Quote Originally Posted by Sheesh
I have a coworker who used to ride his bike through the West Side on his way to work, and the kids would sometimes throw rocks at him. Be careful!
I used to live on Taylor and Racine. It was time to move when the kids from the projects across the street started throwing rocks at us. When I have to run to dodge the rocks being thrown at my head...I'm outta there. Huge irony: They tore down the projects. Now they're condos.

A lot of these kids have nobody to be hauled home to, or nobody who cares, or you'd be killed before you got to wherever you were trying to drag them. Some of those kids wouldn't mind using a cyclist for target practice, not at all.
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Karen, I'm with you, that's not a "boy" thing, that's a sociopath thing. 12 or 13 is not too young to be charged with assault and battery.