Brooklyn is Stealing our Yellow Bike Idea, Except Replace “Bike” with “Umbrella”

Posted by Thor on November 30th, 2007 10 Comments

THEY ARE THIEVES FOR STEALING OUR IDEA! [NYT]

Actually, it’s pretty cool that C-Ville gets compared with the likes of Brooklyn, Portland, Copenhagen, Paris and Lyon.

The New York Times blogger, Jake Mooney, used to work in Charlottesville. Does anyone know where?

He writes:

Maybe it’s the color yellow or maybe it’s the spirit of sharing, but when I heard about the program my first thought was of Charlottesville, Va., where I worked as a reporter several years ago.

Charlottesville, for a brief time, had a similar program, but with bikes: Volunteers painted old bikes yellow, fixed them up, left them at a few hubs around town, and let people take it from there, riding the bikes and, it was hoped, leaving them for others when they were done.

Anyway, check the article. It’s a good read. Too bad we don’t have yellow bikes. But how else can we top the Yellow free, shared stuff…

Wigs

Hover Craft

Poofy Jackets (for cold days)

I’m out… help!

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10 Responses to “Brooklyn is Stealing our Yellow Bike Idea, Except Replace “Bike” with “Umbrella””

  1. 30 Nov 2007 at 4:16 pm1Dave said:

    Mooney worked at the Daily Progress for a number of years.

  2. 30 Nov 2007 at 5:35 pm2Horatio said:

    Apparently Mooney did not know that Charlottesville stole the idea from Portland, OR (or some other city on the west coast), which in turn stole it from countless cities in Europe.

    Makes sense that Mooney used to work for the Daily Progress, as fact checking has not ever been at the top of the reporter’s creed there. Surprising he can get away with it at the NYT…

  3. 30 Nov 2007 at 5:37 pm3Horatio said:

    Perhaps I should have read the column at the NYT before posting, as Mooney did in fact acknowledge the other cities before Charlottesville. Talk about not fact checking…

  4. 30 Nov 2007 at 7:56 pm4Floozy said:

    Suggestions for community pooling of free (aka ‘Yellow Stuff’) that could be left in corrals around town and used as needed if one is in a terrible bind:
    Grandmothers
    Pogo Sticks
    Novelty shaped Corn-on-the-Cob skewers
    Wart Removing Band-Aids
    Magnums of chilled Veuve Cliquot
    (and YES I have been drinking…)

  5. 30 Nov 2007 at 7:57 pm5Floozy said:

    … And I have it on the best authority that Mooney is a total arse.
    LMFAO

  6. 30 Nov 2007 at 9:35 pm6sock puppet said:

    rain coats
    my belly
    circus horns

  7. 01 Dec 2007 at 11:35 am7Kevin Cox said:

    Yellow Ducati 999s.
    It would show our Italian sister city how much we admire their culture.

  8. 01 Dec 2007 at 11:45 am8Starks said:

    I wasn’t in Charlottesville for the yellow bike fiasco, but I love seeing the trickle-down of yellow bicycle components that have ended up on so many kids’ bikes.

    Yellow pogo sticks is an awesome idea.

  9. 02 Dec 2007 at 11:39 am9Thor said:

    Floozy - Veuve.. YES, I like the way you think.

  10. 02 Dec 2007 at 1:46 pm10belmont yo said:

    test

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