{"id":6133,"date":"2011-06-16T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2011-06-16T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:39:12","slug":"a-girl-and-her-bike-victory-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/a-girl-and-her-bike-victory-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"A Girl and Her Bike: Victory (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was stopped at the intersection of 13th and Kenyon St. NW at a red light, waiting to turn left onto 13th St. Kenyon is a one-way street going west, and I was on the left side of the street, since I would be turning left. While waiting for the light I heard a car speed up Kenyon St. behind me. I could sense the car stop immediately behind me, extremely close. It was aggressive, but fairly typical aggressive driver behavior. I didn’t think much of it because we were at a red light, and there was no where for him to go anyway.<\/p>\n
And that’s when I felt a *BUMP* from behind. Nothing too hard, but enough to intimidate. Now, remember: I knew he had STOPPED behind me. So this was a conscious decision by the driver to hit me with his vehicle. I could hear laughing coming from the car behind me. They thought this was HILARIOUS. Also, there was a taxi to my right, waiting for the light as well that even remarked on this behavior (“asshole” is what I think the taxi driver said).<\/p>\n
The light turned green and I started to proceed. And then I felt *BUMP!!!!!* again, this time a bit harder.<\/p>\n
Oh no. No. No. No. I can’t ignore this. I just can’t.<\/p>\n
So I stopped. Pulled out my police badge (yes, I’m a cop if you didn’t know before. No I really don’t want to talk about it, thanks) showed it to the driver and motioned him to stay right where he was.<\/p>\n
And that’s when he panicked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read the entire story at\u00c2\u00a0A Girl and Her Bike: Victory (sort of)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was stopped at the intersection of 13th and Kenyon St. NW at a red light, waiting to turn left onto 13th St. Kenyon is a one-way street going west, and I was on the left side of the street, since I would be turning left. While waiting for the light I heard a car […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[27],"tags":[817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}