I threw someones keys away once when having an altercation with a car driver when riding my motorbike.
Many years ago I was riding Mrs PPs DT125 with her L plates on. I’d already passed my test a couple of years earlier. I filtered between two rows of traffic nearly to the front where there was a van stopping me getting to the lights. I pulled in just behind it, between it and a car behind it, just to the right of the white lines, and waited patiently. Or so I thought.
Our lane turned right and the bloke in this car (a Passat estate, I remember it well) started to try and force me out of the way rather than let me slot in behind the van. Gestures were exchanged. As we entered the road we were all turning into he was trying to force me into the kerb. My left hand was over the kerb, my right hand over his headlight, quite literally. I couldn’t get in front of him. Realising I was running out of options I slowed a tad and gave myself enough room to stamp as hard as I could on his wing. I damaged it quite well. I was well above him on a trail bike, remember.
THEN he backed off. I braked and as he came past me I saw the look of shock in him and his wifes faces as I drew level, I made my exit stage left.
He really was trying to have me off the bike, no doubt about it. I can only assume that the scabby DT and the L plates made him think I was a young kid who he could bully out of his way. Wrong.
I’m not proud of it, it happened, and as far as I’m concerned it was self defence.
It’s the only such incident I’ve ever had in the whole 17-ish years I’ve been riding motorbikes. I’ve done exactly the same manoeuvre time and time again, every day I ride virtually, with no issue at all. What possessed this bloke to do that is still beyond me.
EDIT
My only regret is not ripping his wing mirror off and throwing it through the window, to be honest….