YouTube screen capture of incident.
/ Dirk Friel
Apparently, you can, and will, be cited for harassing cyclists with your car horn in Colorado...and a 75-year-old man has the ticket to prove it.
This past Sunday, Dirk Friel and some friends were riding along a rural road in Boulder County, just northwest of Denver, when James Ernst pulled behind them in an SUV.
Friel and his fellow bikers went single-file and tried to wave the man around.
The 75-year-old Ernst wasn’t having it.
Angry, he tailed the group for five minutes, honking his horn incessantly.
“In our case, we weren’t holding up traffic. There was plenty of room to go around, and this weird guy behind us just kept honking his horn for 5 minutes,” Friel told the local NBC station. “We were single file, waiving him by. Finally, you’re like this is insane. I have to get this on film.”
Friel recorded the incident on his cell phone.
The cyclists eventually called the police and State Troopers used the video to track down Ernst.
He was then cited for harassment, impeding the flow of traffic, and improper use of a horn or warning device.
Should the driver of the SUV have been cited? Would you consider this to be harassment?
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