Twisted Sisters
A few days a go a woman was hit by a car in the middle of Orangethorpe Avenue. She died at the scene. Here’s the dispassionate police department version of events.
Notice that there is mention of a bicycle, however, the now deceased woman wasn’t riding it, but walking it across the street for some reason, presumably to get to the other side.
Now here’s how the same press release appeared in the Kennedy Sister’s Fullerton Observer, purveyors of independent “journalism.”
Notice how the FPD is credited with verbiage that isn’t in their press release. It has obviously been re-written. But by whom?
The dead woman is identified in the Observer headline as a bicyclist even though she wasn’t riding it when killed. We can already see where this is going, since we know that her possession of a bike at the time of her death is irrelevant regarding the facts of the incident.
This is the way of the Kennedy Sisters. Start off with your own narrative then create “facts” to fit it.
Take a jaywalker and turn her into a bicyclist-martyr. Then project the “tragedy” and the “grief” into a policy objective that fulfills your narrative. It’s twisted. And embarrassing when it becomes obvious you are oblivious to real facts.
And, being the Observer, the comments are part of the inevitable plot development.
Phil M.
That is usually the case and there were also bike lanes here too. The person in question was not going anywhere else but going to the other side of Orangethorpe. It is a foolish risky mistake lots of jaywalkers and “jaybikers” make without using an intersection with traffic lights.
EDITOR NOTE: According to police the bicyclist was walking her bike in the number one eastbound lane which is a designated bike lane when she was hit by the car.
Responding to a previous commenter, Phil M reminds us that there are bike lanes in Orangethorpe and addresses the jaywalking issue. the unnamed “Editor Note” says the victim was in the “designated bike lane” when hit.
So Phil M. responds with some facts and addresses some obviously erroneous conclusions made by “Editor.”
Phil M.
TO THE EDITOR: The number 1 lane is the lane closest to the center of the street. The lane for bicyclists is the ‘bike lane’ obviously, which the one closest to the sidewalk. Are you telling me that this person was riding their bicycle in the center of the street for travel?
EDITOR: Oh! You are absolutely right about that. The number one lane is the one closest to centerline. Thank you for that correction. So she was walking her bike across Orangethorpe when the car and truck hit her.
So “Editor” has finally clued in to the facts of the situation, (or is pretending to) but of course “Editor” will not observe that this is not a bike safety issue at all.
But in the meantime, Sharon Kennedy has chimed in by name, with the usual handwringing, still unaware, that as usual, she doesn’t know what the Hell she’s talking about.
Sharon K
Condolences to her family for this tragic loss.
This is another good reason to make a dedicated bike lane all across Orangethorpe. Reduce cars to the other three lanes. Let’s name the new bike lane after her. Other cities are creating safe bike lanes – why can’t we?
- Phil M.If you look on Google Maps in Street View, there are in fact bike lanes on both sides of Orangethorpe in that section. The person who crossed the street was NOT using the bike line to go east to west or west to east. They were crossing at a place without traffic lights get to the other side of Orangethorpe. Lots of people foolishly risk their lives to jaywalk and “jaybike” all the time in places like these quite often.
As we see, Phil M. is now well-aware of what he is dealing with – an emotional, fact-creating ideologue, and he feels constrained to point out real facts to Kennedy.
There are dedicated bike lanes on both sides of Orangethorpe already. There is no need for a “new” one and even less reason to name it after somebody who wasn’t riding a bike or even obeying traffic laws when she died. It would make just as much sense to name it after the poor guy from Westminster who gets to carry this avoidable death with him for life.
And of course there is the perfect comment by one of the few people still permitted or interested in commenting on the Observer blog: “Amy.”
Amy
This is absolutely horrible and I am so saddened for this person and their family. No one deserves to die in such a senseless way. Please Fullerton, let’s build proper bike infrastructure so this never has to happen again.
Poor Amy had reflexively swallowed the bait the morning of the post, to pursue the obvious bike propaganda slant. Needless to say, she hasn’t yet returned to explain how this “senseless” accident could have been avoided by building “proper” bike infrastructure.
If you can’t report the news, try to make it. If you can’t make it, make it up.
Yeah, I wonder who re-wrote that police press release. It sure wasn’t the cops’ PIO.
It must have been Skaskia who is semi-literate. And the older sister rode in to save the day, but only made things worse.
I wonder what those two sisters talk about over dinner on Brookdale Place.
Turning an unrelated tragedy into bike propaganda.
This episode reminds me of the brainless linking of bicycle this or that into the idiotic Wank on Wilshire. The mindset is the same: bikes uber alles no matter the stupidity.
This Observer thing is NOT a “newspaper”. Sorry “Dr.” Charles, no sale!
I want to see her turn into the Wicked Witch.
I freely admit that I might have missed something, but after rereading the initial police report a number of times, I can’t find any mention of the victim walking ACROSS the street. While this is a reasonable, and very likely correct, assumption, the actual police report simply says the person was walking in the number one lane.
Where did the ‘walking across the street’ info originate?
Good point. I attributed something I thought was common sense but you are right. There’s nothing other than she was “in” the lane.
“…since we know that her possession of a bike at the time of her death is irrelevant regarding the facts of the incident.”
Exactly. She might have been Catholic. Or a Rotarian. Or Zimbabwean. But no mention by the Kennedy Sisters.
Zimbabwe? Has anyone seen Barney lately? Last I heard he was teaching computer science in Harare.
Barney is from New Guinea.
Thanks Peabody for pointing out the agenda machine that Fullerton Observer is now. Kennedys were not elected, yet they act like a 6th member of our council by doctoring official press releases to fit their world view and publishing nonsense like this: https://fullertonobserver.com/2024/12/13/fair-mayor-rotation-council-member-hello-goodbye/
That’s the alert. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will come next week.
Fiends for Fullerton’s Failure has an agenda. NIMBYist, anti-government, anti-Democrat, anti public works, anti-public servant, anti fire-fighter, anti-union, anti-educator, anti-D5. Is there anything you all are actually for? You just seem really negative, 100% of the time.
Poor Johnny, boohooing all over himself, again. Go work the wood and be happy.
No Hogie, FFFF’ers are not NIMBYs. It’s the obverse, they are anti YIYBY (Yes In Your Back Yard)
The ironic thing is that the Kennedy Klan doesn’t understand the problem with re-writing somebody else’s press release. It’s completely unethical.
I suppose some Fiends were the ones trolling the dead woman’s memory and her family.
That was ugly.
Sharon and Saskia are mother and daughter and both are stupid. Sharon ‘s father , the chronically unemployable, bicycle boy-man rode his bike all over his neighborhood in Fullerton to fight injustice and champion the underdog; the usual Grapes of Wrath fodder. Sharon and Saskia have an emotional attachment to bike lanes as boy-man frequently whined to city council members about lack of bike lanes. If you only go around in life once, then Ralphie the boy-man went in peripatetic circles.
Sharon and Skaskia are sisters.
And you are wrong about Ralph. He was gainfully employed by the military and military contractors. It bought the house that the sisters live in.
He was laid off from his aerospace job in late 1960’s and his house was sold to his son, Rusty. His house was on Richman Ave.. Sharon is mother to Saskia.
They must be sisters.
Why so adamant they must be sisters? Is this the story Sharon and or Saskia telling others?
They seem so similar it makes sense that they fell out of the same nest.
Sharon K
December 21, 2024 at 8:21 am
“Fr Kris – I loved how you started the meeting on such a note of inclusion and a call for the community to come together and be kind to each other.
I wish I had kept my temper in check and not yelled “disinformation “ during Bushala’s public comment attacking Zahra.
Sharon Kennedy, so you know, you also yelled, “That’s a lie. Lies…he’s lying”.
Witness list:
Police Chief
City Council
John Q. Public
Etc.
A public assault on George A. Bushala. Check.
Sharon, you cant run from the truth….just like getting dog poop on your shoe and trying to run away so it doesn’t stink. But, no matter how hard you try that smell never goes away till you admit you got poop on your shoe. and, admit it’s your own fault.
The image of Sister Sharon trying to out run the dog shit stuck to the bottom of her shoe is hilarious.