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Home Invasion

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Lodging accommodations for the Munson Road Tests I & II; 855 square feet above a one-car garage Munson and I waited nervously in the front bedroom while bedlam raged on downstairs.   Munson was lying on the bed and I was on a cot.   We’d both chosen to keep our clothes and shoes on, figuring it would be more practical when the police arrived.   The two dozen lunatics holed up in Munson’s garage had been going at it for a couple of hours and it was now past three in the morning.   This was the first night of an event that had been labeled the "Munson Road Test".   The participants were made up of mostly thirtysomethings who rode bicycles together at night in Los Angeles and who had descended on Munson’s place in San Francisco for a long weekend.   The first road test had been held the previous year in 2009 but nothing like this had taken place. This year the seven-hour drive crammed into various cars coupled with a sudden massive influx of alcohol upon arrival h