Twas the night before christmas and all but the scum were still…

Looking at the headline you may be led to believe that perhaps I have lost track of time and we are suddenly in backwards land and that any minute now I may begin to welcome the new year.

Far from it, I have simply healed enough to put into words the devastation encountered upon that day.

I had left work like any other day and parked in my usual spot at my local train station. Used my disk lock to latch the helmet ot the bike and looked the steering to prevent theft.

Had a nice full day at work, a little lighter then usual due to the fact that it was christmas the next day I would suppose. Bit of silliness and laughter and that sort of thing.

Left work at about 5PM with a freind to return home. Now to actually get to the carpark where I live you must go up and cross the street using a rather large walkway which then opens up into the carpark.

As I was crossing the walkway I had a gut wrenching feeling that something had gone horribly wrong so I stepped up the pace to ensure that nothing had happened to the bike.

As I rounded the corner into the carpark the most horrible site awaited me! The bike was on its side, scratched with fuel leaking everywhere.

With the help of a freind nearby I was able to lift the bike into an upright position while I inspected it for damage.

(a) Both side fairings damaged to the point of need replacement
(b) Front faring cracked and scratched with a large hole in centre
(c) Clutch level snapped clean off the joint
(d) Uknown item rubbing against chain
(e) Bent frame (the part that gives the top fairings their strength

All in all it will require having the frame repaired followed most likely by a full fairing replacement, not at all cheap let me tell you that.

Those of you that actually know me in real life are probally now expecting the part where I tell you that I went batshit insane and went looking for whoever has done this to kill them. Well I am sorry to say that no emotion went through my body at the time.

No sadness, no anger, no desire to kill in fact no negative points that I can recall at all. It did however further increase the destain that I have in general for most of the human race.

Thanks santa, your a legend!