Confronting the morons

[MissJean]

So, I'm out on my road bike, just cruising down the road, and as a black SUV pulls along side, the passenger lets go a high pitch screech out the window at me. I'm a bit startled, but I'm getting use to stupid people in cars, so I just keep pedaling.

As I round the curve in the road, I can see the SUV up ahead turn left on to the road that goes to a little plaza. I speed up, and sure enough, they are pulling into the plaza. I cut across the road, hopped the curb, over the grass and into the parking lot and ride up to the SUV right as 4 teenage boys (whoa! big suprise there :rolleyes: ) get out.

They look a little startled, and I say, not angry like, kind of smiling “So, what was the point of that??!”
Boys: "huh?"
Me: "What was point of yelling? I"ve always wanted to know. I"ll be riding along, minding my own business, and some moron yells out the car window at me."
Passenger boy: "I was yelling at him" pointing to the driver
Me: "Bullsh*t."
Driver: "To scare you!" A moron, but honest.
Me: "So I"ll fall off my bike and get killed?"
Boys: "No, we don"t want you to get killed!"
Well, that’s a relief! The exchange was a pretty friendly, and I said not to do it again and rode away.

Of course I knew along what the point was it just felt good to confront one of the morons.

[antonio]

Congrats!!! I LOVE catching up to those idiots when I'm out on my road bike. My experiences are pretty much always like yours - dumb teenage boys, too scared to say anything intelligentwhen they have nowhere to go. I've only caught up to them about 1/2 a dozen times, tho. Maybe I need to pedal harder.

Ant

[S2RT]

U Rock Miss Jeanne !!!

[If_Rider]

Nice!

I was returning to the office from a lunchtime ride one day when a car pulled up real close and blared the horn right in our parking lot. Scared the crap outta me. Turns out it was one of my wisea$$ co-workers goofing around with a carload of guys returning from lunch. As I parked my bike at my car he turned around and came back to half heartedly apologize and laugh some more. As I leaned into the window of the car to share in their joke I pulled out a water bottle and doused him point blank in the face. :devil

[BillE]

Nice!

I was returning to the office from a lunchtime ride one day when a car pulled up real close and blared the horn right in our parking lot. Scared the crap outta me. Turns out it was one of my wisea$$ co-workers goofing around with a carload of guys returning from lunch. As I parked my bike at my car he turned around and came back to half heartedly apologize and laugh some more. As I leaned into the window of the car to share in their joke I pulled out a water bottle and doused him point blank in the face. :devil

That's a great story !!

[MtnBkr]

HaHa Wow! Good Job confronting them! haha...

[bikdav]

That bullsh*t was going on long before I reached high school. It's nothing new. What "grabs" my attention is those rare occasions when a group of other cyclists make some noise out the window and stick a spinning bicycle wheel out also. How's that grab ya?

[S2RT]

Nice!

As I leaned into the window of the car to share in their joke I pulled out a water bottle and doused him point blank in the face. :devil


I like it! Turnabout's fariplay:rad:

S

[S2RT]

Why my roadie only sees the Nashua River Rail Trail.
The animals in the wood are soooo much easier to deal with.

[jh_on_the_cape]

awesome story.
i hate the yelling thing.

i once had a kid throw a McD's cup of ice at me.

i have heard stories of 'U-lock justice'... not my style, tho.

[heckler]

This story is complete hearsay but I love it.

One of my riding buddies at college told that he and a friend were out breaking in some new outdoor running track cleats- spikes that is, running on the gravel shoulder of a road when a car came by and gave them grief. An exchange occured, the car took off only to reach a stop light not far down the road. A red stop light. They chased after him. Oh, the car was a convertable with the top up. they caught up, climbed up, danced around with their spikes and took off!

As the story goes, this being northern NH, the driver had a gun. But his aim was off and my bud reached to woods unperforated!

A great tale from both a revenge and a care-needs-to-be-taken point of view, I thought.

[errollthin]

Roadside confrontation rocks! I have done it myself quite a few times. Red lights and stop signs occasionally come in handy.

[off piste]

Another fun thing to do if the confrontation happens in Mass is to throw a few spent cartrige cases in the car's windows.

In this frigged up state, under MGL 140:121, ammunition is defined as any component that makes up a live round -- primers, cases, powder, or projectiles. Anyone in posession of such components without a valid license is subject to arrest and prosecution. HAW! HAW! HAW!

[bullitfreerider]

Roadside confrontation rocks! I have done it myself quite a few times. Red lights and stop signs occasionally come in handy.

A car full of teenage punks nearly ran me off RT 85 during a TT.
They had decided to pass me over the solid line while I was passing
another TT rider. Over the line, they were headed straight into an
oncoming vehicle when they swerved back into me.

Of course, one of my many names is Krazy Karl. At TT speed I was
on their back window giving them the finger and motioning for them
to pull over.....no... begging them to pull over. The guys in the back seat
were laughing which only made things worse. Down the road a bit,
with traffic and a red light ahead, they were dead in the water.

Unfortunately for me, I had to take the big right sweeper away from the light to keep up my TT speed. Perhaps it was better that things played out that way. Someone most certainly would have gotten hurt.