I've just been egged. Sympathy please.

[Phil]

Doing circuits of the park this evening, dressed in ordinary clothes, not going for it particularly fast, a silver hatchback passed me much too close.  I'd been aware of a car behind me, but not thought anything of it.  As it passed, I suddenly realised that there was an arm out the window that had just made a grab for me.  I stood on the pedals to try to catch them up - dunno why, there were four nodding chavs in the car, so I'd have lost that particular fight - and it was lucky I did cause there was another car behind them.  The chav leaning out the window chucked an egg at me, and only just missed. 

I don't get why they do it.  Is there really so little to do on a nice evening in Liverpool?

[Adam]

No, I'm sure there's lots to do, but when some people have the IQ of an amoeba, that's all they can think of, sadly.

Glad you managed to miss getting hit.  I'm sure fairly soon the Government will be banning eggs, so you'd better stock up (assuming you like eating eggs that is).

[FatBloke]

It's Liverpool! 

[Jezza]

I got sausaged once (oo-er), in Nelson, New Zealand - which is otherwise a lovely place. A phat car came past slowly and the passenger threw a sausage out of the window at me. It missed. The car then had to slow for a speedbump, so I picked up the sausage and threw it back through the open window. 'You dropped something.'   

[Wowbagger]

I think that, since it missed, you probably haven't been egged in the true sense of the word. I offer sympathy that you were unable to catch it and use it as an ingredient for some excellent courgette cake.

[Yorkshireman]

You'll be due the sympathy when they hit the target  . Having been on the recieving end (on the back of my head - and no I don't wear a helmet  ), I don't like to think how much a hard-boiled one would sting (though there'll possibly be less mess to clean up)  .

[Wowbagger]

Mrs. Wow & I were bottled last week in Wales. An empty plastic hit her on the shoulder and then hit me on the back. It had been thrown from a car with two bicycles on the rear rack.

[Wowbagger]

It's Liverpool! 

Would you rather be Boris Johnson or Jack Straw?

[Julian]

Sympathy.

The one chucked at me a couple of months ago did make contact, but since they'd speeded up, the chavs who threw it didn't have the pleasure of seeing it.  Which makes me wonder what the point was.  Maybe their recipe for courgette cake only called for five eggs and they didn't know what to do with the spare.

[Wowbagger]

You don't hear chavs in Saarfend saying "courgettes" much, unless it's an expression of appreciation at the annual Air Show.

[Pancho]

Someone shot a gun at me and missed.

[Pete]

Throwing an egg at someone - and making contact - is technically a criminal assault is it not?   Throw the book at them (metaphorically - or literally - if you get the chance).  Moreover an egg can cause considerable injury, especially if shell fragments get you in the eye.

Maybe one day the carrying of eggs in a public place shall be frowned upon as much as carrying knives - or guns.  How shall we get the shopping in, then?  I love omelettes... 

You don't hear chavs in Saarfend saying "courgettes" much, unless it's an expression of appreciation at the annual Air Show.

[FatBloke]

Someone shot a gun at me and missed.

Shame! 

[andrewc]

Sorry to hear that Phil. Apologies from a Liverpool native,  I'm afraid the place seems to have more than it's fair share of dickheads.  And we call them scallys, not chavs!

Was that going around Sefton Park ?  I've had some verbal abuse around there as well but nothing thrown at me.

Riding back from there the other night along Princes Avenue some lads kicked out the plexiglass from a bus shelter right in front of me, I had to swerve to avoid it.

PS are you the chap on a yellow fixie I've seen around a few times ?

 

[andygates]

So... eggs, sausages... they're slowly throwing breakfast at us!

[Torslanda]

So... eggs, sausages... they're slowly throwing breakfast at us!

It seems theres been a rasher of this lately . . .

(groan)

[delthebike]

Someone shot a gun at me and missed.

Guns aren't very aerodynamic so it probably drifted off target. If they had used the gun to fire a bullet....

[Wowbagger]

So... eggs, sausages... they're slowly throwing breakfast at us!

It seems theres been a rasher of this lately . . .

(groan)

You are making a hash of this.

[delthebike]

So... eggs, sausages... they're slowly throwing breakfast at us!

It seems theres been a rasher of this lately . . .

(groan)

They should throw yeast in Liverpool! 

[Torslanda]

WTF? 

[Elleigh]

That is not nice. You have my sympathy.

[Wowbagger]

So... eggs, sausages... they're slowly throwing breakfast at us!

It seems theres been a rasher of this lately . . .

(groan)

They should throw yeast in Liverpool! 

I think I've just worked this out.

Is it something to do with ... kulcher?

[rogerzilla]

Why does the River Mersey run through Liverpool?










Because if it walked, it'd get mugged.

[Phil]

Sorry to hear that Phil. Apologies from a Liverpool native,  I'm afraid the place seems to have more than it's fair share of dickheads.  And we call them scallys, not chavs!

Was that going around Sefton Park ?  I've had some verbal abuse around there as well but nothing thrown at me.

Riding back from there the other night along Princes Avenue some lads kicked out the plexiglass from a bus shelter right in front of me, I had to swerve to avoid it.

PS are you the chap on a yellow fixie I've seen around a few times ?

 

That's me, well spotted! And it was Sefton Park, yes - I've not had any other problem there, apart from a run-in with a cabbie nearly two years ago. 

I quite like cycling in Liverpool.  I've had the odd problem with kids, but it's almost all limited to one road, and it's only really a problem in the winter.  The drivers are mostly friendly and the buses aren't nearly as murderous as the London ones. 

[IanDG]

I have raced at Sefton Park, my sympathy, I was hit by a Macdonalds milk shake once