To anyone who favors intentionally breaking the law, mouthing off to cops doing their job, and then trying to weasel out of the penalty -- it's dudes like you that bring harrassment on the rest of us and make the cops and the rest of public unsympathetic to cyclists.

If someone loses control of their car trying to avoid an accident and gets stuck in a ditch, I'll bet many of you would help push the car out. However, if it's some punk trying to scare you while you're riding, my guess is that you laugh and let him sit there. What goes around comes around.