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An arrest has been made in a Newport Beach road rage incident involving a BMW driver and a pair of cyclists that was caught on video. ... Weiss is facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon and obstructing or delaying arrest. ... Police also confiscated the blue BMW seen in the video for evidence purposes.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it's disgusting how often someone goes out of their way to fuck with you just because you're biking

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Had a crazy person yell and throw a Jarritos bottle at me for no reason other than they hate bikes. Chased him down for a mile until he illegally turned to get away from me and I just went home.

Wished I had a spark plug that day…

[–] Thecornershop@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, what's the sparkplug trick??

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I don’t know nothing about nothing but word on the street is how the ceramic part of a spark plug can be hammered to pieces, pieces that shatter in specific sharp shapes; Shapes that when thrown focus a lot of energy to one point which defeats the style of safety glass used in windshields and car windows. Basically they have a brittle tension strength which is set off by a single point of hard ceramic. Light energy to instant shatter.

Youtube has the videos, I don’t know nothing about nothing.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

I once was walking in the side of a country road with a backpack, because I wanted to walk though Europe in my early youth

In some regions people were shouting and throwing stuff shut me, while driving by, just because I was walking besides the road

I wasn't in the way of anyone and it wasn't even a big street.

Some people just seem to have personal problems...

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 19 points 1 day ago

Hahahaha get fucked

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Newport Beach and that whole area of Orange County is well known for being SoCal's nazi center. Unshocked.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Triple caution Samir! Triple caution!

[–] teft@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I keep a piece of ceramic from a spark plug in my pocket for assholes like this. Throw a tiny little piece of ceramic at this asshole's back window and all of sudden he has no back window.

These type of people won't stop until they kill someone and even then it's 50/50.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Throw a tiny little piece of ceramic at this asshole's back window and all of sudden he has no back window.

I don't get it ? Why would the window break?

[–] teft@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ceramic is harder than safety glass and makes the glass instantly shatter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LyHPZFtk3o

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 day ago

uh oh, someone lost their Beemer immunity…so sad!