Comments on: This guy needed some wheels.

This guy needed some wheels.

eddydamascene — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:07:10 -0800

Brooklyn neighborhood security camera set to music.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:15:12 -0800

That was his bike. He's stealing baby carriages.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:33:31 -0800

I really wanted this to be good, but it's kinda boring.

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:34:08 -0800

I like it. I'd say the thief was more of a dick than an asshole, but I guess that wouldn't quite fit the meter.

By: four panels

four panels — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:42:10 -0800

I wonder why black people always talk in the movie theater.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:44:51 -0800

I liked it, actually. I've had my bike stolen by an asshole & I have no video or song to show for it. Just a &$%#^%@ missing bike.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:00:04 -0800

I was hoping it was going to be to the tune of Rock Lobster. "There goes an asshole! Here comes a carjacker!"

By: EatTheWeak

EatTheWeak — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:17:48 -0800

The FPP video's pretty fun, but in the sidebar links was Dennis Leary's "I'm An Asshole" song, which I've not heard for many a moon. So that was fun, too.

By: digiFramph

digiFramph — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:37:33 -0800

How much money do you figure used bike wheels go for? $3.00 or $4.00? How many wheels does a guy like this have to pilfer in any given day to support a crack habit? Either way, ya gotta love Brooklyn!

By: pupdog

pupdog — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:45:47 -0800

I must be getting burned out, I only lasted about 10 seconds. Longer than I sat through the Obama-butt-girl earlier though.

By: lostburner

lostburner — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:49:03 -0800

Whenever I see people censoring themselves where no censoring is necessary, I'm reminded of a letter by Andy Ihnatko in response to some hate mail: > First of all, get a f...... life. (1) Censoring an expletive is traditionally done with asterisks, not ellipses. (2) The desire to censor an expletive within a private email should make you re-think its use. Either you're saying something you don't actually mean -- ie, the censoring sends the message that you yourself think you're stepping over the line -- or you're weakening the impact of its use to begin with. "Get a fucking _life_" would be much better, not just for the use of the obscene gerund, but also the emphasis. Otherwise, if I may be so droll, you leave yourself wide open to witty rejoinders. You've got the reader's attention for a limited amount of time...so focus, focus, _focus_. Funny dude.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:04:43 -0800

I thought I'd stop by to tell everyone I thought that song was horrible. So. I thought that song was horrible. Bye, everyone!

By: anomie

anomie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:08:08 -0800

I just got my back wheel stolen last week. I literally just got back from buying a new one. Set me back $100. What an asshole.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:16:16 -0800

I just got my back wheel stolen last week. I literally just got back from buying a new one. Set me back $100. What an asshole. See, that I can get behind. Short, direct, emphatic. You felt no need to subject me to a bloodless, annoying song that made me want to leave the room and make sure I'd flossed today...

By: bitslayer

bitslayer — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:46:57 -0800

I thought that song was horrible Agreed. But you can see how it might be cathartic.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:50:52 -0800

I found it funny. And I have good taste. So all y'alls is WRONG. Now I am going to clip that last paragraph and post it randomly around the Internet, because it is always applicable.

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:12:09 -0800

i saw this alrdy old shit

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:17:42 -0800

I liked the Kids in the Hall version better. Bruce McCulloch's open letter to the guy who stole his bike wheel.

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:20:47 -0800

Whoops. The first link goes to Bruce MCulloch's open letter to the bike tire thief spectators. I meant to link to the Bruce McCulloch's open letter to the guy who stole his bike wheel.

By: cazoo

cazoo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:44 -0800

who locks up their bike outside their homes in new york? i grew up in brooklyn and the first thing you learn as a kid is never ever leave your bicycle outside unattended. sorry for being unsympathetic but really, c'mon, i learned this lesson when i was 7.

By: cazoo

cazoo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:30:13 -0800

ok, watched it again and its actually pretty humorous.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:04:25 -0800

Mr_Zero stole the link I was going to post in this comment. What an asshole.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:08:02 -0800

That's a lot of security cameras in one spot.

By: Hands of Manos

Hands of Manos — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:26:30 -0800

eddy you just made me nearly die on my drink laughing. God what was that post from? Something on you tube and being ghetto

By: humannaire

humannaire — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:30:00 -0800

brilliant. thanks for the laughs. and thanks for the song.

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:34:58 -0800

Something on you tube and being ghetto

By: jennaratrix

jennaratrix — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:59:27 -0800

I totally miss The Kids in the Hall (gets all nostalgic...) Oh, ahem. As to the actual post - meh. I didn't last 10 seconds.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:46:35 -0800

I totally miss The Kids in the Hall (gets all nostalgic...) Oh, ahem. As to the actual post - meh. I didn't last 10 seconds. jennaratrix, will you marry me?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:00:05 -0800

I chuckled. And I don't really care for this kind of limp and lazy kind of singing, too whiney for me, and all that. But I chuckled. And seconding: leaving your bike parked outside in NYC is dumb. Used to bring mine in and keep it locked up in the hallway of my building in Brooklyn. And if you can't do that, then you gotta bring it into your apartment. Otherwise, it'll be stolen eventually. This is an immutable law of nature. It will be stolen eventually.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:01:38 -0800

The song isn't so bad at the end. The band name never stops sucking, however. "Shank Bone Mystic". Bleh.

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:24:06 -0800

but in the sidebar links was Dennis Leary's "I'm An Asshole" song, which I've not heard for many a moon. The song was great. This youtube comment was even better: This song makes my weener stand with pride.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:04:55 -0800

I call viral bullshit. The song is by the guy who posted the video. Ten bucks says it's all staged.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:52:36 -0800

Admittedly, this was probably funnier to the guy as he was putting the video together than it is to most of us in the Blue, but since I'm now guilty of making videos for YouTube that were funnier to me as I was making them then they'll ever be to people who might someday see them, I should be nice and not say it was a piece of shit. It was a great idea for a video, but he coulda done with making another take of the song. Thought up some better lyrics, maybe work in more play by play. Maybe it was more therapy for him to make the song than an attempt at entertaining others. Then again, IF it was better than it is? THEN I'd be saying it was staged. If this is really just an artist improvisationally vamping on footage of his own bike wheels being stolen under the watchful eyes of security cameras, then you have to admit it's a pretty good job for improvisational folk music. If this was staged? It's a piece of shit.

By: cytherea

cytherea — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:15:17 -0800

It would have been even funnier if he could have gotten some footage of a homeless man stealing food from his garbage can, and then written a song about it. Asshole.

By: christopherious

christopherious — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:28:09 -0800

Agree that it would have been almost unfunny (except on a conceptual level) had I known for sure it was staged. As it is, I was very amused by the raw cathartic humor.