!990 in Sunland California. There was a video store across the street from my shop and it was 9 PM. I was waiting to cross the street when a Volvo station wagon turned left right in front of a motorcycle coming the other way. He slid to a stop a few feet before a collision happened. The woman driving parked in front of the store and he pulled in behind her. She got out still yakking on her cell phone (in those days it was a giant Motorola “brick”). The biker said “Lady, you damn near killed me”. Her reply “You were going too fast”.

He ripped the phone out of her hand and smashed it into the concrete. She ran into the video store and he pulled the knife off his belt and put it into both her left side tires. Then he opened her rear door and let her dog out before he rode off.

I was in there for ten minutes and two of the local police were there when I came out. One of them asked me if I had witnessed what had happened so I told them exactly what I saw and heard. Male cop asked for a description so I told him the biker was about nine feet tall, green, and I think he had gills. Becky, the female cop just smiled and said, “Go home David, I think you need the rest”.

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