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From: daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 14:41:49 EDT
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> Last week I was riding along one of our remoter country roads.  Hearing
> a (*> sigh <*) horn behind me, I gestured for the car to pass, without
> squeezing over any further than the two feet of road I was already
> using.  A woman in the front seat of the car yelled "GET OVER! in an
> angry voice, to which I promptly replied "F___ YOU!,"...

I did that.  Once.  Flipped him the bird too.  The guy slammed on his
brakes, hopped out of the car and punched me into the ground as I tried
to pass.  My riding partner was a witness, so we rode down to the police
station to file a complaint.   The Officer Friendly behind the desk
said, "You provoked him," and told us to beat it.

I've been a lot less aggressive on the bike since then.
-- 
{amdahl|dual|sun|zehntel}\		| There was no fight.
{ucbvax|decvax}!mtxinu---->!rtech!daveb | He hit me, and I went down.
ihnp4!{phoenix|amdahl}___/