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Originally Posted by Sainters7
I actually experienced this first-hand for the first time Tuesday evening. It has many elements of former recent gear grinders, as it features downtown bike lanes, rollerblading, and pit bulls with trashy irresponsible owners:
I was rollerblading in the bike lane downtown approaching an intersection, where this trashy looking downtown couple was jaywalking across with a pit bull, towards me. Could tell it was timing out that we were going to get to the end of the intersection at the same time, but I figured they'd yield for me since I had the green (and moving fast on blades) and they didn't. Of course they didn't do this, however, and walked right in front of me.
If you've ever rollerbladed or skateboarded before (wheels are similar), you'll know the sound seems to spook some dogs. They'll freak out, start barking at you and try to come after you. Usually it's mostly just little dogs as they're jumpy and filled with Napoleon Syndrome, bigger dogs usually don't care (though there's been occasions). Usually I just roll my eyes as it's a shih-tzu or terrier or something. This time, the pit bull did it.
He lost it, and charged right at me (on a leash thank jebus). Between the dude's lackadaisical hold on the leash, and me on blades not able to stop on a dime, it got very close: probably within a couple feet of me. Seeing that demonic look in it's eyes that pit bulls get while it charged straight at me and clearly going for my leg was so freaky, I had that shaky feeling afterwards you get after a close call. When I chirped them after, he was just like "he doesn't like rollerblades" [emoji2369]
Freaking pit bulls, and the trashy "Crooks & Castles" types that are drawn to owning them, I hate it.
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So I have a newer, worse experience with this from yesterday evening: tried out a new route (Scarboro), went by a park and an off leash pit bull (owner was playing fetch with it) came flying at me full speed, losing it on me. I had to go as fast as I could, it chased me for a couple blocks. I put it in another gear and had no choice but to go full speed to cross the larger crossroad. Thankfully no cars were coming, that could've been bad (and the psycho pit bull drew the line at that road and stopped).
I was convinced he was going to catch me and sink his teeth in, thank god I'm fast on my blades. What if it was a little kid?? Would've had a tragic end I'm sure. 2 pit bull encounters in under a month, I'm so sick of this ####. I'm considering bringing a tool like a Swiss Army knife (I use the cork screw to pick rocks out of them already) on my excursions with me now to protect myself in case I come across another one, it's freaking ridiculous. I wanted to go back and scream at the owner, but I knew his dog would just come after me again.
Usually it's just little dogs that freak out at that sound, big dogs are chill. Except for pit bulls: big killing machines with little dog, Napoleon complex mentality. That freaking breed and the trashy types attracted to owning one, man...the owner looked like a total dirtbag / casual drug dealer of course, shocker..