Head's up! Robbed while riding early Sunday Morning.

Just wanted to give people a heads up:

This morning (5:30am Sunday) I was taking my usual route to work (straight down Milwaukee - Desplaines)  when I ran into some trouble.

 I had just crossed over Division  when I noticed a group of guys walking North on the West side of Milwaukee, one of them started walking at me in the bike lane.  I just assumed he was either avoiding the snow on the sidewalk, or trying to hail a cab.  He wasn't moving out of the way as I got closer so I rode into the car's lane.  As I was about to pass him  he said "Give me that bike bitch" and then went after me. I tried to speed past him, but he managed to push the rear of my bike which made me loose balance an veer off to the other side of the road.  I fell off my bike once it tried to hop the curb and he grabbed me and pinned me up against the iron fence.  I was screaming and he was choking me and telling me to "give me what you got".    I kept telling him I didn't have anything, but remembered I had a $20 in my pocket and asked if he wanted that.  He took it, told me he loved me and then kissed me on the cheek a couple of times and took off running.

F'd up!

so F'd up

I just want to give you all a heads up of what happened in an area I usually feel safe in and maybe keep an eye out for each other.  A few cars passed as I was pinned against the fence, but no one stopped.  Maybe they didn't see, maybe they did.  

I was lucky and managed to keep everything that mattered to me and came away just really shaken up. 

A report has been filed

It was a group of 4 or so guys, but only one guy chased me down.  He was an african american probably early 20's wearing a dark green jacket (waist length and not "winter time poofy" ) with some sort of white character on the back of it.  He had shoulder length dreads and was wearing a dark colored knit cap.

Let's look out for each other!

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on March 1, 2013 at 7:01am

How would you know Howie, you only ride one mile and just when group rides form...

h' 1.0 said:

Neither-- I seriously doubt Juan's "primitives" are going to be frightened off by an air horn or anything else if they truly are intent on attacking him.

Lisa Curcio 4.0 mi said:

Do you think it is the air horn or the get-up?

Permalink Reply by Juan Primo on March 1, 2013 at 8:31am

Who got racist?

h' 1.0 said:

Untrue, sorry.

Would be nice to have a forum where people of various backgrounds would feel comfortable participating-- any chance we can keep the racist crap off of it?

Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on March 1, 2013 at 8:53am

You've got to be the most interesting troll the chainlink has...

h' 1.0 said:

Untrue, sorry.

Would be nice to have a forum where people of various backgrounds would feel comfortable participating-- any chance we can keep the racist crap off of it?

Juan 2-8 mi. said:

How would you know Howie, you only ride one mile and just when group rides form...

h' 1.0 said:

Neither-- I seriously doubt Juan's "primitives" are going to be frightened off by an air horn or anything else if they truly are intent on attacking him.

Lisa Curcio 4.0 mi said:

Do you think it is the air horn or the get-up?

Permalink Reply by Ryan Morris on March 4, 2013 at 3:30pm

WOW!!! UNREAL!!! Glad you're physically alright.  I'm sure you're still dealing with this mentally.  Super unfortunate that people are so absurd sometimes.  Makes me want to go crazy for a while.  My girlfriend and I had our bikes jacked by that intersection two years ago.  We live a few blocks away but had been out and just stopped to grab a bite.  30 minutes, two u-locks.. no bikes.  No nearby business (which have cameras outside) could help out.  It's stupid frustrating!

Again, glad you're alright.  And thanks for sharing.

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