Okay... The local Ford dealer is a little over a half mile from my house and I had to drop my van off for some work. And I did it without any gear... (before the debate starts, I do wear gear most of the time just not always on short trips like this.. just glasses and gloves)

My girlfriend was driving the van and following me (on the bike) to the dealership. I'm going down the street and I saw something in the air coming right at me... I couldn't tell what it was I just braced for the impact, I wasn't going risk any crazy moves or anything didn't really have time to do anything else.

It hit me right in the chest. I looked down on the tank noticed some bastard threw a fu&king McDonalds pickle out the window of their car! What kind of sick jack a$$ drives around throwing condiments out of thier car... needless to say I was looking into the cars next to me as I came up to the next light... Just looking for that burger eating bastard... It's a shame I didn't see them, I was totally planning on spitting in thier face...

Anybody else ever have anything like this happen?

having now had two (car) wrecks, both less than one mile from my front door, i find your "short trip" excuse misguided.

@ debating..

Anyway, I've not yet experienced anyone doing this to me. A friend of mine had someone throw pennys out the car window at him on his bike, and I've had countless people try to side swipe me..heh, but nooooo pickles yet!

if you live in a small city like me and had i been the one a pickle got thrown at and found the car, sh!t woulda hit the fan if it was not a kid (less than 10) eating a burger. And pennies!!! Oh man dont even get me started especially if it would chip my paint

I'm not the road rage type, I wouldn't knock anybody's teeth down their throat over a pickle...  a few cents might be different. But I have spit on the windshield of dumba$$ driver once... Only because he had the windows up (and his head up his a$$).

I was hit with a cigarette butt the other day.  It may or may not have been intentional, but it sure was irritating.  Not sure why someone would think it's OK to through food at you, though.  Twisted minds...

i would have eaten the pickle, mmm mmm good

Quote from: fettcolsI'm not the road rage type, I wouldn't knock anybody's teeth down their throat over a pickle...  a few cents might be different. But I have spit on the windshield of dumba$$ driver once... Only because he had the windows up (and his head up his a$$).

I lose me temper pretty easily.  There definetely would have been MAJOR problems if someone did that to me.  A guy I ride with had a ranch dressing packet thrown at him one day.

Quote from: crashhaving now had two (car) wrecks, both less than one mile from my front door, i find your "short trip" excuse misguided.

Ditto that.  I only had one, but it was within a block of leaving work on a snack run.

Anyone who throws anything out of their window deserves a ticket and a bitching out.  Even if it doesn't actually hit anyone at first, it's littering, and it pisses me off when people consider the world their trashcan and ashtray.  Spitting on the hood is a good answer, but I can't think of a way to do it with a full-face while still retaining the ability to make a rapid getaway.  :p

Quote from: fettcolsbefore the debate starts, I do wear gear most of the time just not always on short trips like this

Quote from: The Hurt Report12. Most motorcycle accidents involve a short trip associated with shopping, errands, friends, entertainment or recreation, and the accident is likely to happen in a very short time close to the trip origin.

It's entirely possible that the idiot didn't even know you were there...  Once...   many years ago...     I was on a road trip and everyone in the car (except me) wanted to stop at A&W to get a Root beer Float...  While we were waiting in the drive through, I decided to get one as well...  So... Long story short (too late)...

No one could actually finish the damn things, and somehow I ended up with the "leftovers."   So...  I poured the contents of the four cups into one...  Not sure how I was going to keep the sticky mess from spilling, I decided to throw it out the window...   I TOTALLY mangled the windshield of a car with the sticky ice cream mess...  I got it all over my car as well...  I just wasn't paying enough attention...  and I was totally high on sugar...   ...

So, it's possible it was unintentional.

I had someone throw a cigarette and it hit me right in the chest and stayed on me, so at the light I picked it up off of me while i was next to the car and threw it back at him in his car telling the him "keep your F***ing trash in your own car" and then left pretty agressively... I was PISSED.

i had someone throw a bag at me today. stuck right on my visor for a few seconds.  i flipped out. i rode up next to him and flipped him the bird

Most common I guess will be Cigs ... of course what I hate most is Wiper fluid ... Idiots who wash their windshields right in front of a bike ...
My friend had a Muffler come off a car and catch him squarely in the face across his jaw breaking the jaw part of the helmet and nearly flattening him ... he didn't go down ... even though he was literally on his back while running down the road for a second ... and on a related note (and no it wasn't mine) I lost the muffler on my GS twice ... once the first day I rode it Aug 30 1995 I believe and that was the stock can whihc I didn't realise was missing a bolt and in a 40 mile ride the weld broke and off wend the can in D/T Oakland on 580, and once again 2 + years after, whihc was a kerker that I forgot to tighten after a crash and ~4 months later it decided to make a break for it - then the next day I spot it and pick it up ... now somone here or on the old Mailing list got that Kerker can from me ...  :lol:
Also I lost the side cover off my second nighthawk running down 237 in Sunnyvale and find it 3 days later nearly un scratched ... pull over and take it and Its now on my current nighthawk ...
Cool.
Srinath.

Ok...the story is actually funny yet not.  Even something like a pickle hitting ya at the right time in the right place can make you lose control on a bike.  I've had cigarettes, plastic bags, bolts, stones and bugs bounce off my helmet.  About a month ago a friggin pidgeon slammed into my helmet as it crossed my path while i was doin' about 50 mph. on the way home from work.  I always had a full face...and i always made it home.  I have to admit...a couple of weeks ago i was riding home with my visor up and a bee ended up in my helmet...i had to pull over to shake it out.  No sting thank goodness.

Better safe than sorry...ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure...etc...you get the picture...

A similar but different thing happened last year here in Louisville.  The CEO of Papa Johns was out bicycle riding with a world champion cyclist (I forget who) when a high school student drove by a hurled a text book at them.  The Papa wasn't harmed too bad, but his buddy had a concussion, broken collar bone, and more.  That stupid kid is now in the middle of an assault case looking at many years in jail.  Serves him right.

Quote from: fettcolsOkay... The local Ford dealer is a little over a half mile from my house and I had to drop my van off for some work. And I did it without any gear... (before the debate starts, I do wear gear most of the time just not always on short trips like this.. just glasses and gloves)

My girlfriend was driving the van and following me (on the bike) to the dealership. I'm going down the street and I saw something in the air coming right at me... I couldn't tell what it was I just braced for the impact, I wasn't going risk any crazy moves or anything didn't really have time to do anything else.

It hit me right in the chest. I looked down on the tank noticed some bastard threw a fu&king McDonalds pickle out the window of their car! What kind of sick jack a$$ drives around throwing condiments out of thier car... needless to say I was looking into the cars next to me as I came up to the next light... Just looking for that burger eating bastard... It's a shame I didn't see them, I was totally planning on spitting in thier face...

Anybody else ever have anything like this happen?

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Now thats funny

I had a tennis ball thrown at me by some kids, I caught it and reactively threw it right back at them right through the driver's window and I think I got the passenger who threw it (the incoming arc didn't look like it came from the driver in the first lane (I was in the third)).

Public Service Annoncement
Attn: Smokers!  
Your cigarette butts ARE litter.
Your discarded Cigarrettes start fires on the side of roads, forests, trash cans... everywhere but your ashtray.
Your smoke stinks and stains everything with its stink.
You stink of cigarette smoke.
Your teeth are yellowed by smoking.

Knowing is half the Battle.

Quote from: conflicttheoristPublic Service Annoncement
Attn: Smokers!  
Your cigarette butts ARE litter.
Your discarded Cigarrettes start fires on the side of roads, forests, trash cans... everywhere but your ashtray.
Your smoke stinks and stains everything with its stink.
You stink of cigarette smoke.
Your teeth are yellowed by smoking.

Knowing is half the Battle.

no shaZam!.  i dont need someone to tell me that already.

Quote from: conflicttheorist
You stink of cigarette smoke.

So does diesel, but you still see a hell of a lot of old VW's on the road

As for stuff getting thrown at you; why not not follow so closely behind cagers??