Hey nathank, I thought you were going to say the mom started yelling at YOU even though she and the kid were at fault. That is the reaction I would expect in the US anyway. I used to ride on the beach bike path in Los Angeles, and even though it was isolated from the pedestrian path, and people had the entire beach to walk on, idiot peds would walk on the bike path. Sometimes they would walk 3 or 4 abreast and block the entire path! Idiots. And of course, kids would often stray onto the path, but I could never get mad at them. It's the stupid parents fault for not looking after the kids.