🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 03:48:00 GMT, jrd+usenet@enclave.org (J.R.
Dean)had the unmitigated audacity to write:

>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:17:45 -0500, Jack Dingler <jdingler@texas.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Yeah, sometimes they do.
>>
>>Jack Dingler
>>
>
>Yup.
>
>"Neal" is not interested in the answer, however.  But for anyone
>else...  (Please note that I still say that most drivers do *not*
>behave in the way I'm about to describe.)
>
>Geoff ought to like this one -- it affects drivers, too.
>
>There's a biddy who drives from Felton to Boulder Creek, and vice
>versa, in her brown beater mobile (an old Impala, I believe).  It
>belches smoke, and she always drives at least 10 miles under the speed
>limit, though usually more.
>
>I've driven behind this woman a few times.  She tends to weave a
>little bit anyway, but on two occasions I've observed her taking a
>bead on cyclists and *swerving* toward them.  On one occasion, when I
>was biking 9, she pulled the same stunt on me.
>
>On one of the two occasions when I drove behind her and saw her aim at
>a cyclist she stopped in BC, whereupon the cyclist caught up with her
>(I stopped at the same market).  The cyclist was pretty upset, and
>asked her what she thought she was doing, and so on.  I can't remember
>her exact response, but it was pretty clear she thought she owned the
>road, she can drive like she wants, and if you ride a bicycle you are
>a declared target.
>
>Here are some other indicators that some of these near misses are
>deliberate.  I've seen this stunt most often pulled by a carload of
>kids.  They drive as close to a cyclist as possible, and then either
>yell into the cyclists ear, literally just inches away, or they whack
>the cyclist on the rear or some other available body location.
>
>Deliberate?  You bet.
	Just about everything you described that you had happen to you
is illegal. Take the plate number, go to your local police department
and make a criminal complaint. If for some reason, you feel you were
not treated well there, go to the courthouse, see an assistant
district attorney (or whatever he or she is called in your
neighborhood),  and file a complaint. Then see the idiots in court and
smile at them. That is the best deterrent for criminal behavior.
	Ken K.
Chairman, Department of Redundancy Department