Got this today from Alan down in Georgia. Unfortunately this is an all too common occurrence. Fortunately for us, more and more cyclists are starting to video these things.
On Saturday April 18, a motorist in a truck passed me too close, I flipped him off, and he pulled off the road, got out of his truck and attacked me. I’m not proud of flipping him off; I shouldn’t have done that but it’s no justification for what he did.
The only thing I said to him was “You’re on video.” Other than flipping him off I did nothing to him. He told the police that he’d been afraid for his safety.
I’ve ridden over 18,500 miles in and around this town (Rome, Georgia) over the past couple of years and this is the first time something like this has happened to me. This guy is NOT representative of folks around here. Regardless, I’ll definitely (1) always ride with my camera and (2) resist flipping people off from now on; who knows what kind of nutcase you might be dealing with?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxBIf8X-ZvE[/youtube]
Interesting back and forth by a cadre of well informed intellectuals. And I agreed with ol’ Joe! Wonders truly never do cease to amaze me….
How’s ’bout a #fuckyeahfriday to break this shit up. Pretty sure all the angles have been covered here.
Be nice.
avoid assholes
# # #
grandote, don’t be amazed. Just means you’re getting smarter.
Alan isn’t telling the truth. I saw this . It started on old Dalton and ended on the loop according to the video. The truck was in front of cyclist and cyclist must have followed to the loop. I saw and heard alan cussing and screaming. The guy in the truck was on the phone and he had a dog jumping around the cab when I passed him. I then turned back around and watched from a turn off pad. Alan went up and kicked the stopped truck. I don’t know why the truck stopped but it was stopped before alan got to it on his bike. I watched the guy grab alan helmet but I didn’t see punches thrown
He looked like he was trying to get the camera. I didn’t think anything else of it until I saw this idiot on the news. I ride on this road a lot and this is the 2nd time I have seen this guy arguing with a vehicle driver. So now that you have called the news and had your 15 minutes of fame. Calm yourself down and quit looking for a fight bc you are going to get hurt
Chris, you were not there, you were eating microwave burritos with your depressed grandmother. I was there, on Old Dalton. I was hiding in the bed of Johnny McFatnuts truck. You can see my shoulder in the video. Alan kicked the fuck out of that truck, that’s why he was too tired to fight McFatnuts. He also whipped out a laptop to edit out all these kicks from the video before the cops arrived. It all looks seamless, he did an amazing job, some Pixar quality shit. Chris, GFY.
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Chris, are you going to hurt someone?
I feel like we need an adult here….
Got one fella saying it was an unprovoked attack, and an eyewitness who said the fella acted like an asshole and essentially brought it upon himself.
If it’s the first case, Blue Ford asshole deserves whatever the law can throw his way.
If it’s the latter, Alan needs the same for doing such, and then playing the victim.
To date, no resolution as to the truth on these pages.
And if it’s been answered in some continuing conversation on Facebrag, that would explain why I don’t know the answer, ain’t got no time for that shit…..
Still looking for said “bag of dicks”.
Never mind…after reading all of the comments, they appear to be all over this thread.
@mendoncyclesmith
didn’t know you were in here?!
Thanks for the spoke talk last week. I got dudes 29+ leftied with the rabbit hole. Glad I didn’t have to move the spoke nipples from the conventional wheel build. I just left his tubeless set up intact and got ‘er built up tight.
thanks for being an adult(ish) person on this outta control thread. It seams to be blocking posts of greater worth.
I’ll repeat it for everyone incase it missed you.
1. be nice
2. avoid assholes
Hey Buck, yep, I’ve wandered through here for a long time. I don’t post on everything, but now and then….
Dirty is a good pal of mine from way back.
Glad that wheel worked out well, love it when you can just swap over and not tear it all down…..
Adultish, yeah, about right. A mix of real me, with a touch of crabby luddite for good measure. : )
Always use my “real” name too, so depending on where you wander, you’ll know it’s me!
Pack a tazer.
@mendon:
“crabby luddite”? I wrote the book.
We should get together over adult bevvies and compare notes. The world would thank us for it.
@ Joe
You have no idea how many times I’ve tried to fix the world over a few pops, never seems to stick dammit……
: )
BEAT THAT FAT PUSSYS ASS
i choked a fucking dude through his open driver window once. it ruled.
K on May 6, 2015 at 9:33 pm said:
BEAT THAT FAT PUSSYS ASS
i choked a fucking dude through his open driver window once. it ruled.
WATCH OUT, WE GOT A BADASS OVER HERE!!
I ran over an bag of Mic-D’s food one time. That make me a bad-ass ? How the bag got there I don’t even wanna know.
+1
I hereby nominate this comment section the worst. This shit makes Littlejar look good.
What…..are we all ‘tards ????
I rode with Littlejar. Night ride, downtown Seattle, raining. Pub crawl. We met up with some hooligans and had a drunken bonfire in a city park. Darn kids were smokin weed and settin off fireworks. It was a very cool ride.
Try the THUMBS DOWN signal. A middle finger to a stranger (at least where I come from) means let’s fight this one out. The THUMBS DOWN means, I disapprove of your behavior. It lets them know they suck without provoking them. They know they suck and they are looking for a reasons to suck more; don’t give it to them.
I’m a larger than average cyclist, love it when an ass clown like this pulls over, and then realizes how big I am. I would have thumped this Mofo so hard he would have been arrested for speeding.
They are everywhere, we got a bunch of fools like this in NM
This makes me think I should drop the cash for a helmet-cam. I’m not one to back down from a fight, but I would rather avoid a physical confrontation. With the proliferation of boxing and MMA gyms these days, you can be as badass as you want, but you never know what the other person has in there skill-set. I err on the side of caution in all cases, but, to be fair, the middle finger is what we have in lieu of a horn. I’ve been almost swiped several times and threw up the one-fingered salute 99/100 with no response. sometimes i’ll catch up to the offender at a light and give them the evil-eye, just to discover the douche-canoe was paying more attention to their phone than the road. I think we have to watch out for these people more than any fist wielding hillbilly with anger issues. I’ve even been given wide berth by people who flip ME off when passing as if I don’t have a right to share the road.
I’m in total agreement with the “There will never NOT be Assholes”
for the people taking this thread as an opportunity to bash cops, if you don’t like them, don’t call 911 when someone beats your ass. nuff said.
So who do you call when a cop beats your ass?
A Lawyer.