The bikers started arriving at my house just after midnight, and I was ready to call the police on every single one of them.<\/p>\n
I hated bikers. Always had. Loud. Obnoxious. Breaking noise ordinances at all hours. Our quiet suburban neighborhood didn\u2019t need their kind around. So when I heard the rumble of motorcycles pulling up to my curb at 12<\/p>\n
AM, I grabbed my phone and looked out the window ready to dial 911.<\/p>\n
Fifteen of them. Then twenty. Then thirty. All parking in front of my house. Leather vests. Beards. Tattooed arms. Everything I despised about their culture. They killed their engines but didn\u2019t leave. Just stood there. Staring at my house. At my son\u2019s bedroom window on the second floor.<\/p>\n
My son Tyler was sixteen. Good kid. Quiet. Spent most of his time in his room online. I thought he was doing homework. Gaming with friends. Normal teenage stuff. I had no idea what he\u2019d been posting. What he\u2019d been planning. What he\u2019d written in those forums where angry boys become dangerous men.<\/p>\n
The doorbell rang. I yanked it open ready to threaten every single one of them with trespassing charges. The biggest biker stood there, phone in his hand, and before I could speak he said seven words that made my blood run ice cold: \u201cYour son\u2019s planning a school shooting tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
My name is Robert Chen. Fifty-two years old. Lawyer. Three-bedroom house in Westwood Acres. Neighborhood association president. Everything proper. Everything by the rules.<\/p>\n
And I despised bikers.<\/p>\n
They represented everything wrong with society. No respect for noise ordinances. Property values dropped when they moved in. Their motorcycles woke my wife at 6 AM every Saturday. I\u2019d called the police on them seventeen times in two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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