Bikejacking on Kingsland Road

gang of teenagers on kingsland road last night one ran to grab me whilst i was riding but he saw how shit my pub bike was and stopped the rest of the gang focused on a guy behind me pushed him off and he hit his head on the curb, they were trying to get his bike whilst he was shaking and having a fit on the road. i ran back and so did a load of peds to help. the gang gave up and started to run off in to an estate i chased and grabbed one but they all ran back when he shouted so i had to let him go. police turned up just as i did that duh!
kinda shook me up the whole thing was about 40 seconds and luckily the guy on the floor seemed to come around ok whilst the police were there.

You should have lamped the cunt so you could collect a DNA sample on your fist.

Fuck me, sorry to hear that. Doesn't sound like a pretty situation.

Kingsland Road. What a shit hole. Whole place wants blowing up.
Glad to hear you are ok. Pretty mental chasing these little cunts into one of their estates though. Brave man

Fucking hell!

fucking hell what utter despicable behaviour. lucky that there were people around to help.

damn. another reason i wear a helmet. might start carrying my lock again too. seen a few kids eyeing me up as i ride around so will be extra vigilant. where exactly on kingsland road billa?

much as it's despicable, these things do and will happen. until we - as a society - can provide decent alternatives for young people (other than the dole queue), increasing inequalities will lead to such occurrences. i personally know of at least one person to whom this has happened in recent months (and it wasn't on kingsland road) as well as several others who it has happened to over the years. and it's not just about nice bikes: often, the muggers are just out to beat-the-shit-out-of-you for something to do, rather than with any motive of making money off the bike.

^^partly right. These people do it because they've not suffered a proper tolchocking from either their victims or proper moral authorities in their short lives. They do not and are not forced to suffer the consequences of their actions.

I blame the parents, Thatcher and Livingstone

On a serious note though, CUNTS

damn. another reason i wear a helmet. might start carrying my lock again too. seen a few kids eyeing me up as i ride around so will be extra vigilant. where exactly on kingsland road billa?

It was just up from geffrey museum

I would say D-Lock them, but the problem is the perp then becomes the 'victim'...

Yeah, I saw the police and ambulances cycling past about 1:00 am last night. I presume it was this incident. How is the person who was knocked over and having a fit?

Oh, and kudos for getting involved. How did the police respond to your vigilantism? (if you told them about it that is)

I think eggpie and I saw the aftermath of this incident riding home from Muddy Hell last night. We guessed correctly that there had been an assault but not that it had been for a bike! Distressing. Police were already on the scene and a bit later we saw an ambulance and an emergency doctor going south through Dalston Junction. Whoever it was, hope he'll be OK!

Really glad the police were on scene so quickly; I'm actually surprised by that.
Hope the victim is okay and recovers swiftly.

horrible horrible to hear stuff like this, I'm heading up kingsland road to dalston in a few hours...argg

Dude, that's fucked up. Was this at silly-o'clock in the morning/night, or are the yoot getting more daring with their raids? What did the police say/do? Anything?

f--k me that's really bad

much as it's despicable, these things do and will happen. until we - as a society - can provide decent alternatives for young people (other than the dole queue), increasing inequalities will lead to such occurrences. i personally know of at least one person to whom this has happened in recent months (and it wasn't on kingsland road) as well as several others who it has happened to over the years. and it's not just about nice bikes: often, the muggers are just out to beat-the-shit-out-of-you for something to do, rather than with any motive of making money off the bike.

i'm not wanting to get in argument, but it's not society, it's human nature,
utopia will never happen.

nail it on the head.

i'm not wanting to get in argument, but it's not society, it's human nature,

it's both.

Got my first road bike from Kingsland Road market, second hand, Orange Carlton the "dogs bollocks" (thanks Dad!). Let's ride up and down around that time of night, and sort these cnuts out. Could make an evening of it?

gang of teenagers on kingsland road last night one ran to grab me whilst i was riding but he saw how shit my pub bike was and stopped the rest of the gang focused on a guy behind me pushed him off and he hit his head on the curb, they were trying to get his bike whilst he was shaking and having a fit on the road. i ran back and so did a load of peds to help. the gang gave up and started to run off in to an estate i chased and grabbed one but they all ran back when he shouted so i had to let him go. police turned up just as i did that duh!
kinda shook me up the whole thing was about 40 seconds and luckily the guy on the floor seemed to come around ok whilst the police were there.

what time was it? i was cycling along ritchmond road at about 10 and saw about 6 "youts" getting huckled into the back of a meat waggon. could have been related?

much as it's despicable, these things do and will happen. until we - as a society - can provide decent alternatives for young people (other than the dole queue), increasing inequalities will lead to such occurrences.

That kind of apologist blame-everyone-but-the-criminal attitude legitimises these crimes and breeds more of the scum who commit them.

Society already provides housing, money, free education, universities and all manner of jobs for these feral little shits. It's not society's fault that they choose not to take advantage of that and instead embark on a life of crime and violence.

Want something else for them to do? I suppose we could conscript them into the army and send them to be blown up in Afghanistan? Was that what you meant?

i live right on stoke newington rd. / kingsland rd just above shacklewell lane and i've never seen kids go for someone on a bike, but if i had i'd be so enraged i'd start d-locking i think.... probably would wind me in trouble, worst part.

scumbags, hope the chaps okay.