Why so much hatred?

[paddymobile]

Not sure why this happened, but was at a traffic lights at tower bridge in london, when a passenger of a car thought it would be hilarious to out his cigarette on my knee just before they drove off. Not sure what i would have done if we had met at the next set of traffic lights, are cycle-by punchings illegal yet?

Surely this kind of thing doesnt happen often...does it?

 

[Jezston]

Wow what the ****!

Phone the police saying you were attacked. Even if you didn't get the reg I'm sure there'll be plenty of cameras around there.

 

[Rassendyll]

Not sure why this happened, but was at a traffic lights at tower bridge in london, when a passenger of a car thought it would be hilarious to out his cigarette on my knee just before they drove off. Not sure what i would have done if we had met at the next set of traffic lights, are cycle-by punchings illegal yet?

Surely this kind of thing doesnt happen often...does it?

Bloody hell, that's the first time I've heard that one. Don't suppose you got the number of the car ?

Sadly though there are frequent reports of this sort of thing. Stuff being chucked from car windows, people being pushed over and there have been some serious injuries.

There are just a lot of moronic bullies out there who think it is funny to pick on someone who is a bit diffferent and less able to hit back.

It doesn't help that cyclists are considered fair game by people who pass themselves off as columnists who can't think of any other way to fill their wordcount since race, religion and sexuality are all off the table, much to their regret.

Thank God the UK is an island - if asylum seekers came by bike we'd all be dead.

 

[Moodyman]

It's difficult, but resist the urge to smash their skulls mate.

It usually some kids who think it's funny. Two incidents happened to me recently:

1) Pelted with eggs one late evening - 2 hit the bike with one smashing all over the drive chain. As I still had another 2 miles to go, they'd dried by the time I got home. Took me ages to remove it as it went all over the disc brakes, rear derailleur and cassette.

2) Quiet country lane, 3/4 kids in a Vauxhall Corsa - drove past at 40 mph ish- one lad sticks his arm out and prods me hard with a stick. Drove off laughing. I wobbly severely and almost ended up in the bushes at the side of the road

I was seething in both cases but I had no hope of catching either.

I'm glad I didn't catch up with them, because I'm sure I would have a criminal record by now.

I've also had the usual idiots shouting out of the window as they drive by, but they're usually harmless.

 

[Black Sheep]

Flicked the cigarette out the window or actually stabbed it out on your knee?

 

[PK99]

Not sure why this happened, but was at a traffic lights at tower bridge in london, when a passenger of a car thought it would be hilarious to out his cigarette on my knee just before they drove off. Not sure what i would have done if we had met at the next set of traffic lights, are cycle-by punchings illegal yet?

Surely this kind of thing doesnt happen often...does it?

I was cycling along  a local cycle path when a cyclist came towards me. I'm keeping left, he stays on his right ie head on to me.

We avoid colliding, i say "Keep left mate".


He jumps off his bike and attempts to attack me. "What did you say you F*****n c**t "

I'm still on my bike so move away sharpish.

Message:

It is not just some drivers who are brain dead aggressive chavs

 

[Moodyman]

He jumps off his bike and attempts to attack me. "What did you say you F*****n c**t "

Sounds like a hooded tracksuit - wearing pavement rider.

 

[Spokesmann]

Infuriating!

With ref to the above post, the most dangerous user on the road facing a cyclist are other cyclists... sometimes!

 

[hackbike 666]

He jumps off his bike and attempts to attack me. "What did you say you F*****n c**t "

Sounds like a hooded tracksuit - wearing pavement rider.

He was wearing a pavement?

 

[PK99]

He was wearing a pavement?

if i were 30 years younger he might well have ended up eating one!

 

[hackbike 666]

if i were 30 years younger he might well have ended up eating one!

Dammit I read the original post wrong,doh!

 

[Gerry Attrick]

That's assault, plain and simple. How you get the useless plods to do owt about though beats me.

 

[Piemaster]

I honestly cannot recall any occasion in which I've been sat carrying a box of eggs whilst sat in the passenger travelling in a car. I also find it difficult to believe the offenders in the incidents described on here are on the way back from popping to the shops to get their mum some eggs to cook for their tea (in which case they will be going hungry)
I can therefore only conclude that if you have been unfortunate enough to have been hit by one that the culprits were not opportunistic but had set out to cruise the streets and commit an assault.
I'd hope anyone assaulted would report the incident.

 

[Arch]

I honestly cannot recall any occasion in which I've been sat carrying a box of eggs whilst sat in the passenger travelling in a car.

Actually, I have sat in the passenger seat of a car, holding a tray of eggs, several time. A friend of mine has a neighbour who farms free range eggs, and a few of us try to get ours from her when we go out there for our regular craft evenings....

But they are damn good big eggs. I wouldn't waste any chucking them at folk.

Anyway, in a 2CV we'd never outrun an angry cyclist.

It's funny, I find it almost easier to 'get inside the mind' of someone committing murder in a moment of anger or passion, than I do to understand the need to drive or walk around yelling obscenities and throwing things at random people. I suspect a psychologist would tell us it's all about latent fear of the unusual or something.

 

[sgw]

Thank God the UK is an island - if asylum seekers came by bike we'd all be dead.

Erroneous knee jerk removed.