Another goody along the same lines.
I'm heading down a tree-studded road in Ponsonby. Behind is some old guy in a shapeless white cage. He's a reasonable distance behind, but the spider shook my web a bit. I dunno what it was, but he just made me feel 'cautious'.
So I slowed right down to about 30K's as I approached the Stop sign.
Fuck me, the silly old goat ran into me. His bumper hit my tyre. No damage.
But he must have seen my large shoulders hunch and my helmeted head turn toward him.
In that moment he panicked, slammed the old cage into reverse and floored it. What he didn't see was the Korean (50-something) in the Audi now right behind.
Yup. He reversed straight into her flash front-gear. She was out of the car and bashing on his roof, screaming in Korean (I know this to be because I speak a little of the language) like a demented banshee.
So now this poor old fuck has got this huge bloke getting off his motorcycle and looking menacing, and the Korean woman doing the tap-dance from hell on his roof. And he does what any totally panicked soul might do.
He slams his elderly cage into 'go' steps on the gas, has a shot at getting past me and my bike, misses, rides up over the kerb and slams his cage into one seriously elderly, and very solid Oak tree.
Mercifully, he was unhurt, but by the time he'd figured that out the Korean was on his case again. She was bashing on his roof while screaming into a cell-phone...to guess who. I suspect he might have preferred death to the threat thereof.
Like fat Max. I figured simply toddling off was the go.
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