Originally Posted by
Artkansas
And likely, if it happened, it won't go according to one of the scripts that you imagined. Funny how everyone seems to imagine that their "bike-jacker" is a single individual that they can waste with a gun. When it happened to me, I was outnumbered 7 to 1. The weapons were a bicycle vs a car, baseball bats and 2 x 4's.
That is pretty awful. It's shocking people would go to that trouble and risk (of being ID'd and arrested, not of being resisted by the victim) for an old bike.
And so many of them. Even for a crime, that was hardly a cost-effective deal for them.