Pro cycling mugged for his bicycle with machete!

[weeksy]

https://road.cc/content/news/pro-cyclis ... bPUXZ0gjTY

Professional cyclist robbed of bike by Richmond Park machete gang

Alpecin-Fenix professional cyclist Alexandar Richardson has spoken of the frightening moment he was targeted by a gang of moped riders in Richmond Park yesterday who knocked him off his bike, dragged him along for 100 metres, then threatened him with a machete as they stole it.

The 31-year-old, who earlier this week rode the Belgian one-day race Binche-Chimay-Binche, was on a training ride yesterday when he was targeted by the thieves.

Writing on Instagram, he said that he was finishing his ride at around 3pm “when two motor bikes with four men and balaclavas started following me.
I knew exactly they wanted to take my bike and started to think what the best thing I could do was.”

Richardson tried to get away from the robbers, but was rammed from his bike and desperately tried to hold onto his bike before letting go of it when he was threatened with the weapon.

“I turned around at East Sheen roundabout and started riding full speed to the cafe about 500 metres away. They simply rode one of the motor bikes into me at 60kph,” he said.

“I came off the bike and the first motor bike lost control. I held onto my bike however the second motor bike then dragged me and the bike along the floor for another 100 metres

[weeksy]

I'd like to say I'm surprised but I'm not, it's a crime ridden hell hole where you're literally not safe on the streets.
Machete gangs roaming, policemen raping and murdering women, food shortages - a once beautiful country now lies in ruin.

LOL say what now ? There's not been gangs of thugs in London for hundreds and hundreds of years now ? Nothing has changed from the 1900s to now, just different people and different things to steal.

[weeksy]

I don't think it's always been this bad, but if you say it has then ok.
Grim.

Glad I don't live there.

It's one incident... in a massive city... I doubt it was the most extreme crime seen yesterday... but just interested me.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgi ... s-15681776

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co. ... punishment

https://schoolhistory.co.uk/early-moder ... h-century/

[Mussels]

I don't think it's always been this bad, but if you say it has then ok.
Grim.

Glad I don't live there.

I think it's steadily getting better but the papers will always find something shocking to print. In part that's because criminals are getting caught out more, a few years back she would have just been a missing person that nobody knew about unless that copper became a serial killer
As always it depends where you live, you can choose London with its perks and problems, or somewhere quieter as long as it's not Midsomer.

[Yorick]

I'd like to say I'm surprised but I'm not, it's a crime ridden hell hole where you're literally not safe on the streets.
Machete gangs roaming, policemen raping and murdering women, food shortages - a once beautiful country now lies in ruin.

What's that pong?

[Cousin Jack]

What's that pong?

He really needs a fridge. Bait stinks in the heat.

[Yorick]

What's that pong?

He really needs a fridge. Bait stinks in the heat.

He's got me well beat for smugness. Best I can do is mention the cheap beer

[Cousin Jack]

He's got me well beat for smugness. Best I can do is mention the cheap beer

Again!

[Yorick]

He's got me well beat for smugness. Best I can do is mention the cheap beer

Again!

Too easy.

[Yorick]

What's that pong?

He really needs a fridge. Bait stinks in the heat.

Bait or de bait?

Weeksy did a ZRX and posted a news story with no opinion or context, so rather than say "Why have you posted this, have you got an opinion on it", I thought I'd join the "ain't it awful" club and contribute with a glass half empty response, maybe stimulating an opposing view - which bizarrely came from the bloke that posted the bad news story

He's got me well beat for smugness. Best I can do is mention the cheap beer

If you'd tried harder at school you wouldn't need cheap beer

It's built in Yorkshireness