Bike Muggings
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Lazy-Commuter
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Hmmm, good point. See, me, I'm too frit (and too much of a short a**e, anyway) to do anything like that but I do wonder if a few very BIG mates had a quiet word if there would be retribution coming back your way. Where would it all end?skwerl said:
summerdays
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I was worried today ... saw a kid walk across the road to were I was standing beside my bike (waiting for my friend to catch up), all the time staring at my bike, walking directly towards me ... at the last minute he looked at me and then walked back to the other side of the road. Not sure if it was the same bloke or a different one that my friend saw eyeing up her bike and reaching a hand out towards it. Then he looked at her and said "that's a nice bike, I'd keep hold of that if I was you".
This was in Hartcliffe - one of the areas I wouldn't want to be in at night on my own.
This was in Hartcliffe - one of the areas I wouldn't want to be in at night on my own.
HLaB
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I can't find any details of it, just heard it on the radio, today in some Glasgow park two blokes tried to take somebody's mtb; when he refused to hand it over they stabbed him.
Some years ago (far too many for my liking) my son, about 14 at the time, had a real nice mtb and outside the house two yobs punched him in the stomach and made off with it.
He came in and barley able to contain the tears said what had happened and together we set off in the car to find said tw4ts.
After a couple of false turns and no luck roads we saw them riding on the path. One pedaling with the other on the seat.
It was a main road with a 10mtr wide grass verge between the path and the road. They were moving at a good pace so I pulled up a way in front of them so as to head them off.
Tw4t No1 on the seat sees us coming, bales out and legs it off, but my son caught up with tw4t No2 and grabs the bars. By chance he happens to grab the front brake lever and said tw4t goes over the top and plants his face hard on the path (oh joy of joys). My son not satisfied with that begins to lay into him for all he is worth. So much so I had to pull him off for fear of him doing some serious damage.
We got the bike back.
A post script to this is that a couple of days later I saw a youth of around 18 or so in the local supermarket, face all puffed up, black eyes, and scratched to buggery. I know it was him because he had on the same distinctive jacket. I followed him out through the checkout chuckling to myself like a village idiot.
A rare case of just deserts.
He came in and barley able to contain the tears said what had happened and together we set off in the car to find said tw4ts.
After a couple of false turns and no luck roads we saw them riding on the path. One pedaling with the other on the seat.
It was a main road with a 10mtr wide grass verge between the path and the road. They were moving at a good pace so I pulled up a way in front of them so as to head them off.
Tw4t No1 on the seat sees us coming, bales out and legs it off, but my son caught up with tw4t No2 and grabs the bars. By chance he happens to grab the front brake lever and said tw4t goes over the top and plants his face hard on the path (oh joy of joys). My son not satisfied with that begins to lay into him for all he is worth. So much so I had to pull him off for fear of him doing some serious damage.
We got the bike back.
A post script to this is that a couple of days later I saw a youth of around 18 or so in the local supermarket, face all puffed up, black eyes, and scratched to buggery. I know it was him because he had on the same distinctive jacket. I followed him out through the checkout chuckling to myself like a village idiot.
A rare case of just deserts.
PBancroft
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colly said:
Good for you. I can't say I'm a fan of vigilante justice but on the rare occasions it works out well it does make me smile.
