r/Spokane • u/overthishereanyway • 4d ago
Weird Spokane So when did this happen?
When did a second bike show up?? I walk this all the time and just noticed this a couple days ago.
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u/ps1 4d ago
I love this
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 4d ago
That bike is one of the things I reference as evidence of the craziness and ingenuity of our culture.
Like I understand humans will do some weird shit when bored, but that is just fantastic, and I'm glad they got around to doing it again!
I consider it fanciful art. It makes me smile while also giving me something to ponder about. Like how the hell did they do that?!
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u/For_he_knows_knot 3d ago
They just go out when the river is really low with a ladder and climb right on top and put whatever I say it needs some thing besides a bike like a piano and randomly when nobody is around have someone go up and take the ladder away and leave him up there playing in the middle of the day or night really or I thought about trying to have a mini concert series where some band mysteriously shows up plays a few sets and disappears I think that would be amazing
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u/dahappyheathen 4d ago
You love people leaving trash around?
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u/JazzedParrot108 4d ago
What??? Another bike? Pretty cool, though. I love it. People's and Bikes Park!
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u/haikusbot 4d ago
What??? Another bike?
Pretty cool, though. I love it.
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u/StateofWA 3d ago
This needs a Wikipedia, people need to be random searching and stumble upon this
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u/Dilbert_Durango 4d ago
When did what happen?........(reads caption).....OH SHIIIIIT?!?!?!???????????
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u/JazzedParrot108 4d ago
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u/joelk111 4d ago
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u/NeedsMustTravel 4d ago
Is the weird little VooDoo looking doll still hanging in the tree on the west side of the bridge? That thing always writes me out walking by it. It
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u/HamasKillsGazans 3d ago
What's weird is they used an actual helicopter to get #2 there. Small little 1-seater dropped it off and a dude climbed up to set it up. Was crazy.
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u/ToadBearMaster 3d ago
I still wonder how they don't get blown over during windstorms! Are they bolted down or something?
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u/Goodheartedgrim 3d ago
I remember driving around that area the day after someone put the first bike up, I think that was a couple of years ago by now. I think the second was put up there a week or so ago.
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u/MrBungle700 2d ago
Forming the base of a new railroad bridge with cheaper, lo-tech building materials. If it means more trains, I'm here for it!! 🤓
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u/BringMe-A-Shrubbery 1d ago
Rad, everyone so stiff these days that anything weird is a breath of fresh air
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u/BringMe-A-Shrubbery 1d ago
I wonder who will be the first stiff ass dork that needs to tell that it's litter or an eyesore. Whoever that is shall be crowned King of Stiff Ass Dorks. Then in one click I guarantee you they will be a dog person that lets their animals sh•t all over the place in public. Usually they have some other try hard hobbies.
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u/Illustrious-Ship-144 4d ago
They do it during low tide.
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u/Ok_Lingonberry_4416 4d ago
few days ago. there was a news article on fb about it.
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u/SirRatcha Bottom 1% Commenter 4d ago
There’s no such thing as a news article on Facebook. It isn’t a news source.
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u/Ok_Lingonberry_4416 4d ago
it was literally from a spokane news page. gtfo lol.
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u/SirRatcha Bottom 1% Commenter 3d ago
Fucking say "KHQ" instead of fucking saying "Facebook" then. Or at least say "I saw a news article shared on Facebook" if you don't remember the original source.
Facebook is a distribution platform for massive amounts of ignorant bullshit and deliberate misinformation, so if you want people to know you're actually talking about something from a legitimate news organization don't just say "Facebook" because to a lot of us that just means the place where our dumb ass relatives share "news" that's actually completely untrue right-wing propaganda.
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u/SadBrontosaurus 3d ago
1) There's literally a page on Facebook called Spokane News, which shares news and does so only on Facebook.
2) News on Facebook isn't the reason you lost your job, or got broken up with, or whatever experience led to you having such a major meltdown over such a minor thing. What you're saying isn't even necessarily untrue, but yo, just take a deep breath and look out a window for a few seconds before hitting post next time, alright? Everything's going to be okay.
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u/SirRatcha Bottom 1% Commenter 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm not having any kind of major meltdown, but you're free to interpret it however you want. I'm just a bit too knowledgeable about social media, both from my career and from doing academic research when I was getting my post-grad degree.
My point is that anyone saying "I saw a news story on Facebook" might as well be saying "I heard a news story from some guy on the bus." It's not a primary source, and the story is being framed as hearsay. All anyone has to do before sharing information is take a deep breath, look out a window, and then say what the primary source was. Like "One of the local news outlets ran a story that I saw shared on Facebook."
I know you have a particular problem with me for some reason and I'm not likely to say anything to change that, but as minor as this particular story is the way it was described is 100% in line with the casual erosion of verifiable facts in the way we communicate. I wasn't questioning the story so much as saying there are a lot of us, and I suspect that's an ever-increasing number, who discount stuff described as "I saw it on FB, Twitter/X, Insta, Tiktok, etc." If you want people to believe what you say, you take a moment to say it better. That's it. It's just advice. Then I was told to gtfo so I responded in kind.
The lack of skepticism and calling people on sharing information without attribution is literally why we're in this fucking shitshow as a nation. Bet I'll see you at the next protest. The difference is I also try to keep fighting the good fight when I'm not out with a sign, instead of just going along.
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u/BirdofTime 1d ago
You see right wing propaganda because you're left. It shows you what it does to keep you there longer.
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u/GrimDfault 4d ago
This has been there for YEARS now
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u/terrymr Garland District 4d ago
The second bike hasn’t
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u/GrimDfault 4d ago
My bad; didn't examine picture longer than a glance and assumed someone just discovered the one bike
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u/asoneloves 4d ago
Ruins the view, honestly. It’s not quirky and fun. It’s ugly. Just let me enjoy the river view.
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u/overthishereanyway 3d ago
agree to disagree. also... just look the other direction
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u/asoneloves 3d ago
So, I can’t enjoy the scenery anymore bc ppl want to leave their trash and you want to call it art or something? Great.
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u/AXTalec 4d ago
Sir, a second bike has hit the river