Back when I was about 14 or 15 years old I was riding my bike. It was maybe about 8pm and my friend and I were coming back from a festival.
As we we riding up a hill in the city downtown some kid, maybe 17/18 years old ran up to me and pulled out a gun and put it to my stomach. My friend being scared, rode off… leaving me alone and the kid demanded that I come with him across the street (busy main road), he told me he knew me, which he didn’t and said his boys wanted to speak with me. As I followed this teenager, about 2000 feet, we approached an ally (kind a long ride between houses, just a street and peoples car garages) his buddies openly he door to a old school caddy, they were about 6 or more of them, all strapped with guns.. and a voice in my head said throw your bike in front of you and run like a sob… or they will k**l you… so I did exactly that and around the corner was a 24/7 hour donut shop and I called 911 on a pay phone inside. Eventually cops came maybe 1 1/2 hours later, didn’t do anything, but the gang bangers did take my bike. It was a nice BMX. I believe had I not run, they would of shot me. They would not of cared or thought twice about it. We had lots of gangs in our city.
This happened many years ago, but something I’ll never forget.
As we we riding up a hill in the city downtown some kid, maybe 17/18 years old ran up to me and pulled out a gun and put it to my stomach. My friend being scared, rode off… leaving me alone and the kid demanded that I come with him across the street (busy main road), he told me he knew me, which he didn’t and said his boys wanted to speak with me. As I followed this teenager, about 2000 feet, we approached an ally (kind a long ride between houses, just a street and peoples car garages) his buddies openly he door to a old school caddy, they were about 6 or more of them, all strapped with guns.. and a voice in my head said throw your bike in front of you and run like a sob… or they will k**l you… so I did exactly that and around the corner was a 24/7 hour donut shop and I called 911 on a pay phone inside. Eventually cops came maybe 1 1/2 hours later, didn’t do anything, but the gang bangers did take my bike. It was a nice BMX. I believe had I not run, they would of shot me. They would not of cared or thought twice about it. We had lots of gangs in our city.
This happened many years ago, but something I’ll never forget.