man beaten by motorists (not cycling!)

[MM_QFC!]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20080717

he's in police custody now...link to article in today's Seattle Times here...doesn't look like this is the first time he's been involved in an incident like this either. This time he took a person's life though - the man was watering the flowers in his neighborhood roundabout, f'chrissakes! How awful it is to think that you can't go out near your own home, put up traffic cones and protect passersby from the spray of your hose, even - without worrying about being sucker-punched and dying??? It's grossly inhumane to me; not just another 'accidental' death, you know? whew...

[Zen]

This makes me terribly, indescribably sad.