[sanderville]

I got rammed from behind today. While waiting at a roundabout for a gap in the traffic, the fat old codger in the car behind me decided that he’d been stationary for long enough so he rammed me. This is in a quiet, rural, seaside place. When I turned round and asked him what the Dickens he was playing at – or words to that effect – he at first blanked me, then shrugged his shoulders and eventually waved me away with a “Go on.” I pulled over to the side of the road to check the damage and he drove off, as did all the witnesses behind him, including the CCTV-equipped bus that was two cars behind. I wasn’t injured but he broke my rear mudguard and, surprisingly, my Garmin 705, which cost me £300 back in the day. He’s probably in the pub right now, resting his massive gut on the bar while he brags to his mates about bagging a bloody cyclist.

I won’t give out too much of a description of the prick because the bus company have said that they keep those CCTV recordings for seven days and that they will hand this one over to the police when they ask for it. The local police have said this is a line of inquiry since I have Old Man Belly’s registration number and a promise of CCTV footage.

I tell non-cycling people about the amount of hatred that I face every day for riding a bike and they don’t believe me. But this guy would never dream of ramming a car in a queue of traffic, or a pedestrian crossing the road in front of him. Anyone with a bike between their legs? That’s fair game! He probably thinks he did his duty, thanks to the anti-cycling brainwashing that these morons suck up every day.

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[Carton]

Sanderville wrote:On the plus

Sanderville wrote:

On the plus side, the bus’ CCTV footage can only show a car deliberately ramming a cyclist. It doesn’t show a brick shit-house killing an old man in the street with his bare hands.

Or an idiot controlling a 4,000 pound explosive-fueled weapon do some serious damage. On the few instances I confront drivers I always do it straight beside them. Stepping aside first was the right move. Then you can see if they’re brave enough to have at you without the car.
To be honest it’s not really worth it anyway. I fear sparing the bastard from suffering through the last few years of his miserable life might not legally be interpreted as an act of charity.

[sanderville]

Mr Helmet, I was thinking
Mr Helmet, I was thinking exactly the same thing as I rode home. I’m 6’2″, 17 stone, and I was #1 in the fighting order for my university’s Judo team. I have not been uninvolved in many fracasses.

If anyone had told me the same tale from this morning then I would say that in their shoes I would have dragged that bastard out of his car and broken his back. In the event I pulled meekly to the side of the road and watched him drive away.

On the plus side, the bus’ CCTV footage can only show a car deliberately ramming a cyclist. It doesn’t show a brick shit-house killing an old man in the street with his bare hands.

There you go.

[vonhelmet]

If someone hit me from behind
If someone hit me from behind I’d have seen to it they didn’t drive away from the scene, one way or another.

[Leviathan]

I suggest a hot chocolate and
I suggest a hot chocolate and sleep on it, get the anger and frustration out of your system. Then tomorrow pursue him with blithe determination, like you are trying to find out where some rat droppings are coming from.

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