Yeah...U-lock justice is something I keep in mind, but actually doing such a thing just isn't me... although...

Last week I was riding past a bus stop and 2 little kids jumped up and threw a bunch of trash at me while laughing and yelling. I got hit in the eye with a pop tab (it hurt, honest). I prieviously though I was unable to skid my bike but at that moment I locked up my rear wheel and jumped off my bike. I immediatly went for the u-lock, dropped my bike and ran at the bus stop. 2 of the little rejects saw me coming and took off. The other just kind of stood there and looked at me with a blank look. I was pretty sure he was the one who had just been sitting there and his little friends were the perpetrators. So...I stood there and settled down for a moment. The bus showed up and I gave the kid a little speech about how his friends were *******s to do something like that then I let him get on the bus. The other two had circled around and were hiding in the bushes. I saw them but didn't go after them. I figured I'd just stand there with my u-lock out...and since I didn't have any place to go in a hurry (I was on my way to harvard square to listen to some music) I just stayed there while bus after bus came by. They obviously did have somewhere to go and one of them looked like he was going to try to sprint past me when the next bus came. I sort of tightened my grip on the lock. I wasn't going to chase them down. Finally they gave up and wandered off towards another bus stop. Ineffective justice, but at least I wasted some of their time. I hope they got wailed on for being late coming home for dinner or something.