oncoming crowd. The kids are unhurt, but the woman falls to the ground crying...scared and in shock at what has just happened.
On another note, there were two great things about this walk: 1) We ran into an old friend, Kevin, getting the chance to catch up with him. 2) I realized that when you are on decent shape, five miles is a cakewalk!
Protesters and Pro-Protesters!
10,000 Strong!
It's a Good Idea to Ride Against This Crowd
Posted by Rich at May 6, 2005 4:36 PM
Comments
WTF - I'm with you. Why protest March of Dimes? Also, would you ride your bike against a crowd of 10,000? Some people are just STUPID!!!
Posted by: jeremy at May 6, 2005 11:40 AM
