So I hit a biker today. Here's the story.
I was coming out of an alleyway so I had no vision of the sidewalk, and as I was creeping out at maybe 2 miles an hour, an 18 year old kid, seeing the nose of my car, decides to make a break for it without me knowing he's even there. I bump his left side with the front of my car at about 2 miles an hour, of course, he falls over, gets up IMMEDIATELY, walks over to the side and says nothing, I ask him are you ok? and he seemed fine, seeing as how he jumped p immediately, and he doesn't say a word. I pull out 8 bucks in cash, and since I saw in a hurry, I say "Hey, if you're not hurt and your bike looks perfectly fine, you can just take this money" NOW, he decides to speak up and say "8 dollars ain' enough bro". So I say ok... lets go somewhere and talk about this cuz theres a bunch of cars backed up behind me. again, no answer, i go into my car to pull over somewhere, he approaches me with a quickened pace and says "bra, you better not be goin nowhere, or the bloods and crips gonna get yo ass" to which i reply, im gonna park in the next street. So, the ambulance came to check out his "scraped leg" and he starts limping out of nowhere. I tell the police what happened, they file a police report, and we exchanged information, and that was it. Now, I'm all paranoid because this kid that may or may not have a gang affiliation has all my information: where i live and all that. but i have his. since he was biking on the sidewalk, does he have a case? what can he do? frickin idiot decides to outrun a car and then fakes being injured... aauggghh.. what a shitty incident
update: called insurance company, kid called me before insurance company called me back, saying he'd "drop everything for fifteen-hundred", to which i replied, "my insurance companys gonna call you", jesus, so everythings fine, worst case scenario, my premiums might go up in the next few months, but the kid called me after the insurance claim guy called him, and he just started breathing heavily into the phone, i couldnt get any verbal response from him so i hung up the phone, poor kid probably has no idea what to do
I was coming out of an alleyway so I had no vision of the sidewalk, and as I was creeping out at maybe 2 miles an hour, an 18 year old kid, seeing the nose of my car, decides to make a break for it without me knowing he's even there. I bump his left side with the front of my car at about 2 miles an hour, of course, he falls over, gets up IMMEDIATELY, walks over to the side and says nothing, I ask him are you ok? and he seemed fine, seeing as how he jumped p immediately, and he doesn't say a word. I pull out 8 bucks in cash, and since I saw in a hurry, I say "Hey, if you're not hurt and your bike looks perfectly fine, you can just take this money" NOW, he decides to speak up and say "8 dollars ain' enough bro". So I say ok... lets go somewhere and talk about this cuz theres a bunch of cars backed up behind me. again, no answer, i go into my car to pull over somewhere, he approaches me with a quickened pace and says "bra, you better not be goin nowhere, or the bloods and crips gonna get yo ass" to which i reply, im gonna park in the next street. So, the ambulance came to check out his "scraped leg" and he starts limping out of nowhere. I tell the police what happened, they file a police report, and we exchanged information, and that was it. Now, I'm all paranoid because this kid that may or may not have a gang affiliation has all my information: where i live and all that. but i have his. since he was biking on the sidewalk, does he have a case? what can he do? frickin idiot decides to outrun a car and then fakes being injured... aauggghh.. what a shitty incident
update: called insurance company, kid called me before insurance company called me back, saying he'd "drop everything for fifteen-hundred", to which i replied, "my insurance companys gonna call you", jesus, so everythings fine, worst case scenario, my premiums might go up in the next few months, but the kid called me after the insurance claim guy called him, and he just started breathing heavily into the phone, i couldnt get any verbal response from him so i hung up the phone, poor kid probably has no idea what to do
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