# Cyclist recounts confrontation with youths near Canal Saint-Martin

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2070060426721669484
- Source account: [@hikelikeme](https://x.com/hikelikeme)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:51
- Published: 2026-06-25
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/o7qkalMZ77b6/en/cyclist-recounts-confrontation-with-youths-near-canal-saint-martin) Honestly, being a girl in the summer is so hard, seriously. Like, I was biking to work, I work right by the Canal Saint-Martin, and there's like this group of kids and teenagers, aiming water guns at me. Up until then, I didn't care, honestly, it's hot,

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/o7qkalMZ77b6/en/cyclist-recounts-confrontation-with-youths-near-canal-saint-martin?t=16) but you're afraid of hitting them, afraid of slipping and all, and they started like aiming at my breasts.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/o7qkalMZ77b6/en/cyclist-recounts-confrontation-with-youths-near-canal-saint-martin?t=21) So of course I stop, and I'm like, "Bro, what are you doing?"

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/o7qkalMZ77b6/en/cyclist-recounts-confrontation-with-youths-near-canal-saint-martin?t=25) But I don't want to be late for work, I don't have time to argue with them, They all start insulting me and everything. Anyway, I can't go and beat them up because, well, first of all, I have better things to do, and I'm not going to hit kids. and it started a fight, like, 'Yeah, fuck him up, fuck him up' and all

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/o7qkalMZ77b6/en/cyclist-recounts-confrontation-with-youths-near-canal-saint-martin?t=42) I said, 'That's enough, I didn't hit a kid,' and they all started coming at me like 'You dirty whore,' saying I talk back and whatever, but I can't take it anymore