IT WOULD BE BELIEVABLE IF IT HAD HAPPENED IN MIAMI

Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt still can't believe the driver of a Mercedes didn't see her pedaling down Northwest Fourth Avenue last Easter. Altermatt, who is 6 feet tall, was wearing a bright orange bunny suit, and the Cascadia Pedicab was lit up with reflectors and a blinking red light.

(Thanks to David Rogers, Jeff Meyerson, and Baron vonKlyff)

Comments

[Brian]

So then, Harvey didn't take the c-note??

[Meanie the Blue]

If I was drunk and saw a huge orange bunny, I would deny it too.

[bonmot]

Do the bunny cop!

Cop! Cop! Cop!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Judi, I thought that too - New York or Miami, no one would blink an eye. Portland, on the other hand... .

[Siouxie]

So....alcohol was also involved.

Was they them?

[RedRat]

Check out the comments to the article, some interesting views there. As to those who think an orange bunny on the streets is strange at 2am in Portland, not so much. Have you ever been to Portland?? I live up the highway a piece in Seattle, and Portland is a bit avant garde.

[Ivan Toblog]

@RedRat ~I have my views about Portland drivers. Avant garde is not one of them.

[Loudmouth]

Hey, wasn't Portland where the bicycle-bar was riding around a coupla months ago? If someone had too many at the pedibar do you call them a pedicab because they're pedidrunk?

[padraig]

When a westbound sports car turned left across my bike lane, hitting my lower leg and rolling me up his hood until I was laying horizontally across his windshield (which got him to stop at least), he jumped out of his car and yelled, "Oh no, I didn't see you in the sun, I knew I should have worn sunglasses!"

I offered to buy him a pair out of my settlement.

[Bernard Scooper]

I lived in Portland for over half a century. Seeing a six foot orange rabbit on a pedicab is nothing. In the same area of town, no joke, I have seen two women dressed as conjoined twins in a very large wedding dress, a guy wearing miniblinds, that's it, and a chicken riding on a dog's back. They make the coffee real strong there. People do things.

[Not My Usual Alias]

Amen to Bernard.
When a professional association gathering was going to be held in Portland, I brought up that the motto "Keep Portland Weird" was more than a bumper sticker.

Padraig -- I was hit on a bike in a crosswalk on one of the longest days of the year. I'm really glad that the column about Rob Barry and wearing a helmet made me a believer in protecting my noggin.