Monday, April 8, 2013

Minneapolis Bike Riders Targeted With Sticks, Rocks, Molotov Cocktail - John Metcalfe - The Atlantic Cities

These people will screw with the wrong bicyclist at some point and they will get a Molotov Cocktail up the old rectum!

Minneapolis Bike Riders Targeted With Sticks, Rocks, Molotov Cocktail 



Drew Ditlefsen was pedaling his Long Haul Trucker cycle Wednesday on Minneapolis' Midtown Greenway when he heard a crash of breaking glass. That was followed by a fwoooosh! and the trail behind him was suddenly lit up with fire.
"At that point I was kind of heading away as quickly as I could," says Ditlefsen, a 27-year-old delivery man for Peace Coffee. "I had the chance to look back, and there were flames a few feet high across the pathway."
The cyclist glimpsed people huddled on a bridge on 15th Avenue that he had just ridden under. It wasn't hard to put two and two together: In past trips through the Greenway, Ditlefsen has had many things lobbed at him from bridges. It's been mainly sticks and bottles, although he has a friend who claims somebody tried to drop a shopping cart on her. The Molotov cocktail was a new experience, and one that baffled him.
"It was crazy because it was at one in the afternoon," he says, wondering "who has the time in the middle of a Wednesday" to construct an incendiary device favored by Finnish freedom fighters. "It's a pretty random time. Most people are working or doing other things with their lives."

(Drew Ditlefsen)
The police are now investigating the Molotov bomb, which landed within feet of Ditlefsen judging by the way he reeked of petro-fuel afterward. But it's only the latest in a string of attacks on cyclists on the Greenway, an otherwise pleasant 5.5 mile trail for bikers and joggers sited along an old railroad track in south Minneapolis. Wanderers of the scenic byway have been punched, dragged screaming into the woods, had rocks thrown at them, basically everything except set on fire (and it seems the bad guys are working on that).


Minneapolis Bike Riders Targeted With Sticks, Rocks, Molotov Cocktail - John Metcalfe - The Atlantic Cities

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