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Guys on bicycles sought for Downtown Crossing armed robbery
By adamg on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 5:20pm
Police are looking for five men for a gunpoint robbery around 4:40 p.m. at Bromfield and Franklin streets.
The five, described as black, possibly Somali, then pedaled off towards Tremont Street, Manvi Arora reports. Two of the men were described as tall, one with flowing hair and wearing a Gucci belt. A witness reports another wore a red sweater under a dark blue jacket.
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Fantastic
Now we have pirates.... Be careful out there!
They've attacked
People in the same area before! However if you see a young group of Somali men on bikes dressed like punks, approach them and introduce yourself. Anything short of that would be racist.
This is supposed to be some
This is supposed to be some sort of burn, right? Like "libruls think everything's racist lol"?
Flowing hair and Gucci belts????
I'm thinking of a different kind of pirate.
Butt I digress.
Haaa!
I'm betting it was a Fucci belt and not Gucci anyways.
Look like Milli Vanilli?
Thought those fashion plates were gone.
Land Pirates
These bicycle gangs are becoming a problem throughout the city
4:40pm? At the Bromfield,Washington, and Franklin intersection?
Are you shitting me? Seriously, WTF?
Yeah, there are police
Yeah, there are police officers all over the place there due to the Millenium Tower construction, that's out of control. Also "Somali" seems like an awfully specific description, what did they have little Somali flags on their bikes?
I wonder if they were acquainted with the victim(s).
Not to get all...I don't know--ethnic-y but
It's often pretty easy to ID Somalis. A lot of them just have very distinctive facial features, kind of baby-faced for lack of a better word. I was observing a group of Somali kids the other day on the Orange line and was thinking that they still stand out visually despite dressing and acting and mostly speaking like any other American-born kid.
Anybody ever see Breaking Away?
An umbrella works just as well as a tire pump when it comes to stopping at least one such assailant from escaping.
Most of these guys are riding bikes that don't exactly move very fast - just faster than walking. If you see such a robbery, an umbrella straight into the spokes will sink at least one pirate ship.
Of course, this will destroy your umbrella. Be advised that if you are being a spiteful asshole or, say, attacking a cyclist who just yelled at you for jaywalking (and not stopping someone fleeing a crime) you could land in assault/liability trouble.
The more you know.
It will destroy your umbrella AND...
...then you've got the owner of the bicycle to deal with. Better hope that stick in the spokes caused him to take a serious digger. But, since they don't exactly move very fast, that might be a bit much to hope for.
If you want to apprehend a fleeing criminal, better make sure you or someone else nearby can deal with him first.
Well,
A gun versus an umbrella?
Gun will most likely win.
More genius advice from whatshername
Right, because the first thing you wanna do when you've been robbed by a gun-toting guy on a bike is to knock him off that bike. I'm sure he will quickly see the error of his ways and not shoot you.
It is an option
You don't have to use it.
Stop being such a moron.
You should
Carry a cane with a sword in it.
#another option
Why do you have to resort to
Why do you have to resort to calling me names just because I pointed out the sheer idiocy of your idea of using an umbrella to battle a man with a gun?
I don't believe your suggestion is an option for rationa and sanel people.
"How grimy you are!" said the pot to the kettle
You started with the namecalling and you've done much more of it in this exchange. If you throw mud, you can't complain that you got dirty.
Heavens to Betsy!
Oh dear! Please enlighten me as to what name I have called her.
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Who the F
is Manvi Arora?
You're not new here
So you must know that Adam links directly to twitter reports from regular people... or do you not? If not, then now you know.
Yes I know but
That is an unsubstantiated report and I was there at the time and didn't see any robbery so I figured maybe the BPD might have a report of it but nope. So I was like, "Who reported that?" then I was like, "Let me ask" then you were like, well... what you said...
Maybe asking....
... "Is the police report available yet?" might have been a bit more civil (and less likely to produce adverse responses)? Just saying....
Who the F
is Cappy?
No one really
Just a guy who needs to be more civil.