"Don't steal bikes, brah!"

As a matter of habit I tend completely ignore the goings-on of the rest of the world while writing ATXBS, solely focus on Austin events, rumors, rides and goings-on. Fuck Idaho, fuck Portland, fuck Berkeley, fuck NYC, fuck San Francisco. I don't care. Want to read about those cities? Do it somewhere else.

And then, something like the following video comes along, and I get over 50 people in two days emailing me about it, asking if I've seen it, if I want to put it on the site, blahblahblah. ENOUGH ALREADY! HERE IT IS:

Basically a dumbass bike thief with a cordless cutter gets caught fucking with a messenger's bike and gets his ass kicked, while some fratboy/messenger/bystander admonishes the "brah" not to steal bikes. If you haven't seen it yet, well, you have now.

Happy?

Update: And the backstory, from prolly's blog:

Here's the story. I was having brunch on first ave and first street with a a couple of friends including Alfred .It was a pretty sunny day and a good there was a good amount of pedestrian traffic .Nothing unusual. Alfred went out to make a call and spotted someone looking over his bike. Nothing unusual ,he got a hot ass cannondale with hot ass wheels.the guy was average looking,had a helmet and a bag.looked like your average joe casual biker.Suddenly this dude gets on his knees and pulls out a drill.At first Alfred thought he wanted to steal his wheels,until he saw the drill.Is this what it has come out to?!people stealing bike with drills?Anyways as he was getting ready to drill the ulock,Alfred comes in the restaurant and yells,!yooooo someones trying to steal my bike,lets go get him.and let me tell you this ass hole tried stealing the wrong bike.first it was a bike messengers bike and second it was Alfred's bike and the motherFkr got a temper sometimes.so we roll out to this dude and start pounding him.my first instinct was to get my U lock and bang on him,but my bike was already locked up so , we bumbrushed this dude and started pounding him.Everybody is watching and wondering why this dude is being plumeted ,but at that point we don't give a fuck.we had to make sure this asshole dosen't do it again.me personal i have had 2 bikes stolen,in like a month apart.fuck that shit.he did't even look like a bike thief!so while pounding him i reach out to put my phone in my pocket and realized i had a camera on my wait.i pulled it out and captured the second half of the beating!