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     The Electric Warriors “is a group for friends, to make friends, to be with friends; for everyone who knows San Diego is much more beautiful on a bike, for everyone who wants to unite and spend one night laughing, being boisterous and jovial, connecting, and most importantly feeling something other than the daily dredge of life; a movement to take back the streets, if not just for one night, at least forever in our memories.”
     I had the privilege of joining this boisterous group to ride through San Diego at night for the “Fuck Christmas!” theme. We started out with a group of 200 or so riders dressed as Santa, elves, and reindeer. It was great to be part of a shifting, moving, mass of people that was flowing through the streets; shutting down traffic, intersections, neighborhoods, and parking lots. At one point we had some police escorts, until they decided to call in about 6 or 7 units to try to stop the run due to “traffic and noise disturbance”. But like an unstoppable juggernaut, we kept riding forward and flowed around the police cars until they gave up and let us continue on our way.
     The next event is scheduled January 12th. The theme is “Cops and Robbers”. Meet at 10pm at the big fountain in Balboa Park and come dressed as either a cop or robber. I’m dressing as a cop so when the police try to stop us next time, we can make it nice and confusing for them! Hope to see you there!