Skater in monkey mask attacks London messenger

Seriously, I know that sounds like a joke title but it's not.

Moving Target have the low-down:
http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/monkey-attacks-london-courier

Some lunatic skater wearing a gorilla mask has been threatening and attacking couriers (and probably other cyclists as well). Here is Chandra’s account of an encounter earlier this week in Holborn.

  [quote]         I had this really weird encounter with him yesterday. He was heading the wrong way up Procter st as I was heading home. I saw him get close to a cyclist up front but couldn’t see what happened, then he headed straight for me. He threw a punch but it didn’t land straight, grazed my side more. I didn’t come off my bike or anything.

Then I got really really angry and without quite thinking turned straight round and followed him onto Theobalds. I grabbed his shoulder from behind and then he swung round and hit me on the elbow.

     We then had this weird stand off as I was shouting at him brandishing a d-lock. I didn’t hit him, wish I had but I realised he was bigger and I didn’t know what he was going to do. Plus as I was now standing over my bike he was out of swinging range.

He was shouting back do you want to me to hit you, brandishing a plastic orange bag with something in it. He had pulled up his mask and was either mixed race or black, also fairly stocky.

     It ended when another courier stopped and asked if I was o.k and he headed off.

  There is another sighting of this sociopath [reported on the forum](http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/1375/), which was also in Holborn, so if you see a skater behaving erratically in that area stay well away.

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Gertie tried to let us know... but the nursery period caught him out.

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/monkey-attacks-london-courier

Oh, and you (the reader, not Buffalo Bill) should check out their forum on the link in the first post. It seems that this is not the first time in the last few days, so it is a real danger if you're in the Holborn area.

sigh

glad chandra is ok. as if curryering isn't hard enough at the moment for you guys..

we were commenting on this in the cycle rage thread.

shame he's not in sunderland. they really would hang him.

skater... as in roller skates? or skateboarder? seems a silly question but it might help people get a heads up if this guys near them.

rollerblades i heard. goof booting gorilla.

just to be clear this is happening around holburn.

A black/mixed race guy on rollerblades and a gorilla mask. so if you see the dude call the cops as they will get a prosecution as it's happened twice already.

ahem - http://www.londonfgss.com/thread17307.html

if he's on roller blades, maybe a carefully placed twig would do the trick.

Yeah I'm gonna carry a bag of gravel home tonight.

banana peel?

so, so weird.

I have never seen a thread more worthy of a visit from 'That shit's fucked up'.

there is always the possibilty this place:
http://www.bragster.com/users/300102-blue_gorilla/brags/300523-gorilla-gets-owned-by-oxford-student

has something to do with it.

the oxford students are my friends at my college.

I'm glad nothing bad happened, its not cool.

yeah actually very alarming, i wasn;t meaning to sound flippant there^

Poor Chandra.

Masks are very this season. A weird scooter rider -- wearing a fluoro orange devil mask -- stopped at the lights a couple of days ago while I was crossing with my girlfriend and loudly revved his 75cc engine at us. I blame the recession.

we were commenting on this in the cycle rage thread.

shame he's not in sunderland. they really would hang him.

You mean Hartlepool I think?

we were commenting on this in the cycle rage thread.

shame he's not in sunderland. they really would hang him.

Or even in Hartlepool.

That is just plain cowardly.

I bet that prick would change his behaviour if he tried that crap on someone bigger or stronger, or more aggressive.

I hope he gets taught a lesson.

Sounds like someone needs to be sectioned under the mental health act...

Where is Dogs with his "this is london my friend!"?

That story is plain weird. He must have been spotted by lots of people.

Heheheheehehe 'Monkey-masked danger' hehehehehe....

Masks are very this season. A weird scooter rider -- wearing a fluoro orange devil mask -- stopped at the lights a couple of days ago while I was crossing with my girlfriend and loudly revved his 75cc engine at us. I blame the recession.

Oh god I just realised I saw a normally-dressed woman getting on her bike on Rivington Street last night, wearing a full mexican wrestling mask. i smiled at her and she smiled back - I think. Or just bared her teeth, its hard to tell.