That's freaky! At least nothing much got taken. And now at least now your assailant can have luscious locks and shower fresh clean skin! Maybe that's just what he was after the whole time? 😉😉😉

This one time I was visiting Berlin, and riding my rented road bike through Gorlitzer(sp?) park, I saw a guy ahead of me, two guys to be actually, but I didn't get a good look at the guy sitting because... yeah this guy was really pissed off, screaming and yelling, and in a language I couldn't understand like he was PISSED OFF.. I probably should have turned back. As I neared the two, I made the mistake of making eye contact with me and he started to sprint at and chase me while screaming like he was going to kill me or something! I was lie... oh... hell... NO... and pedalled so fucking hard... it was too much I had no clue what this guys deal was and he wasn't a small dude either and for a moment, he was within an arms reach. I'm so lucky I was on a road bike and in the right gear for that because otherwise... I dunno - some crazy bath salts shit or something would have went down! I didn't know what else to think. After he realized he's not going to catch a person on a bike he stopped and I stopped, a short distance away, I felt like screaming at him... sort of like "what the fuck, dude?" but then thought... eh... just let it go... just move on. Not something you want to involve yourself with more... And I'm so lucky that I did! Because I realize that I was sort of backed into a place where biking out wasn't going to happen - to leave I had to sort of tuck my bike under a handrail and had I egged that guy on he would have cornered me there and yea... I couldn't figure out if he wanted my bike or just to hurt me? Or a combination of both? I wish I had my gopro at the time it would have made a cool video. Anyways I was so shaken up afterwards I didn't know exactly what to do... just ended up biking away hearing that guys screams go on.... I was like okay Berlin, I didn't expect to see that one coming but allright... 🤔

Some other time, some people I didn't know called me over, I was biking and foolishly stopped. They asked me if I wanted to buy weed, I said 'no' but they somehow kept stalling me, asking a few times, asking random things and next thing I know there's like 4 more other people and they're like 'we want your bike.' Start throwing punches at me and all I can do is try and get on my bike but there's like 6 of them and can't get on or pedalling because they're all like punching me and shit. Thankfully after what seemed like an eternity of this, someone finally got out of their cars and helped me out. Cops were called and the police did a very awesome job of rounding them all up, with dogs and everything, I didn't get beat up very bad at all and my bike didn't get robbed so I was alright with that 😎

Both these events happened during the day... I guess the lesson here - beware the friendly and sometimes not-so friendly stranger... when you're riding a bike during the day! 😮