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yoxi
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 Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: The peril of bored teenagers |
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Coming home on my electric scooter last night I got knocked off it and beaten up by half a dozen bored teens from the caravan estate up the road from me. Luckily, I was in bike gear and helmet, so while I've come away with a slightly damaged scooter and some cuts, bruises and very sore ribs, the whole experience seemed more absurd than anything else. And the thing is, it almost certainly wouldn't have happened if I rode a 'normal' petrol bike - it's like being the kid in the playground with the wrong brand of backpack.
A weird world.
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jakeOSX
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| dude! that is so not cool! hope you are ok man. |
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pluby
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Random, violent crap like that really is bullsh*t. Is this kind of behavior actually considered cool by some people?
Take care.
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MacRat
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What location is this? When should Ed and I arrive with our can of "whoop ass?" 
Glad you're ok. |
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djpimley
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Location: Great Britain
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| MacRat wrote: | | What location is this? When should Ed and I arrive with our can of "whoop ass?" |
You can buy it in cans now? My supply comes as a ton of bricks.  |
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sardisson
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Ouch, that's crazy  Definitely not cool.
I'm glad you ended up coming away with "only" cuts and bruises....
Smokey
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ovvldc
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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Man, that sucks! Break out the LART..
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yoxi
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I'm in one piece - sore ribs, but codeine 'takes the edge off'... this is in Cambridge, England, by the way, which is not all 600-year-old fancy college buildings.
I had to look up LART, by the way - though my thoughts are turning more toward a water pistol loaded with patchouli/urine combo 
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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That is totally uncool. I'm glad the drugs are helping. The patchouli sounds like a good idea...disappearing ink might also be a nice touch in the combo 
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LemonAid
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OMG padmavyuha, 
I'm very glad you are (mostly) OK.
That is so NOT cool.  Take care!
Philip |
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Waldo
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What's wrong with the English sometimes... man.
Hope their next one goes like this.
W |
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djpimley
The Anomaly
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| Waldo wrote: | What's wrong with the English sometimes... man.
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We haven't had any major wars recently for all the sadistic morons to go and hurt people and get killed with the blessing of the nation. It's a Darwinian thing. When life is too easy the morons thrive. |
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wordwan
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Sounds pretty cheesy to me. Did you report this to the police?
Heather
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ribbet
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Where are Sir Francis Galton, and Thomas Malthus when we need them?
At least the British provide a solution.  |
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oilburnerfixer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: The peril of bored teenagers |
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| yoxi wrote: | | Coming home on my electric scooter last night I got knocked off it and beaten up by half a dozen bored teens from the caravan estate up the road from me. |
That's not the pikey camp by the A14 is it?
wordwan, if it is the laws don't apply to them the same as to the rest of us.
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