Road RageLast week I had to stop a guy attacking another one in the middle of the road - one had run the lights whilst on the phone and the other had objected. I actually had to take the attacker's car keys out of their car and tell him he wasn't getting them back till he calmed down.
Looking back on it, I was lucky I was feeling all parental and in control or the situation could have panned out very differently.
Have you lost it on the roads, or have you been on the recieving end of some nutter?
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chthonic, Thu 12 Oct 2006, 21:31)
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DobbyI agree 100%. I've been knocked down (as a pedestrian) precisely twice in my life, and both times have been by cunting cyclists who didn't stop at a red light because they obviously don't apply to them. I've had narrow misses when they've tried to weave through the people on a zebra crossing without even slowing down, and to quote Douglas Adams, they occupy a moral high ground that only cyclists seem to inhabit.
I now carry a long umbrella everywhere, so when I'm crossing the road and some cyclist doesn't stop at the lights, umbrella meets spokes. Fair's fair, and I bet the law would be right on my side.
"Did you deliberately stick your umbrella in his spokes?"
"No officer, it must have got tangled when he jumped that red light/ignored the zebra crossing and nearly hit me as I was crossing the road."
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 16 Oct 2006, 13:40,
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