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Tragedy (CC licensed by Johnathan Nightingale via Flickr).jpgMotorist hospitalised Cotswolds cyclist using ice cream cone
A cyclist was hospitalised when an angry car driver attacked him with an ice cream cone near Bibury in the Cotswolds last month.
The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard reports that the cyclist had travelled from London to see his family for two days and had gone for a bike ride while he was there.
It is believed that the car driver lost his temper when the cyclist rode past and spat on the ground, near the car.
After words were exchanged, the driver thrust an ice cream cone into the cyclist’s face. The resultant cut to his lip required a visit to Cirencester Hospital for stitches.
Make ice cream while you cycle!
A police constable and police community support officer on patrol who happened across the altercation broke things up.
Sergeant Garrett Gloyn said: “We have recorded the assault, though it was not done with a deadly weapon.”
The situation was dealt with through restorative justice with the 35-year-old offender writing a note of apology with which the victim was satisfied.
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Could Siobhán paint it red and noone would notice it?
- Simon E 16 min 8 sec ago
Feel so sorry for the family, likely to be in temporary accommodation for at least 6 months.
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I've posted before about being 69, lifelong cyclist as my main transport, much of it in, through, under, over London and how it's bicycles that...
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200 people out of a close by population of how many? Just build it and stop being a wuss
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To paraphrase Field of Dreams, "Build it right and they will come: and use it!"
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Hope the drivers gets his just desserts.
Indeed, this is no trifling matter
Indeed, he might end up in custardy
Does this mean that we can now attack any driver with a less than deadly weapon because they are polluting the air? Rather more offensive than the odd gob, which seems to be part of any football match.
My analysis concludes the only product with sufficent waffer density to penetrate human flesh from a well aimed, vigorus thrust is an offcial Cornetto (none of that supermarket own brand stuff with weaker structure). We can be thankful a solid chocolate tip wasn't used as this would surely have led to a fatality.
I would like to debate how a driver can be in conrol of a vehicle whilst consuming a product which at any given moment could bring on brain freeze or the dropping of ice cold goodness onto ones genitals. The driver should be prosecuted for dangerous driving and also be banned from ice cream vendors for at least 30 years. We've got to send a strong message, this can't happen again.
99 times out 100, spitting in someone's direction will make them flake out!(see what I did there).
At least he didn't leave him a Mr Whippy beside the , wafer it, car (netto)...
There's a wafer-thin line between violence and comedy sometimes. I do hope the police shouted 'Brain freeze, sucker!'.
Agree with dottigirl, it's about context. Exercising hard inevitably has an expectorating effect and gobbing it expertly and discreetly into the bushes is fairly acceptable if there's no one around.
Didn't GCN do a video on this?
As far as road rage incidents go, it's a bit vanilla.
When did it become acceptable to spit in public?
When you've inhaled a fly? When you're rinsing your mouth with your drink? When you've just got an awful taste you want to get rid of?
There are perfectly valid reasons to spit in public, although it may not be the done thing 'polite company'. Certainly, I wouldn't do it when I wasn't exercising.
Spitting in public is illegal in some parts of the UK
When a fly flies in your mouth. Not swallowing some dogshit walking fly because motorists are now so precious about their cars you can't even spit near them.
When a fly flies in your mouth. Not swallowing some dogshit walking fly because motorists are now so precious about their cars you can't even spit near them.[/quote]
If you are opening your mouth before your podium acceptance speech, you need to train harder.
Very rum. And raising the stakes in the war on cyclists.
Ice cream with a really high-pitched shrill when things like this happen to me.
Motorist sounds like a complete melt!
It's a good job it wasn't a 99. That could have done some real damage.
It's good to see that summery justice has been carried out.
There are hundreds of thousands of these incidents every year!
It's time we started carrying Magnums
That bastard Mr Whippy
i think this guy is just creaming it for all it's worth
TBH the story left me cold
What a scoop.
Was the motorist the driver of an Audi?