As if pot holes, metro buses, angry bus riders and glass shards weren't enough, there's this:
My leg is broken right now as a result of being struck by a brick that was hurled at me from the balcony of an apartment building on 11th Street. The cops haven't done anything for me because A) I don't have a postive ID of the perpetrator, and 2) I didn't stop to see if there were any witnesses. I know which building it came from and roughly which balcony, but they insist they can't ask any questions of the occupants of the building based on this. I'm quite angry. The receptionist at my workplace said she saw the exact same thing happen to a different bicyclist in the exact same place back in November. If something like this happened to you *and you filed a police report, or have other documentation*, please write to me. If I find enough people for this to look like a legitimate "trend," I want to investigate and write about this.
I posted about this on my blog as well...so did DCist. If you check the comments on DCist, you'll see that many others have had the same experience...all around the same area. Can you believe this?
Posted by: Chris | March 15, 2006 at 05:55 PM