alleycat with a twist

It's about time somebody came up with a twist on the "two-man" alleycat. From NYBMA (NY Bike Messenger Association):

The New Jack City Alleycat drew about 40 people out to King Kog last Friday. The point of the 90 minute race was to sell as much crack as you could to the dirty scumbag drug dealers in Williamsburg & Greenpoint. Whenever you ran out of crack, you could go back to the first checkpoint & get more. That sounds easy enough, but drug pushing is boring without the risk of your ass landing in jail. That's why two of the 40 racers were chosen at random to be "cops", who got to hide out at the checkpoints for 10 minutes at a time, and bust you. Whenever you got busted, you got no points for that drug sale. The cops though, got points for each bust they made. In the end, there would be two winners - the pusher who sold the most crack, and the cop who got the most busts. The best Crack dealer was Shawn (Cleveland), and the best cop was Tom (who played good cop to my bad cop. I found through this race that when presented with fake authority, the ability to abuse it is easily taken advantage of.) Check Messnyc.net for more results or details and pictures or something maybe, someday.

It's interesting that it took this long for some significant variety to bubble up in this space. The Boston Scrambler (2003) was a free-for-all delivery contest, in which the racers delivered packages, but chose their own route through the city, and unlike most races, could deliver the packages in any order. The Bobo Challenge (Atlanta) was a scavenger hunt, and there's always Poker runs, but this one has an "Assassin" element to it.