The cyclist things is getting out of hand.
Two cyclists (men and woman) crossed the street in front of me with a red light (or orange) for them, without looking. My speed was low, but I had to brake, and I honked. The woman yelled some "heey!", so I answered with "heey!". She then stopped and yelled "are you crazy?", and I answered "It's red!".
Unfortunately I was parking at a little distance, so they followed me and waited for me.
The woman was so angry that she literally jumped off the bike to confront me, saying that I was crazy, and that I was lucky that she didn't send her husband (the man) to deal with me, at which point he intervened, got a few inches from my face, grinned and said something like "it's better you shut up, otherwise..."
I tried to talk reasonably, but I still turned on the camera from my phone.
The man then kept calmer, with a final "you go away, boy, or else bad things will happen...", while the woman got extremely irritated by the fact that I was recording. So she decided she would take my licence plate number.
I asked her why, and she aswered me "because you scared me". "You were crossing at a red light!", I replied. "I was with the pedestrians!", "the pedestrians have red light too!". She then proceeded to take the numbers of my licence plate.
The man was still unsettled by the registration, and he tried the "you can't record because of the privacy!", I explained why he was wrong.
She then walked towards the bike saying "good day", to which I answered "It won't be, you ruined it", at which point the aggressive husband tried the degrading way, telling me that I was too small and fragile and nervous (I still can't understand why people get into this thing of trying to dominate you by belittleing your physical aspect (also, It's easy with me, I'm the opposite of a bulky, menacing guy). I answered that I saw more problems in his lying than in my being nervous.
Then, they went away, at last.
EDIT To stress it out loud: I never insulted them, I was never aggressive, I was never physically threatening or getting near of my own will, I never tried to stop, they never mentioned the colour of the traffic light (I did), I never laughed at them, I tried to talk with them. It is all recorded (unfortunately, because of italian law, I cannot publish the video).EDIT
Three considerations.
First, the aggressiveness of the couple, particularly the woman: way to go for the lie of the poor meek cyclists.
Second, how unfair is that the woman could take my licence plate and try to intimidate me by threatening consequences with the police (or not, for what I know. You can expect everything from aggressive people), while I cannot know anything of her? Particularly in a world where, for some idiotic reason, someone is trying to teach that the word of a cyclist is worth more than the word of a driver.
Third, I really want to buy a dashcam, to protect me in these situations. If I hadn't the recording, where they clearly state that I didn't do anything wrong, I could really fear for them messing around and complicating my life. I really don't want that to happen, considering the nutcases running free in the streets.
prizrak;n3553389 said:
Mustang hits cyclist, as always cyclist is in the wrong. Can't embed video
https://g.redditmedia.com/1GwPYYq5nW...6de6ce8d509184
Fantastic. You really had me with the "Mustang" in the description.