Armoured vehicles sped around and protesters threw stones at police.
It took fire instantly, and sped around and around on the surface like a demented meteor, with a huge sheet of yellow flame above it.
"The van jumped off the curb, it sped around and crashed into people crossing the street," said Monique Harris, an eyewitness who was interviewed on Fox-TV.
Like Mr. Zuzzé, many of Paris's fixed-gear vanguard say they first saw the bikes about five years ago on visits to Manhattan (the city's messengers have sped around on them for decades) before returning, covetous, to France.
Some were old enough to recall horse-drawn street cars and 32-story "skyscrapers" even as they sped around by subway or ascended to the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building.
Former President George Bush was a Texas transplant who vacationed at his family's estate in Kennebunkport, Me., where he sped around in a cigarette boat, played golf at an aerobic pace, tossed horseshoes and entertained an endless parade of guests.
On one venture, my pockets already bursting with pounds, a cash-containing computer just waiting to be hacked was guarded by a flying drone, a shortsighted robotic gendarme, and a guard robot that sped around on one wheel.
On one venture, my pockets already bursting with pounds, a cash-containing computer just waiting to be hacked was guarded by a flying drone, a shortsighted robotic gendarme and a guard robot that sped around on one wheel.
But Nancy sped around, excited.
Mothers with strollers sped around me and my orange machine.
Spencer sped around second and went to third.
