I failed utterly at Bikeforums humor attempt. My post, from beginning to end, was meant to be a joke. Sheldon RIP, never wrote about ferrets attacking cyclists, to my knowledge. Especially in the April newsletter of his cycling club in the preinternet era.
To see what inspires some of my failures, visit Google's pigeons page. At the bottom it tells you when it was originally posted.
No good deed has or ever will go unpunished.