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@Pistanator
*Could've *been killed by a mentalist today
Cycling up to Brick Lane from South London, going up Southwark Rd, get to the crossroads at the tube stn. Red lights, I slow down, have a quick look as you do, cars all waiting at the lights so I slowly cycle through - naughty, but we've all done it.
As I'm just getting to the otherside of the crossroads the lights change and cue some cock to my left slamming down on the accelarator and actually steering towards me. I steer myself over to the middle of the road and over towards the traffic island in the middle to avoid him - I carry on through(just!) and give him the 'wanker' sign
NEXT I hear 'You fucking WANKERRRR!'(his windows were down) and then he quickly tried to do a U-turn in the road to come round and chase me. Check this...
He only loses control cos he was going so quick and smashes into the railings at the side of the road, smashing up the whole front wing, bumper, headlights etc...
I was long gone but put the foot down and cut through the back of Borough Market to get away....going like the clappers, skidding all over the place to get away
I didn't wanna hang around and see if he was alright as he was clearly insane and they would have beat the shit out of me(3 of them in the car - south London skinhead, chav types - probably English, not Irish! ;-))
I was pretty shook up so I sat down the river for a bit then cycled back home - via Westminster, Vauxhall, Stockwell just to be safe, well out of the way