Quote Originally Posted by Tuckervill View Post
Her tire didn't blow. Just the bungee got caught in everything.
Ok, so...
You are very lucky your bike didn't go down when your bungee cord got wrapped up in your chain and you didn't get run over by the tailgating car. I don't think I'd want to be riding between a big blind truck and a bully driver that was angry at me.


Reminds me of the story dh often refers to that happened to him as a teenager. He was riding in a car with a friend and some other car was being inconsiderate. Having just gone through McDonalds, the friend got ticked off enough at the other driver that he threw his chicken sandwich out the window and it landed on the other driver's windshield.
Now when we're the victim in similar circumstances, we just wish aloud that we had a chicken sandwich handy. "Where's my chicken sandwich?"
Karen
There was a recent series of photos taken by a bystander on some bike forum... it wound up in the newspaper even I think- a guy in a parked car took a bite out of his fast food burger, didn't like it and tossed it out his car window into the road right in front of a woman who was bicycling by. (not "at" her however). She got mad about his littering, and got off her bike and picked up the messy burger and tossed it back into his front seat.
He blew his stack and got out of his car, grabbed her bike and threw it on the ground and started stomping on it. She then blew her stack and attacked him, he punched back and it became a whole fistfight where passersby had to tear them apart and hold them til the police came. Pretty nasty stuff. If he was a nut who had a gun in his glove compartment maybe he would have shot her! In any case her wheel was trashed. Be careful where you throw that sandwich- is it really worth it?