Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Spitting at you is assault, no? And there are cameras in buses.

Spitting [at you] is indeed considered assault and the Met will follow up on a complaint... However, whilst provoked, you did call him a prick. Legally you're "in the right", but morally you got what you asked for. Let it go.

No mention of it being a bus driver.

Spitting at someone might be assault, but unless you're actually spat on I really don't see the point bothering with any sort of complaint. It's never gonna get anywhere without witnesses anyway.

^^slight issue with "morally you got what you asked for", but yeah, that's all pretty much what I was thinking. Cheers guys.

P.S. not a bus - was a Smart car, if you can believe it... WAC

" ...morally you got what you asked for. Let it go."

Didn't come across right, obviously you don't deserve being spat at, despite the fact that you might have provoked such a reaction. Spitting on someone is downright disgusting no matter what the circumstances.

That said, If I was in your shoes, my feet* would most likely hurt, and I'd probably let it go.

*Size 13

6... so definitely ;)

It's assault, I don't agree that calling him a prick makes it justifiable.

I'd recomend keeping the spit in a tissue and then contacting the police... I think if the police drop it, it is something you am pursue yourself? (Which means threatening to take the company to court and then probably setteling out of court for slightly less than the company expects to pay fighting the case)

"It's assault, I don't agree that calling him a prick makes it justifiable..."

Nor do I, in case I didn't make that clear.

I'd recomend keeping the spit in a tissue and then contacting the police...

I absolutely should have Lewinsky'd my jacket but the revulsion was far too much for me to bear.

Cycling back on my commute today I turned left into my road (or at least the road that turns into my road) which is quite narrow with park cars either side. A car turns in beside me and as soon as the road narrowed slightly he blasted close past me accelerating to 50mph odd (one of those overpowered Audi estates), I actually sped up because the road doesn't go anywhere and I wondered where this idiot lived, and lo about 300 yards on he braked and turned into a driveway. I couldn't believe he had driven so fast down a residential narrow street at 6.30 so I had a woird when I went past, just saying 'that was a bit fast wasn't it' and his response was 'well you should have indicated you tithead' so I told him he was a dickhead for driving 50mph down such a narrow street and cycled on.

Yes I probably didn;t signal I was turning left, from the left hand side of the road, and yes he was briefly delayed behind when the road narrowed with the parked cars, but I can't fathom why your reaction to that is to accelerate as hard as you can on the street you live on and endanger lives. It was dark at the time, but in the summer months there are kids everywhere. The houses front onto the pavement, there are parked cars down the length of it, a kid could have easily popped out and got flattened.

I really want to discuss with him why he reacted the way he did, because I was shocked by his dangerous driving in such a narrow, residential area. A cyclist failing to indicate he's turning left is not a reason to go all Death Race 2000.

Shit on his door step and arrange it to spell out "cunt".

I live around the corner and about another 400 yards up, it could descend into something worthy of an Channel 5 docu-drama presented by Dominic Littlewood. Hell maybe even an ITV docu-drama if we start fighting in our pants at 3am

Shit on his...... beaten to it.

Look I don't know what goes on in that London these days but here in the provinces we rarely resort to defecating on doorsteps.

I said rarely, not never

Neither of us are Londoners!

TREVOR, l APPLAUD YOU!

Same driver?

RJ03EVA Berkshire carpets - too close - YouTube

Neither of us are Londoners!

You're London to me

Wales and Manchester are pretty much cockney.

some joke in there somewhere about being new to "posts"on lfgss??

CS7 northbound over Southwark Bridge closed again this morning, meaning having to cycle in the narrow carriageway in primary position.

This bit is always awful to cycle, made more so by some twat in a huge Volvo lorry aggresively tailgating me and revving, then finally overtook me with about 12" between us, straddling both lanes without knowing what was on the other side of the bridge's peak.

And for what? to wait at the next set of lights. Confronted him, got his picture, and reported him to roadsafe. C*nt.

I once had a northbound car drift completely into the southbound lane on southwark bridge and pass me doing about 40 with only a 2 foot gap between his car and the concrete cycle lane divider for me to squeeze through, given there was no other traffic on the bridge at that point I can only assume it was intentional.

Got overtook by a JCB digger this morning, heard the engine, knew it was big, surprised when the digger blade came past on a narrow section of road, the huge tyres followed, felt like I could stretch out an elbow and get hit, barely a 6" gap it felt, seriously scary.

Arm waving, a sense of impotence to redress another injustice, a few profanities, adrenaline rush in vague hope of catching and remonstrating when traffic slowed, futile.

Another suck it up when made to feel seriously threatened, I just want to talk to these morons and find out how they justify the doucheness to themselves.

Yeah I said doucheness

They genuinely don't realise on the whole how lethal they are being or how intimidating it is. It's just a series of little computer game type challenges from door to destination and you're one of many little obstacles. Unless someone's a proper menace (and we know that some are), I find that a lot of the time if I get the chance to ask why someone's done something like that^ they're genuinely surprised that I'm pissed off or upset. Still annoying as fuck though.