Best retaliation to getting yelled at while running

Completely ignore them

OR

Say something that doesn't make sense or is very strange (I've thrown a few people off doing this and it's probably quite disturbed them judging by their faces)

OR

Pretend you recognise them and make some familiar comment like "Hey! See you on Saturday then".

Having said this, I'm female so I'm not likely to turn around and try to fight a guy or do anything other than run off.

Have had some crappy incidents - things on fire thrown at me and my friends, money thrown, eggs thrown, drink cans thrown, obscene comments from lorry drivers (when running on my own, was particularly scary), and just the general stupid comments. Had someone scream at me really loudly from a car window at some traffic lights when it was pitch black and I was running on my own - that scared the shit out of me too.

This isn't just confined to the USA - I live in England. I think though, if you respond like you're mental most people will leave you alone.

one lap of the track wrote:

Have had some crappy incidents [...] money thrown,

That sounds really nice to me. Maybe not if its pennys and theyre wizzed at you, but still.

If you really wanna freak people out, just act like a nutter or psycho out there and do like anything crazy (as long as it's an easy run that is). Like me, when I hear someone yell, I find the nearest snowbank and dive head first into it, penetrating the snow and trying to stay like an arrow stuck in a target or wood etc. This has only worked once though, and one time I missed my jumped and I accidently really hurt my shoulder for a week (no weights for a while which sucks), but it was ultimately worth it. Now, mostly I resort to placing "kick me" signs and etc.. on people's backs, it's pretty fun if you try it, but they can't see you do it, so be sneaky. Also, I have been known to pop up on people randomly...especially the members of my club, so sometimes it can be fun to pop up a their back yard window, and scare them. Doing so on numerous occaisions has had me labelled "the creeper" within my training group.

You should've lured him far enough away from his truck that you could beat him back to it and snatch his keys out of it and either throw them into dense brush or run off with them and throw them down a sewage intake. Or even drive his truck a few miles down the road and let him go get it on foot that'll take the fight out of him.

Best reply: "Thank you!"

it was a beautiful mid spring friday afternoon when my team was doing the warm up loop around campus before a track workout. we jogged past a house with about 15 people drinking on the front porch, and a girl thought it would be hilarious to start runnning next with us in an exaggerated form. this went on for about 15m, and then, by the grace of god, i felt a massive fart brewing. i casually ran over next to her as her friends on the porch yelled and laughed at us, cocked my leg next to her,and let out one of the loudest farts i've ever produced. our whole tema erupted in laughter and we all had to basically walk back to the track because we were laughing so hard.

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This is an awesome thread. Cracked me up

Or hit them with your purse!

We need more mid-distance guys like you...

this is awesome wrote:

it was a beautiful mid spring friday afternoon when my team was doing the warm up loop around campus before a track workout. we jogged past a house with about 15 people drinking on the front porch, and a girl thought it would be hilarious to start runnning next with us in an exaggerated form. this went on for about 15m, and then, by the grace of god, i felt a massive fart brewing. i casually ran over next to her as her friends on the porch yelled and laughed at us, cocked my leg next to her,and let out one of the loudest farts i've ever produced. our whole tema erupted in laughter and we all had to basically walk back to the track because we were laughing so hard.

AHAHAHA

I was really hoping when I heard the original story that he would lock the doors while leaving the engine running.

i really enjoyed reading this thread and was wondering if anyone has any more comebacks, stories, ect?

I don't know that I'd recommend this, but one time last winter I was out for a run at night, about a minute from home when a car full of teenagers drove by too close, yelling the usual shit. They had the windows down despite the cold weather, so I could hear them better. I felt my blood start to boile as the car stopped at a light, and I sprinted to catch up to them. Without saying a word I hocked a good-sized loogie into the open window and kept right on running down the street. It took a few seconds for the morons to figure out what had happened and when they did they were plenty mad. I had to do climb a fence and hide in the neighbor's backyard while they cruised up and down the street for the next 10 minutes looking for me.

Jenifer Lopez and Benifer wrote:

I give people free passes to my movies.

Bumping a classic response in this thread.

My best one lately was when I was running at around 1-2 am for a long run and ran by the college dorms near UCF. Typically some drunks sitting out on the porch yelling random things and a group yelled "Laaaance!" and I just put my arm and pointer finger in the air making a 1.

And the other day I was running by a volleyball court and this beautiful girl was playing by herself warming up or something and then all of a sudden a car gets in between my view and every guy in the car rolls there windows down and stares at me and one of them flashes his fat body to me. Kinda shows how lame these guys are.

When a car drives up to the side of me and doesn't move out of my way or go I usually put my arm out in front and keep running. If they don't go or get out of my path then I will punch their car.

And if you ever want to get revenge on car harrasssers, run with a bag of dough. The dough can be rolled into balls and easily thrown/splashed against their windshields when going fast. Probably reccomended if you get taunted on a certain run every day.

I've had water baloons thrown at me a couple of times. Each time they hit and stung. I was pissed. I couldn't do anything because each time the car raced off. I continued and enjoyed my run. I'm more vigilant.

I've had drunken tailgaters yell a variety of things at me. However, I've noticed they tend not to continue yelling at me on my second, third and fourth loops around the stadium. I don't know why they stop. I don't care why stop. I'm just glad they stop.

I try to run on trails and away from cars -- although getting to the trails requires some exposure to cars. I've learned painfully that there are many idiots out there in cars who do stupid things to runners.

This year I've haven't been hit by any water baloons and have only been yelled at once. Football season is approaching, however. I'll try to get my run in around the stadium (trails) before the tailgaters arrive.

I've also been flashed by young women, once in a triathlon and another time on one of my stadium trail runs.

Orlando Runner wrote:

And if you ever want to get revenge on car harrasssers, run with a bag of dough.

Are you serious? You would run with a fucking bag of dough??? If I threw dough at people around here I would get my ass licked up and down the interstate.

Dough?!?!?!?!?!?!?

One guy said shit to me when running, before I turned off into the trails I spat right at his face.

This is nuts