CHAOS ON TWO WHEELS: Mayor of Italian City of Como Gets Hit by Electric Bicycle, Bans Riding in the Famous Tourist Destination

 

Bicycles on the shores of Lake Como – Screengrab Social Media/X

The Mayor has called them ‘beasts.’

I don’t know about you, dear reader, but in my city (Rio de Janeiro), the plague of the bicycles and e-bikes has turned our already chaotic traffic into something far worse.

In the streets, over the pavement, riding in the wrong way, it’s only a matter of time until some city authority has to do something drastic about it. 

And, of course, Rio is far from the only place where this is taking place. Take the United Kingdom, for example, where statistics from the Department for Transport (DfT) show that the number of pedestrians seriously injured by cyclists hit a record level last year.

The Telegraph reported:

“The injury toll from serious collisions with a bike or e-bike in 2025 was up more than two-thirds compared with pre-pandemic levels, despite the number of miles cycled rising by only 1 per cent.

In 2025, 234 pedestrians were seriously injured by cyclists across England, Scotland and Wales, a 71 per cent increase compared with 2016 when 136 such injuries were logged by police. 

[…] A record 70 people were hit by cyclists on ‘pedestrian crossing facilities’, which include zebra, pelican and toucan crossings, as well as controversial floating bus stops where those on foot have to cross a cycle lane.”

In the meantime, the mayor of the Italian tourist city of Como has banned riding bicycles in some areas of the city after he was hit by an electric one.

BBC reported:

“Alessandro Rapinese said the ban was necessary to improve public safety. It means from September, cyclists will have to dismount through an area of around 30 streets.

He told Italian news agency Ansa: ‘People act based on their own experiences and I know what it’s like to be hit by one of these beasts’.”

“The measure put forward by Rapinese is part of a package of new traffic regulations, establishing a Limited Traffic Zone (ZTL) to manage tourist growth, and which impose stricter rules on cars and vans in the city center.

Many of the roads covered by the ban are the widest in the old town and are popular with delivery drivers. The measure applies to both electric and push bikes, as the Italian highway code does not distinguish between models.”

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Detroit Public Schools Now Offering Students Cash Prizes Just for Showing Up

 

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Public schools in the city of Detroit are now rewarding students for attendance with cash prizes and gift cards. Apparently, no one has told the students that going to school and studying hard is in their best interests and acts as its own reward.

Even parents can get in on the action if their children have good attendance records.

How did we come to this in America? Why are we even bothering with public schools at this point? 

FOX News reports:

Detroit schools offer students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance as program expands

Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) paid students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance and is expanding the incentive program to middle schoolers after district officials say it successfully reduced chronic absenteeism.

Now in its second year, the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative targets the winter months — from Jan. 5 to March 20 — when attendance historically dips across the district.

“DPSCD is continuing the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative for the 2026–27 school year for high school students and expanding it to include middle school students,” a district spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday.

“At the middle school level, parents of eligible students with perfect attendance during each five-day cycle will receive a $50 gift card.”

District officials clarified that the financial incentives are not funded by taxpayers or standard state educational aid.

“The incentive is funded through interest generated through district funds awaiting to be used for facility projects. Federal and state revenue is not used to fund the incentive, nor is the incentive offered on fall or spring count days,” the spokesperson added. 

Detroit Public Schools has been hit hard by a national chronic absenteeism epidemic, recording a 60.9% chronic absentee rate for the 2024–25 school year.

This is wrong on so many levels.

People who skip school are only hurting themselves.

No one deserves to be paid to learn at a ‘free’ school that was made for their benefit.

Elizabeth Warren Proves She Has No Idea How the Basic Concept of ‘Supply and Demand’ Works

 

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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was recently mocked on CNBC for fearmongering over the economy and getting tons of stuff wrong in general.

This is what Warren does now. It is what she has done every single day since the 2024 election. she complains and fearmongers about Trump and doesn’t even seem to care if what she is saying is even remotely true.

Now she is showing the world that she has no idea how the simple concept of supply and demand works. 

Townhall reports:

Elizabeth Warren Proves Once Again That She Has No Idea How Basic Economics Works

It’s a fairly good rule of thumb that if Elizabeth Warren is against something, it’s probably a good thing that you should support. Or, at the very least, it reveals just how ignorant she is about how our supply-and-demand economy actually works.

She’s now waging a war against “dynamic pricing,” which she claims is how “giant companies … squeeze you even more.”

Yes, when people want more ice cream in the summer, the demand goes up while supply usually stays the same. So prices will go up. Same thing with tea bags in the winter.

Consumers often accept dynamic pricing. Airline tickets, for example, vary by price based on the day of the week and the season. Hotel room prices are subject to dynamic pricing, too.

See her tweet below:

People were quick to respond: 

Elizabeth Warren is doing what all of the leftists in the Democrat Party do.

She is trying pretend that every company is trying to screw you and that only she and Democrats are here to protect you from their evil ways.