Curtis doesn't find the situation so funny. 

"I’m surprised it’s gotten this much attention," he tells City Pages via Facebook. "But I’m grateful because now maybe people will see the level of discrimination that exists against the barefoot running community." 

Is this performance art satire, some sort of high-level trolling effort by Curtis? Impossible to say.

He reports being afraid for his safety, citing threats of sidewalk Legos and being told to "go run on the freeway." The names Curtis was called by fellow Northeasters -- "wackadoodle," "nut," "Nancy," and "pansy" among them -- amount to cyber-bullying, he says. 

"I was planning on doing a barefoot run tomorrow morning but I now fear being targeted," he says. "I won’t be unicycling this evening either. Apparently that post has gone viral as well."

Like my god lmfao

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