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> "heather classic" <
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> > why are teenage boys so angry? several times, while i've been skating IN MY OWN LANE completely
> > out of the way of traffic, a car full of kids veers into my lane forcing me over, while they
> > scream rude things like "don't fall *****" at the top of their lungs 6 inches from my head.
> >
> > my friend was once hit in the head with a bat while riding and lost a bunch of teeth. haven't
> > seen him on a bike since.
> >
> > i don't get it.
> >
> > h
>
> Not as bad as your friend's, but here are a couple of my run in's with
teens
> from last year.....
>
> The girlfriend and I were riding spring fall down a stretch of road that
is
> very popular among cyclist. This particular road goes through the upper middle class section of
> town. We were minding out own business riding
about
> 1' from the edge just right of or on the white line. I notice this car hanging back and not
> passing us when the road is clear. I'm getting a little worried since the girlfriend is behind me
> when the car starts to
pass
> with some teenage idiot starts yelling out the window. They're pretty
close
> and passing slowly so I'm concentrating on not running off the road and ditching it rather than
> looking at the car and the bonehead yelling. All
I
> really noticed was the tail end of the blue Celica and the kid getting
back
> in the car. After they go by the girlfriend starts yelling at me if I saw that. What I asked?
> Evidentally, the kid had a gun out the window
pointed
> at my head! We immediately stopped and called the cops. Believe it or
not
> they responded immediately and luckily had a crusier in the neighborhood. The crusier spotted them
> a couple of miles down the road. Turns out it
was
> an air powered pellet pistol and as such it the only charge that could be leveled was meanacing.
> Also we couldn't positively identify the kid since neither of us got a good look at him so it
> wasn't probable for any type of charge to stick (according to the police). The police were
> extrememly helpful and did all that they could do. The one we spoke with while standing on the
> side of the road with our bikes making our statements assured us that the kids would be taken
> through the ringer as much as they could without leveling charges.
>
> Then on the same road, a few of us had a run in with getting repeatedly buzzed by a couple of
> teenage girls in a Jeep Cherokee. They couldn't have been more then 16 or 17 years old. On the
> first pass the passenger tried
to
> reach out and grab the leader of our paceline. After the third time we stopped and I had the full
> waterbottle ready to thow at their windshield. They passed by without getting close that time and
> stopped about 50 yards down the road. So I got on the bike and started riding towards them while
I
> acted like I was calling the cops with a cell phone - at which point they took off.
>
> I just don't get it either. Particularly with the neighborhood we were in. You would think these
> kids wouldn't be such delinquents.
>
> James
>
>
That sucks! I have settled down in my "old age" but in my younger days, I was known to have caught a
few culprits at a street light and pull them through their car window. I'm not a "bad ass" (maybe a
little crazy though?) it just doesn't settle with me too well when someone endangers my life. Not
really the thing to do with all the gun toting maniacs out there these days.
About two years ago some kids shot me with a "blow dart". I didn't realize it until quite a few
seconds later. I chased the hell out of the culprits. They ran a stop light and 4 wheeled it
through a church yard. If I had caught them, I fear what I would have done. I did have presence of
mind to get a license number. It happened relatively close to the Police station. I pulled into the
Police station. My adrenalin was pumping so hard that I got confused with the license number even
though I was chanting it to myself over and over. The Police were excellent and took as many
numbers as I could verify along with a description. I don't think they were ver caught..
Danny Callen