Originally Posted by BianchiDave

Today while I was out on patrol I rolled up on a motorist who clearly was distraught. It was a 22 year old female that couldn’t have weighed more than 120 pounds. She was standing on the curb next to her vehicle which was in the roadway with its hazard lights on. I rode up next to her and said “did your car break down?” She replied “yes and my mechanic is on his way, it won’t be long Sir I promise.”
I thought to myself, that’s weird response, why is she so quick to tell me someone was on their way to take care of the car? I got of my bike and said “don’t worry about it, stuff like this happens.” She smiled and said thank you Officer for helping. So at this time I’m thinking “wow” either this is one polite person or something spooked her.
Where her car was stalled was just over a set of railroad tracks (about 1 car length) on a very busy street. Before I even made contact with her I quickly looked for possible safety hazard for other vehicles, pedestrians and her but realized that she pulled over as far as she could along the curb which did allow other vehicles clear access to go around. To further make the area safe I activated my lights (red and blues) on my bike and parked it behind her car.

So after asking the normal question, what happen? She said her car has been acting up and was concerned something like this might happen; again she apologized to me and again thanked me for stopping and helping. I told her its ok stuff like this happens. What she said next shocked the heck out of me and also pissed me the “blank” off.
“I wish the other bikers would know that also.” Confused I asked, what do you mean? She said just before you got here 3 separate bikers yelled at me telling me to get off the bike path. She said the last one went as far too stop after passing her and screamed “get of the f-ing bike path idiot.”
Now note I checked the area for safety concerns as I rolled up and seen “no issues.”
The front of her vehicle was crossing less than 3 feet of an entrance to a bike path that runs parallel to the cross rode her vehicle was stalled on. There was still over 3 feet of access to the path.

Stunned I asked her “is this why you’re upset?” She said “yes, I didn’t think people would be this rude and vulgar.” She also added “when the person stopped and started yelling along with cursing at me I thought I was really doing something wrong.” I told her don’t worry about it and that I’ll stick around until the mechanic arrives.
I must admit I was really hoping for another cyclist to be a moron while I was there.

I understand riding defensively but really are some of us that ignorant to lose common sense just because someone is not riding a bike?

So I did the best thing I could do, I called in for some assistance and we blocked everything while we pushed the vehicle about 50 yards (very slowly.)