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From ARL Now (via tip from Emily R.): In this week’s Arlington County crime report, we find two similar cases of sexual battery. In each case, the suspect is alleged to have committed the crime while riding a bicycle. SEXUAL BATTERY 12/04/10, 2800 block of N. 11th Street. On December 4 at 2 am, a […]

This morning, I was biking to work and I hit the intersection at Columbia and Connecticut Ave NW. There are three lanes at this intersection. One is right turn only, one is to go straight or turn left, and the last is to turn left only. I came up alongside the second lane because I […]

I was biking hard west on Florida Ave Sunday night, and as I was going through the intersection at 10th, there was car full of men idling east-bound. The driver hollered out to me, “I bet you have soft thighs.” I just ignored the gross comment and kept going at my furious pace, insecure that […]

I was sitting on my bike at the intersection of M & 23, waiting for the light to change. A tall man dressed in a blue suit holding an expandable file-folder walked up to the curb on my right, stopping about two feet from me – “Looking good on that bike, that’s right, you sit […]

This morning on my way to work, at Logan Circle, which is already a touch and go circle where cars just cut across the bike lane without looking, some guy on the curb makes grabby hands at me and makes a slurping sound. I. have. had. it. I turned around and chased him up the […]