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I regularly filter to the front of stationary traffic at the red lights. Yesterday I was going between two queues of cars when the lights turned green and I was still about six cars from the front when they began to move. No problem, I'll just slot in fron of one of the slower cars. A pick up on the left was ideal so I slowed down to match my speed. As I began to merge the car on the right ahead of me opened the door while he was moving and a guy leaned out and spat on the ground. If I hadn't have merged when I did I would have taken his head off! I don't know if he realized how close he came to becoming road kill but the driver took off at a great speed so he may have thought "oh sh1t I hope that biker isn't unhappy with me".

I will still lane filter, despite this incident and also being fined a couple of months ago for filtering. I'll just be a weeny bit more cautious. I also try to not filter past cop cars these days.