Checkout the “PeddlePub”… This self-described “original party bike”, which lists it’s corporate “Mission Statement” (which can be viewed here) as being “to provide a fun, safe environmentally-friendly way for groups of eight to sixteen adults to get some light exercise and fresh air while touring interesting parts of town on a big Dutch-made bike.”…. leaving out the part about being accomplished “with the assistance of a keg of beer being attached to enhance the experience”.
The other side of the story: After having been ambushed by six (6) men with armed with water guns and water balloons the off-duty Burnsville police officer’s response to being attacked was to fight back with physical force. One (1) of the officer / victims can be heard saying during the one minute long video: “‘Do you understand me? I will break your arm. Stay the f*** on the ground, do you hear me? Do not move. You better leave f*****”, and the video shows several of the water-wielding suspects pinned to the ground as the off-duty officers called for backup. Some of the arrested water balloon and water gun wielding arrestees reportedly admitted to responding Minneapolis police that they had deliberately targeted the PedalPubs on prior occasions, and the driver of the PedalPub has sided with her fares, stating that she was “distracted and annoyed” after “being shot multiple times with water guns and even hit with water balloons” and that she has no problem whatsoever with the way that the off-duty police officers responded to the unexpected, unwarranted and unacceptable water attack.
Memo to the “pranksters”: You entirely earned your beat down. In fact to my mind you got off lightly. I extend props to the Burnsville cops for not peppering you. Be clear on this: Anyone, cop or not, would have been justified in responding to your ambush styled premeditated attack (and that is precisely what it was – bullets, water, it matters not) with physical force (not with weapons but with their hands and feet). And, in point of fact you might be grateful that these were LEO’s (law enforcement officers) who knew, better than Joe Average civilian, to check their anger and outrage and not smash your stupid faces into the pavement. Yours was nothing shy of being a galactically idiotic “prank” and your proposed civil right’s lawsuit has…