I have yet to have a door-kicker moment; I usually restrict myself to several minutes of heavy profanity in my little bubble of helmet, or a death-glare and a one-finger salute for the really bad ones.
Two stories, one of which you guys already know, that of the woman who was a chronic jerkhat toward bikers of all stripes around here. After being nearly run off the road by the same woman in the same green two-door Explorer for the second time, I bought a helmet cam and started recording. I called in. I wrote incident reports. I gave police copies of the cam footage, though most of it wasn't good enough for evidence. Finally I got her face AND the license plate on the same chunk of footage, good shots of each. Warrants went out. Turns out she was wanted in NJ, and was extradited to that state for their first claim on her. Property damage, assault charges, grand theft, and a possible attempted murder charge. The other one has a better ending, from the standpoint of having less assholery (pardon the term, if you will). Riding home, getting the sloooooooooow overtake (I don't tend to hammer it on the way home, right at or just under the limit, gentle acceleration, and that sort of thing) on the left from a car. I drop speed to force the pass, car pulls in front of me, signals, I swap lanes as they turn. Now I'm on the left, with a car coming up on my right. She makes it about even with me, suddenly signals and starts to lane change mid-pass. Horn goes on, mirror check, hard braking to put me behind her. She swerves back into her lane as we pull up to a light. Girl looked like she was in her teens, didn't have her phone out or anything, and she rolled down her window and was nothing but apologies as soon as I pulled up at the light. Rather than rip her a new set of holes, I just told her to be more careful and /look/ next time she wanted to move the car. From the look on her face, I think she was more scared than I was. Hopefully it sank in. Kurt On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > Yea, they are in a cage and some of them think that gives them the right > to bully you. I had a guy hit my handlebar with his mirror because he > didn't want me to get in front of him at an alternating merge, despite the > fact that I let the car in front of him go before me. I rapped his window > with my fist and he tried to cut me off so I would crash into his fender. I > avoided it and was going to dismount so I could kick in his door, because > traffic had stopped. But a truck ahead of him saw what happened, and waved > me in front, then blocked the guy for me. I had about 1 month riding > experience at that time. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
