Originally Posted by Rion

I have a horror story for you all. I was biking through a park trail on my way to the night shift once and I merged to the left side to preemptively avoid a raccoon that was about 20 feet away on the trail. but then another one tries to bolt across from the left side, so I swerve behind him into the grass and hit a big broken tree branch with my wheel turned. it warped my front rim, I went over the handle bars, and my granola bar, keys, spare tube, and phone fall out of my jersey pockets. I unclipped my light to inspect my bike and the first raccoon ran off with my keys. the second one tried to grab my spare tube, but dropped it 5 feet later when I yelled. I spent 20 minutes trying to chase the raccoon with my keys (i could hear jingling) but then it went up in the trees and I couldn't hear it anymore.

I pulled my front rim off and stomped it true enough to ride on, but the tube was flat, so I grabbed my spare tube, get it on, and find out that the raccoon somehow bit 3 holes in that one too. So without thinking, I walk 45 mins to work and remembered that I can't lock my bike or get into work because I don't have my keys. I called someone to let me in, but when they got there I was bruised, scrapped up from running through the forest, and slightly concussed, so he took my shift and sent me to the hospital in a cab. i got to stay there overnight and in the morning I bussed to the LBS, got a new tube installed and my wheel trued.