A Rude Cyclist Accused Him Of Trying To Steal His Bike — Right There On The Street
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I might catch some grief for this, but I’m gonna go ahead and say it anyway…
Some, not all, bicyclists really get on my nerves.
There, I said it!
And this story only backs up my claim about SOME of them being total jerks.
Check out what happened when a cyclist got aggressive with a guy who was just standing on the street and minding his own business.
Go ahead and get started now!
No, I wasn’t trying to steal your bike.
“On the way to college, I stopped in the street to take a call from a place where I had been interviewed the day before.
I was chatting away (yay, got the job) about the start day (I had to delay until later next week to get a couple of things done) when an angry guy in lycra walks up to me and shoves me (not hard, but it was quite a shock, so I stepped back).
I am trying not to sound crazy on the phone to my new boss and shaking my head at lycra guy.
What the hell was this all about…?
He’s smaller than me, yellow and black lycra, helmet that makes his head look like an alien from Aliens.
Smooth, elongated.
I am trying to wave at this guy, but he’s shouting at me. Just behind me is a street light with a bike leaning against it. He pushes me out of the way and I’m still on the phone, trying to end the call without sounding mental.
For a moment, I figured that I had accidentally leaned against his bike, but no, I am at least a foot away.
Lycra guy is shouting now – this actually saves me – I tell my new boss that there is too much noise and I will call him later – he hears the rumpus and agrees, so I hang up.
Jeez, talk about being aggressive!
‘What the hell is wrong with you?’ Lycra Guy now shouts
‘What the hell – why are you pushing me?’
‘You tried to steal my bike’.
I am struggling to explain that I was on the phone and WHY would I take a call if I was in the middle of a theft?
‘Where’s the lock?’ This is now what he is fixated on, because apparently it cost a couple of hundred bucks.
Lycra Guy is now calling the police.
I would have walked away but I didn’t want to get into trouble for trying to evade the 5-0 (it does not help that I am black and he is white).
This guy was WAY out of line.
So, I am still trying to explain and we wait. He’s standing close, like I will run. I keep asking him where my tools are, where I’ve thrown this lock that he think I’ve broken. I tell him I was talking to my new boss.
Nothing.
A couple of minutes later, he unshoulders his rucksack and goes into for something – and finds his stupid lock.
He pulls it out. We look at the bike without a lock. We look at the lock. Then back to the bike.
He just gets onto the bike, tells me to move out of the way and rides off.
Not a word of anything.”
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Now it’s time to see what readers had to say about this.
This person weighed in.
Another individual spoke up.
This Reddit user shared their thoughts.
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And another person didn’t hold back.
No doubt about it, this guy was a complete idiot.
And he didn’t even have the courtesy to apologize after he knew he screwed up.
Good grief!
This guy gives bicyclists a bad name!
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