Lake Worth Critical Mass Ride - 12/5 and some ABCs on counting

Stay with me here: Some of you are aware our Earth First (EF) friends had a protest in Palm Beach Gardens yesterday. I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for them. Every protest lately, in one way or another, was mishandled. The protest yesterday however was well managed and they stayed on message but sadly their efforts will go unnoticed by most due to the massive protest in Miami. WPTV (Channel 5), number one in local TV news, didn't even send a reporter to their protest.

You can see Channel 12's Chuck Weber news segment here. You can also read the story by Julius Whigham II in the Palm Beach Post here. It is interesting to note that Mr. Whigham reports there were "about 35 people" at the protest. [Editor's question: At a protest do young children count as one of the protesters?] Mr. Weber reports there were "several dozen" protesters. As of now we really don't know the actual count. I'm sure that EF would say there were hundreds.

The reason it's worth mentioning is that counting people is actually quite simple. For example, last night, I participated in the Critical Mass ride through Lake Worth. It was, without a doubt, the best ride ever by Critical Mass in our Lake Worth. The ride was led by a guy who went by "T3" and he did a remarkable job. About midway through the ride, a young man rode ahead of the pack, stopped, and began pointing at people riding by and counting off, "one, two, three", etc. When he pointed at me he said, "fifty-four". Later I learned from the young man there were sixty-eight riders last night. Exactly sixty-eight.

Big kudos to our Lake Worth Critical Mass.

FYI, the Critical Mass ride is the first Friday of every month. The next one is January 2nd. See you there!