Coffee (hit)
Full thirst-buster (miss)
Change (hit)
Oranges (1 hit & 2 misses)
Full gallon of milk (miss, thank God. That one was head on, they were going about 40mph and I was at a good clip too. That would have taken me out.)
Empty Wild Turkey bottle (miss. At least the behavior in this case was explainable, the bottle was empty)
Golf ball. I think that's what it was? (miss)

Has anybody seen the video of the kid in the car who tries to open a car door into a kid on a bike? The kid is in a moving car, opens the door and basically gets crushed by a parked car. All is captured on video by another passenger in the car.

love the people that run up behind you and blow thier horns at you as they pass you safely. It is still nice here and everyone has their windows open, so I am actually thinking about getting one of those bottled air horns and blow it at them threw thir windows when they do this to me. Lets see if I can scare the crap out of them for a change.

That's a lot of projectiles! Do you have a target on the back of your jersey?

I had a nearly empty (just a little bit of ice) Big Gulp cup hit my arm and one crumpled piece of paper that flew by my head.

No target, though I guess I may as well have . I've just spent a good deal of my time on two wheels . The gallon of milk and the coffee incedents both happened back when I was a BMX grommet. The Wild Turkey bottle and one of the orange attacks (a miss) are the most recent, they both happened this year.

Oh, and I have been shot in the a$$ by a BB gun. I wasn't moving, just sitting there on my bike talking with some friends.

*evil grin*

I would like to see a movie about a psychotic cyclist that shoots people that throws stuff at him....

I would show that movie to ALL my friends.

I will offer to be the main character in that movie. Better yet, let's make it a documentary!

When I was in 11th grade, I was riding home from band practice at about 9:00pm. I was on the shoulder of a major neighborhood road. Out of the blue, I heard the car behind me and felt the impact on my left butt cheek. It knocked me off the bike and into the bushes. I got right up, picked up my pride and checked the bike. No breaks so I rode home. When I got there and took my shorts off, I had a PERFECT hand print bruise. If there were only fingerprints..... I think of that often now, and make sure to give plenty of room so the knuckleheads don't bother. ESPECIALLY on the tandem, if something like that ever happened to my wife, first, she'd kill me, then never ride with me again.

I got deliberately hit by a car side mirror on my butt cheek. That was after I had just started cycling, my comfort bike handlebars were set "reach for the sky" high, so the mirror hit me and missed them. I still marvel that nothing else touched, that car must have been millimetres away.

Another time I was cycling home in the dark on a bike path at full clip when an owl hit me square in the face. I veered all over the path until I regained control. Made my glasses greasy so I had to stop and clean them.

I once had a pound of butter thrown at me.

Between us, we could have made the best of two bad situations...

You have read Spike Bike, yes?

Woah! I think that might be some sort of bad omen or something. Maybe you should knock on wood/find a four leaf clover/get a rabbits foot/find a penny/buy some karma/throw some salt over your shoulder/and switch to day time rides .

We had an elderly patient come in our office once claiming to have been struck on the head by "a dead stiff possum." This being Tennessee she was not actually biking, but was riding in the back of a pickup truck while seated in a lawn chair. They were cruising a place called Cades Cove hillbilly style. Couple of kids thought it would be funny to throw some roadkill into the passing truck and they hit poor Granny on the bean.

beer bottle vs. calf - calf wins (stung like a b'stard though). Never got a plate #.

those guys were actually leaning out to smack kids on the back of the head. but yeah, it's a funny video.

another amusing one floating around is of some morons driving around shooting cyclists and pedestrians with a paintball gun - the video ends when the siren goes off, and the camera turns to see the cruiser behind them...

Peace Bro, try to stay on the DarkSide of the Moon.

atta boy

KT, the worst thing about the Pinellas Trail is the fire ants. It is off topic but Tampa is my second home and wanted to say hey.

A whole loaf of bread... weird. What a waste of money!

Once, I felt something glance off my haunch and it was one of those AOL CD roms you get for free. I think someone threw it from a car going the other way.

A somewhat carefully placed/thrown partially full 2-litre bottle .... right in front of my wheel down a straight-away going about 22mph. NOT fun trying to dodge it while it rolls along just in front of my wheel. I kept waiting to GO DOWN ... and just barely managed to keep it upright.

HAHA That happened to me once too. At first I was mad because it startled me and I almost hit a parked car, then I realized it was a convertible full of college girls and the cute one with her arm still stretched out yelled "Nice ass!" as they continued down the road. Irritated or flattered? I think it was a little bit of both.

I got hit by a glass soft drink bottle with the lid screwed on real tight one time. Hit me in the small of my back and left a bruise the size of a dinner plate. I tried to catch the hoopty Chevette that the bottle came from, but there was no traffic and they lost me. I thought I had been hit with a rock until I saw the bottle spinning in the road.

This next incident involves something coming out of a vehicle, but not being thrown.
One time I was riding down a busy, two lane, one way road with cars parked on both sides. I had moved to the left lane because I was going to turn left soon. A panel van started to pass me and I was really squeezed between the van and parked cars. As the drivers open window got next to me the drivers pit bull ran across his lap and started barking and snapping inches from my face! I was only going a little slower than the van so I had to hit my brakes hard to get away from the dog, since the owner didn't seem too concerned. I could feel the dogs breath and had dog spit on my face! I was always on the lookout for loose dogs in people's yards but never imagined that situation.

On the other hand, I've had more people yell nice things at me than be jerks. I used to get "Way to go!" and "Nice bike!" quite a bit. I've done it myself to other bikers, but got tired of getting the finger.

I got shot with a BB gun just down the street from my house, There was a cop sitting right on the road where it happened. I stopped and told him what just happened and pointed out where the kid was who did the shooting, he was ultra dumb as he was sitting in his own back yard fireing away at tin cans I guess I was a moving target that could not be resisted.

The cop fixed the problem, then the family moved the next week. Perhaps the kid should have been "fixed" as well.

I am very glad I had my backpack on as the sound of the BB strike was loud I know it would have hurt.

That was in September to 2000.

Joe

A loaf of bread, must have been some French cycling enthusiast! They were trying to give you some carbs to eat.

If it was enough to knock you into the bushes perhaps there is some comfort in the fact that somewhere while you were nursing your wounds there was a surprised person with a broken hand or wrist nursing theirs.