{"id":170,"date":"2013-04-05T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgc.co\/2013\/04\/hells-hipsters\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:55:00","slug":"hells-hipsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlespeedgoldcoast.com\/2013\/04\/05\/hells-hipsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hells Hipsters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’ll be a sad day when bikies start wearing skinny leg pants and growing whispy moustaches but I fear the day isn’t far off. From recent reports it would seem that the hipsters (read: us, because that’s who people think we are) have infiltrated the bikie gangs and are carrying out bicycle mounted attacks:<\/div>\n
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Police believe an man on a pushbike may be responsible for a shooting on a tattoo parlour on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The front windows of the business on Brisbane Road in central Mooloolaba were blasted with two shotgun rounds just before 3:30am (AEST).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more at 7 Yahoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of the offending hipster in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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That’s either the man who shot the shop, a guy riding past around the same time, or a shadow of a man who rode past. Anyway way you look at it he (or she) is the police’ best suspect\/eye-witness at the moment. They’ll have this case cracked in no time.<\/div>\n

I believe he stopped in at the bikie clubhouse after the shooting for a soy-latte and a green shake.<\/p>\n

The Gold Coast has a long and proud association with outlaw motorcycle clubs. For years the Finks clubhouse was down the road from me. I thought the name “Finks” was charmingly unoffensive. Then I read Professor Art Veno’s<\/a> description of them as being one of the least disciplined and most dangerous clubs in Australia. That’s when I realised that what sounded like gunshots coming from the direction of their clubhouse really were gunshots. A neighbour who lived close to them confirmed with a nonchalant, “Oh yeah, didn’t you realise?” Saturday night was get drunk and fire off some rounds night.<\/p>\n

Anyway, they never rode bicycles and they never took pot-shots at my house, so they were okay by me. As a motorcyclist the only time I was ever intimidated by bikies was when 40-odd pulled up beside me at the lights. The lights turned green and I stalled. Big brave me.<\/p>\n

Speaking of pussies on bikes. My friend Jamie (the one I so recently defamed on my blog<\/a>) sent me this video:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n