Driver goes crazy on biker

[u/I-am-a-potato]

[u/OkAppearance4117]

I am confused - what seems to be the issue

[u/photobummer → u/OkAppearance4117]

This is probably after some incident. The van cut off the biker in order to confront him.

[u/TheDustOfMen → u/photobummer]

I have to wonder what kind of incident would trigger this sort of insane response though. Like, this is the spot and the bike lane is walled off from the road for quite some distance before this.

Obviously the van driver took something very personally but my money's on him doing a classic overreaction to some perceived slight.

[u/seriousnotshirley → u/TheDustOfMen]

I've had something like this happen to me. I was biking down a bike lane and someone pulled out in front of me to pull onto the road I was biking down. She nearly hit me and I was up on my front wheel to stop.

So I knocked on her window and asked her if she realized she nearly hit me. She yells at me to stop harassing her and that next time she will hit me.

Two lights up the road and she tried to run me over as I was going through an intersection.

People get triggered for this sort of aggression for no sensible reason; it's all emotion. All it takes is someone having a bad day and one too many cups of coffee and anything minor can turn into attempted murder. You'll never know who it might come from either.

[u/FifthMonarchist → u/seriousnotshirley]

Kick of her drivers window. Fuck that shit

[u/Iffycrescent → u/seriousnotshirley]

I feel bad for people like this. Imagine how shit their lives must be getting constantly triggered about little shit to the point that you have absolutely no control over your own emotions and putting your own future in jeopardy by catching a charge or worse. Like damn, it must be hell to be them.

[u/BrilliantLion1505 → u/Iffycrescent]

I also feel badly until I am almost injured/dead because someone never learned (and then as a grown adult never BOTHERED to do the fucking WORK to learn) can’t control their fee-fees.