Just read about a University of South Florida professor - Vice President of Research at the College of Medicine - who loaned a bike to a "nearly homeless" man so he could go to the DMV and replace a lost ID.
Well, golly, that's awful nice of him! Only a few quibbles. Nitpicks, really. Hardly worth mentioning, actually. One, the bike wasn't his to loan. Two, how the heck is someone "nearly homeless"? Three, it was all caught on videotape, with a timestamp of 9pm...what DMV is open at 9pm?!?! Four, they load the bicycle into a minivan. Five, the professor makes about $730,000 a year! Six, they "throw back" another bike, apparently deciding it wasn't worthy of the "nearly homeless" man's backside. Picky, aren't we?
Yep. That's our world, welcome to it. I can only hope that bike-stealing a$$wipe gets fired. He's currently on "leave" (paid, no doubt) while they investigate. The bike was returned...but the really important question is was it returned before or after the video appeared on YouTube? I don't know the answer. If anyone does, please share. Actually, it's not important at all. Even if this guy is telling the total truth (doubtful) and the bike was returned in good faith, it was still wrong. Illegal. Unethical. Evil. Don't mess with someone else's bicycle!
Oh, and Lance Armstrong's time trial bike has been returned. And Jani's road bike. Only two more to find!
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