The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
So are we warned in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians.
A thief in the night is certainly cause for worry. After all, I'm sure I'm not the only cyclists who's lost his or her steed to one. I've also lost parts on bikes I've parked overnight in the path of some random crook.
As poignant as Paul's metaphor is, I have to wonder what he'd have said about another nocturnal perp.
The guy, who was caught on video, was walking around the Times Square area with a bag of feces. (Back in the day, shadowy characters prowled the area with bags full of other things, some of which they sold to passerby!) In the wee hours of one morning last week, he smeared the contents of his sack over the seats of Citibikes parked in the dock across the street from the Al Hirschfeld theatre, where "Kinky Boots" has been playing.
Worst of all, some people actually took the bikes without checking the seats.
This incident gives new meaning to the decals that have been applied to some of the city's rental bikes:
When I heard about the perp, who hasn't been caught, I imagined a(n) (over)zealous police officer stopping him and ordering him to open the contents of his bag!
So are we warned in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians.
A thief in the night is certainly cause for worry. After all, I'm sure I'm not the only cyclists who's lost his or her steed to one. I've also lost parts on bikes I've parked overnight in the path of some random crook.
As poignant as Paul's metaphor is, I have to wonder what he'd have said about another nocturnal perp.
The guy, who was caught on video, was walking around the Times Square area with a bag of feces. (Back in the day, shadowy characters prowled the area with bags full of other things, some of which they sold to passerby!) In the wee hours of one morning last week, he smeared the contents of his sack over the seats of Citibikes parked in the dock across the street from the Al Hirschfeld theatre, where "Kinky Boots" has been playing.
Worst of all, some people actually took the bikes without checking the seats.
This incident gives new meaning to the decals that have been applied to some of the city's rental bikes:
When I heard about the perp, who hasn't been caught, I imagined a(n) (over)zealous police officer stopping him and ordering him to open the contents of his bag!
