So I was riding back towards the train station after bouncing early from Monday Night Rehab, only so someone I didn't want to talk to could have a conversation they "needed." She isn't my favorite rider and rather stubborn with bad road manners and as we cruised through the Valley towards the Red Line station a car follows behind us. We keep riding and talking. The car continues to follow directly behind us on an empty street and I wave him around. Soon this dick hole is 10 feet behind us and laying on his horn. Before he has the chance to get any angrier I grab my brake (one of the rare times I use it) and come to a stop so fast he has to move around me. I unclip, pick up my bike and hit the side of his car with it and he stops. The other rider is talking to him which doesn't do much good with my 6'2 raging mad figure screaming at the top of my lungs "GO THE **** AROUND ARE YOU ****ING STUPID? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING" and within seconds a squad car pulls up.
The other rider explains the situation to the cops, my legs are shaky as I had a little adrenalin rush remembering the last time I got hit. The office talks to us and asks us if were "midnight ridazz" I let the other rider talk and then the office talks to the driver and I hear "Do you want me to arrest you for wreckless driving? bikes are allowed to ride in the street. you're in a 2000lb box of metal what if you hit them? what do you think will happen?" I mean the Officer went off like a G on this jack hole. I was smiling and laughing. He comes back over to us and starts talking. The other rider is...dense to say the least. She keeps telling the Office she knows the law, arguing and talking over him until he says "Look if you don't listen i'm going to arrest your friend for hitting the car with his bike." He finally gets to say what he needs to, runs my ID and thankfully nothing comes up. And very thoughtfully he says that he rides bikes, he rides with his wife and they do ride side by side but when there is traffic they fall into line and let it pass. If a situation comes up with road rage, call the police and they'll deal with it, cars can kill bikers easily.
After his advice he brings the driver out of the car, introduces us to each other and we shake hands and apologize mutually. He says were both free to go and to be more understanding of one and other in the future, regardless of previous experiences. I shook the Officers hand and thanked him sincerely.
The moral of this tangent is you cannot hit and run without a u-lock. If you hit the car with your Bike you probably are not in a great position to ride away quickly.