Encounter With the Olympia Bicycle Terrorist

As I was coming home from jogging down East Bay Drive, I was walking up the steep San Francisco Street. I was taking it in stride.

I began to hear this swearing – “Fu@! the locals!” “Fu*! the Iraq War!” “Fu%@ the police!”

‘What the heck?” I thought to myself. I looked back and a man with a bicycle strapped to his back was walking through someone’s yard onto San Fran Street.

He kept saying Fu&! with various things after each Fu$!”

I began to walk a lot faster.

Later when I was telling one of my roommates about this strange encounter, he informed me I had seen Olympia’s Bicycle Terrorist.

The bicycle terrorist is known for harassing locals by riding very quickly toward them and swerving out of the way at the last minute. He also will ride straight out in front of cars and make them slam on their brakes.

He will swear at people while riding along.

So, this man who carries his bike on his back, lives in my neighborhood with his mother, apparently.

I will try not to run into him again--- or rather, try not to