Doggus

We had a 4 man line coming back through Texas-fugly-McMansionville - actually very close to my house (you're wrong - I refuse to live in one). I was pulling, heard what I thought was possibly a spoke broke loose or one of the guys behind me hit some metal on the road that I somehow didn't see.

I circled back and the guy that the sound came from was partially wet. Turns out one of those little mutant tards that lives in the one of those Ronald McDonald playhomes was laying in wait with water ballons.

Smacked the guy third in line dead on in the head tube. He said all he saw was a flash of white before it exploded.

We looked around to give the little fella his award for having such good aim but he was apparently called to dinner early.

patentcad

In NJ it wouldn't have been a water balloon. It would have been a brick.

tekhna

Don't worry, their parents will be foreclosed on soon because they can't afford their six mortgages on a McMansion with no equity. But they'll keep their SUV. Don't you worry.

GatorFL

I got a party cup of Natty from car full of high schoolers once.

botto 

Good thing they haven't figured out how to make bricks in Texas.

EventServices

How do you get the brick inside the balloon??
I mean, i know they're stretchy, but....

Slackerprince

We used to throw guavas at cars in Cali, and when I moved to Bend, Or., we used to throw snowballs at cars, but I admit, I've never thrown anything at a bicyclist. Perhaps because I've been on a bike since 4 or 5 or whenever I learned.
Nasty business, though, sorry.

Slackerprince

snoboard2

alcohol in high school was worth its weight in gold. That stuff is so hard to come by when you're not legal and the oldest sibling.

That said, there's no way i'd throw my beer at you...

dcvelo

i'm just curious how he knew it was Natty....quite the beer connoisseur if he can tell by the smell....

garysol1 

Not sure why it matters the size of the homes. Bratty kids from all income levels.

idcruiserman

Better than a .38

ravenmore

sigh - trust me, they have. I've been on the receiving end.

scotch

you've had a brick thrown at you?

BarracksSi

"Got", as in "handed to me", or "thrown at me"?

Old School

"Kids aren't so bad -- dogs like 'em."
-- W.C. Fields

milchad

One Friday after work some high school kids passed me in a truck and chucked a 1/2 full bottle of coke at me that didn't have the top on it. Me and my bike were covered in sticky coke syrup that was a bi+ch to clean off. I had always heard not to ride on Friday, and that was the last time I did.

SSIndyRider

Just last weekend we had a little kid throw a chunk of broken concrete into the back wheel of my buddy's bike. Fortunately only busted a spoke. We stopped and made him go get his dad, who apologized and offered to pay.

Lecterman

[Troy Aikman]Yeah, but was it an Acme Brick?[/Troy Aikman]

ravenmore

cinder block from an overpass. Was in a car though. Still punched a hole through the hood.

Bob Dopolina 

Psimet2001 

You're just lucky it was filled with "water".

rooftest

Cancer boy in the Ronald McDonald House? (Do they still have these?) You should have kicked his ass!

waikikihei

that happened to a family of 5. killed the mom in the passenger seat, 3 kids in back and dad survived. one of the saddest things i've ever heard.

bo00on

same thing happened here in auckland, new zealand - dumb@ss kids dropped a concrete block or a large rock off a motorway overhead bridge at a car below traveling at 80+km/h. took the drivers head off.

Johnny_Monkey

Happened to a truck driver in Sydney too a few years ago. This is why the freeway overpasses in Oz tend to have grills on them.