To Mr. Chunk, Wherever And Whoever You May Be

To: The Piece Of Garbage Throwing Chunks of Cement at Bikers in Minneapolis
From: Just Plain Mitch Berg
Re: Consequences

Big Guy With The White Bronco And The Cement Chunks,

Just a hint for you before you go throwing any more chunks of cement at bikers; it is – I’m speaking purely hypothetically, here – possible that not every Twin Cities biker is a sprout-eating, Whole-Foods-shopping, Betsy-Hodges-upsucking, NPR-listening, pacifism-endorsing (against everyone but people who shoot lions), Obama-voting, coffee-shop-folk-music-listening, Daily-Show-watching Peace Studies major.

Again, I’m speaking purely hypothetically, here.

Just saying. Go back to pulling the wings off of moths and torturing cats. They probably can’t fight back. You’re clearly into that.

That is all .

Posted

August 10, 2015

Biking

Mitch Berg

Tags:

Open Letters, Self-defense

Comments

7 responses to “To Mr. Chunk, Wherever And Whoever You May Be”

bikebubba

August 10, 2015

OK, murderous guy driving a (slow) white Bronco and wearing a glove (that probably didn’t fit). I think we’ve got a suspect….except for the fact that ‘ol Orenthal is still incarcerated at this point.

And let’s be blunt here; would it kill the Star-Tribune to give a basic description of the perp? Maybe perceived size, weight, build, skin color, hair, clothing….honestly, if you want to prevent people from being apprehended, you could do little better than this.
Joe Doakes

August 10, 2015

Remember when I was ranting about getting bicycles out of the traffic lanes? Here’s another reason it’s a good idea.
bikebubba

August 10, 2015

Joe, that still leaves the places–ahem, your city is on a grid–where the rights-of-way for cyclists and motorists would cross, even if you could persuade homeowners to double their property taxes and eliminate their lawns to provide dedicated bike lanes. Sorry, doesn’t work.

Never mind the reality that a criminal or lunatic is going to find another outlet for his criminality, even if you could entirely separate roadways from bikeways. Let’s put the effort into putting guys like this in jail, not in producing padded cells to sort of kind of protect the other kids from the bully without actually doing so.
Mitch Berg

August 10, 2015

Let’s try to remember who the target of the crime is, here.
DMA

August 10, 2015

I think it’s the NATURE of the crime that’s important. This kind of violence usually escalates and becomes even more depraved.
justplainangry

August 10, 2015

Time to start #BikeLivesMatter?
Mr. D

August 10, 2015

This kind of violence usually escalates and becomes even more depraved.

I dunno — this seemed plenty depraved.