Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland

01-14-2007, 02:32 PM

Wow. And that's a bike friendly city. I hope the assailants are caught and
sent to prison.

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PORTLAND, Ore. - Two cyclists said they were attacked by three teenagers
near a north Portland bus stop on Wednesday.

The women, Ashley Gorman and her co-worker Heather Moles, were riding their
bikes home from work when the attack occurred near Legacy Emanuel Hospital.

The cyclists said the teen girls were standing in the bike lane waiting for
the bus and they had to steer their bikes around the group. The teens may
have thought the cyclists rode too closely.

The next thing she knew, one of the teens kicked out Moles' tire, causing
her to fall.

"I felt the thud, and then the tire went, and I went skidding into the
road," Moles said.

That's when the beating began. Three teens punched both cyclists in the head
and dislocated Moles' shoulder.

Jonathan Corey was passing by and helped break up the fight, pulling the
teens off the cyclists.

"It became obvious who was the aggressor in the whole equation," he said.

Corey added that the assailants were ruthless.

"I felt like I almost didn't use enough force in retrospect as I might have
wanted to to make the thing stop," he said.

One witness heard a racial slur aimed at the cyclists, who said they didn't
hear it. The teens were black while the cyclists were white.

The cyclists wonder whether race had anything to do with the attack. They
can't understand what caused it.

"I could imagine if we had said something but nothing was said," Gorman
said.

Gorman suffered the worst beating. She went to the emergency room but has no
insurance to pay for it.

"I got bruised up pretty good," Gorman said. "I got my behind handed to me."

A fourth teenager with the group apparently stood by during the attack but
then apologized afterward just before everybody scattered and police
arrived.

01-14-2007, 02:44 PM

Gooserider wrote:
> Wow. And that's a bike friendly city. I hope the assailants are caught and
> sent to prison.
>
>
>

OMG!! That's amazing. They should also convict them for "violating civil
rights" and "hate crimes".
.....oh, wait....
-the victims were /white/.
Well that don't count then. Nevermind.

Move along, nothing to see here.
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01-14-2007, 03:22 PM

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:44:49 -0600, DougC <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> may
have said:

>Gooserider wrote:
>> Wow. And that's a bike friendly city. I hope the assailants are caught and
>> sent to prison.
>>
>>
>>
>
>OMG!! That's amazing. They should also convict them for "violating civil
>rights" and "hate crimes".
>....oh, wait....
>-the victims were /white/.
>Well that don't count then. Nevermind.
>
>Move along, nothing to see here.

IMO, all of the "hate crime" statutes should be replaced by an add-on
offense of "publicly and persistently being an *******" that can be
piggybacked onto just about anything involving actual injury or
damage, right down to littering. I can deal with people who are
*******s but who otherwise don't cause any actual problems. What bugs
me are the ones who bust things up and then stand there and
belligerently dare the world to do anything about it.

Sentencing would have to be awfully creative, though.

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01-14-2007, 05:31 PM

I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.

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01-14-2007, 06:16 PM

In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts) writes:

> I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.

Sounds to me like a case of punk-ettes looking for
peurile, bullying kicks, beligerently blocking a bike
lane, and waiting for the next victimizable cyclist(s)
to come along, to pick-on.

It's old hat stuff. Except cases of inter-female
bullying are now being more publicized.

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01-14-2007, 09:38 PM

"Gooserider" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:45aabd71$0$27065$[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
> Wow. And that's a bike friendly city. I hope the assailants are caught and
> sent to prison.
>
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
>
> PORTLAND, Ore. - Two cyclists said they were attacked by three teenagers
> near a north Portland bus stop on Wednesday.
>
> The women, Ashley Gorman and her co-worker Heather Moles, were riding
their
> bikes home from work when the attack occurred near Legacy Emanuel
Hospital.
>
> The cyclists said the teen girls were standing in the bike lane waiting
for
> the bus and they had to steer their bikes around the group. The teens may
> have thought the cyclists rode too closely.
>
> The next thing she knew, one of the teens kicked out Moles' tire, causing
> her to fall.
>
> "I felt the thud, and then the tire went, and I went skidding into the
> road," Moles said.

And that's why I carry a canister of pepper spray in my jersey pocket.
Works great on dogs, and would probably have put the hurt on those two
little b*tches too.

GG

>
> That's when the beating began. Three teens punched both cyclists in the
head
> and dislocated Moles' shoulder.
>
> Jonathan Corey was passing by and helped break up the fight, pulling the
> teens off the cyclists.
>
> "It became obvious who was the aggressor in the whole equation," he said.
>
> Corey added that the assailants were ruthless.
>
> "I felt like I almost didn't use enough force in retrospect as I might
have
> wanted to to make the thing stop," he said.
>
> One witness heard a racial slur aimed at the cyclists, who said they
didn't
> hear it. The teens were black while the cyclists were white.
>
> The cyclists wonder whether race had anything to do with the attack. They
> can't understand what caused it.
>
> "I could imagine if we had said something but nothing was said," Gorman
> said.
>
> Gorman suffered the worst beating. She went to the emergency room but has
no
> insurance to pay for it.
>
> "I got bruised up pretty good," Gorman said. "I got my behind handed to
me."
>
> A fourth teenager with the group apparently stood by during the attack but
> then apologized afterward just before everybody scattered and police
> arrived.
>
>

01-15-2007, 01:37 AM

"Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in
message news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
>I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.
>

Nice. You read a story about two white women being beaten up by four black
teenagers---and your first instinct is to blame it on Freepers? I really
don't think the Free Republic's readership is made up of teenaged black
girls. This was obviously a race-based attack, since racial slurs were used
during the attack.

01-15-2007, 01:39 AM

"Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news

lreoe.57e.ln@bud.garden.local...
> In article <45aae71f.31804750@news.supernews.com>,
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts) writes:
>
>> I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.
>
> Sounds to me like a case of punk-ettes looking for
> peurile, bullying kicks, beligerently blocking a bike
> lane, and waiting for the next victimizable cyclist(s)
> to come along, to pick-on.
>
> It's old hat stuff. Except cases of inter-female
> bullying are now being more publicized.
>
>
> cheers,
> Tom
>

Well, except for the racial aspect. If three white teenagers beat two black
cyclists while spouting racial slurs, this would be the lead story on every
networks' newscast, and the assailants' photos would be splashed on every
newspaper and magazine in the country. But the victims were white so this
story will remain a local one, and a minor local one at that.

01-15-2007, 06:53 AM

Gooserider wrote:
> "Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news

lreoe.57e.ln@bud.garden.local...
>> In article <45aae71f.31804750@news.supernews.com>,
>> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts) writes:
>>
>>> I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.
>> Sounds to me like a case of punk-ettes looking for
>> peurile, bullying kicks, beligerently blocking a bike
>> lane, and waiting for the next victimizable cyclist(s)
>> to come along, to pick-on.
>>
>> It's old hat stuff. Except cases of inter-female
>> bullying are now being more publicized.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Tom
>>
>
> Well, except for the racial aspect. If three white teenagers beat two black
> cyclists while spouting racial slurs, this would be the lead story on every
> networks' newscast, and the assailants' photos would be splashed on every
> newspaper and magazine in the country. But the victims were white so this
> story will remain a local one, and a minor local one at that.
>
>
You've noticed that aspect? I am now a minority in California, being
white, yet discriminated against because of it. Affirmative action just
means that my job will be given to a less qualified person 'of some
color'. It has gotten out of hand.
Bill Baka

01-15-2007, 07:54 AM

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:53:08 GMT, Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote:

>Gooserider wrote:
>> "Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news

lreoe.57e.ln@bud.garden.local...
>>> In article <45aae71f.31804750@news.supernews.com>,
>>> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts) writes:
>>>
>>>> I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.
>>> Sounds to me like a case of punk-ettes looking for
>>> peurile, bullying kicks, beligerently blocking a bike
>>> lane, and waiting for the next victimizable cyclist(s)
>>> to come along, to pick-on.
>>>
>>> It's old hat stuff. Except cases of inter-female
>>> bullying are now being more publicized.
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Tom
>>>
>>
>> Well, except for the racial aspect. If three white teenagers beat two black
>> cyclists while spouting racial slurs, this would be the lead story on every
>> networks' newscast, and the assailants' photos would be splashed on every
>> newspaper and magazine in the country. But the victims were white so this
>> story will remain a local one, and a minor local one at that.
>>
>>
>You've noticed that aspect? I am now a minority in California, being
>white, yet discriminated against because of it. Affirmative action just
>means that my job will be given to a less qualified person 'of some
>color'. It has gotten out of hand.
>Bill Baka

Billy, you're not discriminated against because of your skin color...
it's because you're a flaming big-mouthed idiot.