Motorist Passenger Abuse

[TheCharityShop]

What are your experiences of verbal abuse from the passengers of motorists?

I have lost count of the times these pieces of excrement feel it is a good idea to mouth off out of the window for no reason what so ever pariculary as i am benignly cycling and not bothering anyone.

How do you deal with these vermin?

The UK is a hideous country to cycle in, the motorists are filthy agressive beasts

 

[xpc316e]

Get the car number and report it Police. Insist that it is recorded for Section 59 purposes. If we all did that drivers would have their cars taken from them on a regular basis when their passengers behaved like idiots.

 

[summerdays]

Extremely rare - I could count it on on hand and still have some fingers to spare. (Not the same for the drivers though). I'm not sure if it is due to location or that I'm female perhaps?

 

[Fran143]

Have had verbal abuse from car passengers on a few occasions, quite surprising really as they are normally wee neds and the guys I cycle with are built like brick sh$t houses! We usually just laugh at them tbh, it's the drivers who come skelping up behind and then peep as though we shouldn't be on the road that gets my goat.

 

[chillyuk]

You should hear some of the abuse I dish out when cycling.
Fortunately the drivers mostly can't hear it!

 

[Wardy]

I just think they are infantile pinheads and normally I would just ignore such behaviour - don't let them have the satisfaction of a reaction. What's worse is getting stuff chucked out a car window at you. I recently had an opened bottle of juice thrown from a moving car in heavy urban traffic. What I was delighted to see was because of the angle it was thrown, and the speed of the traffic, it landed back on the car's windscreen splattering juice all over it! Nice one chaps.

 

[kishin]

It occasionally happens to me but to be honest, I can never make out what the little scrotes are shouting about as they wizz past, so I don't let it bother me.....

 

[Deb13b]

The UK is a hideous country to cycle in, the motorists are filthy agressive beasts

The UK is rapidly becoming a hideous country to LIVE in. A lot of the people are filthy aggressive beasts.

 

[Bman]

From passengers? It's only ever happened twice. Three times if you include the finger a schoolboy gave me from the back of a bus.

 

[straas]

Hasn't happened to me in over a year of cycling - did get a bit worried the other week when the occupants of a micra (which was almost scraping the road) kept turning round to look at me and laughing.
I thought I'd keep going as I was in lane 1 and they were in the other, I about drew level with the car, and as I did the passenger started to lean out the window. (oh sh..)
Having read some of the reports off fellow cyclists on here I braced myself for something to be thrown, or at least a load of idiotic abuse possibly mixed in with a bit of intimidating swerving.

What I got however was "You're doing 30 mate!" with a big smile

Put me in a good mood for the rest of the day!

 

[ufkacbln]

Point out camera and ask...
"Anything else you want to put up on YouTube then?"

 

[davefb]

Hasn't happened to me in over a year of cycling - did get a bit worried the other week when the occupants of a micra (which was almost scraping the road) kept turning round to look at me and laughing.
I thought I'd keep going as I was in lane 1 and they were in the other, I about drew level with the car, and as I did the passenger started to lean out the window. (oh sh..)
Having read some of the reports off fellow cyclists on here I braced myself for something to be thrown, or at least a load of idiotic abuse possibly mixed in with a bit of intimidating swerving.

What I got however was "You're doing 30 mate!" with a big smile

Put me in a good mood for the rest of the day!

hehehe , i have to stop myself either shouting something similar (when driving),,, or across to someone a bit close to the kerb 'get in primary mate'...


then of course remember,, they'll just realise i'm a total idiot ...

 

[MarkF]

On my return commute is long slow descent to some traffic lights. Slow for cars that is but not bikes, I regularly get stuff thrown at me and abuse hurled, normally this would wind me up but on this road I actively look forward to the meeting we will have, in the traffic queue, before the lights. It can be 5 minutes or so after they have passed me but the traffic is so bad I catch them up easily. Had some great times at those traffic lights.

Last week one bugger (passenger/hot hatch) hurled abuse at me whilst squeezing past me at a traffic island. No problem I thought, we will meet again, soon. But, the traffic was not as bad as normal, I saw him, he saw me, he was desperate to get through the lights, and he did................bugger! But, if I really pushed on I might catch him at the next lights, maybe 500m forward. So, I went for it, I saw him, he saw me and again he was desperate to get through the lights.......and he did. By now as I was going the wrong way but thought I might have slim chance of getting him at the roundabout mabye 1km forwards, so I went for it, I caught him up, he saw me and recklessly forced his way through and away he went................ giving me the finger.

I was gutted, I am 50 next.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Sounds like you scared the shoot out of him. Good for you mate.

On my return commute is long slow descent to some traffic lights. Slow for cars that is but not bikes, I regularly get stuff thrown at me and abuse hurled, normally this would wind me up but on this road I actively look forward to the meeting we will have, in the traffic queue, before the lights. It can be 5 minutes or so after they have passed me but the traffic is so bad I catch them up easily. Had some great times at those traffic lights.

Last week one bugger (passenger/hot hatch) hurled abuse at me whilst squeezing past me at a traffic island. No problem I thought, we will meet again, soon. But, the traffic was not as bad as normal, I saw him, he saw me, he was desperate to get through the lights, and he did................bugger! But, if I really pushed on I might catch him at the next lights, maybe 500m forward. So, I went for it, I saw him, he saw me and again he was desperate to get through the lights.......and he did. By now as I was going the wrong way but thought I might have slim chance of getting him at the roundabout mabye 1km forwards, so I went for it, I caught him up, he saw me and recklessly forced his way through and away he went................ giving me the finger.

I was gutted, I am 50 next.

 

[mog35]

I can't remember the last time anyone yelled at me from a car while I was cycling, passenger or otherwise.

It's happened a couple of times while walking down the street - some idiot trying to impress his (for it usually is a 'he', in my experience) equally boorish friends with his rapier wit.

I'm never tempted to give chase or shout anything back as I'd rather their pathetic, childish existence doesn't overlap with mine for a second longer than necessary.

I will confess to occasionally mentally enacting scenarios in which I'm using a plank of wood to exorcise the crass stupidity out of people like this.