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July 25th, 2007 WW Editorial Staff | Rogue of the Week
 

Portland's own two-part Axis of Evil

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This week's Rogue showcase features Portland's own two-part Axis of Evil, complete with missing teeth and anonymous evildoers.

Here's our local intelligence report: Sometime after midnight July 17, Portland's oldest bike shop was burgled. Raymond "Wulfy" Haner Jr., 36, was arrested later that same day and charged with stealing into St. Johns' 75-plus-year-old Weir's Cyclery through the back door and taking 15 bikes along with thousands of dollars in bike accessories.

Rogue One: the bike thieves who plague our city.

Then, as Ira Ryan, a bike builder who works below Weir's, wrote on BikePortland.org, "The tweakers were seen trying to sell the very stolen bikes just four blocks away from the shop."

Rogue Two: meth heads so whacked out that they'd allegedly sell stolen bikes four blocks away from the shop where the goods had been pilfered.

Ten of the 15 bikes came home, along with about $4,000 worth of bike gear, but unfortunately the cops couldn't recover all the stolen goods. And after BikePortland reported the story, the peanut gallery came out in force, throwing more than goobers.

In the words of frame builder Ryan, on his own blog, iraryanbicycles.com: "In my mind all bike thieves should have their balls nailed to the floor of a burning house." Ryan tells the Rogue desk, "The words were harsh, but the sentiment was right on."

When bikes rule, tweakers will be first against the wall.

Bike thieves/meth addicts who rip off our two-wheeled companions: For this week, the Rogue desk says Mission Accomplished.

 
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07.25.2007 at 07:42 Reply
Please add the purchasers of the stolen products to the list of rogues. And who might they be? Who has a need for cycling accessories and bikes? I really hope no one in the Portland cycling community took advantage of the bargain prices.

 

07.25.2007 at 10:01 Reply
This is your Rogue of the Week when there are so many others guilty of much more severe crimes?! You've got to be kidding me. Maybe some of the rapist and pedophiles that routinely carry out their crimes should have top priority for Rogue of the Week - the victims of these people would actually be justified in hoping their balls were nailed to the floor of a burning house.

 

07.25.2007 at 11:24 Reply
Bike riders seem like they ought to be squishy green folk, but they're not. I'm not so keen on dopey drug addicted thieves myself, but the language used is pretty harsh. It may be symptomatic of an attitude that thinks it's OK to run pedestrians, and anything else in your way, off the trail.

 

07.25.2007 at 06:13 Reply
Turn down your Ipod and you'll be able to hear the bell, or the polite "excuse me" or the universally understood "on your left". If it is a multi-use trail that means you have to share it with cyclists just like they have to share it with you.

Obviously it is not just bike theft (that many bikes is actually Grand Theft, value-wise) , as they were stolen by known meth-addicts. Meth-addicts are often property thieves, car theives and identity theives, and they also buy, sell, transport, and manufacture meth. I wouldn't be suprised if there were a few meth-fueled sexual assaults out there either.

 

07.27.2007 at 04:41 Reply
Aryan Bicyles? (See Ryan's URL.) WW has already written a story sympathetic to a pedophile, is it now praising neo-Nazis?

 

 
 

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