Update on the bikers who terrorized a New York City Family.

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106. One of my favorite sayings... "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

In the end, I come down on the RR driver's side here but anyone who's witnessed one of these wanna-be gangs in action knows the reason the confrontation started is because the RR didn't immediately yield the right-of-way to the punks the way they thought he should have. That was the reason for the "brake check" in the first place. Could be he'd never found himself in the middle of such a situation; had he simply slowed and gotten out of the way the whole thing could have been avoided. I hate having to say that, but there it is.

That said, they're not the first punks who've gone looking for trouble then screamed bloody murder when it found them, and they surely won't be the last. I have no sympathy for the injured biker or any wrecked bikes.

One thing that bothers me though is that in one of the videos they ride right past one of those portable police towers. I guess the NYPD isn't smart enough to coordinate blocking the road ahead, the side streets, and the way from which they came. It's fucking New York City for goodness sakes. It's right angles and city blocks. If they did, I bet they'd find 2/3 of the bikes were stolen, a large number of the punks were holdin', most of them probably had warrants, and few if any were licensed.

Gosh, they could have put an end to this bullshit for a couple of days, or at least until they stole new rides.