“A Brooklyn man is bemoaning his fate, despite admitting going through three red lights while wearing headphones and riding his bicycle. Should he be? It’s hard to love all the world’s cyclists. It isn’t so much that they’re sometimes sanctimonious about the environment. It’s that too many bathe in the self-righteousness of the Ferrari driver, so much so that stop signs and red lights don’t exist in their exalted firmament, especially when they’re wearing headphones. My tears go on sit-down strike, therefore, at the plight of 24-year-old Daniel Greer. Greer confessed to riding through three red lights in Brooklyn, his headphones firmly in his ears. He was stopped by police and given four tickets. However, he is now weeping to the New York Daily News that the money demanded by the authorities far exceeds his minor excesses. ‘I know what I did was wrong and I understand that’s the penalty, I just think it’s astronomical,’ he told the Daily News.” w/ photos
