by Phil Roberts
Mercury Rising #3, December 1991
There have been a lot of bikes stolen lately. My means of income/mymeans of transportation/my most prized possession was almost stolen a fewweeks ago in front of 650 Sansome.
I locked my bike the usual way with my krypto and was only in for aboutfour minutes. As I came out of the building I noticed this scum of theearth had just broken my lock and was getting away with my bike. At firstI couldn't believe this was happening, but I quickly reacted, knockinghim completely off the bike and on to the ground. As I was grabbing mybike away from him, he pulled out a huge screwdriver and tried to stabme with it. Just then his partner rammed me with his bike. I took off aroundthe corner to this police van; the police refused to do anything exceptslowly put out an A.P.B. and getting a report from me. By that time thecrooks were on the run.
After I did that I thought I should tell everybody about these two soI headed down to the park where I found some unexpected enthusiasm andpeople wanting to "go get those bastards. So some of us headed upto the wall and got a whole messenger posse and went looking to fuck thesescum up. We were quite a sight all over town. About twenty or so of usrunning lights, blocking traffic, just cruising in this pack with peoplejoining in and people splitting off to check the alleys and such as wewent along. People stopped and stared and wondered what was going on becausethere was so many of us from so many companies riding together really fastand aggressively thru all forms of traffic -I'll never forget that feelingof strength and unity CRUCIAL!
I've seen these two cruising around 50 U.N. Plaza and CIVIC CENTRE onnew mountain bikes looking for someone to sell them to or trade them fordrugs as quickly as possible. They have their tools in their pack and arewearing the same thing almost all the time. They have the tools of thetrade a backpack containing a car jack, a large screw driver and probablya hammer. One was working as a team with this other vagrant who is a tallerwhite male, early to mid thirties, has sandy blond/brown hair-medium tolong in length, usually wearing a baseball cap. The guy that tried to stabme is a stocky white male with long, brown hair, with brown eyes and abeard. He always wears a brown knit cap, jean jacket, and jeans.
I would still like to grab some people that are free and go up to 50U.N. or CIVIC CENTER and look for these guys. All we have to do is spotthem at their hangout, make a citizens arrest, and detain him or them untilthe police officer who was riding his eoduro motor cycle, but we didn'tfind them. The officer was very informative about how I should handle it;for example, I found out I legally can't fuck this scum up until I tellhim I am placing him under citizens arrest and then I may use force todetain him.
Jah guide and protect Peace, love, and unity to all.
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