Almost bottled in Elephant & Castle

A fucking long reach if they're on the roof of a building.

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60 odd people cycling a good distance behind one weedy kid on a shiny fixie around Elephant...

you should start wearing a fullface helmet and gogs

This does bring up a serious consideration for the inner city cyclist though. Do you arm yourself with more than a clumsy D-Lock that you might be able to lay your hand on. A baseball bat may be a bit big for your everyday cycle bag but something with a bit of reach and some weight could do.

No, it's not a serious consideration. Shit happens, to cyclists, to pedestrians, to motorists, to people in pubs, in their homes, everywhere. It happens but it is very, very rare. It's not something to get worried about; avoid the most obvious dodgy areas as much as you can and the rest you can do very little about. The idea that we have to start arming ourselves in order to ride in London is crazy talk.

Greasy's gettin a posse together!

Nice to have you back Peregrine my dear fellow.

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60 odd people cycling a good distance behind one weedy kid on a shiny fixie around Elephant...

you should start wearing a fullface helmet and gogs

Bit harsh. And I always thought Pip was quite a good looking man. I mean, he's no Brad Pitt but he's not John Merrick is he?

Joseph, not John.

@will, depends how many wines you have had

No, it's not a serious consideration. Shit happens, to cyclists, to pedestrians, to motorists, to people in pubs, in their homes, everywhere. It happens but it is very, very rare. It's not something to get worried about; avoid the most obvious dodgy areas as much as you can and the rest you can do very little about. The idea that we have to start arming ourselves in order to ride in London is crazy talk.

what weould you say if it happened to either me or another innocent in the next week around 18.30pm? Whois to say that they haven't done it loads but just missed each time?
I know unless you have some proper evidence there's little the police will do- they know this and continue to do it. They have saved those bottles up for a pre-meditated attack.

PS.@ MG something a bit similar happened to me a while ago, a large empty spirit bottle got tossed atbthe back of my head on my street - I was carrying a F&F over my shoulder at the time. Stopped quickly, looked back at largish gang of drunk teens, shook my head and walked past the broken glass. I felt old weak and frustrated.

@will, depends how many wines you have had

Cider visor.

hey festus. i am really glad that you are fine and were not hit by the bottles.
it makes my blood boil. i hate all this little fuckers that we have to "politically correctly respect"
fuck them big time

what weould you say if it happened to either me or another innocent in the next week around 18.30pm? Whois to say that they haven't done it loads but just missed each time?
I know unless you have some proper evidence there's little the police will do- they know this and continue to do it. They have saved those bottles up for a pre-meditated attack.

Hey, you don't need me to tell you how angry that shit makes me. But it's not an argument for going armed (with what, as AndyW says, if they are on a roof?). Reporting it to the police is a reasonable thing to do.

PS.@ MG something a bit similar happened to me a while ago, a large empty spirit bottle got tossed atbthe back of my head on my street - I was carrying a F&F over my shoulder at the time. Stopped quickly, looked back at largish gang of drunk teens, shook my head and walked past the broken glass. I felt old weak and frustrated.

This happened to me in Newcastle 15 years ago.

Group of fucked up wankers walk past and one pushes into me, and asks if I'm gay, I ignore him and carry on walking. He throws something, I stop and ask what his problem is, he again asks if I'm gay. I ask if he'd like to fuck me. I awoke several hours later in intensive care.

I have been seriously beaten twice, once for being gay and once for being chinese, I am neither.

if they are on a roof, one of them must live there, and there is a big chance they will be there again.
it'll be good if you could remember which roof, just for informing the police

This does bring up a serious consideration for the inner city cyclist though. Do you arm yourself with more than a clumsy D-Lock that you might be able to lay your hand on. A baseball bat may be a bit big for your everyday cycle bag but something with a bit of reach and some weight could do.

Yes escalating any situation always resolves it peacefully.

Anyone got a link for that "I ride with a loaded glock" thread, maybe it was bikeforums or bikeradar... ridiculous.
But that's in the USA where they all have semi automatic pocket bazooka flamethrowers or something like that. Not here.

Get yourself out of harm's way. Then call the cops.

Wasting booze? Fuckin' scumbags.

Festus, let it slide brother. You made it out unharmed and pretty as ever, leave retribution to karma or the policia.

A fucking long reach if they're on the roof of a building.

that huge fuck off gun from Robo Cop would do the trick.

5mins 32sec is the one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZqKVcI9m8&feature=related

"state of the art bang bang"

not sure if it works on the forum but if you put &t=*X*m*XX*s at the end of the url you can start a vid from a specific point.

edit: looks like the forum strips it out... nevermind.
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I want it badly.
People say it will not make you feel any better. WRONG. My corn flakes would taste the bestest the next morning.
But then common sense starts tugging away at me: Getting caught by authorities. Loosing all my job. Loosing the respect of people that matter....

#tosses coin

personally, nothing felt righter and better than being able to get them convinced via the right authories, much like my recent incident the day before Christmas Eve.

I managed to grab a couple of witnesses, carefully recount what happen on my statement, ask for an ambulance (even if I don't feel that bad), and before I know it, they're serving a 100 days community service and each one of them have to pay me £100 in compensation (despite me stating that I rather have justice done than any compensation) and have a criminal record due to the assault.

Maybe the Edward Woodward's method make you feel good I've no doubt about that, but there's nothing better than the law's hand on those yoofs good and proper.

Bringing the Edward Woodward method (I have no idea what it is and I think that I don't want to know, either) to bear on the Edward Woollards of this world may sound like a good fit but even I wouldn't take punning as far as punishing.

Oilver, it's an American tv series featuring Edward Woodward called the Equalizer, have a butcher at the wiki to gather more information for your collective mind.

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