Attempted egging.

[Chris Sirrus]

I was coming home from a ride this morning, and I was on the carriageway outside town.

I felt a thud on my back, something the lads in the car passing me had thrown whilst shouting something. Their words I'm afraid were garbled into gibberish by laughter and the Doppler effect.

In my jersey pocket, had landed a perfectly unbroken egg.

I'd love to have caught up with them and smashed it on their windscreen returned it.

 

[Radius]

Free breakfast?

 

[Chris Sirrus]

It's in the fridge.

 

[XmisterIS]

What I don't understand is how they come to be in a car with a box of eggs ready to throw!

Do you suppose they deliberately buy them just to throw at people?

 

[downfader]

What I don't understand is how they come to be in a car with a box of eggs ready to throw!

Do you suppose they deliberately buy them just to throw at people?

Some local lads bought them especially... they then stood on their own driveway throwing them at passing busses, pedestrians and so on. Not bright. Bus company had the Police down there pretty fast.

 

[ColinJ]

What I don't understand is how they come to be in a car with a box of eggs ready to throw!

Do you suppose they deliberately buy them just to throw at people?

I assume that they do, unless they steal them.

What I don't understand is how people that stupid live to be that old. I'm assuming that they don't actually want to hurt people, otherwise they would be throwing something harder, heavier and cheaper such as stones. They presumably think that chucking eggs is funny but harmless.

I was once riding with someone who got 'egged' doing about 30 mph down a hill by someone in a car doing 30 mph in the opposite direction. The egg hit him in the upper chest, missing his face by inches. It hurt a lot and he almost crashed. If it had been a few inches higher he probably would have crashed and might have been blinded. Bloody morons!

 

[2Loose]

Seems to be a sudden liking for egg throwing among the 'stupid' community lately for some reason...as it didn't smash, enjoy it!

 

[marinyork]

People do throw stones, glass bottles, lager bottles and tiles at cyclists. I've even had an apple thrown at me. The vast majority have all been in exactly the same area or couple of areas.

 

[zophiel]

i had a coke can thrown at me a few weeks ago on the way to work.

 

[HLaB]

I've had quite a few eggs thrown at me, luckily none have ever hit. I felt sorry a few times going through Muirhouse for the slower riders who got hit often probably with eggs aimed for me.

 

[fossyant]

Sounds like it's egg throwing season..... what's going on ???????

 

[XmisterIS]

I haven't been egged yet, but if I am I will catch up with the egger and snap him in half.

 

[ColinJ]

People do throw stones, glass bottles, lager bottles and tiles at cyclists. I've even had an apple thrown at me. The vast majority have all been in exactly the same area or couple of areas.

I realise that, but those bastards are obviously intending to hurt the people that they are throwing those things at.

I can't see why someone would bother paying for some eggs if they want to hurt their victims when they can pick up much more dangerous materials for nothing at the roadside. I think that they are just too thick to see how dangerous egg-throwing could be.

 

[gazmercer]

See if they'll throw you some bread next time and maybe some beans. By the end of it you could have a full english LOL

 

[Crankarm]

I guess with all this recent media cycling hatred from the likes of the Daily Mail and James Martin this sort of thing is looked upon as cool by low life knuckle dragging scum. If it seems to be happening in a localised scum area and it happens to you then one could get revenge by doing a little searching, it might take some time and if you are lucky you might see the car again or find out where it lives then some months later pour rancid milk/cream into the air intakes in the bonnet below the windscreen which feed the heater . I know I advocate non confrontation and all that and am dead against retaliatory action, but having stuff thrown at you as you cycle is bl00dy dangerous. The authorities would do absolutely bugger all if you report and it, and it would, sure as eggs, happen again. I had a bag of rubbish thrown at me and a load of absue last week from a chav car. It is not pleasant and potentially very dangerous.