It's been my experience that verbal threats are very-rarely carried out. It's all just part of the 'monkey dance'. Chest beating.

But here's an opportunity for public shaming. Assuming there's no question that SUV-boy lost his temper and yelled at a delivery-truck driver over some laughable delay, and that he instigated the altercation, and that he posts it to YouTube - post his tag. Let karma take care of him. He threatened to post the altercation on YouTube, in order to punish the driver - let his threat come true. The biter, bit. I'm all for pointing out unquestionably-bad behavior.

llater,

llamas

A video could be edited to make the guy look bad, so I wanted to get in front of that!

What made this guy a hipster versus just an ordinary a-hole? Did he have a beard and a twirly mustache? Did he have a unicycle on his SUV bike rack? Just curious. It seems like hipster is such a nebulous term these days and I usually don't associate big SUVs with hipsters (at least not on the east coast).

Here is a chart I found on google for reference:

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/2014/03/14/evolution-of-the-hipster.jpg?635747927513431868

Its not perfect either but it is good enough to get the discussion going.

Going to Abbot Kinney -- the now "fabulous" boulevard here -- gives you a bunch of hipster asshole points right off the bat.

Abbot Kinney as a "destination" street seems so weird to me. When I lived in Venice, it was just a great shortcut between downtown Santa Monica and Venice Boulevard.

The businesses there did things like repair lamps. A couple of thrift shops (Edith Massey, from the John Waters movies, had her shop there). I think there was a boxing gym. A couple of bars — The Brig, a dive, and Roosterfish, a gay bar. When I moved, there was one fancy-ish restaurant that had moved in. It had the proprietor's first name; he was a laid-back black guy. Was it Ken's?

There is another a-hole phenomenon that sometimes happens on the road. This afternoon I was stuck in traffic for about 5 minutes in the Denver area rush hour when I heard one of those "boom cars" nearby. Some jerk was playing booming bass "music" that sounded like an earthquake. It's a horrible sound that permeates the environment for quite a distance. Finally I was able to get away from him as traffic moved. It's really obnoxious that someone can do this and annoy the heck out of everyone around them.

I should report the miscreant to The Patriarchy and have his Male Privileges™ card revoked.

P. S. He looked like a dork in the rear view mirror.

Does he dry up, like a raw, organic raisin in a food dehydrator?
Or fester like a sore from where your bike shorts rub against your thigh?
Does it stink like kombucha?
Or crust and sugar over,
like non-processed agave nectar?

Maybe it just sags,
like my underwear after I've eaten too many flax seeds
And then I explode

@ T.J. Patriarch, who wrote:

'This afternoon I was stuck in traffic for about 5 minutes in the Denver area rush hour when I heard one of those "boom cars" nearby.'

That is so frequent around here, and the perpetrators so stereotypical, that mrs llamas and I have a canned response when we hear it - he's 'straight outta Bloomfield.' Subaru Impreza (not a WRX) on 22" rims with coat-of-paint tires, a big wing on the deck lid, body kit, LED lights. Yep, he's an OG allright. F**k Tha Police, F**k Tha Police, he's keepin' it real, gnomesayin?

In similar vein, it seems to be 'the thing' around here for people to drive around in groups on Harley Davidsons with exhausts carefully designed to make as much noise as possible. I guess when you don't have power, torque or handling, noise is all that's left. To which we wryly respond ' . . . . there they go. Hell's Podiatrists.'

llater,

llamas

Good for you, for speaking up on the delivery driver's behalf.

I also do not associate what I would call a "hipster" with any type of SUV. I assume hipsters are generally anti-SUV. Being a shallow, self-important d!ckw@d does not automatically make one a hipster.

"In similar vein, it seems to be 'the thing' around here for people to drive around in groups on Harley Davidsons with exhausts carefully designed to make as much noise as possible."

As a bike rider from 1974-present, I can't believe the stupidity of such people. They've gotten us all banned from state and national parks, most gated communities and lots of resort towns...

...but they're REBELS, get it?

Even on their 100% financed "metric" (Japanese-made) cruiser.