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pepperami |
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pepperami Super Spammer
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Posted: 13:20 - 25 Mar 2017 Post subject: Best/worst of humanity |
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Well what a day yesterday was!
I thought I would share.
In the morning i took my Chinese pos to the bike shop to get new tyres and some diagnostic on a minor electric issue.
After some chat we agreed that I would drop the bike off in a day or two.
So I left to go home, and half a mile down the road the bike cuts out and dies.
Sitting at the side of the road trying to find out what is wrong ,a woman pulls up and asks me if I'm stuck.
She then tells me that her husband is a biker and they may be able to help.
She tells me they live about twenty doors away and I am welcome to wait with them until help arrives.
They feed me endless tea and I am out of the cold.
When the RAC turn up, they cannot help there and then.
The biker and his wife allow me to leave my bike on their drive until it can be collected and the RAC man gives me a lift to the bike shop where my missus is waiting to drive me home.
So that tells me that there really are good people out there
However the other side of the coin also showed it's face on the same day.
Later the same day (evening) I am walking back to my car after finishing training/gym and I walk through the alley.
Minding my own business I look up to see about 8 or 9 druggie/alchys in the alley.
They see me and cue them giving me abuse and threatening to f*cking kill me for thinking I can walk in their alley.
The one brown gentleman follows me and tells me I'm a pussy and he's going to kill me.
I turn to face him and drop my bag, and now he's not sure but continues to call names from a distance .
As I am severely outnumbered, I call the police, giving them a description/location.
As soon as the group see me doing this, they disappear as fast as a fast thing into the night.
In one day I have had my faith in humanity restored and have been reminded of how shitty humanity can be.
What a day! ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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MarJay But it's British!
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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Posted: 14:54 - 25 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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To be honest, OP might not have known who or if there was anyone lurking further down the dark alley until he had walked into it. These people/scum could have been lurking/hidden in the shadows, some more easily than others by the sounds of it.
I often walk or jog late at night when no one else is probably around, and do go deliberately down quiet/dark deserted paths as I like being out when it's quiet and hopefully no one else is around. You don't always know what's around the next corner in the dark, but you can't let what ifs stop you going about your business, only known facts.
I.e if you'd have to go though a feral scum estate that no one ever walks through, then fair enough you don't if your sensible. Granted I don't live in London where it's never quiet or deserted, but I'd never expect every dark quiet out of the way place or passage to be full of violent/drunk/drugged animals or people deliberately waiting for you to walk past etc.
Dark alley ways or other deserted places have in the past actually saved me from trouble or conflict with thugs/drunks, as they have hidden me from passing police patrols etc, when I've either been riding an untaxed/uninsured bike or if I'd had a drink etc.
To OP, it's nice to believe in humanity but in 2017 it's so so hard. People as a whole are generally evil vile creatures in this day and age, so as long as you go around not expecting much good from them, you will generally never be surprised by anything you see or hear. |
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Does your saliva cure hepatitis? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Posted: 16:35 - 25 Mar 2017 Post subject: Re: Best/worst of humanity |
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I think most bikers would do the same if they saw something happen so close to home. I remember seeing some dude at the side of the road about 0.5 mile from my house as I was going home and it was going dark. Pulled over and he was a Dr who'd been on a massive shift and his bike had just broken down.
He was about 15 miles from home, no break down just his wife on the way in their little car. Told him to push it up the hill to my house, he could leave it in my garage until the Monday when the mechanic I have used for 20 years would come pick it up and take it his shop and ring him to let him know what's up.
The doctor came back on the Wed with is wife and a bottle of wine for me
inb4 cool storez.
I'd like to think most people would do same as well |
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☑ Imperialist shitlord rapes native resources.
☐ Gullible tourist conned out of many dollah. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 4 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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