[Closed] "I was here before YOU!!" (Zebra crossing content)

"What are you doing taking up the whole road so I can't overtake" as I was riding towards middle of road ahead of a blind corner to stop drivers thinking about overtaking.

“Get on the cycle path”, when the nearest one was some two miles away...

Next time (and there will be) take a pic of the offence (stopping on the crossing) and submit it to the taxi licensing people.

Professional driver, my arse.

Weirdest I have had was 'sorry mate, didn't see you, are you ok' car drivers eh!!

Aye, wish I'd got a pic of him. All happened too quick though and I think if I'd got my phone out it would have pushed him over the edge!

You sir, have a talented arse! 🤯

"get on the cycle path"
Hmmm...

He’s not wrong though is he? He was there before you. #Hepayshisroadtax #professionaldriver

I've had some proper loons have a go at me when I've been out cycling.

Middle-aged women with anger-management issues in tiny cars are best avoided.

They then go and demand that I stop for them, bright red with rage. Like I'm going to go anywhere near some nutjob in "control" of a tonne of steel and an internal combustion engine.

Ha! Aye - his statement was factually accurate when you put it like that. Thing is, I assume he was just about to join the MASSIVE taxi rank queue round the corner of other taxis so nothing really to gain by being one car length ahead (not that there normally is in other scenarios mind)

So what is the weirdest thing someone in a car has shouted at you while they have been quite clearly in the wrong?

Ok, so I was in a car, but...

On a dual carriage way. Straight road. Cruise control set at 70, plenty of space behind and in front of me. White van gains on me and overtakes. Plenty of space all round. White van pulls back out into the fast lane and slows down, then hits the brakes and I fly right by. He tucks in behind me (at a reasonable distance) for a minute or two then pulls out to overtake again. Draws level with me and matches my speed while his passenger holds up a handwritten sigh that says ‘sorry for your shit car’!🙄🤔

My daughter still laughs about it!

you would have thought a trained professional cabbie would follow the road rules and be a good respectful driver. He should have had left the crossing clear.

Should have kicked his wing mirror off - he'll be off the road then for half a day awaiting repairs.

I was sat parked in a bright yellow ex-transit van, feet up, reading a paper, half dozing.

There was a loud 'woomph' and the van rocks a fair bit -  then an irate guy appears knocking at the driver's window. I shuffle across from the passenger seat to the drivers seat I'd had my feet up on - wind down the window and he yells

"Why don't you watch where you're going!"

Riding up a typical Victorian street. Parked cars on both sides so only wide enough for one car down the middle. Chap comes towards me at high speed round the corner (20mph limit). I'm about 1m from the parked cars on my side. Not enough room for him to pass so he slams to halt. As I squeeze by he shouts "Get on your side of the road”, which I'm already on and he is not.

OP you should have opened the door and climbed through

Should have kicked his wing mirror off – he’ll be off the road then for half a day awaiting repairs.

That’s similar to what I did only it was the rear lights. It was either that or beat the shit out of the guy. The worst part is I felt bad about it afterwards. Some guy try’s to run me over and I feel bad. Ended up calling the police and telling them what happened.

‘sorry for your shit car’!🙄🤔

Well, was it?

Riding along and a van pulled alongside me then started to move back (so close to me that I was banging on the side) and proceeded to force me off the road (I had to ride down someone’s drive). 200 metres later he turned left into a pub car park where I confronted him. His reasoning ‘you were in my way’. With hindsight I would have done differently what happened next.

I was driving to the park a few weeks ago and parked cars were on other side of the road leaving enough room for a single car to pass. Car coming the opposite way decided not to yield to my right of way and continued on my side of the road forcing me to stop. She wound her window down and screamed 'slow down', which surprised me I have to say.

Pretty much every day I see folk parked or stopped on crossing zigzags, boils my urine

"get on the inside lane"

Erm.. no, I want to turn right.

"I ride a bike as well, I always get in the inside lane"

Do you luv..

I was riding on a country road one evening when a car passed and the gentleman in the passenger seat opens the window and yells "**** her right in the p***y". I'd never thought of my bike as being female (or male for that matter) but he obviously knew best.

Similar to bikebouy's - bloke actually u-turns to come back and have a go at me cos I said something as he came flying round the blind bend, which my road is a turning off. "You were in the middle of the ****ing road" - yeah I was turning right. Twonk. Big baby thought himself hard cos a mid50s bloke wouldn't fight him in the middle of the street. Sometimes it'd be nice to have a gun, have a little purge.

Nottingham City Transport - professional bus driver - shouting at me that I shouldn't have stepped onto the pedestrian cross as he was already within the zig-zag markings! This was on a Saturday near the busy market square. It's not like he was going anywhere in a hurry!

I love the ones who are in such a rush to get somewhere they get upset you slowed them down, but then have plenty of time to stop or even turn around to argue with you. I had a white van driver tell me I should be on the cycle path when there wasn't one. He came after me to argue his point. I told him to re-read the highway code. He told me I needed a smack in the mouth. I told him he needed a better education. Unless he was Mister Tickle he was never going to smack me in the mouth whilst sitting in is van so I rode off to leave him frothing to himself.

Horse rider on a bridleway went apoplectic at me for riding on the bridleway, berating me for not riding on the nearby footpath instead.

Later that ride saw a porn shoot in the middle of the woods.

Strange ride that was.

I hope the porn shoot did not involve the horse.

While walking along a wide footpath a woman in a BMW drove towards me on the path. She drove right up to my legs, I started to walk around her working out what I was going to say to her. I reached her window, before I could say anything she shouted "YES! I KNOW IT'S A FOOTPATH!" and drove off...

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you would have thought a trained professional cabbie would follow the road rules and be a good respectful driver. He should have had left the crossing clear.

Jumped in a taxi a couple of weeks ago from the rank at Piccadilly station in Manchester. 2 mins into the journey the cabbie lights up a cigarette! Bizarre - didn't say a word to me or ask if it was ok (it wasn't!). Felt like I'd gone back to the 70s! He put it out when challenged but I couldn't believe he thought it was a good idea - he'd probably just sat in the rank for 20 mins and could have easily had a fag then.

Reported him afterwards and felt a bit bad about how seriously the taxi licensing folk took it, until they told me he had been warned several times previously about the same thing.

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Something about they’re being a system for the airline, I asked in the garage about the system but they didn’t know either. They did mention there’s a guy goes around shouting randomly at people while his wife looks on apologising for him.

A lass shouted at me for hitting her with my van and she was going to sue
I pointed out that she'd left a face mark in the passenger window and the bus driver,.of the bus she'd just got off, had watched her run into the side of my van.

Later that ride saw a porn shoot in the middle of the woods.

Are you allowed to stop and walk over for a good look? Is that good manner? I mean are you allowed to do so?

stood waiting to cross a very busy road but a shopping area...am off pavement stood in front of a line of parked cars...driver gets into first car in line...think nothing of it until get knee bending knock to lower leg and guy is shouting out of car window "you're in the way"

one of a handful of times I've really lost it

Are you allowed to stop and walk over for a good look? Is that good manner? I mean are you allowed to do so?

I think joining in is encouraged, at least in the ones I've seen.

Unless the "strangers" are actually in on it...

So what is the weirdest thing someone in a car has shouted at you while they have been quite clearly in the wrong?

Very similar actually. In car. Crossroad junction in town. Waited on red. Go straight ahead as lights change green. Utter divvy facing me begins turning right, and rather than waiting decides that ‘right’ for him = right through our car. He pulls up sharp by my wing, narrowly avoiding hitting us and glares. My (driver) window is open I gesticulate ‘what the f are you doing? He ruefully shouts ‘IT WAS GREEN FOR ME TOO!’

The usual reason people shout at you is because they know they're in the wrong but believe they should never admit it. It's as if they think them shouting their version at you make it true. Like politicians saying "It's very clear that the British people voted decisively for Brexit"

Driving towards road works where a dual carriage way was going down to one lane and literally at the point in which it becomes one lane a woman in a car drives into the side of me - she had been in the lane which was closing, she then berates me calling me a "stupid little boy" - I told her maybe she ought to go to specsavers - I was 39 at the time.

Driving towards road works where a dual carriage way was going down to one lane and literally at the point in which it becomes one lane a woman in a car drives into the side of me – she had been in the lane which was closing, she then berates me calling me a “stupid little boy” – I told her maybe she ought to go to specsavers – I was 39 at the time.

Were you allowing each lane to merge alternately, like adults, or was one of you being an arse/ stupid little boy about it

I was driving down a country road and someone coming the other way stopped wound down the window and said
"are you going that way because you want to? "

on a bike coming up to a bit where there's a central crossing refuge, I move out to primary (after a lifesaver and in plenty of time) to dissuade overtaking. The van behind doesn't make any attempt to moderate his speed right until he's all lights and horn about a foot off my rear tyre. I may have thrown a hand up as if to say WTF, but this enrages him more and he overtakes and pulls over just up the road. (At this point my manoeuvre has probably cost him about 3s but as noted before, that's as nothing when there's chance to waste a good 2 minutes shouting at a cyclist instead)

His rationale was that if I'd stayed close to the kerb 'I COULD HAVE FIN SQUEEZED THROUGH THAT FIN GAP' In 2.5T of 50mph metal.

I didn't see that logic was going to win against that sort of reasoning......

I was riding for the 2nd exit of a large roundabout that was the perfect width for a car and bike to ride safely side by side but too wide to try and 'take the lane'. A car overtook me and then started to leave at the first exit. I was by his rear door and my mate ahead was level with his front wing. I shouted and then realising he was going to just push me out of the way and run over my mate I booted the rear door of the car which had the desired effect of him slamming on the brakes and jumping out. A short screaming match commenced where he told us that we should be indicating (to go straight ahead) which meant he was entitled to force his way through or over us. At the point I kicked his car he was fully intending to drive over the back of the bike ahead, in hindsight we should have probably called the police. I left the scene calling my buddy to follow before it got physical, but the saddest thing was the rest of the group were waiting ahead and it didn't help the nerves of someone doing their first road ride. I also noted that on that 100 mile ride the roundabout incident resulted in a higher heart rate than all the big climbs!

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I love the ones who sit at a junction, watch you approaching then pull out ever-so-slowly so they will definitely hit you, while still watching you ride towards the driver's door. That's real nice that is. Love a twitchy-bum moment. Best way to start a day. Said no-one ever.

Something about they’re being a system for the airline, I asked in the garage about the system but they didn’t know either. They did mention there’s a guy goes around shouting randomly at people while his wife looks on apologising for him.

Got one of these near work but he randomly shouts ‘stop thief’ a lot.

No one seems to have actually answered this yet, but anyway. Rule 192 in the Highway Code states you, should leave a crossing clear in queuing traffic. So whilst Mr Taxi man was being a nob , there are no legal requirement wording in the HC that rendered nob heads actions to be an offence so technically not in the wrong.

Also common misconception, the "Highway Code"is legally binding when the phrase includes "Must/Must NOT", disobeying the rules in this instances will get you fined and points on license.

edited for shocking spelling

"look where you're ****ing going next time"

Shouted from the window of a car as he overtook me, his comment being because I had pulled out to ride around a very large pothole (I'm sure there was lava in the bottom it was that big).

I was perplexed as surely by pulling out to not ride through the hole I was demonstrating that I had been looking where I was going, if I hadn't I'd have plunged head first to my fiery death.

On the other hand if he had been looking where he was going he would have seen the cyclist in front of him, and maybe the impending pothole too if he'd been properly observant, and given adequate room when overtaking instead of squeezing past.

I'm not ashamed to say I had a smirk on my face when he then had to slam on the brakes to avoid going into the back of the queue of traffic he'd not noticed due to berating me.

I love the ones who sit at a junction, watch you approaching then pull out ever-so-slowly so they will definitely hit you, while still watching you ride towards the driver’s door.

We need to go oldschool and carry a big pointy lance, might make them rethink the merits of that approach to pulling out.

No one seems to have actually answered this yet, but anyway. Rule 192 in the Highway Code states you, should leave a crossing clear in queuing traffic. So whilst Mr Taxi man was being a nob , there are no legal requirement 

I was, if you drive in traffic enough you'll end up over a crossing sooner or later. But you know STW it's completely black and white for some posters 😂. Driver was a Knob though, I just sit there looking embarrassed 😳😳

Were you allowing each lane to merge alternately, like adults, or was one of you being an arse/ stupid little boy about it

Bingo. thanks for playing judgement bingo 🤦‍♂️

I love the ones who sit at a junction, watch you approaching then pull out ever-so-slowly so they will definitely hit you, while still watching you ride towards the driver’s door.

I have been known to scream at them while either pulling a stoppie or a big skid so I looks like I am about to go thru the drivers window. Nice to see them shit themselves

Were you allowing each lane to merge alternately, like adults, or was one of you being an arse/ stupid little boy about it

Lately, on two occasions, I’ve seen cars in the outside lane approaching a closed lane swerve into the middle lane just before hitting the cones.

There was nothing in the two lanes inside them at the time.

I’ve also had someone almost hit my rear bumper because they tried to overtake me as the cones started.

Merge alternately? Those drivers can’t spell ‘alternately’ never mind do it.

I was, if you drive in traffic enough you’ll end up over a crossing sooner or later. But you know STW it’s completely black and white for some posters

Tends to be. That's how you know it's a crossing. 🙂

Sometimes it’d be nice to have a gun, have a little purge.

When I inevitably assume my rightful place in a position of ultimate power over the country (at least), I'll make it illegal for cyclists and pedestrians not to be armed. I reckon the driving would improve dramatically, even if you filled them with blanks and just didn't tell anyone.

if you drive in traffic enough you’ll end up over a crossing sooner or later.

Only if you're not paying attention, or don't give a shit. How hard is this concept?

"don't go forward until there's space for your vehicle on the other side"

Same with yellow boxes, it's not hard to do it right.

This was a few years ago, which will become evident towards the end.

Waiting to turn into a car park but there was someone reversing out of a space next to the entrance, road i'm on goes round the back of the parade of shops. Woman behind me in a mini, on a mobile, peeping the horn and gesturing wildly.

I pull into the carpark and get out, she comes stomping round the corner. I said "y'alright?" she starts shouting at me, telling me I should have moved and resorted to calling me "fatty" - hilarious from a woman in her fifties to be using the word "fatty". I point out that it's an offence to drive while using her mobile, she points out that it was an important call and for my information, her mum had just died.......then she stomped off into the Video rental shop.

I advised her to watch Caddyshack if she needed cheering up, then used a swear.

I honestly believe you should be able to use the "a**ehole" defense and be allowed to kick off their wing mirrors in these situations

Any sensible country would encourage people out of cars and onto bikes.

I was recently on holiday in Seville. The cycling network there is incredible.

In the centre of the city, the thing you hear is the nurnur of people talking, rather than the noise of cars driving past. It's incredible, a real pleasure.

A bit of a similar one to the OP. Except I was the one driving the car. In Tescos car park. Hands up! Mea Culpa! I was concentrating too hard on the car in front, following the queue of traffic to get out I inadvertently ended up stopping over a raised pedestrian crossing in the car park.

Cue some old fella and his Mrs with their trolley who I'd stopped from crossing (they could have gone in front or back). Banging on my car windows, gesticulating. I wound the window down. Asked what the problem was. Cue a barrage of abuse. I managed to keep my cool, admitted my mistake, apologised for inadvertently holding them up for a couple of seconds cue another barrage of abuse. I just pointed out to them life was a bit too short to get wound up like this about the little things and wound the window back up.

I did begin to get a bit angry as Freester JR was probably 2 years old and a bit frightened by it all.

Tends to be. That’s how you know it’s a crossing. 🙂

Well played. *polite applause*

I've had a woman in an Evoque close pass me with a phone in her hand. She stopped at lights just up the road and as I filtered past I said "put the phone down". She started screaming back that it was on bluetooth so it was okay, even though it was in her hand while she typed out a text/email.

Another driver who literally barged me off the road and onto a grass verge with the side of her Qashqai because she'd got halfway through an overtake then realised that she wanted to turn left at the rapidly approaching T-junction. "I've got as much right to the road as you, y'know" she told me.