This shit happened tonight

[frogman]

OK well I'm literally just done with saving a "dude on a bike"s life. I'm not gonna call him a fellow rider, I'm not gonna say that I would ride with him.

I'm gonna lay it out and say that not only am I really not interested in dealing with squids and their stupid behavior but I am also NOT gonna be one of those guys you find dead on the side of the road because I THOUGH I knew what I was doing. EVER.

I start this story with the simple discussion that it is annoying that jackasses think they need to ride through a neighborhood at 3 times the posted speed limit. HOW do I know this? It's simple, if the posted limit is 25 mph and I can't tell what type of bike you ride by based on its lettering then then you are going too god damn fast. This dude did this all damn day.

Yeah never seen this bike this year either, mater of fact no one in the "hood" has, no one knows who the fuk this dumb ass is, yet here we are saving him. Saving a squid from certain death, dude is LUCKY I was not pissed off enough at him racing passed my house all day in a fuking quiet area to NOTICE the SUDDEN stop of his 2-cycle dirtbike from my garage. Yeah, beer in hand I walked out and saw about a block away a pile of bike and human laying in the road. YEAH I put my beer down and ran up the road to check, yeah when I got to the guy I took one look, realized I had NO phone and ran my ass back to the house and yelled at my wife and I QUOTE, "CALL 911, THAT DUMBASS that has been hauling ass up and down the street all day has killed himself."

Yeah so we ran back up the street and by then the guy was KO'ed but breathing, blood leaking out of his ears and face, while we kept traffic from running him over and got all the cops and EMS and all that there. IN a fuking residential neighborhood. Yeah quite the spectacle for a Saturday night. Firemen, police, ambulances, and the holy shit helicopter ride. Dude got it all.

Why am I pissed. The guy had Gloves, MC boots, long pants, and an Moto Cross Helmet. And a he was DRUNK. Guess what, he forgot to buckle his helmet before putting down his beer, and he lost it when HE hit the ground. Yeah he when hit the ground, his helmet came off and he proceed to grind the side if his head off for 50 feet. Yes, you could see the hair and skin on the street where it started. Yeah he's got prolly a punctured lung and internal bleeding in his head. And road rash to beat hell, and a flight for life ride and god knows what else. Little POS KAWA dirtbike. Just cause he was drunk AND his helmet that wasn't tied. Its like the lead horse to water but can't make them drink bs. I'm sure I will feel worse in the AM but I'm so pissed at this tard right now it ain't even funny. If nothing else he is LUCKY this happened in town, he would have bleed to death a 1/2 mile down the road.

SO I'm gonna leave it at that, shitty Saturday night but at least I saved some guys life.


PLEASE Guy's wear your shit, all of it, put it on don't even think about it and wear it correctly. Don't drink and ride, PLEASE don't make me have to save you all. PLEASE.

 

[StinkBug]

Good on you for being a decent person and saving him, even though he probably deserved the Darwin award. Though he may have been an idiot and deserve what was coming to him, he also probably has a family and friends somewhere who will appreciate you not letting him die.

 

[4eyes]

"Life is hard. It's a lot harder if your stupid", John Wayne

"Entry fees are cheaper than speeding or reckless driving tickets" 4eyes

"Alcohol and gasoline don't mix", Anybodywithhalfabrain.

 

[Redbird]

Good on ya for doing the right thing.

 

[rufio]

I hate douche bags like that. I live on a quiet-ish street with gigantic speed bumps. There was a fool like that using the bumps as a ramp, then he lost control and hit a Parked car. The car alarm was going off, so the owner came out to look at the damage. The moto guy (young adult) got up, took off his helmet and was asked f he was ok. Right after he said yeah, the owner of the car punched him square in the cheek, and said "this is from the neighborhood!"
Never saw that guy riding his moto again.... But his dad came back and took care of damages regarding the car.

 

[frogman]

Well, it's the next day and I'm still a little mad. We figured out where the guy had come from and why we hadn't seen him before. Talked to the city cop and apparently there was a family get together in the little park up the road that he was part of. Him and his buddies were not even from around here and were doing way more then just hauling ass all over. Poping wheelie's in the streets, they ripped the park lawns and and ball fields up, ripped the nieghbors to the park yards up. Basically being assholes all over my little town.

They had been called on and warned once and I think after that was when they started tearing up my street since its the furthest out. My guess is the guy tried to pop a wheelie right up the road and screwed up landing it. Bike went into a death wobble and ended up clear over on top of the guy. You can see the side to side scrape marks from the foot pegs and the paint marks from the side of the bike and the helmet.

This used to not be an issue until 2 years ago when the street got repaved. Now its a friggen freeway, before it was full of holes and bumps. I think its time to talk to city counsel about some new speed limit signs and some speed bumps.

 

[buckeyebike]

Natural selection . . . thinning the herd.

 

[New2meCB]

Not sure what it is with dudes and 'cross bikes. I have two experiences that stand out.

My folks live out in the country so, no lights at night whatsoever on the road: VERY dark. I'm backing out of their crazy-long driveway - kids and wife talking while I focus on not backing into a tree or whatever and I can hear this strange noise. I slow right down as I'm about to get out into the street and look around wondering where it's coming from. It's pitch black out. I tell everyone to be quiet while I try and figure this out. There are no lights coming from either direction and I am now stopped. With no light coming from anywhere, I'm just about to back out but this high-pitched noise is getting louder. I decide not to go. WTF??

I role the window down and turn the radio off at the same time and right then the kid from up the road goes blasting by - FULL THROTTLE! I mean completely top end of his dirt bike. NO FAULKING LIGHTS (on his ride OR on the road)! I was NOT expecting that hence the confusion about the sound.......

I was SO close to backing out and at his speed, he would have literally ridden "inside" my Subaru. He would have definitely killed himself and probably one or more of my family. I was faulking pissed. It was way too close to actually happening and I mean VERY close to happening. It freaked me out.

I instantly lost it but kept my composure because my kids were in the car. My wife could tell (she knows me very well) and convinced me not to go to their house (I know where he lives).

In hindsight, it was for the best. It probably would have been worse had I gone over right then.

At a later date I was headed to my dad's again and spotted the kid in his driveway. Since I was alone in the car, I figured it was a good time to have a chat. I got out of the car, he said a polite hello and I just cut right to the chase. I explained why I was there. I didn't say much but I did tell him I was going to wrap the bike around his $&^*ing neck if he ever did it again. I was starting to boil again so I left it at that and walked away.

He no longer rips up the road in the dark. I have NO issue with this kid having a good time on his bike. There are a bunch of them that ride around out there in the fields and stuff but, that night, his life was very nearly over, and I told him that. I also told him I didn't give a shit about his life but I certainly give a shit about my son's life that he would have almost certainly taken. Faulking little....... Jesus.........I'm getting mad again.

The other experience was just a couple of days ago! I picked my kids up from school and I was about to pull out when this kid popped out of nowhere (to my left) doing like 60kph on the sidewalk! I mean, this is in the middle of the city at 3:30pm! He then dropped off the curb to avoid me and decided to cross the road into oncoming traffic (this is a 4 lane road too!!!!) WTF! He dodged a few cars (more like they dodged him) before making a left and bolting down a side road.

I just don't get it.