Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a nice, typical mini-van-owning suburban family was out in the city celebrating a birthday and got caught right smack-dab in the middle of Critical Mass. According to the story, it quickly devolved into Bikers Gone Wild.

The whole thing sounds like something out of one of those old biker movies in the 50s or one of your more politically incorrect westerns. The mini-van, driven by Susan Ferrando, was full of kids who attended the party and wound up in the middle of Critical Mass. She panicked, as she didn't know what the heck was going on and slowly inched forward. The bikers surrounded her, started hitting the side of her car (with their bikes even), smashed a couple of windows, and generally said not very nice things in front of a van full of kids. Ferrando had to call 911 and wait it out until motorcycle cops came to rescue her from what kind of sounds like a wild pack of bikers. Total damages to the car? $5,300

In light of this story, we immediately went the Rants & Raves section on Craigslist to see what the boards were like. As always, they're pretty entertaining. Lots of .jpgs of middle fingers thrown at the biker’s way and people saying the family should have just run down the bikers. Or, as one guy put it:

maybe at the end of this month i will just show up in the city and find 4-5 of u assholes beat the shit out of you and take your money,see i defended our country for 2 1/2 years over in IRAQ,I WILL SHOW YOU THE AMERICAN WAY AS I AM BEATING YOUR ASS AND RUINING YOUR 3000.00 BIKE

As for us, we did Critical Mass a few times back in the day and thought it was really fun. After awhile, though, we got turned off by all the shenanigans that went on and the attitude of some of the bikers and stopped doing it.