Confrontation advice

[shouldbeinbed]

He has committed an offence by spraying you with screenwash if it was done deliberately - it's rare, but people can and do get prosecuted for it.
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However, in the grand scheme of things, is it really worth your time and effort pursuing?
That said, you have to wonder about the anger management issues of someone who is prepared to follow you and get out of his tin box and grab you for what is a very mild insult...

I don't read anything that suggests the squirting was deliberate, just ill timed and without checking nobody was coming.

I'm not in the slightest condoning it and most definitely not the road rage after effects, I agree with the rest, the sustained follow up and physical intervention deserves a police visit to the driver.

Unless I was very sure it was a deliberate thing, I'd have gone with 'easy fella' or similar, to make someone aware of their carelessness rather than a word you/some may consider a very mild insult but its not a word I'd call my mother or a colleague at work and not one I'd take kindly to being called.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Are you sure it was done deliberately? Did you get wet from the jet or splashes off the windscreen? If he's the type of tool to do this sort of thing deliberately then I'm guessing he would of been amused that it got you and wouldn't of given a flying fox what you said to him. If he was just washing his window genuinely and someone calls him a terwatt then I'm not surprised he got the hump. That is not to say he was right to follow you though.

 

[andyfraser]

Are you sure it was done deliberately? Did you get wet from the jet or splashes off the windscreen? If he's the type of tool to do this sort of thing deliberately then I'm guessing he would of been amused that it got you and wouldn't of given a flying fox what you said to him. If he was just washing his window genuinely and someone calls him a terwatt then I'm not surprised he got the hump. That is not to say he was right to follow you though.

If I'd accidentally squirted someone and they told me I'd say sorry, regardless of what they called me. There's absolutely no excuse for chasing someone or any kind of physical violence.

 

[sight-pin]

It was nice weather today....didn't need to wash the windscreen on the way to Tesco's

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

They put urine or bleach in the windscreen washer reservoir, it's quite common, I've had vehicles slow down so the drivers can spray stuff, it's obvious what they're doing.

Well if this has happened to you its most definitely an assault, but I've never heard of this ever.

 

[Hip Priest]

I've been sprayed by screenwash a few times. In all cases I think it has been down to accident, rather than malice, and the most I've done is give a sarcastic thumbs up. This van driver guy sounds like an idiot, but as I always say, if you go round calling people rude names, it won't be long before you meet an idiot.

 

[glenn forger]

Clarkson in the Sunday Times.

 

[Simpleton]

I'm not sure this is deliberate, you could have reasoned with the guy and not automatically come to a conclusion and called him what you called him.

That's my advice.

 

[glenn forger]

Is the sort of person who follows cyclists then assaults them more or less likely to be the sort who'd spray them on purpose?

 

[Simpleton]

Is the sort of person who follows cyclists then assaults them more or less likely to be the sort who'd spray them on purpose?

This is neither here or there, is not the point of the OP. I've answered the OP, I have nothing else to say.

 

[mustang1]

I don't think you should call the police about this because then you may not post the video here. And I really wanna watch the video.

Do you know if the side mirrors of the van were foldable?

 

[mustang1]

He has committed an offence by spraying you with screenwash if it was done deliberately - it's rare, but people can and do get prosecuted for it.
I believe (could be wrong) that this is technically classed as an 'assault'.

However, in the grand scheme of things, is it really worth your time and effort pursuing?
That said, you have to wonder about the anger management issues of someone who is prepared to follow you and get out of his tin box and grab you for what is a very mild insult...

The drivers wife probably calls him that when he gets home:
Driver: him I'm home!
Wife: you stupid twat.

I bet op wasn't the first person to call him a year that day. Here's one from me too: YOU TWAT.

 

[mustang1]

He has committed an offence by spraying you with screenwash if it was done deliberately - it's rare, but people can and do get prosecuted for it.
I believe (could be wrong) that this is technically classed as an 'assault'.

However, in the grand scheme of things, is it really worth your time and effort pursuing?
That said, you have to wonder about the anger management issues of someone who is prepared to follow you and get out of his tin box and grab you for what is a very mild insult...

The drivers wife probably calls him that when he gets home:
Driver: him I'm home!
Wife: you stupid twat.

I bet op wasn't the first person to call him a year that day. Here's one from me too: YOU TWAT.

 

[mustang1]

They put urine or bleach in the windscreen washer reservoir, it's quite common, I've had vehicles slow down so the drivers can spray stuff, it's obvious what they're doing.

For real? Some people are sick. Anyway, I think those wipers might be easy to bend..

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

If I'd accidentally squirted someone and they told me I'd say sorry, regardless of what they called me. There's absolutely no excuse for chasing someone or any kind of physical violence.

Couldn't agree more.