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Not feeling safe living in Vancouver anymore...
I'm bad at making long story short, so sorry that it's kinda long:
Last weekend, (yeah, Thanksgiving ironically) my husband and I were driving east on West 21st/22nd towards Cambie. A cyclist's coming in the opposite direction and as there were cars parked on the side, my husband slowed down the car and let him passed by. The second one approached, coming from Cambie too, but riding right in the middle of the lane. My husband did the same thing, slowed down and let him passed by. This guy got really pissed and for no reason, said we almost hit him and should have completely stopped. He then slapped my car's back door and kept yelling at us. My husband was mad but what could we do? So we continued driving east and turned right on Cambie.
After a block or two down Cambie while we were hitting north, my husband spotted him chasing us from behind (yes, he u-turned and stalked us). My husband immediately turned left on 17th to avoid him, my husband made sure I was ok so he slowed down a bit. We thought that should be the end of it, but no. He found us again on 16th while we were in opposite direction again. All I could do is to call 911 at that point while my husband continued to try his best turning around blocks to avoid him. I was so scared and tried to explain to the dispatcher on 911 about what happened. The lady kept asking me where I was and telling us to pull over. My husband asked why should we stop as this guy is stalking us. But in the end, we listened to the dispatcher and pulled over on W. 13th, 600 block. The cyclist found us momentarily and grabbed his water bottle, spit on our car. My husband shut all windows before he approached and so he took a key out to threaten us, kept yelling and swearing out loud, banging on our windows, even a neighbour came out to see what's happening. I continued to talk to the cop but officers hadn't yet come as she said. The guys found me on the phone so he keyed our car and took off.
Officers arrived 20 minutes after this guy left, of course he's long gone. One officer of the two, got off the car and inspected ours. (the other one was too busy cleaning up his car) Nothing she said other than "nothing we could do, you know, we were coming from Dunbar and he must be long gone." My husband was really upset and complained why the dispatched asked us to stop! The cop defended "if you believe you are in a dangerous situation, you don't have to listen to the dispatcher." And I asked he got fingerprints and spits on my car, (according to my knowledge from TV shows), can he be identified? "No" 
Now, what we could only do, is to claim as hit and run with the claim no. and pay $300 deductible. I'm so worry because I often drive by and park around that area. What if that cyclist recognize my car again???? This guy is psycho!! I'm really scared and everything seems to be so random these days.
[ 本帖最後由 jwc 於 2008-10-15 10:30 編輯 ] |
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發表於 2008-10-15 09:28
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