What is a bandit?!?!

Oh yea, Then I pounded him on a ten miler that following Sunday. You should have seen me! I was dropping sub 7's like bricks in the outhouse after the Sweet Corn Festival.

VOTE REPUBLICAN wrote:

Maybe you prefer to protect yourself with your penis. Logical people prefer weapons.

Good point if you don't have a workable penis, you obviously can't use it. We both have our weaknesses. I don't own a gun and sometimes my penis gets overused. Republicans don't own workable penis's and sometimes their guns get overused.

I don't normally agree with Flagpole Willy but he's right on the mark here. The bandit takes without giving and then makes a lot of extra work for the results people to sort out the 'error' because he crossed the finish line.

We need snipers with rifles at races to deal with bandits!!

All of your scenarios do not apply. I never cross the finish line. I never take water or any post race refreshments.

...but you're still an asshole

Guilty as charged!

NOW WE DISCOVER THAT DONNY MALEN IS

A SPITTING IDIOT AND ASSHOLE

I think one thing that everyone is missing as well is the fact that it is very disrespectful to all the runners and workers that have put in a lot of time to pull off the event...I have recieved my fair share of comp entries and even ran in a few races as a turkey, but it was not until I took on the meet direction of a major road raace that I learned what went into doing a race and thae expense of putting on that race...and yes Mr. Malen whether you take water or not or if you don't cross the finish line you are still stealing from the race, the meet organizers, and from the other runners as well...so please show some respect to those who put on races and to the masses to pay for races and run somwhere else on race day or be a volunteer and learn something...

The topic raises a good question though. Why do some people choose to run as bandits? Maybe the entry fees are too high. $12 to $20 bucks, sometimes more, just to put one foot in front of the other on the race course.

Sure, some races can justify higher fees. But when you are collecting $15,000 or $20,000 bucks (and sometimes way more) for a closed course race in a place like Central Park and you have sponsors contributing as well, you have to ask, where is all the money going? In New York, the NYRRC (a great club overall by the way) has a monopoly on races in the Park and charges big fees for all races.

My suggestion, go support the weekly race series that charges a couple bucks and gives you nothing more than some water and a finishing time and place. We need way more of these events.

I was a bandit in a few races during college under an assumed name. I had no money, but wanted to race. In retrospect, I probably should have just found some fun runs..being a bandit in a marathon is just absurd. Why the hell would you run 26.2 miles unofficially. I ran 15 miles of the Boston Marathon one year (miles 5-20) with a friend who was running the entire thing officially, and now think that it was a silly thing to do.

Pete wrote:

...but you're still an asshole

Guilty as charged!

This is typical message board bull shit, I am sure that when I bandit my next race, you won't say a damn thing to my face.

Speaking on the behalf of race directors, every once in a while, we enjoy the entertainment bandits like Don Malen give us.

We don't necessarily put up snowfence to keep people out or promote a sponsor. Rather, the fence gives a good, challenging barrier to throw the lame ass, trespassing, thieving morons like Mr. Malen over.

My race directing personal best scenario is as follows:

1. Bandit comes around last corner running sub-five minute pace.

2. 100 yards from the finish, I tell the bandit to get off the course.

3. With middle finger of left hand, Bandit indicates that I am his number one favourite race director.

4. After spotting the Bandit 20 yards, I catch him and using a now patented race director hip toss, throw the Bandit over standard wooden snowfence.

5. From the other side of the fence, Bandit now uses middle fingers of both hands to show everyone I'm his number one race director.

6. Spectators cheer my efforts wildly.

The above scenario was not a dream - an outtake tape from the race television producer documents one of my greatest moments in race directing.

I would if you bandited my race.

I would have pressed charges. You have no right to put your hands on another person. Your new charity would be the Don Malen Foundation.

How do you get on the Hanson's message baord..

I had my first experience of bringing several of the Hanson's racing team to my race and thoroughly enjoyed having them there...they were extremely nice and very appreciative that we had them at our race...great bunch of guys and I wish them all the best...

If the video camera at you local convenient store caught you stealing something, you'd have hard time pressing charges against the storekeeper if he shot your lame ass.

In these parts, it's plain and simple - you bandit, you're a thief.

In similar vein as race bandits, and following on from the fine comments by Harland Titus (I've seen that video and it is spectacularly good!!)

---- about three years ago three youths tried to get on TV at the finish of the London Marathon, just as Deratu Tulu was winning. Unfortunately they had not reckoned with the security at the finish line - the London Marathon uses Metropolitan Police 'bobbies.'

One youth went over the crash fence after he was caught by one of the cops and by Race Director Dave Bedford (he never had that sort of sprint when he raced) ... and the result was a broken-wristed bandit. True story

Serves the little sucker right!

Oh, Harland, that's very entertaining, but as you recall, that's not how it happened at all. Very funny.

You may not be a race director, there may not be race even, but there was a fence involved:

Here's the link to what really happened that day:

http://charleston.net/stories/032803/loc_28dogman.shtml

I use my penis for urination and procreation. It works just fine. Republicans are extremely good at procreating. Look at Mormon families and Catholic families, for example. Lots of kids. Ralph Nader and Michael Moore have one kid... COMBINED. That is a very, very impressive display of liberal fertility.

I'd love to see your house get broken into. You'd come stumbling out of your "Green Room", stoned off your ass with your hippie friends. You'd probably tell the criminal that you understand him, and you know that he is only a product of his environment, but he would steal all your things anyway. You would probably be happy that you "helped" someone in need, and your rich parents would replace everything that was taken.

Also, as for gun deaths, most of them are in the inner city. Are they all Republicans?

I am always being mistaken for my namesake. A hero in his own right, and the answer to "who let the dogs out?"!!!