dkahn400 wrote:
> On Nov 1, 1:35 pm, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Last night I was riding home from the station at about 11.30pm (i.e.
>> pub chucking out time, although sadly I was only on my way home from
>> work!) when I got whacked from behind by what I can only assume was
>> someone leaning out of a car window as it passed. I didn't see who or
>> what actually hit me, and it was actually a very soft blow - maybe a
>> jacket or something swung out of the window, rather than anything
>> solid, so perhaps comes into the category of prats trying to be funny
>> rather than anything actually malicious.
>
> It was both an assault and dangerous driving, and I think you should
> report it. Attacks on cyclists from moving cars appear to be getting
> more common, and they are not harmless pranks. It seems to have
> happened on Halloween night which suggests to me you were very likely
> hit by an egg. Fortunately the throw was mistimed which was why you
> felt only a soft blow. The egg will have bounced off you and smashed
> harmlessly on the road. If the throw had been better timed the results
> would have been both painful and messy. It's highly likely these
> cretins had a good supply of ammunition so there may well be other
> reports against them from the same evening. You may have a part of the
> registration number others are missing.
I was on my way to the Wednesday evening CTC ride at about 6:15, passing by
a group of 10-15 or so youngish teenagers when something hit me across the
mouth, not hard enough to cause damage but pretty startling nonetheless.
Subsequent passings of the scene in daylight suggest evidence of a few
broken eggs on the road. I did get onto the police straight away, got an
incident number etc - in fact it was our second call to them within the hour
as Wednesday also saw the unwelcome return of the pavement motorcycling
fraternity, and on one of the evenings in the year when there are loads of
young kids around. This time I managed to get a reg number which is unusual
as mostly they are unlicenced.
Although in the scheme of things an egg in the face doesn't really amount to
a hill of beans, it's just annoying that there's a small number of people
out there who think that it's OK to do this sort of thing. Also I'm not
surprised that it happened on Halloween which gives the idiots another bit
of encouragement which they really don't need.
Anyway, the upside is that during the ride I broke my record for Most Miles
Covered in a Year, it's not a particularly impressive record but I'm pleased
with it.
--
Nigel
