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Man sought for using bicycle lock on somebody's face
By adamg on Wed, 01/08/2014 - 12:48pm
Boston Police are looking for a man who allegedly hit another person in the face with a bicycle lock around 12:30 p.m. on West Walnut Park at Amory Street, then rode away on his bike.
He's described as black, 6'3" and 240 lbs., and was weaing a yellow jacket and gray sweatpant.
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Bike lock used as a weapon..
Bike lock used as a weapon...anyone we know?
Sounds vaguely familiar...
Sounds vaguely familiar...
Sounds like....
SwirleyJustice
defense, not offense
Never actually had to use it. Just brandish it. It seems that psychotic mouthy cowards are cowards - who knew?
I mean, besides our resident psychotic mouthy coward, that is.
So I guess it's brave and
So I guess it's brave and sane if all you do is threaten to kill someone with your bike lock?
So brave
Its just about as brave as the people that threaten to kill someone with their cars.
I honestly don't understand what you find so cowardly about brandishing a u-lock in self defense. It would be foolish to do nothing and risk getting assaulted by some psychopath.
If this were a driver and a tire iron
Would you be so tire-some?
Play Ball
I guess baseball bats aren't trendy anymore.
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Take cover!
Spot on
There will be analysis of whether the psycho swung the lock it properly.
Over-Under
I'll take the over on that action. The under is a sucker's bet.
I have a funny feeling
The guy who caught the lock with his face refused to donate the said bike and lock to the greater Boston thug fund.
Me thinks
Adam felt like provoking some life into the UHub this cold January Afternoon.
Actually, it's the reverse
Every time something bicycle-related happens now, I stop and think whether I really want to post about it given the sort of of online melee it'll cause. In this case, I decided to go with it because it's a pretty serious A&B, which I would post about without even a second thought if the weapon were a knife, or gun, or TV remote control.
I for one thank you for that
I for one thank you for that extra caution.
Good move....
With that description, he might get caught. It was a very violent act. Nothing humorous, especially to the guy who was hit with it.
well, then....
"Every time something bicycle-related happens now, I stop and think whether I really want to post about it given the sort of of online melee it'll cause."
An online melee caused by hateful, victim-blaming, derogatory, trolling posts about cyclists, which we then have to defend ourselves from.
If commenters did it with women, racial/ethnic/religious minorities....you'd clamp down on it in a second.
The solution to that problem is to block comments on said articles, as you've done for other posts, or support the cycling community by removing comments that are purely hateful about us so that we don't have to constantly defend ourselves. Not to go silent about news relating to cyclists...
Ban car haters
Support the motoring community by removing comments that are purely hateful about us so that we don't have to constantly defend ourselves.
Coins have two sides.
Cars are not people
Hating THINGS is completely acceptable. Excluding THINGS from an area is completely acceptable.
Grow up - cars don't have rights. People have rights ... and privileges, like driving is a privilege.
The burning bike and car hate
The burning bike and car hate keeps UHub warm on these frigid days.
Curious
about the rest of the story here--was it a robbery? A dispute between people who know each other? Or a traffic/road rage incident? It just seems kind if odd. Not a lot of people out on bikes right now and I'm trying to think of the last time I saw a gigantic black guy in yellow on a bike. Its been a while.
Few months back
I was riding into work via Comm Ave and there was a large biker running reds all along the route. A got to Kenmore behind a few other riders and arrived at the intersection as a fellow cyclist was calling out the light runner for biking the way he was. The big guy got right up his face and was essentially telling him "what are you gonna do about it?" Well nothing, because that guy didn't feel like getting assaulted on his way into work, so he shut up but not before I had to chance to yell up at the big guy to knock his shit off, riders like him give us all a bad name. He was done at this point and as is par for the course, ran through the red light while flipping us all off.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same guy in this story.
Not your problem
Natural selection should eventually catch up with the guy, and then Boston Bikes etc. can demand more bike lanes and tracks. The guy being bad for cyclists is just a temporary problem. Instead of confronting his thug attitude, thank him for his future martyrdom.
All I said was
"Cold enough for you?"
Doesn't affect me
Much like black on black crime, rival gang violence in Dorchester, or the Jerry Springer Show, I'm just a spectator at most. I could ask what more we could do to keep dangerous weapons like bleach, kitchen knives and bike locks out of the hands of criminals. Impose the same controls used for cans of pepper spray and mace?
How about the same control as
How about the same control as for cars. Which you can get away with murder with as long as you claim you didn't see someone.
You mean getting a license?
Make people get tested and licensed to carry bike locks? Good idea.
Sometimes with you I just don't know whether
It's total idiocy or an extraordinarily clever and tenacious parody. Can we license tire irons? Baseball bats? 2 x 4's, or whatever someone might use to hit someone else?
Wasn't me.
Wasn't me.