Police vs Badass 18 Year Old

[Bicycle_B]

Officers find young man walking 7 miles to work:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/09/30/teen-who-walked-two-hours-to-work-surprised-by-cop-who-buys-him-bike/

[Miss Piggy]

Saw that article yesterday. Pretty cool story. Glad you posted it!

[Bicycle_B]

Thanks, Miss P!

I remember walking 3 miles to a restaurant job as a teenager because the road looked unsafe for bikes.  No one ever pulled me over, though.

[HappierAtHome]

Aw. That story was great. Thank you.

[Filliteracy]

What a badass. If society was 25% as badass as this guy and willing to walk 30 min to get to work, we wouldn't need to have convention after convention to talk about global warming and set deadlines 50 years into the future that we know we won't meet.

[NoStacheOhio]

Thanks for posting this, always good to read about positive police/public interactions!

[okits]

That was great!  He also may have found himself some mentors/contacts for his intended career in law enforcement, which is awesome.  :)

[meghan88]

What a badass. If society was 25% as badass as this guy and willing to walk 30 min to get to work, we wouldn't need to have convention after convention to talk about global warming and set deadlines 50 years into the future that we know we won't meet.

This.  Couldn't agree more.  Anyway, I hope they bought him a really good bike lock as well.  A brand new Giant bike?  Holy crap.  I can only dream.

[aperture]

What a badass. If society was 25% as badass as this guy and willing to walk 30 min to get to work, we wouldn't need to have convention after convention to talk about global warming and set deadlines 50 years into the future that we know we won't meet.

This.  Couldn't agree more.  Anyway, I hope they bought him a really good bike lock as well.  A brand new Giant bike?  Holy crap.  I can only dream.

Walking because your car broke is not exactly the way that we are going to reshape our global carbon consumption. It's going to be hard to get everyone's car to break at once.  I lived poor, and walking because my car broke and the bus sucks or is too expensive (fu Philadelphia) is pretty much par for the course. I walked or rode a bike more years of my adult life than the years I have had ready access to cars.  In the end, choosing to walk or ride a bike because of efficiency, environment, cost savings etc. is very different from hoofing it from necessity. My $0.02 -ap

[QueenAlice]

No YOU'RE crying into your morning tea...

That is an awesome story, thanks for sharing!

[mskyle]

I remember a story like this a while ago where a bunch of people did a fundraiser to buy a guy who was walking to work (or some kind of complicated long commute) a new car... the bike is so much more practical! And nice!