Originally Posted by
Cyclaholic
If I ever catch a thrower there will be no words exchanged, it will be a very short and violent encounter, and I won't hang around to wait for the cops.
I love it.
That said, I've had several objects thrown at me over the years with only one 'connection'. A car load of poor, misguided youths (punks) threw an ink pen at me and hit me in the side. I thought I was stung by a bee until I saw it skittering across the road from me. I hammered to catch up with them when they stopped at a traffic lite, but unfortunately they saw me coming and ran the light.
A year ago, while riding to work at 11:00 at night some other misguided youths threw a full 'Big Gulp' cup at me that whistled past my shoulders and tumbled into someone's yard. I hammered after them too, to their distant laughter in the night.
Another time several years ago someone threw a half empty beer bottle at me while I was walking along the side of the road (on a 5-mile walk just to see if I could do it). The bottle whistled over my head and tumbled into a ditch. If the bottle would've hit me, it would've probably killed me.