Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
You seem to be one of those folks who keep on playing, "But HE started it!" or, "But HE did something worse than I did!" well into adulthood. Don't take that as an especially harsh criticism -- a lot of folks do that, you're hardly alone in that.
Good thing psychology is not your profession.
I am the type of guy who is not willing to give up my freedoms or willingly allow bullies to intimidate me. Just calling the cops on people like this, has not worked here in Hawaii. Cleaning spit off of a car is a small consequence, but one that seems to work, as none of these people has ever passed close to me again.
But you seem to be one of those folks that always wants to blame the cyclist. That if a cyclist even says a four letter word, then the cyclist got what they deserve. That seems to be a common theme in you BF post.
Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
There's no disputing that the people you encountered acted like jackdonkeys; on the other hand, your phrasing above ("people who would harass and endanger others for simply and legally using our roadways") makes it sound like you think they got up in the morning and said, "Hey, let's go find some cyclists who are legally using the roadways and harass them for no other reason at all!". When you encounter jerks, you encounter jerk behavior, simple as that -- it's not some kind of targeted persecution because you're on a bicycle.
They may not get up in the morning thinking “today is the day I get to harass a cyclist”. But at some point, this guy made the
conscious decision to harass the cyclist ahead of him precisously because I was on a bicycle, (the cyclist who was riding a bicycle that he did not consider a vehicle and that he felt, had no right to be on his road). After making that
conscious decision, he then took the action of tailgating, honking and passing < 1 foot.