Home Depot Hippies Get Off my Bike!

[Skidmarx]

So which is it? You would kick mom's and dad's ass into Home Depot Heaven, if it was another bike, or you are going "hippie" and can tolerate a small child?

Good question. I was wondering if I would have been more assertive in my response if it were a "newer" bike. I'm sure that no ass kicking would occur. Besides, it would have been three on one and the little kid looked pretty tough...

As to the "hatred of hippies", for me it's about clueless privileged people who claim to be wanting to serve humanity but really are just as egotistical as a 1%er and as judgmental as the Pope.

I feel no animosity towards "hippies" but they sure are fun to make fun of!

 

[fraz]

The ironic thing is that if you walked up to the child, no matter how gently and politely, and picked him up, the parents, hippie or not, probably would have freaked out and told you not to touch their child, he's not yours! :|

And remind them that neither is YOUR bike, point made.


All this talk of hippies reminds me of an old punk joke. What's the difference between a hippie and a trampoline? You take your boots off to jump on a trampoline!

 

[Skidmarx]

Should have jumped on dads back and said how do you like people on your stuff!

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[clutchslip]

Good question. I was wondering if I would have been more assertive in my response if it were a "newer" bike. I'm sure that no ass kicking would occur. Besides, it would have been three on one and the little kid looked pretty tough...

As to the "hatred of hippies", for me it's about clueless privileged people who claim to be wanting to serve humanity but really are just as egotistical as a 1%er and as judgmental as the Pope.

I feel no animosity towards "hippies" but they sure are fun to make fun of!

Ha! Just cover your balls. Little people have a perfect shot at them.

Sounds more like Yuppies, Democrats, or 85% of the people that I have met in the "Land of Fruit and Nuts" (California). I hate hypocrisy, especially when I do it.

 

[ThumperX]

Ha! Just cover your balls. Little people have a perfect shot at them.

Sounds more like Yuppies, Democrats, or 85% of the people that I have met in the "Land of Fruit and Nuts" (California). I hate hypocrisy, especially when I do it.

Agree,

I think of hippies as very motivated individuals who evoked change in a very outwardly appearing lackadaisical fashion.

I think what you witnessed at home depot were a couple of clueless individuals raising another clueless individual.
Missed opportunity to offer some polite guidance to an impressionable child.

 

[oorahduc]

In that particular situation, maybe the best thing to do for the little kid would have been to smile, say something like "Bikes sure are fun, aren't they, little man? Let's get you off it safely now!" and then lift him off the bike, set him down, then walk up to the parents, and very quietly tell them "It is NEVER ok to let your child play with something that doesn't belong to him- particularly when he could get hurt on it, or damage it. Learn how to be a responsible parent- and FYI, a lot of riders would have gone ballistic on your kid!"
Little kid gets to keep his awesome memory of sitting on a bike going "vroom vroom" and his parents get a lesson in better parenting.

Smart lady.

I was really cool about the guy leaning up against my car like he was cool in the Tenderloin a few years ago, but I can't say for sure I'd be the same if someone were sitting on my bike. You can't knock a car over, potentially breaking the shifter, clutch lever, and sideview mirror making it unridable just by sitting in the driver's seat. :|

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

This is how I would have liked to handle the situation. Unfortunately I dont think that quickly and I am about as suave as sandpaper. Next time!

Next time it'll be some kid trying to steal my bike and I'll be all nice to him.

You only have to be nice as long as their feet don't reach the foot pegs... once they reach the pegs, they're probably trying to steal it..

Smart lady.

I was really cool about the guy leaning up against my car like he was cool in the Tenderloin a few years ago, but I can't say for sure I'd be the same if someone were sitting on my bike. You can't knock a car over, potentially breaking the shifter, clutch lever, and sideview mirror making it unridable just by sitting in the driver's seat. :|

Or doing thousands of dollars of damage due to plastics hitting the deck... sometimes that's enough to total out a sportbike...
But some asshole leaning against your car could scratch the hell out of it if he were wearing Levi's with the rivets...

 

[originalsturge]

i just hope if i ever find someone sitting on my bike that there are no other barfers around cause with what ive seen none of them will do shit. it will be me that says something, corrects the person, and then gets followed until i ride to the hood they claim to be from.

 

[kelsodeez]

I know exactly what you mean. Mid Pen class of 1992 right here

bahaha go dragons! sadly, they dont allow smoking on their new campus.


wait, if you are class of 92, did you graduate before or after the shooting incident?

edit: nvm. looked it up. happened in 96

 

[Hawaiirider]

Saw a young-ish ( 13-14 yo ) punk sitting aboard a Wide Glide years ago and about the time I was thinking to warn him off the owner - an impressively dirty biker type walks up puts the kid in a headlock and RIPS him off the bike and, desposits him on the sidewalk in a most unceremonious fashion (tossed him in a flat spin). It was a pretty freakin' brutal thing to see actually and I nearly felt bad for the kid, but he was DEFINATELY old enough that he should have known better. I bet THAT little object lesson stuck.

 

[silverbelt]

walk up to the parents, and very quietly tell them "It is NEVER ok to let your child play with something that doesn't belong to him- particularly when he could get hurt on it, or damage it. Learn how to be a responsible parent

Thats not gonna fly with alot of suburban parents out there, who will take exception to this kind of reaction. Most of the time, kids/parents view sportbikes as toys and don't have the same amount of fear they would if it was a chopper or Harley. Instinctively, parents and their children know better and move along. With sportbikes, thats not the case.

Then again, alot of this is based on location. In SF anyways, I don't see alot of this happening.

 

[Bravnik]

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[V4]

haha...

i remember when a kid walked up to my bike and was about to touch the exhaust, i told him not to touch the motorcycle....

the mother starts yelling, 'its only a motorcycle...no need to get so territorial about it..." while her kid touched the headers of the exhaust and burn his hand and started crying...

i just gave her a smile and said , 'it's because it's still hot..'

 

[DailyDrivenS30]

I park in a gated parking garage and two nights ago I woke up to go to work, finding my bike forward 2 feet from where I felt it. I had to get off and meticulously check it over to even remotely feel good about the situation.

I know this is an old thread, but there is a point i promise.

This just happened to me today left my rear tire against the curb @12:30pm came outside at 10pm after work and my bike is no longer touching the curb but ~2 feet forward. Steering was locked but the bike was straight meaning someone had to lift the front wheel and slide it over.

I immediately checked over the bike to find anything missing or out of place and couldn't find anything. Last time this happened i followed the person to their car and sat on the roof for 5mins whiles arguing with the asshat who sat on my bike.

I was looking to find out if i am legally allowed to beat the shit out of whoever is fucking with my bike when i catch them. The only reason i didn't do it last time was because i thought i would be charged with assault or something. Anyone have ideas of what i could say as my reasoning?

 

[sanjuro]

I immediately checked over the bike to find anything missing or out of place and couldn't find anything. Last time this happened i followed the person to their car and sat on the roof for 5mins whiles arguing with the asshat who sat on my bike.

I was looking to find out if i am legally allowed to beat the shit out of whoever is fucking with my bike when i catch them. The only reason i didn't do it last time was because i thought i would be charged with assault or something. Anyone have ideas of what i could say as my reasoning?

Full credit for sitting on the car roof. I am definitely going to that.

As for beating up someone sitting on your bike, I would do this:

Yell "Stop Thief"

Dive tackle the person sitting on your bike.

And keep yelling, "Help me, I caught a thief!!!"

 

[DailyDrivenS30]

See that's sorta what i was thinking just accuse them of GTA or in my case GTM.

 

[alcoHK]

The kids dad asked my permission first, +1 for this dad

 

[ScottRNelson]

This just happened to me today left my rear tire against the curb @12:30pm came outside at 10pm after work and my bike is no longer touching the curb but ~2 feet forward. Steering was locked but the bike was straight meaning someone had to lift the front wheel and slide it over.

You need a heavier bike.

 

[codger]

Its immaterial how the parents view the bike its not their bike! I dont care who theyare or where they are how would they feel if oyu decide dto go take a nap on the hood of their car and the rivents in your levis scratched the hell out of their hood. I think i would have followed connies advice on dealing with the child and had a talk with the parents.
I once had a local kid walk into my open garage and climb on my Buell he knocked it over and took the buell down with both my dual sports parents had no money i was lucky enough to have to pay to repair all three bikes. Now if the kid had gotten hurt who do you think would have been held responsible? even though he entered my open garage uninvited and damaged my bikes? I heard the crash and had to extricate him from the pile of bikes luckily he wasnt badly hurt.

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

Its immaterial how the parents view the bike its not their bike! I dont care who theyare or where they are how would they feel if oyu decide dto go take a nap on the hood of their car and the rivents in your levis scratched the hell out of their hood. I think i would have followed connies advice on dealing with the child and had a talk with the parents.
I once had a local kid walk into my open garage and climb on my Buell he knocked it over and took the buell down with both my dual sports parents had no money i was lucky enough to have to pay to repair all three bikes. Now if the kid had gotten hurt who do you think would have been held responsible? even though he entered my open garage uninvited and damaged my bikes? I heard the crash and had to extricate him from the pile of bikes luckily he wasnt badly hurt.

That kid would have been doing yardwork at my house for MONTHS in my world... :|