Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:15:56 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 6/20/2025 11:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:28:23 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 6/20/2025 12:39 PM, cyclintom wrote:

(...)

Frank, on Tuesday I had dinner with my cop friend who saved my life, and breakfast the next morning. He told me that there were 5 cases of bicyclists being held up at gunpoint on Redwood Road and their wallets and bicycles stolen.

 

Wow. That's horrible, Tom! Five cases in what length of time?

 
I don't believe Tom's version, but the story might have been for real
3 years ago.  The reason I don't believe it is that Redwood Rd was
closed for an unknown number of years.  I don't want to slog through
this mess trying to find the closing and reopening dates:
<https://acsearch.acgov.org/s/search.html?query=redwood+road&collection=acpwa&form=acpwa&profile=acpwa>
 
This video is from 2022:
"Armed Thieves Target Cyclists in East Bay Hills"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P-Josj0WY>

>
Two points:
>
1) "Let's super-saturate our country with guns. What could go wrong?"

It would likely produce a dramatic decrease in the cost of guns and
ammunition.  Lead and noise pollution in the environment would
dramatically increase causing a general decrease in intelligence.  Our
current leaders are a good example of the effect.  If the increase in
gun density were to be accompanied with the return of dueling and
trial by combat, I believe we could safely dispense with our expensive
legal system.

Incidentally, nothing can go wrong because there are always people who
believe the wrong things are right for them.

2) And yet, Tom continues to live in that hellhole he hates, despite his
millions.

Glorified poverty is somewhat popular among the wealthy.  They hide
their wealth to deter people from thinking too much about from where
the wealthy obtained their money.  Glorified poverty was very
fashionable during the ecological 1960's.  However, that died quickly
after the proponents discovered that poverty really does suck.  Also,
I suspect that Tom might be a practitioner of positive thinking, where
simply pretending to be wealthy will somehow produce his necessary
wealth.



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