Scary and Bizarre ride home this evening

[WindingRoad]

The scariest thing happened on my commute home this evening, it's only beginning to set in what happened as I lay in bed trying to go to sleep. As I replay the events in my mind it goes something like this. It was SUPER windy tonight, like 23 MPH wind with 45 MPH gusts. It's dark out, I have my lights on and I come up to and intersection on my bike. I see a large dark colored SUV has its right turn signal on so I stay back to they can go ahead and turn... they do. After they turn I pull my bike up towards to front, there was a car immediately to my left and another one in the turn lane turning left. The light turns, I go. The wind is whipping me as I go through the intersection, I then hear 4 consecutive "crack, crack, crack, crack's". I felt something hit me on my back after about the 3rd 'crack' and wondered what the hell had just hit me!!! I thought it was odd in hindsight that I crossed the intersection first, no cars went whizzing around me like normal. So I get through the intersections ride a few more yards and stop because something had definitely hit me very hard. I stop and check myself out and notice my back on my left side was hurting but it didn't seem like anything major. I assumed a tree limb at that point. As I was stopped I glanced back and saw the same car in the turn lane finally turning and the one that was next to me finally going again. I keep thinking about all this now and I am pretty sure I got grazed by a stray bullet somehow?!?!?! There were no trees around that intersection that could have dropped a limb big enough to hit me hard enough to take a tiny little chunk out of my back. I have a little circular, bloody divet in my back right now and it's sore all the way around it. Oddly my thermal jersey didn't seem torn at all? I can't figure out what could have been in the wind that I wouldn't have seen go flying past me after it hit me if it was anything sizable??? What I think is that those two cars were having some kind of fight and bullets were shot and I caught one of the ricocheting strays and it was just enough to break the skin. It's the only thing I can figure?

[tangentgirl]

Wow, that's freaky.

I guess if you called the cops they could tell you if there was a shooting. But then you might spend the evening talking to them, which sounds like a pain.

Glad you are ok!

[Kiwi Stoker]

Maybe it was an air pistol? They shoot tiny metal slugs. I'm glad you are not hurt badly or ended up falling because of this.

[Bike Chick]

Winding, that's so scary! I'm glad you aren't hurt any worse.

[redrhodie]

(((WindingRoad))) That is so scary it's nauseating. I think you should get checked out to make sure there's nothing inside of you, just in case.

What a world we live in.

Peace. Please.

[indysteel]

OMG, WR! That is insane. I agree with Red that you should get checked out. I think you should report it to the police, too. If nothing else, they can beef up patrols in the area. Where in the city were you?