Anyone ever thrown a full bottle at a car?

[Bollo]

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Sorry again, in British law a weapon is just that, it does not carry a label that says Offensive or Defensive.

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Without getting myself into trouble, about a year ago I was on jury service for a case that centred on the definition of offensive weapon. Very very interesting and not as obvious as the man in the street (including me) would have believed.

 

[g00se]

Ta - will look into that a bit further....

 

[Tinuts]

I know we're becoming more Americanised day by day, hadn't realised we had adopted their Bill of Rights as yet (though it's only a matter of time), Unless of course you mean the Bill of Rights 1689, in which case:
"That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;"
I think Ollie C's laws have been repealed.

In that case, I'd be interested in reading your opinion of this:

http://www.criminalsolicitor.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=735&PN=1&TPN=4

third post from the bottom is the most detailed.

From this, it would appear that the law has not been repealed and that there is clearly a convincing case for carrying weapons for defence.

 

[Vikeonabike]

British law is a funny bugger, it would appear from reading this that article 7 allows a PROTESTANT to bear arms for self defence. The bill of rights is a Statute...However, that is then superseded because by carrying a weapon for self defence, you then have to get past the "offensive weapons act", which is where the "immediate arming" argument comes in. The law does state you can carry a weapon in self defence....however you have to be able to justify that before you use it not afterwards. Or I could walk around quite happily with a Dane Axe (yes I know I do, another story) for years before cleaving someone in half because I believed they were a threat to my safety.
Confused? me too, I'm only here to enforce it...don't ask me to understand it as well!

 

[XmisterIS]

In reply to the OP of this thread,

I've never thrown an entire full bottle at a car, but I have used a water bottle to thoroughly soak the driver of a car by squirting it through his open window.

 

[PaulB]

In reply to the OP of this thread,

I've never thrown an entire full bottle at a car, but I have used a water bottle to thoroughly soak the driver of a car by squirting it through his open window.

Snap! I hurtled down a hill into Skipton in Yorkshire and got behind a car driven by an old woman of a blert of a cantankerous old man. He was driving slower than I was descending and once we reached a village on the outskirts of Skipton, he slowed down even more so he could impede me! I went to overtake him on the right and he veered out to prevent me from doing so. I went back to the left and so did he giving a poor kid of about 9 a scare as he was on the kerb right at that point waiting to cross the road. As we got to a crossroads, he could see I was going off to the right and he was going left so he wound his window down to shout at me. Mistake, as I made my feelings clear by squirting him with my sticky carb drink. Right in the face. The equaliser!

 

[XmisterIS]

Snap! I hurtled down a hill into Skipton in Yorkshire and got behind a car driven by an old woman of a blert of a cantankerous old man. He was driving slower than I was descending and once we reached a village on the outskirts of Skipton, he slowed down even more so he could impede me! I went to overtake him on the right and he veered out to prevent me from doing so. I went back to the left and so did he giving a poor kid of about 9 a scare as he was on the kerb right at that point waiting to cross the road. As we got to a crossroads, he could see I was going off to the right and he was going left so he wound his window down to shout at me. Mistake, as I made my feelings clear by squirting him with my sticky carb drink. Right in the face. The equaliser!

Ah! The stick carbs ... mine was a suited chap in a BMW who had just tried to run me off the road without provocation and when I confronted him he called me "an f-ing hippie c*nt on a f-ing bicycle" and then he told me he "f-ing hates all f-ing cyclists" - despite the fact that he knew nothing whatsoever about me except that I rode a bike! I found the "hippie" bit quite strange seeing as I have my hair cut to grade 1 all over ... And how did he know that I wasn't a member of the BNP??! (I'm not, but you get my point!).

Happily, that kind of driver is very rare!

 

[Origamist]

In reply to the OP of this thread,

I've never thrown an entire full bottle at a car, but I have used a water bottle to thoroughly soak the driver of a car by squirting it through his open window.

I saw this very thing, yesterday. Driver gives cyclist the finger, cyclist cathches up driver at the lights and gives him a dousing.

 

[magnatom]

I saw this very thing, yesterday. Driver gives cyclist the finger, cyclist cathches up driver at the lights and gives him a dousing.

Do you condone it though, Origamist....?

 

[BentMikey]

Ah, my egging post. Ahaaahaaahaaahaaaahaaaa! That is still the most satisfying piece of revenge ever, and all harmless since it was plain water and not SiS.

 

[on the road]

I've never thrown a bottle at a car, full or empty, I value my bottle higher than their sh1tty car.

 

[sheddy]

I wonder if anyone has ever thrown fruit at a car ? (taken out of the handy wicker basket)

 

[Arch]

I wonder if anyone has ever thrown fruit at a car ? (taken out of the handy wicker basket)

I suppose the efficacy would depend on the fruit. A large watermelon would be startling, but might require two hands. A handful of blackberries isn't going to do much damage.

Still, an adept recumbent rider could probably stick a banana up an exhaust pipe...

 

[snailracer]

Equivalent thread on US cycling forum would be:

"Anyone ever emptied a full mag into a SUV?"

 

[sheddy]

We need some sort of scoring system - tomato 3, potato 8, etc
Presumably this was better understood in the Middle Ages by punishment in the stocks ?