Originally Posted by
mrodgers
He called the person in question a punk and called his bike a beater without knowing a thing about the person. Heck, people call similar bikes to mine a beater and it was extremely expensive to me at $600. So, it could have been someone like me, a father trying to feed 3 others at median income with hardly any discretionary money who took some extra out of a tiny income tax refund and plunked an extraordinary amount of money to himself on something to use to help extend his life so that one day he can see his grandkids, even though in some snobs eyes a mere POS $600 bike is just a beater bike to them.
They called them a punk for locking their bike to theirs. They called the bike a beater because it was an inexpensive Wal-Mart brand beater. There was no mention of the race, class, or age of the offender.
I am really getting sick of race-baiting. Every time I turn around I'm seeing it. It's getting to the point where if I complained about being cut off in traffic I'd probably be called a racist by someone even if the extent of my complaint was "Some jerk cut me off on the way to work."