Crazy driver - water gun in eyes

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So riding in downtown this evening, in the King/Bathurst area - someone in a car in oncoming traffic leaned a water gun out the window and shot water into my open visor (no glasses). Thankfully I was able to maintain control/not hit anything, and it was just water so after a few seconds my eyes cleared up. Pretty twisted, wasn't able to get the persons plate/car type as I hadn't been looking closely.

Ride safe all, sometimes you're just not prepared for craziness.
 
sunnyCBR said:
So riding in downtown this evening, in the King/Bathurst area - someone in a car in oncoming traffic leaned a water gun out the window and shot water into my open visor (no glasses). Thankfully I was able to maintain control/not hit anything, and it was just water so after a few seconds my eyes cleared up. Pretty twisted, wasn't able to get the persons plate/car type as I hadn't been looking closely.

Ride safe all, sometimes you're just not prepared for craziness.
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Wow, thats nuts. Imagine it was something more harsh. Good thing nothing serious happened.
 
When I want to ride with air hitting my face I just crack my visor up a tiny bit, as mine doesn't shut down unless I'm going pretty fast. air still circulates, and it doesn't leave me open to take (A ****ING BUTTERFLY TO THE EYE... ask my how I know it happens [[thanks god I wear glasses]])
 
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Sabex said:
When I want to ride with air hitting my face I just crack my visor up a tiny bit, as mine doesn't shut down unless I'm going pretty fast. air still circulates, and it doesn't leave me open to take (A ****ING BUTTERFLY TO THE EYE... ask my how I know it happens [[thanks god I wear glasses]])
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+1.

Wait till you hit a June bug at highway speed. It'll feel like someone threw a rock at you.

I always keep my visor down, unless im travelling at slow speeds.
 
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someone that clearly doesn't understand the impact of what they likely think is a practical joke....

there have been stories of people getting shot with bb guns, paint balls and air soft guns. at speed a water gun likely isn't terribly different
 
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sunnyCBR said:
So riding in downtown this evening, in the King/Bathurst area - someone in a car in oncoming traffic leaned a water gun out the window and shot water into my open visor (no glasses). Thankfully I was able to maintain control/not hit anything, and it was just water so after a few seconds my eyes cleared up. Pretty twisted, wasn't able to get the persons plate/car type as I hadn't been looking closely.

Ride safe all, sometimes you're just not prepared for craziness.
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glad you're safe, and really hope for your sake it really was only water. . .

people are stupid, end of story.
 
Glad you're safe.. Hopefully he does it in front of popo and they throw the book at it and it can be a pretty heavy book
 
It's gay pride weekend in the city.
Water guns will be everywhere.
 
infernobuster said:
+1.

Wait till you hit a June bug at highway speed. It'll feel like someone threw a rock at you.

I always keep my visor down, unless im travelling at slow speeds.
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The smaller ones survive impact at lower speeds, like the gnat that got under an eyelid somehow. It wriggled around while I looked for a place to pull over.

Fingers crossed I never get a bee or hornet.
 
infernobuster said:
+1.

Wait till you hit a June bug at highway speed. It'll feel like someone threw a rock at you.

I always keep my visor down, unless im travelling at slow speeds.
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I've taken a few to the shoulder with gear on.. and without. They make quite the impact with a leather jacket, and with nothing but a shirt--ouch.

As for the gay pride comment: I really don't see why they have to parade around... what someone does in the bedroom should stay in the ****ing bedroom, it has NO affect on anything else they do in life. It's not a visible cripple (like race could be considered, or speech pattern, or ugliness, etc), and the pride parade is just like... an excuse for people to run around naked chanting "I'M GAY!"

Back on topic: if I ever saw anyone make any attempt at even touching a rider, I would follow them home and they'll awake the next morning to a destroyed vehicle.
This is also an excellent example as to why all bikes should come with a camera installed from factory; I'm sure a camera would of been able to get their license plate number, etc.
And, hopefully someone driving behind or infront of the car saw it and wrote down his plate number to report it to the cops. But that would require them to actually be decent people; something that seems to be a rarity in Toronto.
to the op: glad you came out unharmed, and I hope someone squirts ground up ghost peppers into that drivers eyes while he's driving in rush hour on the 401 in the middle lane.
 
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I don't think I'll ever get over the utter stupidity of some drivers :( Really glad we're not hearing about this is a more serious thread...
 
deagz said:
That was a pretty gay thing to do.
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I was gonna reply that it didn't sound like a particularly homosexual thing to do, but then I was reminded that there are a lot of waterguns in town for Pride this weekend......

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How gay
 
Sabex said:
I've taken a few to the shoulder with gear on.. and without. They make quite the impact with a leather jacket, and with nothing but a shirt--ouch.

As for the gay pride comment: I really don't see why they have to parade around... what someone does in the bedroom should stay in the f**king bedroom, it has NO affect on anything else they do in life. It's not a visible cripple (like race could be considered, or speech pattern, or ugliness, etc), and the pride parade is just like... an excuse for people to run around naked chanting "I'M GAY!"

Back on topic: if I ever saw anyone make any attempt at even touching a rider, I would follow them home and they'll awake the next morning to a destroyed vehicle.
This is also an excellent example as to why all bikes should come with a camera installed from factory; I'm sure a camera would of been able to get their license plate number, etc.
And, hopefully someone driving behind or infront of the car saw it and wrote down his plate number to report it to the cops. But that would require them to actually be decent people; something that seems to be a rarity in Toronto.
to the op: glad you came out unharmed, and I hope someone squirts ground up ghost peppers into that drivers eyes while he's driving in rush hour on the 401 in the middle lane.
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Im sure cops would live to get their hands on cameras on bikes, but for other reasons.
 
deagz said:
That was a pretty gay thing to do.
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Dude - not cool. I'm a lax gay chick. You may not think thats offensive, but just a heads up - it is. Maybe try thats a pretty S***y thing to do.
Have a great Canada Day - Pride - And good safe rides this weekend! Cheers
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