Originally Posted by colleen c

My partner and I just got our worst altercation with a cager. We were doing our normal nightime routine ride in this neihborhood that is fairly free of cars and all residential. The street we were on is a very wide street that is wide enough for it to be two lanes in each direction, but since it is in the resident, it is actually single lane.

We were riding far right and this red Pickup truck buzz by us extremely close and gave us a long honk. I turn my eye toward the truck and the truck then slammed on his brakes sliding his tires for several feet on the pavement. There was the passenger and the drivers. Both must had a really bad day as they started to scream and holler at us about riding our bike on the road. We went up on the sidewalk asap for safety. My partner asked them what is their problem and that must have blew the driver head gasket. I had my helmet flashlight on the back window at all time when I saw the car door moving and that's when I pulled out my taser and pepper spray just from instinct and had the laser pointed at the door as I heard the passenger tell the driver something.

The driver quoted "What, you guys carry guns?" (he thought it was a gun). We just kept silent from this point on to see what this will become. The driver then closed his car door and smoothly drove off and shouted, "get off the road." We watched them as they went down one block and turned right. The corner house had some people watching this out their window and saw everthing was ok and went back to whatever they were doing. Later as we rode our normal route, we notice that same truck parked in front of a house that was on the same street that the truck turned right. We noted the license plate. Too bad that when the truck slammed his brakes earlier, he stopped just far enough for us to not able to get a clear view of his plates.

We reported this to the police and they told us that it will be consider as a road rage so they will not have it officially filed after the person on the phone checked with her supervisor. Too bad but at least I got some name of the person that I spoke to on the phone and a crime investigator supervisor was informed.