Sorry to hear. The guy apparently has serious problems. Hope you feel better soon.
I learned not to confront truck drivers when I worked in New York. It must have been more than 25 years ago. I had been injured in a fall a few days prior and I could barely move my right arm. I was waiting to cross 7th Avenue in midtown, when a delivery van almost ran me down. As it sped by, I smacked the side of the van with my umbrella, which was in my left hand. The driver, a very large fellow who looked like a heavy from the Sopranos, stopped, got out and ran toward me. I flailed away with my bumbershoot to no avail. He punched me in the jaw and floored me, cracking a tooth and leaving me with a blue and swollen face. Truck drivers tend to be a breed apart. Paul On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:20 AM, frank theriault wrote: > Typing real slow as my left hand's in a splint with my middle fingers > taped together. Broke a bone in my hand after a driver attacked me > and threw me down on my bike (bent my seatpost as well!). Should be > better in about a month - not a bad break, no surgery needed thank > god. > > He cuts me off, I yell at him that I had right of way, he gets out of > truck, grabs me (while I'm walking away with both hands on handlebars > and 25 pounds in my backpack so I'm defenceless) and throws me to > ground. I try to get plate number so he pushes me to ground again and > drives away. > > He couldn't be traced so cops can't do a thing. I may have a claim > against the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. > > Incident happened Friday, went to hospital Sunday and yesterday got > temporary cast off and got fitted for splint. > > Still working, with a Metropass, riding transit and walking. > > Can ride again next Monday. > > Taking camera with me to work now, so that's a good thing! > > ;-) > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
