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A scary - yet oddly karmically satisfying - close pass
Cycling home yesterday, on a dead-straight road, when I approach a pinch point with a pedestrian refuge. The wankpanzer (a mercedes 4*4) behind me suddenly accelerates, squeezes close to me as they pass by, in a scary-yet-classic close pass.
My anger suddenly turned into laughter, when I heard a loud bang and a clatter - they had driven over the edge of the pedestrian refuge, bursting their tyre. Instant karma. So not only have I reported them for a close pass, which the police are taking further, but they have to fork out for a new tyre. I can only hope their rim and suspension is also damaged!
No swearing, but I did produce a laugh and a Nelson Muntz style "ha-ha"
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- Bungle_52 14 min 32 sec ago
I note you reported the driver. I haven't read all the replies but you seem to imply that it would be words of advice. Is that what happened?
- Bigtwin 31 min 15 sec ago
Discount eh? Screw you!
- David9694 51 min 5 sec ago
this one has (deservedly) turned-up today in car flips and car crashes into building
- Miller 1 hour 33 min ago
Their weather today is dismal anyway.
- quiff 1 hour 43 min ago
Hold your horses - some councils are authorised to conduct their own (more stringent) vehicle inspections for taxi use. Where that's the case,...
- Alibev 1 hour 57 min ago
Ask the owners of the Cinnamon Café in the street next door how much cyclists contribute to their business. They took steps to encourage cyclists...
- Rendel Harris 2 hours 5 min ago
With reference to the Paris Roubaix chicanery, I agree with the report that four 90° turns in the space of a few hundred metres is more likely to...
- brooksby 2 hours 11 min ago
I trust that you pointed at them while Muntzing? ...
- Bungle_52 2 hours 28 min ago
You are close. The still below is of my latest close pass report. I had to react quickly to stop moving out to avoid being hit while negotiating...
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I trust that you pointed at them while Muntzing?
(edit) Of course, you do realise that they have been telling anyone who would listen about how it was your fault…?