Here's the deal:
At about 4:30 this PM, I was riding south on 101 in Encinitas, California (literally in front of Nytro.) A white (90% sure it was a Nissan) extra cab pickup with three 19-20 year old surf punks swerved hard at me and tried to force me into the parrallel-parked cars. I chased them down at the stop sign at 101 and E, and we had words.
Due to traffic, I caught up with them again at the stop sign at Hansen's, but I didn't pass them because I could see that the driver had a fast-food drink cup in his hand and I knew he was gonna throw it at me. They egged me on to pass at the stop sign, but I wouldn't, so the driver put the cup in his left hand and made a "hook shot" over the truck and threw a full cup of Coke or whatever at me, but it missed. They then sped off.
I pulled over and called my girlfriend's cell phone because I knew she wouldn't answer, and I left the truck's license plate on her voicemail. She called me back about an hour later and read it back to me, and I called the San Diego Sherriff's Department. I made a report, or whatever they call it, and I was told that a Deputy would call me back. The Deputy called about 30 minutes later, and told me that he had run the plate, but it came up empy. Nada. He tried various permutations of the number I had provided, but still got nothing.
So they have probable cause to start pulling over white pickups in the area, (assault with a deadly weapon, throwing an object from a moving vehicle, and littering) and they will pull trucks over, but their case will be sketchy because of the plate issue and the fact that all I could give them was "three 19-20 year old caucasian males with baseball caps on backwards and sunglasses."
I'm gonna do a couple of things: 1) talk to my girlfriend again and make sure that the number she read to me was the one I actually left on her voicemail; 2) keep my eye out for said truck; and 3) ask an FBI friend to try the plate number (and variations thereof) that I've got: 5XXO337. It was a CA plate on a white Japanese pickup.
I was so frickin' sure that I had that plate number in my head. I kept repeating it over and over to myself until I read it to my girl's voicemail.
I hope to God I didn't blow it... I wanna nail those f*cks so bad, I can taste it. Hopefully the Sherriffs will turn something up tonight.
So do me a favor, would you? If you're in North Coastal San Diego, and you think about it, keep an eye out for a white Japanese pickup with a CA license plate like 5XXO337. If you see something like that plate, please note it and let me know.
Thanks.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell
At about 4:30 this PM, I was riding south on 101 in Encinitas, California (literally in front of Nytro.) A white (90% sure it was a Nissan) extra cab pickup with three 19-20 year old surf punks swerved hard at me and tried to force me into the parrallel-parked cars. I chased them down at the stop sign at 101 and E, and we had words.
Due to traffic, I caught up with them again at the stop sign at Hansen's, but I didn't pass them because I could see that the driver had a fast-food drink cup in his hand and I knew he was gonna throw it at me. They egged me on to pass at the stop sign, but I wouldn't, so the driver put the cup in his left hand and made a "hook shot" over the truck and threw a full cup of Coke or whatever at me, but it missed. They then sped off.
I pulled over and called my girlfriend's cell phone because I knew she wouldn't answer, and I left the truck's license plate on her voicemail. She called me back about an hour later and read it back to me, and I called the San Diego Sherriff's Department. I made a report, or whatever they call it, and I was told that a Deputy would call me back. The Deputy called about 30 minutes later, and told me that he had run the plate, but it came up empy. Nada. He tried various permutations of the number I had provided, but still got nothing.
So they have probable cause to start pulling over white pickups in the area, (assault with a deadly weapon, throwing an object from a moving vehicle, and littering) and they will pull trucks over, but their case will be sketchy because of the plate issue and the fact that all I could give them was "three 19-20 year old caucasian males with baseball caps on backwards and sunglasses."
I'm gonna do a couple of things: 1) talk to my girlfriend again and make sure that the number she read to me was the one I actually left on her voicemail; 2) keep my eye out for said truck; and 3) ask an FBI friend to try the plate number (and variations thereof) that I've got: 5XXO337. It was a CA plate on a white Japanese pickup.
I was so frickin' sure that I had that plate number in my head. I kept repeating it over and over to myself until I read it to my girl's voicemail.
I hope to God I didn't blow it... I wanna nail those f*cks so bad, I can taste it. Hopefully the Sherriffs will turn something up tonight.
So do me a favor, would you? If you're in North Coastal San Diego, and you think about it, keep an eye out for a white Japanese pickup with a CA license plate like 5XXO337. If you see something like that plate, please note it and let me know.
Thanks.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell