Posted on 08/23/2009 3:03:17 PM PDT by Chet 99
August 22, 2009 10:44 PM
Al Pefley
New developments in a recent incident in Boca Raton, where a man was attacked by a group of bicyclists.
Police have just released 911 calls from that night.
"911. What's the address of your emergency?"
"Um, a bunch of guys on bicycles are beatin' the crap out of this guy," one caller said.
Calls poured into 9-1-1 from drivers who watched as an elderly man, 69 year old Miles Barish of Delray Beach, squared off with a group of bicyclists on A1A.
"911. What's the address of your emergency?"
"A1A and Palmetto Park. An automobile took on a biker and now there's gonna be a brawl in the street," another caller said.
Barish, driving a 2008 Lexus convertible, was on his way to dinner the evening of August 13 when he says a group of about 30 bicyclists were riding up ahead, blocking the entire road so he tooted his horn and drove around them.
But when Barish stopped for the traffic light at Palmetto Park Road he says the bikers caught up to him there and they accused him of getting too close as he went by and a fight broke out.
"There must've been 30-40 bikers there and all of a sudden they just went nuts on this guy's car! There must've been 40 guys there and there must've been four or five hittin' this guy and pullin' him out of the car and throwin' (expletive) at his car. The guy was just sittin' there in traffic," one caller said.
"They're trying to get the old guy to go and he's pushing on the bikers. And if somebody doesn't hurry up and get here there's gonna be a huge fight!" said a woman who called 911.
One caller told the dispatcher it was all pretty crazy.
"They were throwin' their water bottles. They broke the light off his, I mean the window, what's it called? His side-view mirror off the car! The guy didn't do anything!" he said.
In the end one of the bicyclists, 50 year old Thomas McDonald, was charged with battery and assault.
Barish's car, peppered with dings and scratches, had $6000 damage.
McDonald is now free on $2500 bond.
A bunch of prissy boy, Evian swilling, sissy bicyclists beating up on an older man. Sounds like “greenshirts” to me!
This is pathetic. If this write up is accurate the driver, at most, let the riders know he was annoyed with being delayed. So what? He then “came too close” to the riders? It sounds as if these jerks were in a mindset to stake their claim to the road and were going to give a difficult time to anyone who became annoyed with their rolling roadblock.
I bet they were wearing those stupid bicycle pajamers too.
Is this a picture of them?
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They think if they ride their bikes at 20 mph they are supermen and they don't impede traffice so they take up the whole lane.
Hey, Share the road right?
The bikers in this story obviously combine standard biker selfishness with 0bama's the spirit of Nazism and have become militant.
Did any of the biker thugs look like this?
Ooops!
Stock footage. Not sure if this crowd were spandex bikers, or the hippie freak kind. Either way, they suck and should stop blocking traffic.
They do it here in the country too. They ride 3 abreast and block the road. Someone will get killed because the speed limit is usually 50mph. You come around a curve and there they are.
They aren’t even supposed to ride on the interstate. Nothing under 50cc or something like that, and can go the speed limit.
At the risk of “acting stupidly”, I’m tired of “group thuggery” going relatively unpunished. You know that the whole group either participated or enabled the violence through their actions or inactions. All should be arrested.
That is so pathetic and bad, but I laughed my self silly over it..
Yeah I know they aren’t allowed on interstates. You know we’re used to farmers driving their tractors from house or barn to fields and they are usually drive at the side of the road. You can miss them. But those bicyclists won’t move and they block everything. Sometimes 20 and 30 of them. Hubby always says, “Oh look. Road pizza!”
I think it was your oops that got me laughing, even now as I type this....good one
Yeah. That surprised me. They singled out one guy and arrested him. Why him when it’s clear all of them were involved?
It’s ok as long as you felt badly while laughing. ;-)
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