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So how many of us are target practice for suktards in cars durning the Halloween holiday?
Every year, usually near the weekend of or on Halloween day I end up getting attacked at least once by some idiot in the passenger seat of a car. I've taken to carrying a pencil and put a blank label on my handle bar to copy down license plate numbers for all the good that's going to do.
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Not me. I rode around all day today with a cape tied around my neck. Was good for yucks.
Heh, and here I was thinking this post was gonna say Halloween sucks 'cause it's hard to ride in costume ;).
Guess my problem with halloween isn't quite as serious as being harrassed by jerks in cars.
I went to a local Halloween party last night and couldn't figure out how I could ride and still go in costume. Fortunately I'm only about a mile from downtown, so I walked. Seeing as my costume incorporated hiking boots, walking worked out well. ;) I was an "old school" mountaineer: wool ski-knickers, wool sweater, hiking boots, and a coil of rope draped across my shoulders.
I didn't want to ride any of my "good" bikes and hafta worry about it locked up outside, and my beater-bike is a fixed-gear with no brakes. I coulda put platforms on it and rode in boots, but platforms on a fixed-gear with no brakes is not something I'm brave (or foolhardy?) enough to try.
-Trevor
One year I was following my kid on my MTB with the lights off. Some kids threw an egg at me and missed. I went around the block and came at them down hill fast and turned the light on when I got close to them. They ran into a back yard and I followed them into the yard, they climbed over a 4" chain link fence and ripped their clothes really badly. End of egging problem.
You need to ride around the neighborhood with one of these.
http://www.spacesearch.com/images/anvss/VSS3_07_23_05_As.jpg
So how many of us are target practice for suktards in cars durning the Halloween holiday?
Every year, usually near the weekend of or on Halloween day I end up getting attacked at least once by some idiot in the passenger seat of a car. I've taken to carrying a pencil and put a blank label on my handle bar to copy down license plate numbers for all the good that's going to do.
You're in frat-boy hell in Tucson. If you're lucky you won't get hit by a rubber bullet when police try to break up a crowd.
Adam
You need to ride around the neighborhood with one of these.
What could that guy do with that thing other than point it up in the sky and take pictures? It's like 175 lbs. ? Use it for a store opening?
It's supposed to be a nice day for a ride tomorrow !! Low 60's here !! :D :D
Maybe I can incorporate a crossbow into my costume this year.... :rolleyes:
Carry a compressed-air powered egg bazooka slung under your arm. Someone throws something at you, hit 'em w/ the bazooka. With some modifications, it can also launch D batteries.
Fratboys don't drive around in large two-door sedans from the seventies/early eighties sporting a "bass" rumble and stock hubcaps.
I could see Frat guys being a problem in the University district, only I'm talking about Broadway, East of Country-Club near the El-Con mall, or Ajo Way east of Park or 22nd west of Kino (and the list goes on and on). Usually it's hispanic kids or 'bangers on the south-side of town. Sure there's some nice pathing in areas but when it's culturally acceptable to be attacked for fun just because you're on a bike--it's that whole "counting coup" mentallity. There's definitely a holiday tie-in to this: the bunghole brigade has a funny way of rationalizing the fantasy of the holiday as a means to be the odious gits they really are under their veneer of what passes for a personality.
One of these days it's going to be possible to have a shoulder-cam which takes a continuous fish-eye 130 deg. view of a cyclists ride from their left shoulder so the indifferent excisemen (police) can at least act concerned while they get their pound-of-flesh for being obligated to deter people from being jackholes.
Till then I'll just be thankful that having a family has kept me too poor to shoot people and get away with it.
Although an air-canon is a creative idea it's also terribly inaccurate and it would have to be pretty big to have any accuracy (imagine wrangling an air-canon tuble and riding?).
As much as I would love to be able to catch one of these rotten buggers at a stop light and redecorate their upholstery with their brains the bunghole brigade is well protected because they are a monied majority. Cyclists almost always lose vs. cars, vs. the law. It would almost be traitorous of motorists to assist a cyclist in bagging one of their own
I was just putting this out here because I managed to not get hurt when I was attacked on the way home from work on friday and I was wondering if anyone else here has encountered the holi-oli-day connection.
Cyclist==Victim. Guess it's just another character test.
It stinks having to share a holiday with the motorist Bunghole brigade taking cheap shots.
You need to ride around the neighborhood with one of these.
http://www.spacesearch.com/images/anvss/VSS3_07_23_05_As.jpg
What in gods name is the candle power on that thing?
Isnt it ok not to ride your bike on HW?
I was riding around on Friday in my bloomer suit, and I'll be riding around tonight in it. I don't anticipate any trouble. Who messes with a lady dressed like a turn-of-the-century cycling suffragette?
What could that guy do with that thing other than point it up in the sky and take pictures? It's like 175 lbs. ? Use it for a store opening?
It's supposed to be a nice day for a ride tomorrow !! Low 60's here !! :D :D
It's supposed to be mounted on a tank to illuminate targets 10 miles away. :)
I'm pretty sure if you aimed it at the kid who egged you, it can probably give him 2nd degree burns from a hundred feet away and permenantly disable his retina..
What in gods name is the candle power on that thing?
Seeing as how sharperimage and everyone quotes a ridiculous 15million beam candle power for one of those 80 watt halogen emergency battery powered spot lights... my totally unscientific guess is that this 1.2kw short arc lamp is like... 288,000 million (288 billion) candlepower...
Hey slvoid, that thing reminds me of something from "The Outer Limits" :D
...suktards... Excellent!! Mind if I use that? :D
The most attacks in the Boston area take place in the wealthy suburbs west of the city. (Gosh wally, what a surprise!) Various fads have come and gone over the years, but egg throwing seems to have stuck.
For a time, it was paintball guns. These were being bought by the suktards (Hee-Hee!) over the internet, or out of the backs of macho-man catalogs. The state attorney general put a stop to this, but the suktards still get them.
And to think, there are starving kids who would love some scrambled eggs...
Egg throwing season fades after the first few days of November.
I was riding around on Friday in my bloomer suit, and I'll be riding around tonight in it. I don't anticipate any trouble. Who messes with a lady dressed like a turn-of-the-century cycling suffragette?
I see some lady dressed like that almost every day around here. She only rides on the sidewalk, though - looks to afraid to actually ride her bike in the street.
What in gods name is the candle power on that thing?
I'm pretty sure it's 1.21 gigawatts, whatever that is in candle power.
I believe I will go for my quick-10 tomarrow as Napoleon Dynamite. The helmet mirror only adds to the effect.
It's supposed to be mounted on a tank to illuminate targets 10 miles away. :)
I'm pretty sure if you aimed it at the kid who egged you, it can probably give him 2nd degree burns from a hundred feet away and permenantly disable his retina..
You are an evil genius. :)
I read the other threads about that light, it's amazing. I think I could mount that in my Schwinn Town and country trike. It's one of the old ones with the baskets in the back. Too bad Halloween is so close, I won't have time.
Not that I'm a stickler for detail but those are some pretty short kids having trouble jumping over a 4 inch fence. Should've just stomped em to death! lol
Not that I'm a stickler for detail but those are some pretty short kids having trouble jumping over a 4 inch fence. Should've just stomped em to death! lol
:lol: excellent..
I should have just ridden over it!
Leaving work an hour early and taking a dedicated bikepath (I'm incredibly lucky in that respect) kept me from having to contend with the kidiots and their car-based attacks today. However it costs my employer an hour of his time and makes it impossible for me to perform "honey can you" missions.
I hope everyone had a great time.
I know I did because I have a devastatingly cute co-worker and she dressed up like Witch-Hunter Robin and let me take pictures! Ahahahah!
(Foamy the squirrel)Mine-mine-miiiiiiiiine! And you can't have them!(/Foamy the squirrel)
I had my police scanner on last night. I heard three reports of egg-throwing within the space of an hour. One complaint came from a cyclist who told police he had been struck in the face.
Other halloween funnies included a carful of youths riding around a neighborhood and screaming obsceneties, while another caller complained of beer bottles being dumped on her front lawn.
Let me guess: "They're simply frustrated suburban youths, with intense feelings of misplaced anger, who need an opportunity to express themselves....."
How'd I do?
Well yeah, exactly...I mean it's not like I ever did anything like that. Nope not me. No sir.
Here is a Halloween story that I believe fits what we have been discussing here, even though cyclists were not the targeted victims.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/5229989/detail.html
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