{"id":108702975,"date":"2008-06-12T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=108702975"},"modified":"2008-06-12T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T03:16:15","slug":"baltimore-truly-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=108702975","title":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE truly sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Comment from mod: We encourage everyone to report problems and issues in the Baltimore area. These reports ARE used to at least help make sure that steps are taken so the problems are reduced.]<\/p>\n<p>I have been here in Baltimore for three years and bike almost daily to Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus. During this time, I have been assaulted 6 times with fists, rubber bullets, rocks&#8230;. have also gotten a bike stolen from inner harbor with a security camera right on top of it.  <\/p>\n<p>By the way I am from Pakistan. Never saw any violence whatsoever in Pakistan. The first time I was ever assaulted was in Baltimore. Don&#8217;t think I am a cry baby I still defy the assholes\/ terrorists of Baltimore and bike daily to campus because if I don&#8217;t these mfu*** have won. anyways,  I have gotten used to all of the violence. <\/p>\n<p>My advice to all the avid bikers out there<\/p>\n<p>1. if you see more than one teenager approaching you, RUN. these punks attack you in groups.<\/p>\n<p>2. never stop at a red light unless theres traffic approaching<\/p>\n<p>3. don&#8217;t bother calling the cops if you get assaulted. they will laugh it off. just suck it up<\/p>\n<p>4. always carry a spare tube in case you have a puncture<\/p>\n<p>5. Bike at odd hours, very early in the morning or really late at night becase the assholes also need to get some sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Comment from mod: We encourage everyone to report problems and issues in the Baltimore area. These reports ARE used to at least help make sure that steps are taken so the problems are reduced.] I have been here in Baltimore for three years and bike almost daily to Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus. During this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=108702975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BALTIMORE truly sucks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108702975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108702975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108702975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108702975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108702975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}