I happened upon this YouTube video that I’m still shocked by:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3w1QfV35I
From what I could gather, this person was upset over getting pulled over for speeding. The police officer is doing his best to be polite and suggest that the person can take up their concerns with either the chief of police or a judge, the appropriate course of action. Instead of accepting this, they appear to purposfully back up into the police car. I assume this is the case, given how fast they accelerate in a short distance and that the police officer can be heard, repeatedly, telling the person to turn off their car.
Is it just me or is this truly frightening? This person clearly doesn’t care about the authority of the police, how would they interact with a cyclist? I’m not saying that this is your average driver and we have no clue what ocurred before this incident, but still, the simple fact remains that they drove up onto the hood of a police car! Had this been a cyclists the motorist was angry with, they would probably be dead.
I’ve had plenty of close calls with motorists who clearly seem angry with cyclists for their mere existence on the roadways. I have always calmed myself down after one of these encounters by telling myself that regardless of how the motorists talk, when it actually came time to act, they would place value on another person’s life and stop themselves. I’ll continue to do tell myself this, but a video like this sure does make you wonder…