Hermosa man mad as hell at rude, young e-bikers, not taking it anymore
by Kevin Cody Richard Roe is mad as hell at rude, young e-bikers. Twice, in recent weeks, the 83-year-old Hermosa Beach resident has been harassed by packs of teenage e-bikers as he bicycled home from American Junkie, on Pier Plaza, where he plays ping pong most afternoons. “I have a pacemaker. I have two knee replacements. But I also grew up in the South Bronx, in the Irish neighborhood. The girls in my neighborhood carried baseball bats with railroad spikes packed in the end. They would tear these e-bike teens apart,” Roe said. After college and before becoming a banker, Roe worked two years as the recreation director at the National Training School for Boys, in Maryland. “There were 180 blacks from D.C. and 180 white hillbillies from the South. The guy who had the job before me got killed. Recidivism was 85 percent, and the other 15 percent hadn’t gone to court yet,” Roe said. Charlie Manson attended the National Training School for Boys. “I know how to talk to punks,” Roe said. Roe has taken it upon himself to help “prevent e-bike accidents” by planting himself on The Strand wall, at 14th Street, in front of his house, where a flashing red light signals bicyclists to dismount…
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