highlandsflyer
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We_are_Stevo":1jjanmou said:It's funny but I'm bigger than most people, and my so called 'arrogance' is born of confidence in my own abilities, but I would be plain embarrassed if I was spoiling someone elses day out because they were clearly better than me at a shared pastime...
...in the same circumstances I would have slowed on one of the many 'side trails' in evidence to allow the guy past, then made an undoubtably vain attempt to keep up with him
As for all the nob-defenders, a very basic rule of law is 'Provocation is no defence...'
I would have slowed too, but we don't actually know when Fat Man heard the guy. It was only half a minute into it when Cam Boy started to go on about accidents, etc. I just back up if people are not giving way, especially if they are not crawling slow. Waiting a minute and then carrying on would have been my choice once I realised the guy was not listening to me.
I don't consider Fat Man as having acted reasonably if he truly assaulted Cam Boy, but we don't really know the whole story.
Provocation is very much a defence.
Unprovoked attacks usually attract more serious charges and heavier penalties than those where the lines are blurred.
Threatening someone certainly blurs the lines.