Depending on where you happen to live, a group of young people just hanging around can be a normal sight or a reason for concern. Similarly, cyclists most likely know that certain places are bizarrely hostile to bicycles and others see it as a regular part of life. But regardless of where you are, a simple commute normally doesn’t come with kids attacking you.
A man was cycling when some rowdy youths decidedto throw rocks at himfor fun. But little did they know that they had messed with the wrong cyclist who sprung into action immediately to get revenge and turn their hooliganism into a learning moment. We also got in touch with karnasaurus to learn a bit more.
Kids with nothing better to do will often engage in destructive and disruptive behavior
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A group of children ended up throwing rocks at the wrong cyclist when he decided to teach them a lesson
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Cyclists often get the short end of the stick
Bored Pandagot in touch with karnasaurus, who posted the story, and he was kind enough to answer some of our questions. We were curious to hear what he thought was the kids’s motivation. “I think he was just trying to prove how much of a bad-ass he was to his friends. Who knows what goes through the mind of a dumb 11-year-old? I myself only started becoming half-sentient in my early 20’s,” he shared with Bored Panda.
Hooliganism can start out small but often tends to end poorly
While the youths described in this story were not “proper” hooligans, they perhaps could have been not too far in the future. Throwing stones at random, adult strangers is not something most of us have done even in our most rebellious phases. As often happens with unsupervised and unguided boys, they tend to get more destructive over time.
The namesake of “hooliganism,”the Hooligan Boys, a gang of lads from Southern London, started out as just that, some young men with nothing to do. Crime and vandalism soon escalated and they came to national attention in 1898 when theymurdered a mannamed Henry Mappin. Papers jumped on the gang’s name and soon it became synonymous with this sort of behavior.
Writers like Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells all mention these wayward youths like the Hooligan Boys in their works. The latter wrote inTono-Bungay(1904) that “Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps, were packing wooden cases with papered-up bottles, amidst much straw and confusion,” indicating that thename had truly stuck.
Young people with nothing to do will, unfortunately, take it out on the world
One commenter even claimed to be the kid who OP scared, but we should all take it with a grain of salt, as there is no way to verify this person’s identity and people have lied about less for internet clout. However, the sentiment does make sense, as a “bizarre” encounter like this could have been the wake-up call this person needed to not go down a significantly worse path.
Bicyclists also tend to get a lot of hostility from everyone else on the road
On the other hand, cyclists somehow do garner a lot of hate from both drivers and pedestrians. People like OP who spend a lot of time on their bikes have probably experienced some form of harassment, perhaps that is one of the reasons OP could react so quickly. He simply wasn’t in any form of shock from a stone being thrown at him.
It’s also possible that, as a person who rides a bike among cars, aka1.4-tonne death machines, some stones aren’t a big deal. Bicycle lanes don’t exist everywhere, so riders do have to share the road with cars, much to both party’s annoyance. Even in places like the UK, where cyclists are a common occurrence, there are stilla myriad of storiesinvolving hostility and abuse. The silver lining is that OP perhaps developed skin thick enough that some rowdy boys were hardly a threat.
Readers thought it was a fantastic bit of revenge
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