Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Bicycle and self defense

According to the description accompanying this video, a pair of thieves on a motor scooter snatched a purse from a woman in Wenzhou, China. The guy on the bike calmly dismounts and hurls the bike at the would be thieves, causing them to crash.

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6 comments:

  1. bikesgonewildDecember 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM

    ...those little s.o.b.'s got kung pow-ed & i’ll bet when the adrenalin wears off, that is gonna hurt...& quite rightly...50 lbs of heavy metal chinese bike comin’ hard n’ fast…

    ...10 outa 10 for the guy doing the old school bike toss...especially when it counts...

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  2. Yokota FritzDecember 31, 2009 at 10:20 AM

    Yeah, that's gotta hurt.

    You can see about 40 seconds in that somebody picks up the purse to return it. I love how calmly the bicycle dude does his thing.

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  3. bikesgonewildDecember 31, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    ...a good deed was done but as was pointed out elsewhere, in our litigious society, the thieves would prob'ly have recourse to sue but undoubtedly there would be a shyster willing to pursue it...

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  4. kitDecember 31, 2009 at 1:59 PM

    bikesgonewild: our society yes, but chinese? me thinks not.

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  5. Steven VanceJanuary 1, 2010 at 11:30 PM

    I don't see any self defense in the video.

    But dang, he must be strong or the bike is made of carbon, because he picked up that bike like it was a 5 pound weight.

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  6. Yokota FritzJanuary 4, 2010 at 12:26 PM

    @Steven: Yeah, you're right. More like bicycle vigilantism, I guess.

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