Man hit motorbike driver with shovel

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

If you are riding an infernal homemade, souped-up contraption by this old codger's house you'd better be packing an equalizer...

It reads like the contraption was a Whizzer.

Those kind of bikers are HOLY TERRORS going 25mph!

Police say a St. Charles man went out of his way to knock over the driver of a moving motorized bicycle - by hitting him with a shovel.

The man's attorney, however, claims it was the driver who struck his client as he tried to get the "homemade, souped-up" vehicle to slow down.

It all happened about 4:30 p.m. Sunday as a 44-year-old man rode a "motorized pedal cycle" east on the 600 block of State Street, according to police.

Daily Herald | Cops: Man hit motorbike driver with shovel

[kb4ns]

They gotta start putting governors on those things. They're outta control.

[Garufa]

I want one.

[kb4ns]

I want one.

You'd look right on one...

[Guest Moody]

"Damn kids these days!"

[Guest ADAM]

you should be hit with a shovel for riding a motorized bicycle.

[LagerHead]

you should be hit with a shovel for riding a motorized bicycle.

Niiiice!

[Bigiron]

Had a Whizzer, many, many years ago. Didn't know they were still made.

[Mike.357]

when I was a kid there was a guy on the street who had a lawnmower engine on a bicycle. Goofy looking for sure but no peddling involved.

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

you should be hit with a shovel for riding a motorized bicycle.

yeah, those wild and crazy Harley riders should be stopped!

[TripleDigitRide]

Ha! That's the city I was born in.

[oldogy]

I've owned three Whizzers many many years ago. I rode them prior to getting a real drivers license. I can't remember anyone swinging a shovel at me. The new ones are little improved over the originals although they're made off shore. Top end is still only about 35 mph.

oldogy

[enfield]

I once stopped a kid on a crotch rocket who was repeatedly roaring by my house (suburbs, 25 mph speed limit, kids playing) by meeting him in the street with a shovel. He got the point.