Is anyone aware of it becoming legal to assault someone if they torment you? This incident "below" happened in my city. Does this mean if a car driver hurls abuse at a cyclist in our city, the cyclist is legally able to punch them in the face? OR do we possibly have a double standard?
A bus driver who punched a cyclist in the face after he called him fat and stupid in a peak hour road rage incident has been acquitted in a Brisbane court.
Leon James Zahnow, 36, admitted punching 57-year-old Gregory Ralph Jardine, snapping his glasses in two and leaving him bleeding, in the inner-city suburb Paddington on December 10, 2009, the Brisbane Times reports.
But Mr Zahnow pleaded not guilty to one charge of assault occasioning bodily harm on the grounds he was provoked.
He told the Brisbane District Court yesterday that he only hit the cyclist after he was called "fat and stupid".