This is a Stick-up! Hand over your...Tacos?

It seems that when it comes to protecting yourself from having your bicycle stolen  a strong lock may have some new competition.

The following is the opening to a Feb. 18th article, in the San Bernardino Sun, by Melissa Pinion-Whitt (More than this is available, online, to website subscribers only, but this is enough for a good laugh, especially since the victim came away unscaithed, though still hungry.)

An armed robber who sneaked up on a bicyclist Sunday night didn't want the man's money, wallet or anything else of great value.

He wanted his tacos.

The victim, a 35-year-old Fontana man, had just bought about $20 in tacos from a stand at the corner of San Bernardino and Fontana avenues and was riding home when the bandit confronted him.

He approached him from behind saying, "Give me your tacos".

Tacos, Tacos? What was the victim riding, anyway, a piece of junk?

Now, I don't know the first thing about being a successful Bad Guy, but it would appear to me to be a matter of simple logic that one could get more from fencing a stolen bicycle, especially if it is one in good condition, and of some quality, than from a bunch of tacos, not worth the money paid for them beyond a couple of days. ;-D

And if the crook ate them what does that leave him with, aside from a temporaily very full stomach?