Talk about random: one cyclist from Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, found out by pure chance just how close he came to being knifed by the passenger in a passing Toyota Corolla.
Henry Bosak tells Komo News that he usually goes biking on the weekend. However, after being hit by a driver and left there a few years ago, he never leaves home without his 2 trusted GoPro cameras: he has one mounted in the front of his bike and one in the rear.
Last weekend, he went for a ride outside his town and, upon his return, reviewed the footage so that he could make out the plates on a car that had made an unsafe pass. He planned to file a Citizen Citation and report the driver.
He got a good look at the plates on the car but, while looking at the footage frame by frame, he also saw that the passenger had tried to knife him. The car was a black Toyota Corolla and, since he reported the incident, Bosak found out that it’s been recently sold and the owner is yet to register it with the DMV.
Police are looking for the driver and his passenger, both of whom are clearly seen in the footage. Just as clearly visible is the knife in the passenger’s hand. He has his arm out the window and his knife ready, but because the car passed Bosak at some distance, it never met its intended target.
Bosak can’t believe how lucky he was to have escaped unharmed. “I can imagine he probably just missed me with the knife,” he tells the media outlet. “I hope the people are caught. That’s just not normal behavior to try to slice a cyclist.”
The video also shows that there wasn’t any type of interaction between driver / passenger and Bosak, so this wasn’t a case of road rage. Not that road rage would have excused this type of behavior, but a random, unprovoked attack makes even less sense.
Last weekend, he went for a ride outside his town and, upon his return, reviewed the footage so that he could make out the plates on a car that had made an unsafe pass. He planned to file a Citizen Citation and report the driver.
He got a good look at the plates on the car but, while looking at the footage frame by frame, he also saw that the passenger had tried to knife him. The car was a black Toyota Corolla and, since he reported the incident, Bosak found out that it’s been recently sold and the owner is yet to register it with the DMV.
Police are looking for the driver and his passenger, both of whom are clearly seen in the footage. Just as clearly visible is the knife in the passenger’s hand. He has his arm out the window and his knife ready, but because the car passed Bosak at some distance, it never met its intended target.
Bosak can’t believe how lucky he was to have escaped unharmed. “I can imagine he probably just missed me with the knife,” he tells the media outlet. “I hope the people are caught. That’s just not normal behavior to try to slice a cyclist.”
The video also shows that there wasn’t any type of interaction between driver / passenger and Bosak, so this wasn’t a case of road rage. Not that road rage would have excused this type of behavior, but a random, unprovoked attack makes even less sense.