Are brakes need on a fixed

asm this teen_fixie fellow, he seems to ask some silly questions. Almost deliberately silly one might say.

he's obviously a reporter trying to sneak his way into the fixed gear crowd and find out all our dirty secrets and then report back to his boss...then his boss will write a really shit artical on how bad it is riding brakless and that all fixed gear riders are really aliens trying to eat people brains....or something like that