anti-dooring.org ↪

Dooring is when the driver or passenger of a car opens a car door into or in front of a cyclist. Cyclists can be seriously injured or killed, either by slamming into the door, by being thrown into passing traffic, or when they must swerve suddenly into passing traffic to avoid the door. Most commonly, this occurs when the driver of a car that is parallel parked suddenly opens a door, but can also occur when passengers in cars stopped in traffic open doors.

Dooring appears to be one of the more common types of car/bike collisions, ranging from the third most frequent to most frequent, (see this article for details), depending on the city studied. Statistics aside, nearly every cyclist has a “dooring” story, some more serious than others. Many cyclists are more afraid of dooring than any other type of collision, precisely because it is so unpredictable, and often unpreventable by the cyclist.

FOXNews.com - Anger After Cheerleaders Stage Mock Execution at Pep Rally ↪

In a video posted to Facebook, Nacogdoches cheerleaders are seen forcing the Roughriders to kneel before them and feign shooting the girls in the head. The mock killers then drag their prey into a pile and celebrate celebrate by raising their guns and tossing money into the air.

More than 120 students have signed a petition protesting “gun promotion” at pep rallies, but the school principal, Nathan Chaddick, called the skit “simple, innocent satire” to boost school spirit, according to the Sentinel.

After the incident the school newspaper published an editorial by a cheerleader in support of the skit in its entirety. Chaddick edited out criticism of the administration in an article opposing the performance, the Daily Sentinel said.

“They were calling the cheerleaders ‘fearleaders.’” Chaddick told the newspaper. “That’s just inappropriate.”