What's your thought?

[TDunc]

Standby for rant!

 

Sat night - 9:PM - driving on a two lane road with center lines - going from a portion with street light to no street lights when out of the bushes along side the road jumps a man (and I use that term loosely right now).

I swerve to miss him as my first thought was he was trying to know me off the bike as something fun to do on Sat night. I gathered the bike up, after missing the oncoming cars and pulled into the next road available to get my cell phone and call 911. Yes I was angry. The idiot could have caused me to go down or hit another car head on.

As I sat there I could see him with the back light of the street lights right at the edge of the bushes again. This time he runs out in front of a car. Obviously a game of chicken for him. That car looses it and spins around but no harm. The driver of this car continued until she saw me and pulled over. 17 year old girls scared out of her mind.

She decides to go back home and talk with her dad. As I look back up two cars are coming and the first one goes left, misses, second one goes right but makes contact tearing his mirror and door hand off the drivers side.

All of us ended up sitting on the next side street for the police to show up.

While waiting (took over 20 mins) we saw the man go wobbling back up the road from the direction we had all come. I went to keep and eye on him until LEO's showed up.

He staggered approx a mile and 1/4 before the police showed up. (another 15 min wait)

The officer put him in his car, talked with some obvious friends and released him into their custody saying, "he just needs to sleep it off."

 

Here is the bother..... I could have hit another car head on and been messed up or worse, That 17 yr old girl could have totally lost control and hit a pole or another car, and the three other cars involved could have had similar problems. The officer kinda laughed at the guy with the busted mirror and told him he would have to pay the deductible anyway. What is up with this picture.

If I would have been in my suburban, I probably would have hit and killed him and where would I be today???

Am I over reacting or is this picture messed up?

Edited May 26, 2010 by TDunc

[Yammer Dan]

Take car back and let him try again!!

[TDunc]

Take car back and let him try again!!

 

 

I thought about it. I did make a comment kinda like that to the LEO and that is when he started getting serious. I just got on the bike and left.....

 

Oh did I mention I am playing golf with his sargent in a tourney on the 21st....

"te he he":dancefool:

[SilvrT]

you're not overreacting but punishment is not doled out on probablilities or possibilities and it's a good thing too otherwise some of us would never get out of jail LOL

 

Yesterday while heading home from a day ride (on a 2-laner) I'm following a jacked-up 4x4 with a couple guys in it and they're passing ppl whenever they can and weaving side to side. After a bit, they're about 4 vehicles ahead and all of a sudden, they whip over onto the gravelled shoulder and start passing. Dirt and dust flying everywhere. I thought surely there'd be a major accident ahead of me coz it was a busy highway in both directions but nope... eventually the 2-lane turned into 4 and let me tell ya, I was having trouble catching up to them coz Nina wanted to get the lic. number and call it in. As it turns out, a guy in a car that they cut in front of (after their gravel-shoulder passing act) was calling in their lic number.

 

Ya think they'll get anything more than a jaw-wagging??? not likely.

[Sunrayman]

Your story reminds me of a time when I was about 18 years old. I borrowed a friends dirt bike. A new Yamaha 100 I believe. I wasn't very familiar with dirt bikes, so I was cautious to say the least. I was riding on trails that people had made near a Country Club parking lot. In the woods. Well, some idiot got the notion to hide behind a big tree, and just as I was going by, stick his arm out.

 

That barely touched my neck as I went by, but I lost control and slid on the mud.

 

Jumped up, brushed myself off, and ran over and got that guy in a headlock, and bull wrestled him to the ground, and gave him so many knucklehead shots on his skull, when I let him up, the swelling began, and he looked like one of the Simpsons!!!

 

My friend stood there laughing at the idiot who was asking me why I did that.

 

I don't believe ever did that again...

[TDunc]

you're not overreacting but punishment is not doled out on probablilities or possibilities and it's a good thing too otherwise some of us would never get out of jail LOL .

 

 

I just figured that since he did cause damage he would at least have to spend some time sobbering up downtown.

[jfoster]

I don't think you over-reacted...I would been ill. You personally saw him delibirately try to cause a crash. I have a hard time with them letting him go after he caused a crash.

 

Unsat..

[LilBeaver]

I don't think you over-reacted...I would been ill. You personally saw him delibirately try to cause a crash. I have a hard time with them letting him go after he caused a crash.

 

Unsat..

 

Not looking to stir things up, but, we don't know the whole story. Yes what was happening could have had some horrendous results. For all we know the guy could have been suicidal, high on something, drunk off his rumpus, or maybe he is mentally ill/handicapped and confused. Lots of unknowns.

 

I do not think you over-reacted at all. I probably would have done the same thing, except for making comments to the LEO (some experience in that field as well as knowing that I may have been a little ticked off too - I hope that I would be smart enough to keep my mouth shut at that time).

 

All in all, I'm glad no one was hurt and that you cared enough to do the right thing and call 911. Regardless of the individual's mental capacities in general or at the moment, he obviously needed help.