Road Raging Teen Pelts Bicycling Cop With Rocks and Oaths
Not the actual cop - a caricature
February 12, 2010
I think we’ve all been annoyed at the bicyclist dodging game that you have to do when someone decides to ride his or her bike through a busy street, but that doesn’t mean you should attempt to run them off the road and scream at them about how you’re going to kill them while hurling rocks, like 18-year-old Benjamin Harrison did. After all, you just might be hurling rocks and bumping your car into police inspector and bicycling enthusiast DI Martin Melvin, like Benjamin Harrison did. Whoops. As it turns out, authorities frown on trying to run down bicycling cops.
For Harrison’s road rage incident, he got a pretty stiff, but fair, punishment. He’ll be in jail for nine months, get two years probation, 12 months of supervision, and 100 hours of community service. Oh yeah, he’s also banned from driving for two years, which means he’ll be doing a lot of bicycling to get to his court-ordered work.
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