Letting Down Car Tyres.

[Ming the Merciless]

Report the close pass and registration to the police. If it tappers often enough the owner will be contacted.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Don't start something you can't finish. Messing around with someone's car is playing with fire. Get caught in the act and you might find yourself up against a very irate bloke with a baseball bat or iron bar in his hand who isn't exactly in the mood for a friendly chat about safe overtaking.

 

[slowmotion]

Try the stealth route. Smear all the door handles with a very generous coating of lithium grease. Watch the owner's return from a discreet distance...….and snigger.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

You're still playing a dangerous game. If you use a route regularly and the driver uses the same route regularly, there's a good chance your paths may cross again. If he suspects you to have tampered with his car, and there are no witnesses about, what's to stop him driving up behind you and ramming you off the road?

 

[Rusty Nails]

I'm not convinced that acting stupidly stops others acting stupidly.

 

[ColinJ]

Do you think letting all the air out of the tyres would stop everyone from driving away without realising? I would bet good money that it wouldn't, and once they drive away they are at high risk of having a collision and the person that let down the tyres has committed an act that led to this.

I would like to think so but I probably have unjustified faith in human nature, your bum will tell you that you have just got in a car that is 4" lower than normal.

Honestly - there are some unobservant and stupid drivers about!!!

 

[kapelmuur]

I asked my question because the one time I spoke to a driver was when a well dressed middle aged lady cut me up before stopping suddenly in front of a florist’s shop.

I politely asked whether she had seen me and she said that I was a nasty little man and that she was in a hurry to buy flowers for her church!

 

[Blue Hills]

There is an offence of vehicle interference which would cover this scenario.

You wouldn't go to prison for it, but it would still give you a criminal record.

Impressed by your knowledge pale rider. What would you have to do to a car to go to prison?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Try the stealth route. Smear all the door handles with a very generous coating of lithium grease. Watch the owner's return from a discreet distance...….and snigger.

Novichok. It's the only language they understand.

 

[nickyboy]

Several times, if done politely the usual outcome is an apology.

Same here. I firmly believe that the vast majority of "inappropriate" driving incidents (such as close passes) are just down to a lack of appreciation of how it feels as a cyclist.

If I can politely explain that it really isn't nice, they apologise. Chances are they will take the lesson onboard for the future which is what everyone wants, right? Ranting and raving will not have such a positive effect

 

[mjr]

So in your shoes I would have left a polite note on the car windscreen.

Don't leave your shoes on the windscreen. Just the note. No sense having to ride home in socks.

 

[mjr]

Novichok. It's the only language they understand.

What's lesson two? The neutron bomb?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The neutron bomb?

I used to think Olivia was lovely

 

[alicat]

Don't leave your shoes on the windscreen. Just the note. No sense having to ride home in socks.

and they could be evidence of who left the note!

 

[bladderhead]

Why is Boots a pharmacy and not a shoe shop? Is there a shoe shop called Pills?