The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.Gotta think there will be more lawsuits over the fatality at the Blakespear Bollards on Leucadia Boulevard and the dozens of crashes in the Blakespear Cycle Trap.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
Susolik, attorney at Santa Ana-based law firm Callahan & Blaine, claimed the sharrow, or shared bicycle lane, constituted a dangerous condition of public property, causing the accident, according to a written statement provided to The Coast News.
Despite wearing her helmet, Walker was critically injured and briefly unconscious when the impact of the collision threw her a significant distance, as first reported by The Coast News.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
City pays $11 million to bicyclist hit in hazardous "sharrow" lane
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It's not that surprising that this blog attracts so many hateful people. The pseudonym WC Varones is a perfect example - a varón translates from spanish as male human, and Varónes is plural, male humans. WC is an acronym for White Christian. He literally named himself White Christian Male Human. He's a fucking bigot to the core. Let's see how long he allows this comment to stay up.
ReplyDeleteJesus man, will you give it a rest. Yeah, we know this blog caters to white, republican males. Everyone knows it - but who the fuck cares? We here to discuss local Encinitas issues, like the Blakespear Bollards and the $$$ they are going to cost us.
Delete1:06 is the perfect example of the new illiteracy -
DeleteIt used to be woe is me when you couldn't take the L
Now, for those that find themselves completely void of any intelligence, literacy, or common sense just tell everyone you meet they're raaaayyyyssssis...
Garbage human
1:25- lame.
DeleteAnonymous at 1:06 pm You have the meaning of "varón" correct, although "male" might be a better translation. But that's only part of deciphering the name. I won't spill the beans in order to protect the identity of the blogger. I figured it out years ago, although I don't know who the blogger is.
DeleteSo, someone in a pickup hits a person on a bicycle before the sun is up...and that is the fault of the City of Encinitas taxpayers??
ReplyDeleteComplete insanity and stupidity. Where is the money coming from?
Ohhh' that's right...never mind. Us taxpayers will "sharrow" our money with the buffoon riding before sunrise.
Imagine how mad WC would be if the bicyclist was brown or black.
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Deletehuman waste
Garbage human ^^^
ReplyDeleteAgreed. WC is gross.
DeleteThe mayor should cough up some of the settlement considering she barfed all over the press with her "known issue" lies about that stretch of road that strengthened Walker's case. Walker blew it plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteI told all you fools that existing hazard would cost the city more to keep it in its existing hazardous condition, than it will be to address the hazard. I knew it would be between $10 to 20 million.
ReplyDeleteNext we have Stephanie who was hit the year before walker. Lets say another $10 million. Than we have the fatality on Leucadia Blvd with faulty bollard placement lets say another $10 million, Than what about all the future deaths along the N.C Highway 101?
After all that, we still have the same hazardous conditions existing today. Everyone knows you do not put sharrows on a highway designed for highway speeds. See- It would be cheaper to fix the known hazard and put in the needed bicycle lane.
The taxpayers are f'd until the City addresses that existing hazard. Who's kid will be next?
Is this good City Leadership ? And why do we have the $11 million dollar Pacific View with huge long term capital, maintenance and operations costs?
Oh yeah, ignore all the above and lets hire two more staff to invite even more homeless to encinitas and then we can report on how we are addressing all there impact on criminal behavior, and negative impacts to residents, businesses, and everyones quality of life. Is this good leadership?
8:04 - Thanks for your know-it-all comments you dick.
Delete8:04 you are 100 percent correct. Thank you.
Delete10:22 - Why are you thanking me? I didn't cause all this. You can save your thanks to the City leaders.
ReplyDeleteOh and don't worry there are plenty more claims to pay on the same stretch of hazardous roadway, the City has no plans to install the needed bikelanes any time soon. Not only that they added sharrows to another super fast section of highway down in Cardiff. Is that crazy or what?
Please thank your city leaders for giving all your tax dollars to the attorneys. Its a good living for attorneys, ER workers and undertakers in Encinitas.
My prediction, the City will have to raise sales tax in Encinitas another 1% at minimum to keep up with all the lawsuits from future claims on the created hazardous conditions.
I hope it's not your kids that get run down next.
10:37 jeez, do you ever stop jammerin'?
Delete10:54 - Lets see it is a blog and I am talking about an issue that cost the City over $10 million dollar and ruined the lives of the previous executive director of the mainstreet and was trying to do the right thing by riding her bike to work verses hoping in a car for every trip which so many lazy Americans are accustom to doing.
DeleteEven more important is all these horrific accidents along the Hw101 would have and the future accidents could be avoided by addressing the known hazard. The city has a plan in place since 2010 to install the needed bicycle lanes, yet they ignored it and instead focused on buying an unneeded facility with Pacific View ($11 million and growing quick), and inviting all the worlds homeless to free living in Encinitas.
You 55% of the voters that voted for BIAspear caused this. Shame, Shame, Shame.
Repent and in 2022 vote ABC.
6:59- Agreed. The City acts like an ostrich on this issue and has its head in the sand (in our case cobbles).
DeleteThe real question is who's kids is going to slaughtered next and get unnecessarily run down by the City Council's lack of action?
Whats the kid's name, what did they enjoy doing, and what did they want to be if they were still alive?
All preventable, and oh so sad. Stay tuned. :(
The attorneys for the plaintiff in the $11 million cyclist riding before dawn, who was hit by an out-of-towner unfamiliar with "sharrow" lanes, say that there is no language that says the Sheriff can't release the accident report on this case. So far, Sheriff won't share it. The city paid no money so far on this case, but city insurance agreed and paid. It will cost more in insurance in future. A much bigger issue is the rich city of Encinitas hiring more employees, is that it is not fully funding their pensions, and the deficit, to date and in years to come, will make this cyclist settlement insignificant.(see city of San Diego deficit) One way of looking at employees, is like most private firms do: calculate and pay pension costs, and if you can't afford that, you don't hire extra employees.
Delete10:37 Again, you idiot, nobody was "run down." 101 between La Costa Ave and Encinitas Blvd is no more hazardous than Enc Blvd to K St, but your brain dead skull has to ignore that fact.
ReplyDeleteRoberta's tragic accident was not at the corner of Phoebe in front of the post office. The photos show it happened about halfway between Phoebe and West Glaucus, south of the exit driveway at the south end of the post office, etc. parking lot.
The Leucadia Blvd/Moonstone Court Blakespear-bollard-caused accident was more tragic because an extremely valuable man died.
10:37- Sorry fool. The attorney's and the City doesn't agree with your BS. They said the City was $11 million liable.
DeleteThe future payouts on deaths and pain and suffering along the hazardous 101 will total over $50 million in 10 years. We could address all the hazards on the roadway and install bike lanes were needed for those costs.
55% of you voted for these fools and now fess up to giving all your money for the death, maimed and their families.
From the alzheimers riddled biden, harris, newsom, moscow and blackspear...Everything they do they destroy. The oddity is, why? Why can't the childlike left do the right thing and not, the wrong thing?
ReplyDeleteNice going voters. In the future try thinking like an adult and not a goofy teenager. We tax payers will soon be 11 mil short in the bank account. Wake up
Next will be the "dingbat with a law degree", harris as president. Time frame? 6 more months. Gawd help us.
Read the comments below the Coast News article. Looks like most if see this situation for what it is. Here's a sample:
ReplyDeleteWhilst I wish Ms Walker well, so much here makes no sense. It wasn’t as if the city had REMOVED a bike lane and replaced it with Sharrows as they have done on the 101 in Cardiff, so where was the negligence?
Compare this with the multiple crashes, surgeries and now a death their ill-advised (by experts) installation of bollards and wheels stops DID cause and where they absolutely have negligence.
It looks as though the city WANTED to make this payment, possibly as it was to a friend and it wasn’t their personal money, or maybe in an attempt to justify their obsession with the genuinely dangerous (evidently) bollards?
With every crash their Cycletraps create I’m baffled how they sleep at night.
Has the "hazard" been abated??
DeleteThe Coast Highway is now Lottery Lane. Due to human miscalculation and error, the municipality now has to shell out compensation for the inevitable screw-ups/mistakes. Encinitas is descending into a fiscal hole with the over paid "leaders" and haphazard decisions that they've been making.
ReplyDeleteWhat a biased piece we've come to expect from the Coast Catherine News. What a set of heart-wrenching photos concluding with the oft used Hinze in a horsey hat. Paper makes good bird liner.
ReplyDeleteBird cage carpet...
DeleteWhen it's something you don't agree with, it's biased. When your candidate loses, the election was stolen. I see a pattern forming.
Delete8:57...know your facts about the election fraud then comment. Learn then write
DeleteUhh, 11:25, there was no election fraud. You were duped, scammed, bamboozled. You were conned by a con man. Deceived by a deceiver. Finessed, duped, burned, bilked, beguiled....
DeleteSo 12:34, several states changed voting regulations without following the Constitution of the U.S that requires those states Legislature to do so? I see. Yep, I've been duped.
DeleteMost states didn't require proof of residence or even if the voter was an America citizen. How could I have been so stupid..
Is an ID to vote constitutionally required? Nope. Was it required by the states? Nope. Was a passport required? Nope.
DeleteYou're just mad because your boy got smoked. Most Americans see Trump for the con-man he is. You just haven't caught up yet, son.
1:25- Stupidity comes naturally to you. MORON! You're so fucking dumb.
Delete1:25, the Constitution was written when you had to be a white landowning elite to vote. It was a small, incestuous population that knew their own kind when the voting poll opened. When obvious injustices aren't addressed by politicians, it's because those politicians have reason to leave a problem unresolved. When they over legislate issues that don't merit attention, it's because those politicians have reason, usually nefarious, to limit one person's liberty in favor of another person.
DeleteWhat ever happened to "assuming a risk", like the signs we have at Beacon's parking lot?
ReplyDeleteNot in todays world. It's always someone else's fault. Example: the poor people that sat at the base of cliff that collapsed, the woman riding a bicycle before the sun came up. All someones else's fault.
DeleteThe spandex dorks prefer blaming their idiocy on everyone else, while crying NOt biKE's fAulT, bEInG dIpshIT Is LEGal, We aRE SAMe As CAR!!
DeleteSo they choose to ride next to each other playing grabass with their buddies rather than use the common sense any 8 year old has and get the fuck out of the way of certain death.
Some people are just helpless, born to wear kooky spandex and be roadkill.
Wrong. The law is the law.
DeleteThe law of reason sez don't ride in the dark, don't wear dark clothing while riding in the dark, don't forget lights on your bike and/or helmet in the dark, and don't cut through parking lots and shoot out onto a road without looking. In the dark. There's your law of physics, too.
DeletetHE LaW iS ThE lAw
DeleteGood luck with that when you're laying in a ditch because your pathetic ass can't survive its way out of a paper bag.
Dumbass
7:49- Your a complete fool. Karma is coming for you with your dangerous outlook on who has the right to use public roads. You are a backwards ass loser.
Delete7:39, you are 100 percent spot on. Thank you
Delete5:59
DeleteDoes shit regardless of how stupid and dangerous it is, because... dErP tHE LaW iS ThE lAw.
Calls others backwards.
Dumbass
The City should mandate a 20 foot distance mandate from the bluff edge. They realize there is a collapse hazard, yet do no safety "regulations"? How then is the public supposed to be informed of the danger? Remember - the public is considered inherently stupid.
DeleteNow for something completely different: Marco ingratiating himself with the E4E folks. He knows which way the wind blow$.
ReplyDelete"...what fuels my optimism is the intersectionality of it all. With more bodies and minds engaging locally on all levels of equity and justice, hopefully we'll see some beautiful synergies emerge."
A prize to whomever can make head or tail of that. I'll figure out how to get it to you, just decipher it please.
In schwierigen Zeiten werden sich dumme Menschen um Ideen scharen, die das Produkt eines Eichhörnchengehirns sind. In diesen Zeiten müssen wir immer daran denken, die alten Leute in der Reihe zu respektieren und nicht zu sehr über Frubs und Schaumschläger zu urteilen.
ReplyDeletedoes that mean more nuts for me?
DeleteTrue 9:18, but you know it's hard to tell which useful idiots are serving which other ones.
DeleteMG manages a previously-unachieved high of "huh?" here. Call it a personal best of sorts.
I am LOLing at the fun and wonderful discourse here!
ReplyDeleteI am really excited today!
I was just hired by the Kamala Harris admin to work at the mexican boarder to ive all the transiters covid tests and masks!
250k poer annum!
I'm a made man!
Spelling is not my strong soot...
Sounds like your optimism is fueled by the intersectionality of it all.
DeleteRacist blog run by a racist doing it's racist thing.
ReplyDeleteWhy not end anonymous comments?
Ending anonymous comments is like asking the Klan to take their hoods off. It's not going to happen.
DeleteRacist? You mean the America hating left. For decades they lure in blacks to think of themselves as victims while all along the leftists are letting in 10s of thousands of hispanics in an "open wall policy". This way the black never gets ahead as the hispanic population far out paces the black.
DeleteTherefore the black "ALWAYS" remains the victim and forever thinks the left is on "their side" because the left states so and hispanics vote left for letting them in the U.S
Pure genius.
10:14 - nice anonymous post, pussy klansman.
DeleteTake heart, 1:14. Gonzalez says "With more bodies and minds engaging locally on all levels of equity and justice, hopefully we'll see some beautiful synergies emerge."
DeleteAt supper what does Mrs. Biden eat with her vegetable?
DeleteSo 1:14. I can't even give someone credit?
DeleteThere it is folks. The America hating left...never happy.
Always miserable. Always calling names and NEVER debating.
The children in adult bodies.
You are on sick f'er. Literally, as opposed to figuratively, to be as clear as possible with one whose comprehension is so limited.
ReplyDeleteYour dementia is obvious. Same repetitive crap every time.
Your range is limited as we can see every day. I pity you, even though you do not deserve even that much consideration.
Same old, same old, day after day. Another democracy hating right winger stewing in his own fecal matter of a life.
Pitiable.
You call your posts a debate. Not even close.
Debates require, oh never mind. It is hopeless to appeal to any sense of humanity in a cretin that has none.
"With more bodies and minds engaging locally on all levels of equity and justice, hopefully we'll see some beautiful synergies emerge." Keep the faith, 5:43.
DeleteThe America hating left is, the enemy within. Want proof?
DeleteOpen borders to turd world peoples, boys on girls teams and all you need to be a a member of the alphabet people, deny biden has Alzheimer's, think everyone is equal like men in womens shelters. Need more? Hmmmm?
The CalCHA bond services the mayor can't wait to retain reeks of sights set on the Pacific View School "asset," as the CalCHA presenter repeats endlessly. Between "asset" and "shovel ready," not to mention the council's clear excitement over getting into the housing funding business, buckle up.
ReplyDeleteThis has the stink of PV school high-density development all over it. Blakespear and now Barth can't wait to "activate" the site.
As our bicyclists are run down and die on our streets, our kids die from Isolation and the roads die from neglect, our City Council focuses on inviting all the homeless and government housing to Encintas.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, but instead of fixing our pot holed filled roads and making them safer, we are doubling the population and crowds in Encinitas and spending $11 million on Pacific View, and another $11 million on their liability pay out on Walker. Wait until Stephanie's family drop their suit and the scientist who was run over on Leucadia Blvd due to improper bollards installation, and lets not even start counting about all the suits coming from the Cardiff blood bath fiasco.
Well at least BIAspear will start building a 5 story affordable section 8 housing with Art Center at Pacific View. That way the City can offer the land for free and really cut the price of the units to an affordable level. But you or I can not buy one. You have to qualify by knowing BIAspear of meeting her criteria.
Is this really what we want?
9:49 Everybody who visits this site wants you to shut the fuck up.
DeleteAnd everyone on this site 11:16 wants you to stop talking to your mother like that.
Delete11:16- Oh lord, I am so glad to meet you. I am glad you have the ability to know what everyone else is thinking. Blessed lord.
ReplyDeleteTo those of us that don not believe you:
I would bet Stephanie Berger-McKenna's family, Roberta Walkers family and freinds,
https://thecoastnews.com/deputies-investigate-hit-and-run-that-left-woman-fighting-for-her-life/
and Dr. Jennings Worleys family and friends may think differently.
https://thecoastnews.com/cyclists-death-inspires-bike-safety-advocates-in-encinitas/
So who is responsible for the unsafe conditions created on these roads? I think it's whoever made the changes that create the hazardous conditions. It seems to me the City would want to address these major risks to stem the blood and fiscal drain in our City.
I am guessing the thousands of parents who have children who have been damaged by SDUHSD horrific response to COVID which remains closed and isolating kids as their mental health crisis roars and takes more and more kids by suicide every day. Major blood on SDUSD Teachers Union hand. I would not be surprised if they get sued for their liability in their damaging actions and major lost of life.
https://abc7news.com/covid-pandemic-teen-mental-health-help-depression-suicide/10407940/
We already heard the teachers union's thoughts on the matter.
F'k em. Its the parents fault for raising all those imbed losers.
Well I'm not sure if all the parents or trial attorneys will agree. I personally do not think causing spiking suicides for our school aged children and all the other damage to the children is right. So sad.
so who lead this failed response to COVID that killed kids?
Newsom and the Teachers Union. Fuck them both.
Please do your part by voting against Newsom in this upcoming recall elections and vote against any union supporting school district board member in any future election. Teachers Unions are the enemy of public education and our children.
-God bless you all and have a nice day
Wow, it's been a full year since the WHO declared a pandemic. For me, it's been a wild ride. I contract with the CDC, and spent part of 2020 in Atlanta, but then ended up in Berlin working with BioNTech on the mRNA vaccine technology. It's basically been 14 hour days in a lab, only to come home and crash for the night, and then back to the lab. I am so glad to be back in San Diego, and see the covid numbers dropping. Hopefully it isn't a head fake, and I don't think it will be if enough people are vaccinated before next winter. Anyway, the point of my comment is, after so many hours spent in a lab in Berlin, I wasn't able to follow local elections. Can someone tell me how Kristin Gaspar did?
ReplyDeletenice. this is the quality content I come here for
DeleteAs Supervisor, Gaspar sat at her desk and sharpened pencils. She was worthless = she Peter Principled at Mayor of Encinitas.
Delete12:23 - thank you sir. It's appreciated.
DeleteGaspar was the epitome of worthless; she was replaced by a highly educated and experienced woman.
DeleteGreat comment 9:22. I knew it was bullshit from the second sentence, but it evoked a cheap chuckle which has a modicum of value. It's the braindead dipshits who replied to your comment that confirm to me that a certain spark of reason has abandoned some people, almost certainly for good. This county is depreciated in the absence of a courageous leader like Gaspar. She stood up at critical times when a bunch of collectivist political turds floated in their punchbowl. May those who bagged on Gaspar on this thread take a good long drink from that shitwater at some near point in time.
DeleteThe law of reason sez don't ride in the dark, don't wear dark clothing while riding in the dark, don't forget lights on your bike and/or helmet in the dark, and don't cut through parking lots and shoot out onto a road without looking. In the dark. There's your law of physics, too.
ReplyDeleteAny bets on the next payout? Higher or lower, depending on the mayor's relationship to the victims.
Damn 9:24. That nailed it.
DeleteJust wait till all the illegals start suing. Don't think they can't? They are coming by the tens of thousands to a neighborhood near you.
ReplyDeleteThank the leftists for the "open wall policy".
Adios...
Just wait until the blacks move into your neighborhood, and come for your daughter. And the browns will take your jobs. And the homos come for/on your husband.
DeleteFEAR PEDDLER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:45 so the left isn't letting tens of thousands in the U.S? Of course they are. You are simply clueless.
DeleteThere isn't an open wall policy. Get in your car, if you own one or borrow your mothers, drive down to the border and hang out. Tell us what you find. Better yet, drive your mothers car fifty miles in from the coast. Heck spend the night out there, let us know how that worked out. Nancy Boy
"They are coming by the tens of thousands to a neighborhood near you."
DeleteThat's your quote. You're a fear peddler, just like Fox News, OAN, and all the other right wing pieces of shit that would rather yell about Dr. Seuss than discuss policy.
So genius, it isn't the truth? And there it is, blaming Fox news for telling the truth. I suppose you think there are only 11 million illegals in the U.S when Yale and Harvard studies show the number to be closer to 26 million.
DeleteDarn that Fox and OAN telling the truth like that. You probably don't think binden has Alzheimers either.
What is it like to live in LaLa land where everything is racist and bigot? Go down to the border hot shot.
10:48 is still wetting the bed... Mommy will be back after the bar closes...the scary stories about brown people are not true... it will ok... try to breath and find a good podcast. Something other than OAN, Newsmaxiepad or Fox... You're already ranting, no need to dial it up any higher.
Deleteit's funny how the hordes of boogeymen brown people are always coming, but they never seem to get here. makes me wonder if the fox/oan sheep have been tricked...
DeleteGawd spare us from our very own Dr. Demento and his daily rantings.
ReplyDeleteDementia is his calling card.
Where is his support for our democracy? Never mind. He is a kool aid drinking right wing republican buying everything overlord masters dish out.
!35pm Thanks for calling this piece of work out for his endlessly repetitive ravings.
I hope more will speak up and call this subhuman out every time.
I'll take Gaspar's Peter Principle performance over Blakespear's aggressive pursuit of a hidden agenda any day.
ReplyDelete7:14/2:02 You embody the dangerous combination of stupid and ignorant. If you weren't so stupid, you'd learn the truth before you post so your posts wouldn't show your ignorance. On top of your stupidity and ignorance, you're a bigot. Your anonymity saves you from embarrassment, humiliation and condemnation by name and location.
ReplyDelete4:33 - your message is ineffectual. It reads like this:
Delete"You are dumb and stupid and not smart. Plus! you are a stupid, dumb racist. Your dumb stupid post is an embarrassment, humiliation, and shameful". This finger wagging is not that good. Try spicing it up with some more flowerful wording... you do not need to go to "hamster-dick" in the first round, just keep it in your pocket for now.
Good luck to you with your future posts.
10:22 You are 7:14/2:02 or equally stupid and ignorant.
DeleteReport from the U.S Border Patrol from last night.
ReplyDelete5,000 to 7,000 PER DAY pouring across the border.
Gotta' love that open wall policy.
And, for the bed wetters, you better get some training from a certified instructor and learn to fire a weapon, you are going to need it. Don't think so? Keep living in LaLa land with your leader, the vegetable biden.
The migrant teenagers will be attracted to the local gangs, as that would be the closest association to a family pattern. Presumably, the younger children might also eventually gravitate in that direction, unless there is some family structure already in the country. The lack of a cohesive border policy has plagued every Administration for decades and it is likely to continue.
DeleteThe Trump admin had a very good handle on it. Now?
DeleteNope, the vegetables handlers opened the gates.
5:51 brings up good points. I tend to agree. I believe crime will be spiking with the brain dead Biden administration.
DeleteGive people free money and no job and they have tons of time on their hands to think about how much better those other people have it better than they do. Results, propests and increased crime.
5:51 sums it up best, the lack of a cohesive border policy has plagued every Administration for decades and it is likely to continue. Unfortunately, I do not see this administration up to the task.
*protests and increased crime.
DeleteSo all you critics and doomsayers, got a solution?
DeleteYeah... Keep it the way it is today. Make it harder to become a citizen and register immigrants through visas but don't have a path to citizenship. That will slow down the migration. Most are coming here for the free lunch.
DeleteViolent crime has been on a downward trend for the past 30 years. It went way down under Obama, and actually trended up a bit under Trump during his last two years.
DeleteThe way it is today is terrible. Why keep it that way? The system needs total reform. People are coming because they're desperate. Part of the solution is to get help to the countries the people are coming from. If life were bearable there, the people wouldn't be coming here.
DeleteThe US government does have a program to fund private charities that do direct service to the populations; it is rather low-funded tho. If you give money to the corrupt Latin American governments, it goes no further than the politicians pockets.
DeleteSo why aren't the local news channels covering the increased children suicides in north county?
ReplyDeleteI heard there was over three local school age suicides last week alone and every week suicides are spiking above the prior covid baseline. Are the local news channels in bed with the local teachers union? Where are our local reporters?
There is not much more important to me than supporting our future generations. Our youth are under major attack today with human trafficking and the teachers union attacking our children's health.
Thousands of parents have children who have been damaged by SAN DIEGUITO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (SDUHSD) horrific response to COVID which remains closed and isolating kids as their mental health crisis roars and takes more and more kids by suicide every day. Major blood on SDUHSD Teachers Union hand. I would not be surprised if they get sued for their liability in their damaging actions and major lost of life.
https://abc7news.com/covid-pandemic-teen-mental-health-help-depression-suicide/10407940/
We already heard the teachers union's thoughts on the matter.
F'k em Its the parents fault for raising all those imbed losers.
Well I'm not sure if all the parents or trial attorneys will agree. I personally do not think is right to allow lazy lemon union teachers to spiking suicides for our school aged children. This is so sad.
so who lead this failed response to COVID that killed kids?
Newsom and the Teachers Union. Fuck them both.
Please do your part by voting against Newsom in this upcoming recall elections and vote against any union supporting school district board member in any future election. Teachers Unions are the enemy of public education and our children.
Please act today and send an email to the failing SAN DIEGUITO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT explaining that you care about your children's health and you demand the district fully open the schools at once. If some teachers do not want to teach, let them stay off campus. They are likely worthless anyway. Make teachers are optional because many do not provide any value at all anyway. OPEN the schools now!
Never have our youth been so under attack. To all you lawyers that care about children's health, please start a class action law suit against the horrific teachers union. For all you parents, please send an email today to the Board of Trustees NOW:
Maureen.Muir@sduhsd.net
Melisse.Mossy@sduhsd.net
Kristin.Gibson@sduhsd.net
Michael.Allman@sduhsd.net
Katrina.Young@sduhsd.net
https://www.sduhsd.net/Our-District/Board-of-Trustees/index.html
Thank you for caring and thank you for acting!
I appears that many of you need to listen to Dennis Prager. Or, go to PragerU.com. Get your minds right.
ReplyDeleteAnd especially you that think the green new deal is a deal.
In 1996 Prager testified in Congress in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act. Prager testified that "the acceptance of homosexuality as the equal of heterosexual marital love signifies the decline of Western civilization."
DeleteDennis Prager can FUCK OFF.
Has anyone married a dog yet? "It appears that many of you need to listen to Dennis Prager"...Yeah, you younger selfish pricks who think you are superior than "The Others" by birthright.
Delete1:50 Prager is very religious, it their belief. Frankly I don't care if you marry your mother. Your response speaks volumes.
ReplyDeletePrager wants to limit the constitutional rights of American citizens. He is a raging bigot. If you support him, you are supporting a hate monger. It's high time we called out these people. Hiding behind religion is no excuse.
DeleteI am not sure about all of this Prager business but I can tell you fer sure that his meatless burgers are disgusting. They are a mix of wet, moldy cardboard and hay. A pretzel roll is a delicious, mustard-provoking breadstuff but its' charms cannot hide the pressed vomit that is Prager.
Delete.... we are discussing Dr. Prager - right?
5:09. I think you are a tab bit confused. Bigot? Hardly
DeletePerhaps if you spend some time online at Prager U, you may find yourself enlightened. They cover many topics.
Always remember that any one person isn't right about everything. A Jew that's a bigot...that's priceless.
Wow, 6:23, you're a dumb one. Maybe it's all the online Prager U.
DeleteAre you implying that only white people can be bigots?
Jews can be just as big of bigot as any other group. Do you know how many times I've heard old Jewish grandparents use the word schvartze?
Dennis Prager wants to limit the constitutional rights of fellow Americans, to the point that he testified in Congress. This should disgust you.
Regarding the $11 MUSD settlement. The math should be shared with taxpayers. This amount is not aligned with reality. If you want a view of reality - take a look at the oil patch and how employees injured at their job site are compensated. Their claims are very different from a person riding a bike into a traffic lane, in the dark, without lights. How is the city responsible for this ladies mistake? There is no guarantee of safety with a Shared Lane ------------- Tragic -yes - but not the Cities fault.
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A Sampling of Verdicts and Settlements – Justin Williams, Lawyer
Disclaimer: The facts of every case are different so please understand that results obtained in these matters may or may not be relevant to your circumstance. These cases are examples offered only to demonstrate attorney Justin Williams’ track record.
Confidential Settlement: $7,000,000
Oil Refinery Contractor Plant Injury
Plaintiff was employed by defendant general contractor and injured by actions of subcontractor that resulted in flash fire – explosion burn injuries. 1st and 2nd degree burns. After attorney’s fees and expenses client received $4,574,502.
Confidential Settlement: $3,500,000
Oil Field Explosion
Plaintiff had 2nd and 3rd degree burns, PTSD, and diminished capacity from an oil field explosion and fire. After expenses, medical liens, and attorney’s fees client received $1,760,883.
Confidential Settlement: $3,500,000
Oil Rig Blowout
Plaintiff severely burned in blowout on a North Dakota oil rig. After expenses, medical liens, and attorney’s fees client received $1,293,186.
Confidential Settlement: $3,055,500
Oil Field Injury
Burn injuries on oil rig blowout in North Dakota. After medical liens, expenses, and attorney’s fees client received $1,226,122.
Confidential Settlement: $1,500,000
Gas Processing Plant Wrongful Death
Plaintiff was mother of a 26 year old who was killed at a gas processing plant. He was at the oil processing plant replacing lines when exposed to H2s gas. After expenses and attorney’s fees client received $810,500.
Confidential Settlement: $1,190,000
Offshore Injury
Plaintiff was injured in an offshore oil industry incident involving burns and physical trauma to multiple areas of the body. After attorney’s fees and expenses client received $742,677.
Confidential Settlement: $1,000,000
Oil Field Explosion and Fire
Case on behalf of the parents of a 19 year old on his first day working in the oil field, killed in an explosion and fire. After attorney’s and expenses client received $563,520.
Confidential Settlement: $1,000,000
Oil Field Injury
Plaintiff lost finger in an oil field incident. After attorney’s fees and expenses, client received $536,500.
Confidential Settlement: $910,000
Products Liability
Plaintiff was a 19 year old injured in a motorcycle accident. Sued motorcycle manufacturer for brain damage resulting from the incident. After medical liens, expenses, attorney’s fees client received $524,450.
Confidential Settlement: $825,000
Business Reputation Commercial Case
Plaintiff was a hardwood floor installer suing the hardwood floor manufacturing company after product failures caused lawsuits against him and damage to his business reputation. After expenses and attorney’s fees client received $403,000
Thanks for posting but your information seems irrelevant to me.
Deletehere is one more relevant-
DeleteJoggers paralyzed in PCH accident get $49 million
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-me-settlement28-story.html
Our city will go broke with a the payouts coming as a result to BIAspears bad directions. She should have listened to the experts and the community, but like always she thinks she and her hubby know whats best for the community because he is a real cyclist. Ha.
All that pain and suffering as a result of her bad calls.
The City apparently doesn't have top notch liability attorneys on retainer - the 2 parties in this accident involved would seem to have created the majority of the culpability resulting in the unfortunate event. If the City's "share" is $11 million, was this a $50 million event?
ReplyDeleteThe City of Encinitas seems to employ people with odd thought. On public streets moving white lines for bicycles so wide a small car could use that new bicycle lane, rezoning horse property into ghetto apartment property, sharrow lanes (pure insanity) trying to create a new "green new steal" and thinking solar panels are the answer to everything (dimwits), continue to lie about raising seas. See what's going on? Leftism and the results of childlike thinking.
DeleteHaha. What's wrong with solar panels?!
Deleteyeah 8:01, it's not solar panels, it's those damn wind turbines that caused the texas power failures. Get your alternate reality fox news facts straight!
DeleteDoes anyone know how many children committed suicide this last week as a result of the SDUHSD teachers union sueing their own school district to stay closed and isolate the children even longer?
ReplyDeletehttps://time.com/5943896/covid-19-teen-mental-health/
Does anyone know any attorney with high moral standards that will stand up for our children and sue the teachers union?
I would love to see a lawsuit filed against the teachers union.
https://time.com/5943896/covid-19-teen-mental-health/
It's tragic, truly tragic the emotional strain of ad hoc, politically weaponized Covid health policy impacting teens. They were let down by an educational system unprepared for emergency contingencies but all too prepared to externalize blame.
DeleteTeachers are entitled, as are any free individuals, to prioritized their and their family's health under the early crazy circumstances. But our local teachers have relinquished at least one thing--any pretense about their jobs representing some answer to a higher calling. Teachers are almost always treated with a reverence stemming from certain specious assumptions about personal sacrifice--"nobly" enduring low pay, long hours, difficult work conditions, personal financial outlays for supplies for their students, etc.--much like those ascribed to the military and first responders. But the military and first responders stepped up during the pandemic to do a tough job during tough times. Even the uncelebrated cashiers at our local Vons were on the job, face-to-face daily with hundreds of paranoid shoppers, because they needed a paycheck, food had to be available to society, and they were essential to a functioning society.
Teachers were likewise necessary and essential for a functioning society, but they enjoyed a big-union derived immunity from actually sacrificing anything. Our district went more into vacation mode rather than crisis mode, but it sure did pay lip service but accomplished little action toward fulfilling its critical functions. Concern was firmly directed at protecting teachers rather than exploring and finding the willingness to resort to extreme solutions to protect our children.
Much was revealed about the true interests of our educational system--many want to wring hands and rationalize for the teachers, but too many others have woken up to the craven reality. Like too many other institutional and occupational sacred cows in our society, perhaps this experience will help us stop elevating things at too great a social cost.
Drop the mic.
Delete10;26am take your obvious deflection attempt elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter, which does not deserve attention in this thread, is vaccinate, then educate safely. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?
We all know you are dealing with having to 'parent' for however long it takes to safely resume teaching directly in classrooms.
Supporting our teachers demands at least this much.
As for the Roberta scam on every one of us taxpayers, our entitled mayor should cough up this payment herself.
Roberta was responsible for what happened. The driver was not cited. What does this 'fact' indicate? If the driver was not faulted, who does that leave to blame? Other than herself? No one.
$11 million? Any amount would be a travesty laid upon every taxpayer. Where is any sense of personal responsibility in this whole tragic affair?
Now we are open to be scammed at every opportunity, thanks to our mayors willingness to help her friend overcome her own responsibility for her tragic accident.
I would not wish ill will to Roberta to the extent that she accepts some blame for what occurred. She chose not to. She has become another scammer on every one of us taxpayers.
I could give a rat's ass about Roberta Walker and her condition. I wish her not good nor ill health. It doesn't change the fact that she rode her bicycle in pre-dawn darkness without reflective clothing or proper lighting down the steep grade of Phoebe Dr. and straight onto Coast Hwy. Darwin's basic laws of natural selection took care of the rest. The fact that she created the conditions for an accident, externalized responsibility and accountability and extracted $11 million of taxpayer's money for playing the victim is the true test for who she is: crooked. Maybe poetic justice will eventually prevail.
Delete2:15 and her partner in the scam is the mayor. This was most definitely a friendly settlement.
Delete12:28pm - My lord you are an evil dumb one aren't you.
DeleteYour stupid mantra is ridiculous and makes no sense as the City of SF knows and that why they are suing their school district.
Did you know that isolation is used as a punishment and people do not do well in isolation?
Well of course you didn't because you are either a union teacher or someone on social security considering you are not bright enough to make it in this world on your own.
That is why there is so much discussion about solitary confinement in prisons. Isolation destroys humans.
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/indana90&div=23&id=&page=
But again you are too stupid to understand.
We know that Encinitas Unified School District has been open for months as well as cathedral catholic high school and many other high schools throughout California with zero increase in COVID spread.
Its the selfish low performing union teachers that are problem and thats why I welcome a law suit against the Teachers Union. The sooner the better.
Please attorneys out there, let's hold the teachers union accountable for the horrific harm caused to our children. Beyond responsible for increasing children suicides is a bad as gets.
12:28 - And Evil One, I'm sure Roberta would gladly give the City of Encinitas $12 million dollars to not have suffered the long term damage to her life caused by the City's failure to install the bicycle lanes that been approved by the City Council over a decade ago.
ReplyDeleteYou are evil and a bad person. I hope ghosts visit you and somehow turn your sour mind into something more positive for this world like what happened in Scrooge. We can only hope.
Roberta is laughing her way to the bank, and that piece of shit husband of hers is doing likewise. She wouldn't return 12 cents to have avoided suffering long term damage now that she's sucked $11 million in blood money from our city. She could have avoided all of it by bicycling responsibly. Grow the fuck up.
Delete4:01, I'm not 12:28 but I'll respond. Do you feed yourself? I read some dimwitted responses concerning the mindless fool riding in the dark and blaming others but come on...
DeleteAnyone with a halfwit knows not to ride before the sun comes up. But, in your defense, it appears that the attorneys for the City of Encinitas, Dumbshit and Blunder provided settle instructions to the full dimwit's, the Mayor and council.
6:39 - You're not 12:28, but you're just as much of a loser.
DeleteOh evil one, it is obvious, at least to those who have half a brain, who was at fault for Roberta's tragic mistake, and it is not, and never has been the city, or the driver that has to live with hitting her.
ReplyDeleteIf you had another half a brain, it would be lonely.
My oh my, you are quite the piece of work. Little wonder with such statements that ignore the facts. Your point of view is all about alternative facts.
I dare say, just who exemplifies more evil than that image you see in the mirror?
The taxpayers in our city have been scammed over Roberta not accepting responsibility for her own actions.
Blaming the city with direct help from the mayor for her own actions, may not be evil, but it is a low rent move on both of their parts.
Too bad there are no cams that show who was at fault, or maybe there are, and guess who will not let them be made public.
Any observer knows the truth that you refuse to acknowledge.
The driver was not cited. He was not responsible. The cops at the scene could tell what went down.
Tell? If only they would. They have been too quiet all along, and now our city and the taxpayers have paid the price for Roberta's misfortune.
6:06 - such an original loser. loser.
ReplyDelete7:56...go away.
ReplyDelete9:15- You win! The question was, "What did the teacher's union say to the student body?"
ReplyDeleteExcellent work. You get an A. The teacher's union gets an F.
Please stop voting for people that don't know anything. Example:
ReplyDeleteRoundabouts, bicycle lanes, the beach cliffs falling, traffic, construction. These people know what about these issues?
Nothing. You voted for people that have NO hands on experience in the trades or engineering. The same fools that change horse property to ghetto apartment zoning and couldn't care less. Yes, those types of fools.
Stop voting for them that ruin Encinitas.
6:17 am- Your post is amusing. It begs the question:
ReplyDeleteSo who do you think knows about Roundabouts, bicycle lanes, the beach cliffs falling, traffic, construction and who should we be voting for in the next election?
and do not say a union teacher or I'll puke.
Not the "professional staff." Did you know they had to search the globe to find roundabouts they could cram into the cockamamie streetscape design? True story, they went to Australia. No U.S. street standard had what this mayor wants.
DeleteThis settlement creates a precedent - every bike crash now is a lottery win.
ReplyDeletejust wait 'til the law suits start rolling in because the city forced bicyclists to "take the lane" when entering roundabouts. If the city pays someone $11 MUSD for assuming that a "shared" lane, in the dark, guarantees protection just wait for the avalanche of claims coming from being forced into traffic through the roundabouts. This settlement with Ms. Black should also end the discussion whether roundabouts are stupid, traffic restricting obstacles. They create a massive liability to the taxpayers (fuck the City - they could not care less).
DeleteStop Streetscape now!
Sir- please consider giving up your keys. I ride through the roundabouts about 4 times a day on Leucadia and I love them. they are safe for all and efficient too. I hate waiting at red lights at traffic signals. Ask a fire fighter paramedic, are there more fatalities at the City's traffic signals and roundabouts.
DeletePlus if you do not feel comfortable riding through them in the vehicle lane, you can access the ped/bike crossing shared pathway and continue on your way. See its fun!!
* Traffic signals or roundabouts.
Delete8:43 - and Roberta Walker loves sharrow lanes!
DeleteHey at least we got Lorena.
ReplyDeleteWoman is brilliant!
Crisis at the mexi border caused by climate change and Gruesome recall being done by raaaaayyyyysssssssis and white super-REME- assistants!
I want to tell ya that woman is high IQ!
And that's not all. The vegetable biden has just announced the America hating left is going to raise taxes. So, we have open borders, raising taxes, men allowed in girls locker rooms and still lying about gullible warming. Thanks you dimwits. Everything the left does, they destroy. Just look at the Encinitas City council.
ReplyDeletewait, but trump won, right? It's happening next month now, right? If not, what am I supposed to do with all my cute red signs, shirts, and most importantly, hats?
DeleteBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The ignorance of the left is mind boggling. The "vegetable" announcing a tax increase on major company's and the rich.
DeleteYet the fools don't seem the realize those increases are passed to the conned-sumer. So the big guys are not affected. It's the same ol' dimwitted leftist garage stupid people don't get. And yet...like the conned blacks, they keep voting left. Amazing.
LOL, imagine still being conned in 2021 into believing in trickle down economics. The right still can't figure it out. Only thing they succeed in is entertaining the rest of the planet with their embarrassing antics. GOP Clowns.
DeleteTwo of the handicaps required to be a right-winger: gullibility and denial of reality.
DeleteAnyone see the vegetable biden fall down three times going up to catch a plane?
ReplyDeleteThis is unbelievable. Four months ago he couldn't complete a full sentence and now on the Alzheimers juice he can read a teleprompter for twenty minutes. You'll never see him again going up plane stairs alone as he will always have someone with him. Mentally finished, physically finished and the American public, totally screwed. Next in line? The faux black woman.