Closing Bell: South Portland's Very Polite Bike War
A reader sent in this photo-poem shot on South Portland. It is entitled “Indignity MINE!!!” Click through the photos and witness the palpable tension and riveting conclusion.
A reader sent in this photo-poem shot on South Portland. It is entitled “Indignity MINE!!!” Click through the photos and witness the palpable tension and riveting conclusion.
Holy War Batman.
So let me get this straight. This sidewalk doesn’t belong to the homeowner. The fence around the tree and the tree do not belong to the homeowner. The bicycle has a legal right to be parked on the sidewalk (hence no legal claim can be made against someone who trips on it; in fact the bike owner could sew for damages to his/her bike). And you guys recommend destroying the bike owner’s property? Because they dared to use their vehicle for travelling to a point other than their own home, to visit someone?
I would so happily slash your property (be it bike, car, house, face) if it EVER trespassed on what in my fantasyworld belongs to me.
Unfortunately that would make me a criminal, and even though I’m surrounded by a country full of fat, hateful, war mongering religious nuts with car fumes for brains, I just can’t get myself to destroy someone’s property — no matter how infuriatingly cute and harmless and flattering that property may be to this hatefully cute and pretty street.
“Slash the tires, bash the frame, contact the local crackhead,put screws in the seat aimed up, put dog shit on the peddels, jam a penny in the bike chain, clip the breaks, spray paint the frame, pull out the spokes.”
Get you ass kicked when the owner catches you vandalizing his bike….
Slash the tires, bash the frame, contact the local crackhead,put screws in the seat aimed up, put dog shit on the peddels, jam a penny in the bike chain, clip the breaks, spray paint the frame, pull out the spokes. I can go on and on.
Firebomb the house…
no more nasty notes.
can any of you idiots figure out why someone would hitch a bike up to a gate,come now put your thinking caps on.
and how exactly does locking a bike to the fence ruin the tree? if anything, wouldn’t it make it harder for a dog to piss on the trunk which would be far more detrimental?
To those defending the cyclist:
Why wouldn’t you lock it to your own fence?
To 4:47 “how Rude, would you hipsters like to share tickets from DSNY or chip in to replace my water main?”:
What on Earth makes you assume the cyclist is a hipster? When did hipster become synonymous with cyclist or renter for that matter?
more bikes less strollers!
its not your fence
its not your gate
and its not then your place to chain your stupid bike to someone’s fence/gate/tree WHICH damages the very few precious trees we do have in the city. bikes are great as is biking but keep it on your own property.
slash the tires and smash the light on it too. it wont come back. dog sh*t on the seat is good too.
i am done with people who are lazy and do not want to store their bike inside their own home or apt.