Some sort of localised protest whether about a specific issue or along lines of critical mass?

Teenagers playing a game?

If situation had persisted best option would surely to go back into bay, stop engine, get out and ask them politley to move.

If it persists call police?

You don't say what signals you were using:

In this position one should keep the reverse lights on and foot on the brake pedal to light the brake lights. The reverse lights signal that you are part way through a reversing manouvre but the brake lights indicate that you are stopped and it is safe to pass.

Your patience is to be commended all the same.

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Got a note pushed through my front door from the local police. Note had been there for a good week or so buried in some junk mail.

The note didn't go into much detail; but asked me to telephone their local number about an "incident". I had an anxiety attack that they were nabbing me for that armed bank job (that I never done guv). However, I reasoned that they would have come after me with a bit more enthusiasm if they had suspected me of any serious or even minor crime.

Anyway, I phoned the number the next day, and eventually got called back by a nice WPC who explained that there had been an incident in the town centre and that they had looked at CCTV footage to investigate it.

Apparently, round the corner from my incident (and a few minutes earlier) there was a motorist who got surrounded by the same gang of cyclists in a similar incident. I think that might have lasted longer or been worse in some other way, and the man had his very elderly mother in the car. Both were badly shaken up; and I think they called 999. Obviously the gang had cycled off before the police arrived, did the same thing to me, then melted away into the night. No arrests were made. My car had been identified on CCTV footage so they had contacted me to see if I could assist with the enquiry.

I explained that I didn't have any knowledge of the suspects and was not really able to identify them in any useful way. I had not phoned 999 at the time because I deemed their behaviour to be anti-social rather than criminal, I was annoyed rather than scared, I didn't think the cops would arrive quickly enough to be effective.

I felt a bit guilty that I had not reported the incident (maybe on the non-emergency number) because I might have been able to assist with a more serious related incident (as was the case).

Anyway, I offered my services should they should want any kind of witness statement. The WPC agreed that it was anti-social rather than criminal; but said they were looking to do some kind of anti-social behaviour procedure (can't remember the details). I suppose it's a good thing that the police were interested enough to at least follow the case up... fair play to them for that.

I'm not holding my breath because I don't think the CCTV footage will be clear enough to identify the suspects. I'll keep you posted if anything happens; but we all know it's not like on CSI where they would zoom in on the reflection in a shop window to reveal their name band in their underpants or something...

Edited by Lounge Lizard on 18/02/2016 at 22:52