How Was Your Commute Today?

[7rider]

Note to self: Add "non-emergency" police number to my cell phone.
Today, I was riding home, I crossed a main road and hopped onto a MUT, which I ride for about 2/10ths of a mile, before getting off and back on side streets. As I got on the MUT, I saw 2 young boys (maybe 14 y.o.?) ahead of me, coming towards me: One on a bike, the other walking, carrying a skateboard. As I got closer, preparing to ring my bell, the cyclist jumps off his bike, throws it to the trail, and runs towards the woods on the edge of trail. His friend goes towards him. He's yelling something, I can't make out.."Hey - Hey." or some such. He picks up a LARGE branch - maybe 10' long by about 4" diameter. He's yanking it out, back towards the trail, getting agitated and excited. Suspecting that no good would come out of that, and having no desire to tangle with the business end of that stick, I shifted up and sprinted onward. I really didn't want to lose my bike. Or worse. Further up the trail, safely out of their reach, an older woman is standing in the trail with a small boy, maybe 4 years old. She's glaring back down the trail, towards the two young teens.
As I approached, she said, "There's no need for that cursing."
I stop. "Excuse me?"
"Those two. There's no need for that. They're cursing. They said, 'I'm gonna kill you.' There's no need for that cursing."
"No good rotten punks." I replied.
"Yes," she said, and she gathered up the small boy and they walked off the trail, through some trees towards an apartment building.
I shiver and continue on. I rarely run across "problems" on the trail, although I did one time see about 5 p.o.'s with a person 'cuffed and on the ground on that trail. I don't think my situation merited a call to 9-1-1, but I think the police should know if a couple of punks are tormenting folks on a MUT. I suspect that they look down on that sort of activity.