Back in May, Austin cyclist Brad Urry was shot while riding on Southwest Parkway with a pellet gun from a mystery Prius. After nearly 6 months, police have arrested someone in conjunction with the assault. KVUE is reporting an 18-year-old former Austin High School student has been charged assault with injury, a misdemeanor that is [...]
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Friday Film Fun: The Lighter and Darker Faces of Cycling
This week’s videos highlight the struggle between good and evil all cyclists struggle with every day on the mean streets of America. The first has been making the rounds this week after it was posted then removed then re-posted and removed again on YouTube. Better watch it quick before it gets removed from Vimeo. Bike [...]
Asheville firefighter shoots cyclist over argument about safety
This story from North Carolina sounds like something from News of the Weird. The Asheville Citizen-Times is reporting: Police charged a city firefighter with attempted first-degree murder Sunday after witnesses said he fired a handgun at a bicyclist along Tunnel Road, barely missing his skull. Charles Alexander Diez, 42, apparently fired at the Asheville man [...]
Austin cyclist shot with BB while riding
KVUE is reported last night on an Austin cyclist, Brad Urry, who was shot in the back with a BB gun while riding on Southwest Parkway in May. Urry said, two people in a light-blue Prius shot him in the back with a pellet gun and kept going. The half inch deep wound barely missed his spine. “When [...]
