What the hell just happened!

Not really sure where else to post this but thought I should share. After leaving the founders arms [as spotted by jackflash] I cycle home, and begin my short journey back to Bow. As luck would have it, I get yet another puncture and have to walk back along Bethnal Green Road, and Roman road. Now as any of you from the area know, there is a strange atmosphere it these parts on a sunday evening. Not entirely sure why.

Anyway im on my guard the whole time, hood up and D-Lock in hand. Walking with my crippled bike. Aware that I have just become a very tired, work weary slow moving target.

Anyway I pass a group of people -two girls and one guy - nice looking people and think to myself. Well if i'm walking along here at this time everything is sure to be fine. But for some reason I still have this niggling feeling something bad is going to happen. All of a sudden from 50 metres behind me, as if straight out of a movie I hear the shrill cry of, 'my bag my bag he;s got my bag!'

I turn and see a guy cycling straight towards me just off the pavement with a pink handbag. I drop my bike and take a swing at him with my D-Lock, hoping that this is the assailant in question if not i'm fucked. It connects at the top of his back and sends him careering up the kerb into a brick wall, smushing his face against it. Yet somehow he stays on.

He gets off the bike and moves towards me, and suddenly I think to myself. Is this worth it, is it worth getting punched in the fucking face or worse, for a bag containing what most likely amounts to a Purse a mobile and some fags. And i'm ashamed to admit I came to the conclusion that no, it wasnt.

Luckily my lack of bravado and balls was countermeasured by the fact that the second guy from the group had caught up and wrestled the bag off him.

Anyway, I was thanked slighty un approprately after the mugger had fucked off. And proceeded to cane it all the way up roman road on a flat tire continuing to shit myself as I had been doing before all this began.

Fucking well done. You could easily have chosen not to swing that D-lock at him and he would have got away with it. You do have balls and you deserved those thanks!

So you're the bastard that hit me and helped that other guy steal my favourite handbag tonight? Thanks a lot; it was the only one that went with my shoes.

Well done, a lot of people would've been too scared to intervene.

The intervening part almost comes naturally though, its the moment youve hit someone with a blunt object and they are still standing that you think. 'Balls I didn't think about my next move.'

Well then next time carry on hitting until you see the life leave his eyes, then you know it's ok.

Nice one! well done

+1 Balls of steel!

Hero!

well done fella,, i hope he's looking in his bathroom mirror and dabbing his face with dettol soaked cotton buds and regretting it all.

Well done!!

How were you "thanked slightly un appropriately[sic]"? or was it inappropriate to thank you? :)

"im on my guard the whole time, hood up and D-Lock in hand"

You're lucky you weren't arrested.

Well done for the save.

Spot on young man!

I award you the HTFU Trophy for extraordinary HTFU-ness.

awesome, nice one, +1 to the above

was good to meet you last night too

Bravo. Also by stepping in it proves that not everyone will turn a blind eye to the thief's next attempt thereby (starts wishful thinking) the thief might think twice about doing something similar next time.

yep.. solid stuff man, well done!

I am going to honour you move and Dlock the first person i see running with a handbag. together we can fight it!

yep.. solid stuff man, well done!

I am going to honour you move and Dlock the first person i see running with a handbag. together we can fight it!

Already there mate.

By the time she came round, she stated that she was only rushing for the bus to get to the bingo, but you can't be too careful .....

I award you the HTFU Trophy for extraordinary HTFU-ness.

+1

You are currently leading the HTFU league

respect

A word of caution. It would have been a good idea to have got the names and addresses of the victims of the robbery, just in case the scrote or his parents decide to go to the police with some story about a manic cyclist assaulting an innocent passer by.

Otherwise, well done. You did good and decent thing.

So you're the bastard that hit me and helped that other guy steal my favourite handbag tonight? Thanks a lot; it was the only one that went with my shoes.

I was walking down the street with my two homegirls on Sunday night when this camp bitch rode past with the same pink bag as my homegirl Shaniqua - the one she spent months hunting down after seeing it in the Nov 08 issue of Cosmo. After a bingey weekend dancing fabulous and a shakey Sunday drinking coffee it was horrible to see someone else with the same bag as her - I totally felt for her as she wailed "my bag! he's got my bag!" Then some hoodie who was messing around with a bike (probably stolen) tried to mug the queenie guy with a d-lock. For some reason the hoodie lost his nerve, probably cos handbag boy had smashed into a wall. Anyway it was a great opportunity to do something fabulous for my homegirl so I went up to the camp guy while he was dazed and wrestled the handbag from him. I felt bad but he didn't deserve it and it only had an empty wallet and a packet of fags in anyways so long story short my girl Shaniqua now has two of her favourite bag and I get to wear one of them next weekend when we out. In your face bitch!

kind of related, but last night i saw a gang of at least 20 youths with hoods up and bandanas hiding their face cycle down broadway market and go into london fields - dont know what they were up to...

kind of related, but last night i saw a gang of at least 20 youths with hoods up and bandanas hiding their face cycle down broadway market and go into london fields - dont know what they were up to...

Dunwich Dynamo?

I see them round a lot, I think they live near me. Hackney yoot crew dem. I can't work out whether they just like riding their bikes or not. There's something quite endearing about them really, even yesterday at the Hackney Downs summer fete when they rode through the crowds in a massive tight pack of thirty or so, prompting police vans to start up their engines and all the coppers on hand to form a barricade.

kind of related, but last night i saw a gang of at least 20 youths with hoods up and bandanas hiding their face cycle down broadway market and go into london fields - dont know what they were up to...

That was BAD.
A friend of mine saw this. A driver collided with one of the cyclists in the gang and the cyclist started beating up the driver then the whole gang, who were in front, turned around and all started beating up the driver. Sounded really shit. Somehow the driver got back into his car and drove away (they were trying to smash his windows apparently). The gang rode off quick into London Fields but a couple of minutes later the whole of London Fields came running out because they heard gunshots.

I don't know anything else. Could be like Chinese Whispers.