John Ol' Boy....while I fully appreciate your sense of irony regarding some of California's more "inventive" little scemes(I know, I know...sometimes a good whacking is the only way to "grab the attentions" of some of these little brats nowdays...I'm with ya there, ol' buddy), BUT...I think you've been away from El Segundo TOO LONG and appear to have "gone native" there in Arkansas!!!
(You SEE what kind of faulty thinking one can arrive to when they're NOW surrounded by trailer parks???!!!)
Never, never, never have I witnessed anybody opening their door and causing a lane-splitting motorcyclist to crash into it.
And, I've never, never, never heard from any of my fellow motorcylists here(some even live in your old stompin' grounds here John. YEP...El Segundo!) who have actually witnessed this URBAN LEGEND either.(at least not HERE in "laid back" California)
Now, maybe some yahoo in some back-water part of this country might have opened his car door once on a biker("'Cuz he wiz jus' plum tired o' them there motorsickle riders gettin' away with stuff"), but...NOT HERE, Dude!
Cheers,
Dwight
(and BTW...on the contrary, it isn't "stoopid" if you're smart enough to know how to do it right)
