‘Violence for violence’s sake is troubling,’ says cyclist attacked by youths on D.C. trail

WaPo ^ | 2013/06/12 | Peter Hermann and Trishula Patel

[Zhang Fei]

The bicyclist doesn’t remember seeing the youths run at him as he pedaled home late Tuesday afternoon on the Metropolitan Branch Trail, but he certainly recalls one knocking him off his bike and at least a dozen others piling on, punching and kicking him in the head.

What the 37-year-old can’t understand is why they did it. They didn’t take his $500 bicycle. They ignored his cellphone. They didn’t want the $20 in his wallet. In fact, the victim said, “I didn’t hear a word.”

And the lack of apparent motive is haunting the married father of two, who uses the trail regularly to bike between his office in the NoMa section of the District and his house in Silver Spring.

The randomness of the attack near Third and S streets NE — and near the location of a surge of violent robberies two years ago — has made him more scared and more angry and left him wondering whether it’s time to give up pedal power in his commute.

“I would be fine if they took my things, that I understand,” said the man, recovering at home from broken bones above his left eye and bruises too numerous to count. “But violence for violence’s sake is troubling.

[rktman]

Well crap! Now someone tells me that I didn’t really have to work hard all those years by simply using my white privilege so I could retire half way comfy? Man do I feel like I’m from Dumbassistan. LOL!

[Dilbert San Diego]

this guys sounds like he’s liberal. As a good liberal, he can’t comprehend being attacked by savage minority youth. After all, he’s on their side, sympathetic to how the man and the system have kept them down and all that. He probablt felt immune to attack due to being liberal.

[Norm Lenhart]

Thats the evil plot of the libs! Why do you think they put so much effort into minimizing white people and teaching kids how evil we are? to suppress our natural superpowers!

I’m on to their dastardly plan. So if I disappear, the world will know the truth!

[MaxMax]

You just need to wear your cracker on your sleeve. Dont-cha-know

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

Those of us from Krypton have them. Sorry to those that don’t.

[Hardraade]

Yep. Chaos and madness.

[Norm Lenhart]

But we don’t HAVE to be sorry! We are white. So we oppress and dominate! That’s the beauty of the superpower!

It’s not racist. Libs tell us that every day and libs never lie so we can say it.

[rdcbn]

“I would be fine if they took my things, that I understand,” said the man, recovering at home from broken bones above his left eye and bruises too numerous to count. ---------------------------------------------------------- They did take his things - the ones that really count, if you think about it. And the things the things the thugs took were the things the thugs most wished to deprive him of. That deserves some thought, especially because the thugs obviously got what they wanted but they could have cared less about taking the material things they could steal and sell to provide themselves with monetary gain. We are entering a whole new realm of violence where the rules and rationals don't seem to matter much anymore and random, senseless violence purely for the sake of hatred is replacing the more traditional muggings for the sake of the cash in your wallet. The term Polar Bear Hunting is very appropriate and one of these days the hunters are going to find that Polar Bears are dangerous game and that they bite back. There is a reason there are not many Polar Bears hunted in Texas, and it has nothing to do with the temperature, although it may have a lot to do with the heat.

[jocon307]

what you said!

[Ezekiel]

The man said he cannot think of a single reason for the attack on the eight-foot wide paved trail, which he uses to save money, help the environment and get some exercise.

He can't think of a reason? Talk about a poster boy for Darwin. On any number of levels, the clueless enable the vermin. How does *that* help the environment?

[ponygirl]

Being locked in an SUV is looking pretty good now, huh, Libby?

[ponygirl]

Nobody is this stupid.

Yes, they are. I associate with Liberals every day. They really ARE that stupid. I've just given up and decided they are beyond help.

[Nailbiter]

I would be fine if they took my things, that I understand,” said the man,

I wonder if he would understand if they took his life.

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

Is that why my power to make libs heads explode when they tell a lie?

[Chainsawj]

They are NOT what you called ‘feral and uncivilized barbarians’ or ‘uncivilized savages’, That would make them UNUSUAL, these b@stards are the NORMAL BLACK YOUTH, the ones who DON’T ACT THIS WAY, are the unusual ones.

Look at travon marton-spelled wrong to show my DISRESPCT for him- he would be alive if he didn’t start a fight.

[Norm Lenhart]

It’s a natural byproduct. I can prove it. Simply walk into any college or coffee shop wearing a Reagan/Flag shirt. Libs will start screaming without you saying a word.

If the X-men taught us anything it’s that people fear that which they do not understand. And God knows libs fear EVERYTHING ;)

[The Duke]

I guess now he’s dazed *AND* confused! :)

[Ezekiel]

They really ARE that stupid.

There are too many people who remain children by choice, as if self-inflicted cluelessness absolves them of any accountability in life. When reality comes down hard and without mercy, instead of casting off the delusions, they double down on stupid. Anything but electing to grow up. The Bible calls them the simple.

Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

[thecodont]

You just need to wear your cracker on your sleeve.

This sounds like a craft project. Take a saltine and glue a safety pin to the back. Affix to the lapel.

Note the reactions.

[TChad]

“But violence for violence’s sake is troubling.”

We certainly don't want for you to be troubled, now do we? So why don't you take a good long look in the mirror, and recall what you can about the appearance of your assailants. Now can you think of a much more likely reason that you were attacked than "for violence's sake"?

(Yes, I am reading between the lines, and I might be wrong, but I used to live in D.C. I left.)

They say a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, but that requires that the muggee have a measurable IQ.