Delicious Tidbit from Berkeley
A friend pointed out an interesting story that ran in the SF Chron this week:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/detail?blogid=144&entry_id=64903
I guess we have a serial mountain bike hater who has taken to vigilantism by attacking mountain bikers…
A quick read of this guy’s C.V. (B.A. Magna cum Laude UC Berkeley in Mathematics, M.A. in Mathematics from Harvard, Ph.D. from UCLA in Psychology) wouldn’t give you the impression he was such a whack job. Or as one friend put it: “I’d say the Nobel Nutter prize must be right around the corner for Dr. Fruit Loop. I bet he can write a hell of a Christmas letter.”
Echoes of Ted Kaczynski.
He, like the Unabomber, has an impressive body of work, and on his website he’s even managed to write it in that crazy-guy-with-a-typewriter font which I encourage you to check out…click the image for a link!
Take home message, if you see this guy on the trail BEWARE!
June 5th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
I guess everyone needs a hobby. Yikes.
June 8th, 2010 at 12:40 am
This trail use stuff is pretty messed up, I must say. Get a life, people, move to Europe
June 8th, 2010 at 12:42 am
He’s got a legitimate beef with bikes on off-limits trails but that’s as far as we agree. His tactics and reasoning are clearly beyond the pale. The scary part is reading the comments on the SFGate story where people are talking about donating fishing line to his “cause”. I’m thinking alot of the anger towards the cycling community is because of the massive PITA that Critical Mass is.
But no, I’m not defending this nutter. I hope he gets sent to prison or a mental hospital where he won’t be able to harm anyone.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Check out this page on his site!
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/overview
Everything in the right column looks like fun
(except the poor squirrel)