Originally posted by Chris L
That's assuming you can react quickly enough to the situation. These things happen fast.
True. I have kitten-on-crack-cocaine reflexes (many years of being the little guy will do that to you), but I probably would have been taken down, too.
I'd be pretty stomping mad if some moron ped clotheslined me, though. It fits in the same category as tripping a complete stranger, or throwing a fake-fur bag tied to a leash in front of an oncoming car on a narrow road.