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On Jun 6, 9:19=A0pm, Dervin  wrote: > Whilst I was cycling some kids in a suped up corsa pulled next to me and > one of them started soaking me with water. They then drove off and 10 > yards down the road stopped at red lights.

Idiots. No need for it.

> I was about to catch up with them but I figured anything I did might end > up with me being in trouble. So I just carried on.

Through the red light?

> I ended up turning round and going to the police station and tell. I got > the usual bollocks that I know won't get followed up. She even said she > would get an officer to look into it and give them a talking to. But get > this, she took no details and went back to her chair. I offered details > and she wrote them down but I've got a good idea where they'll be filed.

Not good. But it's probably because they get militant loony twats like Spindrift coming in and making stuff up about motorists just because they don't like them. Not for the first time, the militants make life much more difficult for their fellow cyclists (as well as other road users).

> What would anyone else do in this situation. He even had his window rolled=

> down and I could have reached in and smacked him one.

Clearly they were arseholes. But all I can say is that I've never had water squirted at me (or anything like that) while walking or driving. Those militant cyclists who are continually self-righteous twats towards motorists, and spitefully campaign for anti-motorist measures, spoil it for the decent majority of cyclists. The above incident is just one unfortunate result of the "us and them" divide that the militants have carefully created between cyclists and motorists. The media's attitude towards cyclists and terms like "lycra lout" didn't just come out of nowhere, despite what some may say. Decent cyclists who encounter militants on the road and on the net should leave the militants in no doubt what they think of them, if they don't want to keep being tarred with the same brush.