Please, please explain.....

[Gerry Attrick]

why males of a certain age find it necessary to lean out of a car window and make some class of unintelligible sound when they see a cyclist? The strange creature today even made what to an old fogey like me, was a "black power" sign with its fist. Does it somehow reinforce its status in the pack by performing like that? Or is it seen by its peers as so totally witty and hilarious that the creature driving the car wets itself in mirth?

And before you ask, yes I was a young lad once, and yes I did get up to certain antics probobaly best forgotten, but making gutteral noises at passing cyclists surprisingly never floated my boat.

It's not that I object, even in the slightest degree. After all what these specimens do in their not inconsiderable idle moments really does not keep me awake at night, but can anyone give me even the tiniest notion of why they do it?

 

[ComedyPilot]

If you got the registration, report the incident to the police - stating how harrassed and alarmed you were, and they will slap a S59 warning on the driver - result. If something similar happens in the next 12 months, then they have their (precious) car taken away.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Thanks CP, but given that our local boys in blue could not be bothered to speak to the driver of a coach which very very nearly fetched Mrs A off due to a dangerous overtake despite giving them sufficient information to positively ID the driver, I fear reporting strange creatures leering from the window of a passing car will not exactly get them jumping to attention. Also, as I said, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'd still love to know what they get from it though.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Thanks CP, but given that our local boys in blue could not be bothered to speak to the driver of a coach which very very nearly fetched Mrs A off due to a dangerous overtake despite giving them sufficient information to positively ID the driver, I fear reporting strange creatures leering from the window of a passing car will not exactly get them jumping to attention. Also, as I said, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'd still love to know what they get from it though.

Cos, Gerry, they are knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing pond life.

And they are basically bullies that pick what they perceive to be a soft target.

Report it anyway.

All it takes is a couple of intel hits to have the car targetted and pulled. You never know, the next time they could be carrying a load of drugs, and your 'harrassment' call was enough to get the car on the ANPR and pulled by a traffic cop.

 

[gavintc]

Thanks CP, but given that our local boys in blue could not be bothered to speak to the driver of a coach.

I do wonder why the government has not simply admitted a loss on this one and rename the Police Service - the Crime Recording Service.

 

[Dilbert]

why males of a certain age find it necessary to lean out of a car window and make some class of unintelligible sound when they see a cyclist? The strange creature today even made what to an old fogey like me, was a "black power" sign with its fist. Does it somehow reinforce its status in the pack by performing like that? Or is it seen by its peers as so totally witty and hilarious that the creature driving the car wets itself in mirth?

And before you ask, yes I was a young lad once, and yes I did get up to certain antics probobaly best forgotten, but making gutteral noises at passing cyclists surprisingly never floated my boat.

It's not that I object, even in the slightest degree. After all what these specimens do in their not inconsiderable idle moments really does not keep me awake at night, but can anyone give me even the tiniest notion of why they do it?

This happened to me the other week and then they did the same to a guy cycling the other way,  he looked bemused and we shook our heads and smiled.  I expect if you do nothing with your life but watch television then you can probably find almost anything entertaining.  I imagine they come from what a friend of mine once described as the shallow end of the gene pool. 

 

[iAmiAdam]

Someone shouted something as I went past a bus stop, but all I made out was asl;dhasjkldehajlh. Including the semi colon.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Someone shouted something as I went past a bus stop, but all I made out was asl;dhasjkldehajlh. Including the semi colon.

Clearly you have the slightly more intelligent species of creature. The species occupying the car referred to in the OP would probably think a semi colon was a surgical operation.

 

[iAmiAdam]

Clearly you have the slightly more intelligent species of creature. The species occupying the car referred to in the OP would probably think a semi colon was a surgical operation.

Actually made me laugh, ahahha.

 

[buggi]

I do wonder why the government has not simply admitted a loss on this one and rename the Police Service - the Crime Recording Service.

Brilliant answer Gav, and so so true.

 

[buggi]

Someone shouted something as I went past a bus stop, but all I made out was asl;dhasjkldehajlh. Including the semi colon.

hahaha this thread is making me laugh!

 

[Brains]

perhaps he fancied you ??

 

[rich p]

It's a good question Gerry to which I have no answer apart from a similar one to CP.

It happens down here too and while, like you, it doesn't bother me, a little part of me would like to exact some kind of revenge.
I think that what the muppetsare actually hoping for is to shock/scare the cyclist into falling off at best or wobbling at worst.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I think that what the muppets are actually hoping for is to shock/scare the cyclist into falling off at best or wobbling at worst.

I can do both of those without being shouted at!

 

[longers]

I've never understood the "mouth breather" insult. I do it quite often. Should I stop?