Hit by a projectile - on purpose!

[Kiwi Stoker]

I got hit by a piece of fruit thrown from a car window on my shoulder. I don't think it was accidental at all... as I was riding stoker on our tandem at the time.

[Catrin]

I got hit by a piece of fruit thrown from a car window on my shoulder. I don't think it was accidental at all... as I was riding stoker on our tandem at the time.

Sorry to read this Kiwi, I don't understand people. I rode as stoker on a tandem Sunday evening for the first time on a club dinner ride and we got on one section of road where people were buzzing us pretty close.

[lovelygamer]

Last summer, a guy threw his drink on me as I was trying to make a right turn. He was on the sidewalk.

People suck. I hope your okay.

[colorisnt]

Wow. That is awful. I am glad (or sad) that others have experienced it but say it is far and few in between. I myself had a big gulp tossed at me while I was on a road. Scared me senseless at the time. I was going about 26mph starting down a hill and it could have been bad. Have to chock it up to the fact that people are just mean sometimes no matter where you are.

[Norse]

I once was hit in the back by a water balloon tossed from a car of speeding juvenile males. It felt like a brick hitting and almost knocked me off my bike.

[tulip]

I was hit by a big rock as I was very slowly going up a big hill in a city. Kids on the sidewalk thought it would be funny to knock me over, I guess. They tossed it at my front wheel, but I managed to stay upright and kept pedaling. At least they didn't throw it at my face.

[Possegal]

A diaper at me. What I'm assuming was a dirty one. Luckily I was going one way and the SUV was going the other, and clearly their aim was not as nearly as good as they thought. Just annoyed the crap out of me. Haha, crap, dirty diaper!

I wasn't even on the road, but on a multi-use trail right beside it. People do, at times, suck.

[missjean]

Some people are just scum.
It's not just bikers who have things thrown at them. Here in my town last year there were two women out running and a young man (big surprise there) threw a soup can at them out the widow of a car. It hit one of the women right in the center of her chest, knocking her down. She was taken to the hospital but was not seriously hurt. They never did catch the guy.