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Jul 2, 2016 | 07:33 AM

#81

Wanna Ride

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Originally Posted by Tommy C

Some of us here are genuinely concerned about Larry's whereabouts & safety. Keep us updated, Wanna Ride.

Will do, Tommy. I've since heard that the authorities are focusing on identifying that truck that was seen in the video.

*Edit* - nothing that we didn't really already know, but here's the most recent news video from yesterday evening.

http://www.koamtv.com/story/32358391...-pittsburg-man

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Jul 2, 2016 | 09:33 AM

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IRON1250

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From: New Hampshire

I hope he is found alive and well. The people messing with bikes and bikers better hope the don't **** off the wrong group of bad bikers or they could be in for a bad time of if. Unless of course they are one of those groups of bad bikers.

Jul 2, 2016 | 10:16 AM

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pie plate

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From: chico

When I used to travel out of town on business there were so many "near-miss" encounters with self-medicating ****** and pimps in the industrial areas that at length I bought a revolver and got a CCW permit from our sheriff. Sadly it looks like Larry went to a fight without the necessary things... I hope he turns up ok.

If he does it's going to make a great story. If not, well, the sort of people who'd rip off the scooter and knock Larry off to boot - those guys will run aground and go back to jail, or get shot by the cops. People will talk, things get around - even, or especially, murder. Meantime, they're still out there...

The revolver? When I stopped working out of town I got rid of it. I'm simply no longer willing to use deadly force. Age and all that.

If I can't park my scooter under cover and the steely eyes of a watchman I don't stay at the place. I too, like Larry, travel by bike alone...the story speaks to me personally.

Can't hurt to pray...

Jul 2, 2016 | 10:44 AM

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Tommy C

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Originally Posted by pie plate

The revolver? When I stopped working out of town I got rid of it. I'm simply no longer willing to use deadly force. Age and all that.

So when you travel you rely on hope alone? As in "I hope nothing bad happens today & I don't have contact with evil people whose sole intent is to do me harm?" Hope will get you killed. Your safety is your responsibility, not law enforcement. They are there to make out the reports after everything is over.

Jul 2, 2016 | 10:49 AM

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pie plate

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From: chico

Not hope, caution, judgement. No way would I be so incautious as to park scooter like that. Too many close calls and no longer young. "Resignation" maybe, but not hope. The sages say that we ought not to place stones in the path of a blind man...and from this, by logic, we get to "do not place valuables where they might entice a thief to commit a crime"... It looks like Larry did that, unintentionally of course...and his efforts to rescue the situation and prevent the crime failed... Bless him for trying! It's an error everybody makes to some degree...a lack of situational awareness, one might say.

Last edited by pie plate; Jul 2, 2016 at 10:58 AM.