Comedy in NYC: Hipsters vs. Hasids

[Cowlesy]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/bike_war_paint_g7EizkFEZktV3IlNUJosQM


The hipsters just will not let their bike lanes go.

Groups of bicycle-riding vigilantes have been repainting 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways ever since the city sandblasted their bike lanes away last week at the request of the Hasidic community.

The Hasids, who have long had a huge enclave in the now-artist-haven neighborhood, had complained that the Bedford Avenue bike paths posed both a safety and religious hazard.

Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained.


Two cycling advocates were apprehended by the Shomrim Patrol, a Hasidic neighborhood watch group, as they repainted a section of bike lane at 3:30 a.m. yesterday, but when cops arrived, no one was arrested and no summonses were issued, police said.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/bike_war_paint_g7EizkFEZktV3IlNUJosQM#ixzz0Z6dlB4Q 2

[Dunedain]

This is the first time I've heard of a Jewish organization saying they want LESS diversity. Wow, I guess when it comes to their own neighborhoods they think unity is more of a strength.

Unity for them. Diversity for the rest of us.

[Cowlesy]

This is the first time I've heard of a Jewish organization saying they want LESS diversity. Wow, I guess when it comes to their own neighborhoods they think unity is more of a strength.

Unity for them. Diversity for the rest of us.

pffft.

Admit it, you want one of those hats that guy has on in the picture.

[constituent]

I guess the more important point here is


Groups of bicycle-riding vigilantes have been repainting 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways ever since the city sandblasted their bike lanes away last week at the request of the Hasidic community.


that the city advocates the right not to be offended.


Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress.

At least they can admit to the humanity of us lesser beings. Even if it's only in small, perverse ways...

[constituent]

Admit it, you want one of those hats that guy has on in the picture.

That is pimp.

edit to add:

She's kinda cute. Maybe they should stop bitching and open a bike shop?

[haaaylee]

This doesn't get rid of the bike riders. You just move them from the bike lanes to the car lanes, which is far more dangerous. And annoying to drivers. They (We) and are half-dressed selves (wtf is up with that? do they not have blinds in that neighborhood?) are still going to be taking that street to get where we want.


also, that girl is going to wrong way on a one-way street . . .

[legion]

I liked the bike snobs description of this...
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-getting-around-it-cycling-and.html

He called it the "Great Hipster Silk Route."

[talkingpointes]

Better hipsters then hippies. Plus I can sympathize with the cyclist, I consider myself one. Although I have considerably less flair in my daily attire.

[Dieseler]

This is some funny shit.
From the comments:

According to McGraw-Hill's Cynic's Dictionary:

JEWS: A race like any other, only more so.

[james1906]

"Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained. "

It's ok Mordechai, boobies are G-d's gift to you.

[BenIsForRon]

It's ok Mordechai, boobies are G-d's gift to you.

Amen