Getting snowballed?

[longers]

I had it three times on the way home tonight. Not many hits but they all ran when I turned round.

My friend caught a beauty on the top of his head and would have turned round only to congratulate them on a good shot.

Just wondering how you view it.

 

[cd365]

I hate snow at the best of times!

 

[ianrauk]

Only fun when it's planned and you can throw it back. Not fun when you can potentially really hurt yourself. Idiotic really.

+1

 

[mark barker]

I had one hit me yesterday, thrown by a bunch of kids... Can't really complain, I remember doing the same when I was 10 or 11....

 

[ohnovino]

I saw two kids throwing snowballs at moving cars today, while their mum filmed it on her mobile phone

 

[potsy]

Ride in a zig-zag pattern longers,make yourself a harder target to hit

edit-or become a ninja cyclist,that way they won't see you

 

[longers]

Ride in a zig-zag pattern longers,make yourself a harder target to hit

I was going slowly uphill each time and made an excellent target so they really were bad shots.

Edit: The second lot were up on the top of the wall to the right here. Second night running.

 

[Browser]

As said further up, OK if it's not going to do you harm. If the situation presents itself and you can, get off and return fire. Mind you, harmless snowball fights can turn ugly!

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

I got snow balled last night when I got back on the estate, but not much I could do as it was my kids! They gave chase but I managed to outrun them, but I was craping myself as it was really slippy.

 

[L.E.D.]

I was snowballed the other day , it was quite funny to hear them smacking into my rucksack and the one that flew past my head was quite impressive in size ! ! Thankfully i came away unscathed so i can see the funny side.

 

[Banjo]

I voted not funny. What starts out as good fun with reasonably soft harmless snowballs inevitably gets out of hand with rock hard ice balls etc.

Hate to turn into a Victor Meldrew though.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

It's not funny when they have stones in them. The only time I ever got into a fight whilst cycling was the result of this...

 

[lit]

twice yesterday, one hit my leg, barely noticed it. the other my backpack - amusing really as the poor soul who did it was stuck in a 8 mile traffic queue (which he had no way of knowing heh)

 

[gaz]

I recall when i was at school, a guy in my year played baseball as a junior.
He used to compact the snow really tightly and had one hell of a throw and pretty damn good aim. You always had to make sure you where standing behind him.

 

[ColinJ]

I was walking down some steps a few winters back when a couple of young boys suddenly jumped up from behind a wall and lobbed a very icy snowball at me from short range which caught me smack in my right eye. 

I let out what was evidently a blood-curdling scream because the two lads ended up whimpering and cringing in fear behind the wall. I calmed myself down and told them not to be frightened but to please be more careful in future. They had hurt me and their next victim might not be quite so understanding about it!