getting hit by cars?

Yep, I went to cross a dual carriageway between cars at a standstill (on
a crossing). As I crossed the second lane the car on one side began to
move off. The car to my other side then set off as fast as he could
straight at me. I turned and rode as fast as I could in the direction
of the traffic with the nutter right behind me revving his engine. I
couldn't make the pavement as I was using everything just to keep ahead
of his bumper.

When he slackened of slightly I made the gutter and as I pedalled along
slowly, he wound down the window and him and his kid were both laughing.
I called him a w**ker half under my breath, with which he then smacked
his car sideways into me knocking me off on the kerb before driving off
and swerving down a side road.

I was so mad I sat at the junction waiting to see if the one-way system
would force him back around again. In my head I was picturing the
headlines in the local paper 'unicyclist arrested after smashing up car
and assaulting passengers'.

I didn't get his number but then, if I had, would you take a
unicycle-related incident to your local police station?


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drumstuck wrote:
...would you take a unicycle-related incident to your local police
station?

In this country it would be called something like an "assault with
deadly force" incident. The unicycle had nothing to do with it.


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drumstuck wrote:
I didn't get his number but then, if I had, would you take a
unicycle-related incident to your local police station?

Yes:
http://tinyurl.com/5rgpcl

Not that anything actually came of it - that would mean the police
having to do some work.


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