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Bike People are Amazing the World Over

by Carl Ballard — Thursday, 3/17/11, 9:08 pm

Here’s an amazing story mixed into the hell in Japan.

The life-long rice farmer lived alone in a house, now flooded, when the earthquake and tsunami hit. She told CNN:

“After the tsunami warning, I got on my bicycle, by myself, and rode away.”

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  1. 1

    Michael spews:

    Thursday, 3/17/11 at 9:23 pm

    That’s awesome.

  2. 2

    Evergreen Libertarian spews:

    Thursday, 3/17/11 at 11:55 pm

    A sad situation compounded by human error.

  3. 3

    platypusrex256 spews:

    Friday, 3/18/11 at 3:08 pm

    an old woman escapes from a tsunami and it is a victory of bike people? sounds really fucking trite to me.

  4. 4

    NPR keeps getting PWN3D spews:

    Friday, 3/18/11 at 3:48 pm

    teh byke peepl r gonna sayve us from teh globull worming!

    how much you wanna bet carl drove into work today…..in a car.

  5. 5

    Michael spews:

    Friday, 3/18/11 at 6:29 pm

    Wow, you people are in a bad mood today. It’s just a cool story. Relax.

  6. 6

    Carl spews:

    Friday, 3/18/11 at 8:24 pm

    @4, a billion dollars. You owe me a billion dollars.

  7. 7

    Michael spews:

    Friday, 3/18/11 at 8:28 pm

    @6
    Way to score.

  8. 8

    NPR keeps getting PWN3D spews:

    Friday, 3/18/11 at 8:32 pm

    @6

    ask obama, im sure he will give you some of his free money.

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