Bicyclist hit by car in HPP

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Jerks that throw beer bottles or try to push bicyclists off the road are not a Big Island only issue. Those kinds of people are a danger to bicyclists everywhere. My daughter and her husband live in a very bike friendly city, so bike friendly that they do not own a car, and they have experienced every possible hostile action by vehicle drivers except being deliberately run over. In my observation those sorts of things are done by one of 2 groups of people, males between 16 and 30 who have too much testosterone raging through their systems, or highly privileged people who feel so entitled that they are not willing to share the road with anyone, much less a bicycle. The best example of the latter is the doctor in LA who consciously pulled in front of a bicyclist and then slammed on his brakes, leaving the seriously wounded rider bleeding in the road. He was convicted of something like felonious assault with a motor vehicle.

As far as how the bicyclist might know someone who threw a bottle at them was a "local" I would guess bumper stickers could be a good clue, you know the ones that say "grown here not flown here" or "local boi" or such self identifiers. There are all kinds of idiots walking this earth, some from every ethnic or cultural group. Saying someone from a specific group did something to someone is not talking stink about that whole group, just the person who took the action. Just like I don't want to be held responsible for every clueless white person who offends long term residents of the Big Island, all "locals" shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of a few lolos.

Carol