The random images that make up our lives
Jul. 5th, 2007 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyToday's news, brought to you by Ipsos Marketing Research of Ontario (we did a reverse look-up): "Hey heathen, people get old and they die."
And then they hung up.
Another odd thing I witnessed today: a bike-on-bike fight. An older guy on a bike was yelling that a younger guy on a bike was trying to steal his bike. The younger guy protested. The older guy had a pair of bolt-cutters that he'd apparently gotten from the younger guy. The younger guy accused the older guy of stealing the bolt-cutters.
Anyway, they were yelling at each other, and then the older guy leaned forward and started snapping the spokes of the other guy's wheel with the bolt-cutters. And then hit him! I didn't know what to do (I'm not altruistic enough to get in the middle of two large, angry men) so I started filming it with my camera. What follows is the less-exciting bit of the conflict, I'm afraid.
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Passerby: Should I call the police?
Aggravated Assault Dude: Yeah call 'em.
Passerby: [can't make it out]
AAD: Yeah, he tried to rip off my fuckin' bike. [can't make it out]
Bike Thief: You fucked up my bike.
AAD: Good! I hope you learned a lesson.
BT: [something denying that he was doing anything wrong, I assume]
AAD: Then what are you carrying these around for?
BT: Those are for my work.
AAD: Yeah, your fucking work is stealing bicycles. Fuck you!
Another Passerby: Just go.
I don't know what to think. On the one hand, bike thieves are the scum of the earth, and if this guy was one, he deserved to get smacked. And worse. On the other hand, it's also possible that he wasn't doing anything wrong and this was just straight-up assault.
Help me out, hive-mind?
Finally, here are some of the photos I've taken recently. Warning: Includes gratuitous cat content and an animated gif.
Self-explanatory.
Nice car!
Not-so-nice car!
This is the wild mushroom polenta I had the other night. It was so good that I had to take a picture of it.
LazyCat.
I did not abduct this cat to use it as a Wobbly mascot. But I wanted to.
Odd billboard. My Jewish ass had to look up what John 6:27 was. It is:
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
So is it YIPPEE KI YAY I'm getting everlasting meat? Or is this an ad for the new Die Hard movie. I confused.
It would be nice, wouldn't it?
And then they hung up.
Another odd thing I witnessed today: a bike-on-bike fight. An older guy on a bike was yelling that a younger guy on a bike was trying to steal his bike. The younger guy protested. The older guy had a pair of bolt-cutters that he'd apparently gotten from the younger guy. The younger guy accused the older guy of stealing the bolt-cutters.
Anyway, they were yelling at each other, and then the older guy leaned forward and started snapping the spokes of the other guy's wheel with the bolt-cutters. And then hit him! I didn't know what to do (I'm not altruistic enough to get in the middle of two large, angry men) so I started filming it with my camera. What follows is the less-exciting bit of the conflict, I'm afraid.
[Error: unknown template 'video']
Passerby: Should I call the police?
Aggravated Assault Dude: Yeah call 'em.
Passerby: [can't make it out]
AAD: Yeah, he tried to rip off my fuckin' bike. [can't make it out]
Bike Thief: You fucked up my bike.
AAD: Good! I hope you learned a lesson.
BT: [something denying that he was doing anything wrong, I assume]
AAD: Then what are you carrying these around for?
BT: Those are for my work.
AAD: Yeah, your fucking work is stealing bicycles. Fuck you!
Another Passerby: Just go.
I don't know what to think. On the one hand, bike thieves are the scum of the earth, and if this guy was one, he deserved to get smacked. And worse. On the other hand, it's also possible that he wasn't doing anything wrong and this was just straight-up assault.
Help me out, hive-mind?
Finally, here are some of the photos I've taken recently. Warning: Includes gratuitous cat content and an animated gif.
Self-explanatory.
Nice car!
Not-so-nice car!
This is the wild mushroom polenta I had the other night. It was so good that I had to take a picture of it.
LazyCat.
I did not abduct this cat to use it as a Wobbly mascot. But I wanted to.
Odd billboard. My Jewish ass had to look up what John 6:27 was. It is:
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
So is it YIPPEE KI YAY I'm getting everlasting meat? Or is this an ad for the new Die Hard movie. I confused.
It would be nice, wouldn't it?
