Apropos of the validity of your story I feel that one, well, who carries a brick in their car, and two, the kind of psychopath who /does/ carry a brick in their car for the purpose of throwing at anyone or anything, not just a cyclist, is not the kind of person to be dissuaded by any of this.
There's a lot of aggressive behavior that, while criminally dangerous, isn't as blatant as a brick. Aggression toward bicyclists is a continuum, and if you habituate the careless drivers to being careful, and you dissuade the thoughtlessly agressive, then the sociopaths may not feel like they're part of some larger body of "acceptable" behavior.
They probably already had a brick in their car. As someone who's had people verbally threaten to run me over this story doesn't sound outside the realm of possibility.
Go to your local ice cream/coffee social cycling ride in any major city and ask around about having things thrown at you. Nearly every person there will have a story.
Oh, I'm not disputing the validity of his story. I'm just saying that anyone willing to do this is already breaking the law, regardless of "presumption of guilt as applied to car vs bicycle incidents".
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Apropos of the validity of your story I feel that one, well, who carries a brick in their car, and two, the kind of psychopath who /does/ carry a brick in their car for the purpose of throwing at anyone or anything, not just a cyclist, is not the kind of person to be dissuaded by any of this.
There's a lot of aggressive behavior that, while criminally dangerous, isn't as blatant as a brick. Aggression toward bicyclists is a continuum, and if you habituate the careless drivers to being careful, and you dissuade the thoughtlessly agressive, then the sociopaths may not feel like they're part of some larger body of "acceptable" behavior.
They probably already had a brick in their car. As someone who's had people verbally threaten to run me over this story doesn't sound outside the realm of possibility.
Go to your local ice cream/coffee social cycling ride in any major city and ask around about having things thrown at you. Nearly every person there will have a story.
Oh, I'm not disputing the validity of his story. I'm just saying that anyone willing to do this is already breaking the law, regardless of "presumption of guilt as applied to car vs bicycle incidents".
what is an > ice cream/coffee social cycling ride?
sounds fun