Gotta knife pulled on me tonite...

[PLUG]

been out for a full days roaming on me bike ... crusing home through the burbs earlier this evening feeling refreshed with an uncluttered head & this kid riding the handle bars of his mate push bike decides to give me the finger (12-14 year olds)

normally it's water off a ducks back, that sort of social delinquency ... but then I got to thinking ... "all it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" so said someone who's no longer on this earth ... so 500m or so down the road i do a ueee & go looking for this pair to find out why he flipped me the bird

see them up ahead riding the foot path on the same side of the road as me & I pull in beside them ... "so why did you give me the finger" I say ... his mouth was going up & down but I didn't hear a thing ... still had me ear plugs in, helmet on & sitting on a running bike ... so I ask them to stop ... with that the guy riding decides to put a bit of ommmph into the peddles ... crusing along beside them at a jogging sort of pace I grab the handle bar rides hoody as I still want to hear his answer ... this unsettles their bike & we all stop

loose me grip on the handle bar riders (hbr) hoody & he's off in a flash ... he hauls up 10-15m down the foot path ... my bikes parked & i'm on the foot path walking down to him, still fully kitted up ... he keeps running maintaining the distance ... 10m or so down the foot path his mate sidles up to me asking what me problem is ...

tell him what happened & I want to find out why ... his mate calls the hbr over but he ain't havin a bar of it ... this goes on for a couple of minutes ... gettin no where fast & I sence their conferdance growing ... the hbr is getting mouthy & his mate chips in ... his mate is still handy to me so I swipe his cap off his head, telling him he'll get it back when the hbr gets over here & gives me an answer ...

"give me, me cap back man" ... when ya mate comes over I replyed ... "you ain't go no beef with me man, give me, me cap back" ... he had a point there but I felt I needed to keep the upper hand by any means ... his mate gettin fairly wound up now & the hbr is approching ... with that i see a flash of steel in the form of a kitchen peeling knife or similar ... 50mm blade with a point & a black plastic handle ... NOW his mate has got my full & undivided ATTENTION

we exchange our needs again & again ... his, for his cap & me, for the hbr, all the time his mate getting more & more excited ... his cap in hand I start back tracking to me bike, watchin that blade & also the hbr, now right on his hip ... bike reached, leg over, key on, starter hit & gone in what felt like a milli second ...

so I've got me a souvioner from me days roaming... a black 50CENTS G FORCE cap ...

[scumdog]

Shoulda kicked the useless cunt in the nuts!

Or run him down once you got back to the bike.

Little wanker waste-of-spaces.

[Macktheknife]

Shoulda kicked the useless cunt in the nuts!

Or run him down once you got back to the bike.

Little wanker waste-of-spaces.

That seems an overly generous response, I was thinking of something slower and more painful.
Seriously mate, I'm glad you are ok and I hope the little shits get dealt to by Karma. (or an agent thereof)

[PLUG]

Shoulda kicked the useless cunt in the nuts!

Or run him down once you got back to the bike.

Little wanker waste-of-spaces.

arrrr the voice of policing of days gone by ... the glint of polished steel caught me eye ... then the chicken/quit while ya ahead/this won't look good in me CV - part took over & I back peddled outa there real smart

[cynna]

where abouts in chch did this happen. there used to be a group of kids that would shoot me with there pretending pump action shotguns ( .........hmmmmmmmmm same thing used to happen over the local BP fence - theres no hope for some people)

they used to throw rocks at cars as well and one day one of the dumb cunts threw a rock at me on my bike - slammed the brakes on yelled at them for a few minutes as they each blamed each other looking like they were going to shit there pants. thought that would be the end of that but a few days later they were at it again...........

[JMemonic]

That sucks, and you did the right thing to get out of there this is the kind of situation that could have escalated ended up with you at the best needing a trip to the hospital.

Sounds to me like these kids have no respect and as was stated need a good kick in the nuts, you just know that they will be bragging to their mates about this.

The worst part is that even if you report the knife its most likely that you would get charged with some stupid offence and these kids would get to spend a few minutes in a family group conference with some naby pamby social worker telling them how misunderstood they are.

[Deviant Esq]

After your U-turn, ride your bike on the footpath up behind them and give them a good boot as you go past. Both go down in a heap. Quick, easy, no fuss, no knives

I agree with your thinking mate - farking young teens get away with this sort of shit far too often. Their parents can't discipline them, their school can't discipline them... they just run amok tagging, vandalising, swearing, acting like total knobheads. And one carrying a knife? Man that would have got me pretty angry if he pulled one out near me!

[kro]

I think your comment about evil prevailing when good men do nothing, is right on the money. I had a similar instance myself riding home on my mountain bike the other day, although it did not involve a knife thankfully.

I confronted two youths who had seen fit to leave their bikes fully blocking the cycle path, and who were mouthing off at another cyclist who had stopped to shift the bikes. After I finished with them, one of them ended up in tears etc etc, but if I had ridden past by going around on the grass, they would have continued this behaviour, so I am all for calling these punks out, but I do emphasise caution as well.

These kids need to know that certain behaviour is unacceptable.

[Colapop]

I would have given them both a hug!

Seriously though (were you wearing leathers?) you should have really challenged them. Force them to back down. The little fuck that pulled out the knife would have, at the very least, gotten a smack upside the head. Little fucks get away with shit like that and they start thinking they can do it all the time. What did that cop (not Scummy) say down south? "They just need a good kick in the arse!"

[JimO]

two 14 year olds could deal to 1 person all you need is to loose your balance and your lying on the ground gettinga kicking, i have 14 year old twin boys and could take 1 of them but not both

[Guitana]

Where's the love???????

[James Deuce]

Bloody BMW riders giving the rest of us a bad name.

[Indiana_Jones]

follow them home where they live, or call some other kbers follow them, touch them up, flee!

-Indy

[Dooly]

Cool you scored a new hat!

Don't wear it tho, fuck knows what kind of cooties will be in there.

[MSTRS:Me]

The hat will be known...at the local Intermediate or College. Take it in to the 'right' school (14 is usually Form 3) and have a word with the Principal as to how you came by it.
Or burn the f.ck'n thing.