In a 3-mile stretch in Arlington , police have filed 18 reports over the past year — more than the previous two years combined — that have ranged from bike-on-bike accidents to a woman who received unwanted sexual advances one afternoon while push ing her baby daughter in a stroller. Some men have been spotted running naked, others urinating in the bushes.
In one instance several years ago, a bicyclist kicked a Jack Russell terrier and yelled at the dog’s owner, “Get the [expletive] over to the right!” as he passed by. Police tracked down the bicyclist and, after he apologized to the dog owner, did not press charges.
“It’s a good thing that it’s used so much,” said David Watson, executive director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition. “But in some ways I guess you can call it a victim of its own success.”
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