Comments | oh_no_the_snake: Never forget that people are wretched, and you need to protect yourself from them.

oh_no_the_snake

Never forget that people are wretched, and you need to protect yourself from them.

Jun 16, 2007 18:29

Someone cut the rear derailleur and rear brake cables on my bike. Didn't cut all the way through, just left a few strands so they would only fail when I really needed them. If it had been both brake cables, it could have been bad, and it's possible that that's what the saboteur intended. I have no idea how to deal with this type of malice. Some ( Read more... )

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fruslug June 17 2007, 08:33:29 UTC

that's absolutely horrific! Thank goodness for your alertness and that you noticed beore anything terrible happened. Some person out there is really deranged.

*hug* glad you're ok.

llamaontheloose June 17 2007, 21:36:44 UTC

You respond by fixing your bike and locking it somewhere else. If you feel compelled to do something more, then you donate some time and/or money to an organization that helps address the issue of mentally ill people on the streets--this type of "malice" is probably just general insanity, literally. That sucks that it happened, and I'm glad it wasn't any worse. Kudos to you for checking your bike before riding it!

llamaontheloose June 18 2007, 00:46:59 UTC

Okay, I sounded like a total ass, there. What I was attempting, and failing, to communicate was a sense of frustrated recognition/resignation that this sort of shit still happens. My hunch is that whoever did this didn't do it as the result of some sort of specific and rational ill intent, but rather, as part of a larger, more general sociopathy--that is, an antisocial pathology--that so often develops when people with mental illnesses are left to fester untreated and unacknowledged on the streets. There have been a couple of recent incidents in which a homeless person has perpetrated a near-homicide, and in both cases, said homeless person has had a long history of arrest and release, in which more than enough antisocial behavior has been documented that it should have set a light bulb off in somebody's head. Alas, it seems that we as a society would rather disavow the homeless-by-mental-illness than to own up to the moral and ethical responsibilities we have as a society to account for those who would otherwise slip through the ( ... )