The efforts of some stamps dealers to set up a stamp & coin row on W39th Street has come to a hitch; a pack of bike messengers come up that street, which is closed to traffic, and refuse to dismount as is the law when such streets are closed.
This pack belongs to a company called Homer Logistics, aka Homer Courier Services, which is an upstart company run by someone from California named Adam Price. He, along with his cohort Dinis Passarinho, have on their hands a gang of rude and violent brats, some of whom curse and beat up their elders.
Thus, dealing stamps and coins or anything at all at the Hells Kitchen Market has become very difficult. In a recent facebook video, one can see a Homer employee who, after refusing to dismount his bike and threatening dealers who asked him to do so, came back and assaulted both a customer and a dealer. Dealers are losing money when they set up these days and most, being middle-aged to elderly, some in wheelchairs, are at a loss to deal with this.
Unless you believe the Homer spin; there are two sides to every story, and despite the fact that Homer activities are well witnessed and on video, Passarinho likes to tell people that his messengers are being pushed off bikes and spat at. Not that he can produce any record of this, or any independent witness or video; and of course it is already an admission of guilt by the bratpackers if they were on their bikes to be pushed off.
More like Passarino and Adam Price concocted this story when the assaulted parties presented a request for reasonable settlement - not one dime did they want to reimburse anyone - and Adam Price whines that Homer is a small company; Passarinho, on the other hand, corrects people when they tell him he hires dozens of riders. Hundreds, he is quick to say. Small company?
So the months of advertising and time spent on W39th Street to establish a tradition rivaling the Paris Outdoor Stamp Market may come to an end at the violent hands of Homer bike messengers. At least no one is dead; other bikers in this city are wont to knock down pedestrians and leave them stone cold. Jason Marshall, for instance, who to this day runs red lights in Manhattan. Foot loose and fancy free he goes, along so many of the Homer bratpack.
This is of concern for a future event, the Jacob Javits Center Stamps Show 2016, where it is expected that 350,000-400,000 visitors will attend - and many of them have already booked hotels that put them near W39th Street. Will they even be able to take this route with the 'messengers of death' at Homer beating up their elders? Or will we have more of their shenanigans to contend with?
This story will be followed closely on the satirical site www.markofthemask.blogspot.com where weapons of irony are used to impart some sense Adam Price et al. at the Homer HQ.
