If you work in London or Dublin you'll probably know Canadian Ryan, what you might not know is that he's recently been hit with a bill for about £1000 that, if left unpaid could result in deportation back to the colonies.
One thousand pounds? You ask. Why so much? Well, the sum of £1000 is roughly the amount needed to replace a Mercedes windscreen. It's probably illegal to write details of a pending case but in a nutshell Ryan did what we've all dreamed of doing: Smashing your bike through the window of a car that's just deliberately endangered your life*. Unfortunately now the dust has settled there's the matter of the criminal damage bill which needs to be paid a.s.a.p.
At House of Pistard we like Ryan and we'd be sad to see him go, so we've come up with a fund raising tee-shirt to help his cause. So whether you like Ryan, like what he did or just like the shirt, dig deep and get yourself a limited edition tee-shirt in the process. Remember 100% of the profits go towards keeping Ryan in the country.
The shirts should be ready next week and we'll probably sell them at the John Snow and hopefully we'll get some sort of PayPal system up for mail order.
Word to the wise: Ryan was riding his geared bike that day and he says after putting it through the windscreen the chain and derailleur were all caught up in the shards of glass making a hasty exit impossible... if he'd been on his Track bike he'd have got away with it.
*House of Pistard doesn't want to be seen to be condoning this sort of reckless behaviour, but as Judas Priest would say if you played one of their records backwards "Do it, Do it, Do it."
