[samtheman]

Good for you. But overly daring. He could easily have decided to kill you and you could have done nothing.

[ShadowDancer]

Were you riding to the right of the white line or to the left of it? I'm assuming by cycle commuting you mean you were on a road bike and not a motorcycle, yes?

[operation clinton cleanup]

No offense, but your pictures shows him clearly in the lane of traffic. The bike lane, if that is one seems to be unplowed. And that looks more like a minivan than SUV.

[steveo]

When was the last time you stopped at stop sign while on your bike?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I don't understand why people buy their children toys and tell them to go play in traffic.

[Salamander]

Glad you're alive.
Isn't that some kind of "soccer mom" type of mini-van?

[edpc]

You should lend the police your camera. I'd like to see the look on his mug when they arrive and question him about the incident.

[sionnsar]

What's the device? If I ever get back to a place where cycle-commuting is feasible again, I'm going to want one (or two) of those.

Mind you, the area here (Redmond WA) is pretty cyclist-friendly, outside of the newbie driver punks.

[don-o]

Well done. What is up with stuck on stupid and angry people in automobiles? It is everywhere. I leave my home as little as possible these days.

[Boundless]

By posting the pics with a legible plate number,
accompanied by the allegation, you could be
subjecting yourself to unnecessary litigation
by the perp.

PhotoShop it now. Blur the numbers.

[Fintan]

"Why didn't you use the other f'n lane?!"

 

How do you pronounce "f'n"?

 

[aligncare]

It's true that even normally calm individuals can "lose it" behind the wheel over the smallest of provocations.

[vigilante2]

I call them "reckless drivers"

[John Jorsett]

Reminds me of the time I was on a surface street in my car. Traffic was backed up solid and we were stopped. A number of us were about 50 feet from making a right-hand turn onto another street, so we pulled over onto the shoulder to bypass the stopped cars. Some guy decides we're cheating or something and pulls out to the right a bit to block me. I thought he was another right-turner so I waited a bit. When he did nothing more, I just pulled out even further and snuck on by him, which really set him off. When I passed, he started shouting and shaking his fist. I paused there for a second and then said to the young lady he had sitting in the passenger seat, "You can do a lot better than him, miss." He didn't take it well. My fond hope is that it planted a seed in the young woman's thoughts and she ended up finding a less volatile boyfriend than that loser. Snicker.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I had a couple freak out on me in a parking lot last week. We were both in cars and came to a three-way stop in a busy shopping center lot. I was there first, so I went first and parked. The overweight couple in the car disagreed, and pulled up next to me as I was getting out of my car. They were were screaming curses and giving me the finger, but I just laughed at them. Just looking at the guy, I was pretty sure I could kick his a** if it came to it.

[rlmorel]

You always on the lookout for this kind of thing with a camera?

[Experiment 6-2-6]

so obviously I was where the passenger side tire tracks

You were in the middle of the road..

You dialed 911 for this?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Is that Wilbraham Road?

[BraveMan]

It's the Yuletide season. It brings out the best in people. Take comfort in the knowledge said dirtball is stuck driving a MINIVAN.

The bigger the vehicle, the greater the sense of road 'entitlement' on the part of the driver.

Choose your battles wisely, Grasshopper . . .

[Doohickey]

I'd be pretty pissed off too if I had to drive a minivan. You think that Ithycus was already there when he bought it?