Bikers In The News

A couple of items today involving bikes of one sort or another.

Item: To Dutch nuns gave chase to a suspected thief on their bicycles. They were in full uniform when they did this, so to speak.

On Saturday evening, one of the sisters believed she recognized a man walking past their chapel in southern Amsterdam as a thief who snatched hundreds of dollars in cash from the building two weeks earlier, Amsterdam police spokesman Rob van der Veen said.

She invited him inside for a drink and asked a fellow nun to alert police.

The man, apparently suspecting what was happening, fled the building and snatched a bicycle from a passer-by.

"The nuns then grabbed their bikes and gave chase. They tried to grab him, but he managed to escape into a residential neighborhood and they lost him," Van der Veen said. Police hunted for the man in the neighborhood but could not find him.

I can see a television series! Two crime-fighting nuns help police clean up Amsterdam. We need a title, though. Heaven on Wheels? Nuns With Handcuffs? Good Habits? Suggestions welcome. Too bad Aaron Spelling is dead, this could be huge!

Second item: From the other side of the world and the other side of the tracks as well, an Australian biker gang is auctioning a day with the gang. The package includes a trip to visit the site of the worst biker gang war in Australian history.

The club has advertised the chance to spend eight hours with three or four Comancheros on their Harley Davidsons in Sydney on internet auction site eBay, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

The advertisement also promotes the chance to visit the scene of one of Australia's bloodiest biker wars, known as the Milperra Massacre.

The Comancheros lost four members at the Viking Tavern on Father's Day in 1984, while two members of the rival gang, the Bandidos, were killed. A teenage bystander was shot in the face.

The auction has a reserve price of 2,000 Australian dollars (US$1,500), and the club has pledged to donate half the final bid to the cystic fibrosis unit of The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

One of the gang member's daughters has cystic fibrosis. So it's half for a good cause anyway. No word what they plan to do with the other half of the money.

Now if we could get the bikers to do a guest appearance on the crime-fighting nun's show, we could be in Emmy territory!