Vigilante
From terry Thu Jun 7 01:26:35 +0200 2001
To: dsmith@cs.unm.edu, high@hci.ucsd.edu
happened about 20/30 yards in front of me
2 guys on a motorbike
the back guy leans sideways
smooth as can be
takes the handle of a bag from an old well dressed woman they head off down the side of the church
right next to where i live the people yell out to the people at the end of the street
looking away from me i am in motion sprinting. i zoom past the robbed
going absolutely flat out
heading to the end of the street
thinking i had no chance at all but, around the corner
not more than 5 yards
i see the guys on the motorbike
caught behind some walking other people
(there is construction there
which makes it narrower
harder to pass) this is right on the corner of paseo del borne (our street)
and montcada and………………….. i fucking tackled them
yeah
over the top
arms spread to get them both at once
guys to the ground
motorbike to the ground
me falling stepping over the top
grazed shin, no more i wasn’t thinking really
just knew i had to stop them
couldn’t do it as good as it could have been
and as it was the bike crashed down almost
into some people beside it
who had no clue what the fuck was going on the guys jumped up
yelled
ripped off their helmets and flung them away
one smacking hard into the wall
and sprinted off
leaving one shoe behind i was pretty surprised
didn’t occur to me that the bike was stolen too the cops turned up in about a minute flat
there were 30 or 40 people gathered around
talking like crazy
no-one knew what had happened
the robbed people just came around the corner to find a mess
one guy saw it and one woman
the woman acted like my PR agent
telling the entire crowd
over and over that i was a hero it was great
so funny
i smiled and bowed to them all
like an idiot
hamming it up the robbed people thrust a 2000 ptas reward into my hands
absolutely insisted that i take it
(we ate it in pizza later) the cops shrugged it off
called in the stolen bike it was pretty cool
i could get into being a vigilante i should have tried to have held one of the guys
but i thought hitting them hard sideways
and knocking their bike over would do it but, it wasn’t their bike i was smiling afterwards
the most exercise i’ve had
since beating derek to the office on skates a few weeks back
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