Bikes!

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

and what doesn't killl you....

Are you riding in cold temps ?
Sometimes even walking gets my wheezing started.

It was over 40 my wheezing used to be reserved for sub 20.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Griff

...a wonderful garden: yet nothing therein was strange.

"Well, friend, and whither are you going?"

"To the garden between dawn and sunrise, Jurgen."

"Surely, now, but that is a fine name for a garden! and it is a place I would take joy to be seeing."

"Up upon my back, Jurgen, and I will take you thither," says the Centaur, and heaved to his feet. Then said the Centaur, when the pawnbroker hesitated : "Because, as you must understand, there is no other way. For this garden does not exist, and never did exist, in what men humorously called real life; so that of course only imaginary creatures such as I can enter it."

"That sounds very reasonable," Jurgen estimated, "but as it happens, I am looking for my wife, whom I suspect to have been carried off by a devil, poor fellow!"

---

Here's the entire book, available electronically:

Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell

[Griff]

[footfootfoot]

Cops: Man, 65, shoots teens who pushed him off bike, kills one

Police say a 65-year-old man attacked by three teenagers in Pennsylvania shot two of them, killing one, after they knocked him off his bike and assaulted him in an alleged robbery attempt.

Police say on Wednesday the man was riding on a trail in Reading, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, when the teens pushed him off the bicycle and two assaulted him, reports the Reading Eagle.

The man reportedly took out a handgun and shot the attackers.

According to the Eagle, police did not release the name of the boy who died but said he was 16-years-old. The other injured teen was reportedly taken to the nearby Reading Hospital and a third was taken in for questioning.

Police did not release the name of the man, who has not been charged, the Eagle reports

[classicman]

D.A John T. Adams gave this account:

Johnson was on probation for previous offenses. Juvenile probation officers had gone to his Oakbrook residence earlier Wednesday and found the three teens playing video games.

They told the two 15-year-olds to leave. The officers put an electronic monitoring device on Johnson's ankle, ordered him to stay home and report to their office with his parents at 4 p.m.

Instead, the three met up and decided to jump and rob random victims.

They first robbed an elderly man in West Reading shortly after 10 a.m., taking money from his pockets, then tried to rob another man in West Reading, kneeing him in the stomach and pushing him to the ground. Neither man was hurt.

The bike rider was on the trail between Reading and West Reading.
As he rode past the teens, the 15-year-old whose name was not released punched the man in the face, knocking him from his bike. Johnson ran and kicked the man, who was sitting against a chain-link fence along the trail.

As one of the teens ran toward the man, he shot Johnson and the 15-year-old. People who found the man called 9-1-1 and waited for police to arrive. It was unclear if the people heard the shots or were on the trail.

The teens weren't armed, but the shootings were legal because the man was unable to escape, thought his life was in danger and had a permit to carry his gun, Adams said.

The man told investigators: "I was scared for my life. I was in big trouble. If I could have kept my bike on the trail, I would have gotten out of there."

Michael A. Gonzalez, 15, was charged with robbery, aggravated assault and related offenses and committed to the county youth center in Bern Township.

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[xoxoxoBruce]

My goodness, why didn't the police prevent that crime?

[classicman]

smartass.

[HungLikeJesus]

What to do with your old bicycle? How about: [Warning! Graphic?]

[classicman]

pretty cool.

[ZenGum]

Cool, but there are starving children in Ethiopia who could ride bicycles just like those...

[HungLikeJesus]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Some of those look like they could be classics someday.

[BigV]

Was that the pink power ranger taking a video I saw?

[TheMercenary]

Why would they chop up good bikes?

[glatt]

Blame it on the marketing people. They are the ones behind most boondoggles.

[infinite monkey]

I couldn't find a boondoggle, but here's a boonekitteh for you.