Location: Cross St Market, Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD
Rating: Honorable Mention
Description: I would usually rate this rather low for sitting down, but unlike most of my submissions this man is not a mere heroin junkie. No, this man is a liberator, a hero of sorts who frees bikes in the city from becoming ensnared in the ever growing web of chains and locks! Read the caption and see for yourself:
I actually recognized this subject as my neighbor. The last time I saw him, he was using bolt cutters in a valiant attempt to free a bike that had become tangled with a lock. This fine Saturday morning, he decided to take a snooze on the curb next to historic Cross Street Market.
Sure, he looks like a washed-out former dockworker who’s next employment opportunity is stamping plates in Jessup while doing a nickle for B&E, but just like Bruce Wayne hid his true superhero nature though a playboy persona, this man is masking his neighborhood vigilantism with public intoxication and a thick aroma of BO.
As a resident of Baltimore who has many bikes ago learned to keep my bike inside the house at all times due to those maniacal locks, I salute you sir and give you the most honorable of honorable mentions.