last night i learned its not safe to mouth off to cops even if youre riding your bike.

so now i need a new fork. anyone have a 1" threadless straight bladed that they have no use for anymore? if i cant find anything in the next two days im putting a soma fork on it. sh!!t.

tell us what went down

You seriously needed to learn that one the hard way?

Details please

Theres gotta be a reason he left them out in the first place... I mean, did he think we wouldn't ask? Inquiring minds need to know!

Laziness.

Yeah, please explain. Some of us loves the forum gossip..."Did ya hear about Adam's run-in?" "Ooh yeah...d'you think he's ______?"

"Hey man, you suck. You suck so much I bet your billy club couldn't even scratch my bike!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"

*thwack*

"...oh."

Ummmm......
Mouthing off to an authority figure..........
Ouch...........
You must be younger than twelve......

or older thn 75

or punk as fuk?

I just find it smart to make sure that I'm out of arm's reach if I'm having a dispute with someone with weapons.

basically heres what happened. a party i was at got busted up by the man and before i knew it everyone was getting arrested. i leave to go get my bike down the street,hop on and pass the party on my way home. when i turn the corner the first thing i see is 2 cops burying some dudes face in the hood of a cruiser.. so as i was rolling by turned my head and calmy stated "all cops are bastards" and kept moving. i was maybe 50 feet down the road riding away from the party when a cop ran down the street and tackled me off my bike from behind without warning. i was laying on my bike and the cop on top of me. he ripped my bag off, tossed it and then tossed my bike 10 or 15 feet through the air into a crowd of people on the sidewalk. i learned today in court that after i was in cuffs on the ground another cop picked up my wheel and tossed it again. so in the end my fork and front wheel are borked and all cops are still bastards and the 4 skins still rule. oh well. i think i found a free circle a fork.

so let me get this straight...

you get away from the "party" see people getting arrested, make it to your bike...then ride back by the party and call the police names, slow enough so that some middle-aged man wearing 10-20lbs of gear can run you down in a foot pursuit...

A.C.A.B!! All coppers are bastards!! 4-Skins with Hodges rule.

I like to yell at cops in french. REGARDEZ LES POULETS BOCK BOCK BOCK!




Not when I'm in France though... Those guys travel in packs of three (officially enough people to be considered a gang), and they will beat your ass down. Its a scary site when there is a manifestation and they send in a dozen minibusses filled to the brim with cops in riot gear. I was walking the dog yesterday near the PSG stadium (I think they just made it into the semis or something), and it was like I walked into a george orwell book. Just hundreds and hundreds of cops streaming out of their armoured bus thingies...

Yeah, the cop heart only hears: "He's askin' for it."

Defend the statement rationally: "All cops are bastards."

That's the problem with pushing those big gears, they take a while to get up to speed when you're running from The Man.

thats why you keep a dozen donuts threaded onto a rope on your messenger bag. When the jakes start trying to run you down you pull the quick release knot and the donuts go flying over the road, giving you enough time to make your slow getaway

i'm gonna try this on and see if it works....


the jakes....

for some reason that makes me laugh...


that donut crap doesn't fly out here in oakland though....yes while there are plenty of cops that hang out in donut/coffeeshops....there are plenty of ones left to go hunting, and their prey you may ask...

if you can't fill in the blanks then you're not living in my reality which is why i just can't believe it when i read stories like this, in my city he's lucky if he makes it to the county lock up, i have had friends simply get beat the f down in dark parking lots with no charges ever, or simply never to be seen again...straight up...
so i just tend to stay out of their hunting grounds, or if i must go through them i straight up paint the picture of me being a friendly....never in my wildest dreams would i ask for a beat down, why not just billy club youself and save the taxespayers a bit of $$$

Someone's offering a free 1" threadless fork and some stems on the MTBR forum. It's technically a MTB fork, but you can't argue with the price. I'd imagine it would work for at least a while.

https://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=101044

take it to court, here in the US we should be able to say whatever we want, even if its not very nice without fear of being attacked by police officers.

post a scan of the police report. www.thesmokinggun.com/fixed

or www.thesmokinggun.com/poppedoffandgotbeatdown

Yeah, OPD has always been a little bit touchy. I remember when they used to break up concerts at the old hofbrau, they'd charge in, tell us to disperse, then it was time to run the tear gas gauntlet down those rickety stairs.

Good times.

Still, it was the SFPD that I first saw the "black electrical tape over the badge" trick from.