What is the craziest/funniest/rudest thing a stranger has ever yelled at you while running?

I was running with my XC team 2 across on a not that busy road. Anyway this car that had passed us on the other side of the road stopped and reversed to tell us that it wasn’t safe for us to run in the street, but meanwhile it was fine for her to stop in the middle of the road and drive in reverse??? We were just like umm okay then proceeded to run back to school.

Mr. Split Shorts wrote:

Was in a rural area where I assume the people who live there don’t see runners very often. Was wearing some split shorts and had a guy in a lifted Ford F-250 with a Sons of the Confederation license plate yell “Nice dick!”, and then proceeded to roll coal on me.

Definitely a closeted gay man.

what do you mean roll coal on you? It spilled out of his truck bed?

Canada Girl wrote:

Back when I lived in Edmonton, a random stranger drove by me and called me a b!tch while I was out for a run, on my birthday of all days.

What a douchecanoe.

Happy birthday!! (not sure when it is, but save it for the next one!)

On my running route a guys dogs were running out of his yard after me on a regular basis. One day the guy is in his yard drinking beer and the dogs ran after me. The guy does nothing. I stopped and yelled "If your dogs chase me again I'm calling the police!". The guy got in his car and drove after me. Stopped the car and yelled "You better not call the police. What are you running from?" As if I was actually running from something. How do these people get by in the world?

In high school my team got taunted by these kids who posed he’d and tried to act so tough, calling us ‘scrawny little $@&(‘s’ and telling us to ‘eat some cheeseburgers’. We were doing a loop workout and they did this the whole time. We didn’t say anything back and that was the end of it.

Another time we were doing a workout around a field and these girls drove by yelling ‘YEEEAAA BOYS THATS WHAT I LIKE TO SEE’. They drove back and forth a couple times.

There wasn’t much to do in my hometown.

As for the most embarrassing: in college I ran a 10k and was so nervous at the start that I went out WAY too fast. I had no business being as far ahead as I was. Obviously I settled into the pack later on and it wasn’t my best race, not terrible though. But in the middle of it, a dude from another team picked me out of the pack and sarcastically added ‘you still got this man!’ The tone was there. This was not sincere. I really hope he banged his shin REALLY HARD on his coffee table later that night, or something.

Mr. Split Shorts wrote:

Was in a rural area where I assume the people who live there don’t see runners very often. Was wearing some split shorts and had a guy in a lifted Ford F-250 with a Sons of the Confederation license plate yell “Nice dick!”, and then proceeded to roll coal on me.

Good thing you weren't wearing tights. He probably would have taken you home for the night.

Got Run Forest run! Countless times

F@ggot! Countless times

You’re hot! From a guy

Who wears short shorts? Group of middle schoolers

And that’s flaccid! One woman to another

Miscellaneous things thrown at me

People are really yelling stuff at you? I am always wearing headphones and I just wave as I go by. Obviously I can hear them but they don't know that. Since they don't get any reaction, there is no reason for them to keep doing it.

I’ve gotten

Get off the road f**ker

What are you doing running from the cops

My favorite was I was doing 400m hill repeats on and as I turned around to jog down the hill a lady on a bike said “I saw you cheat you didn’t run all the way up the hill” she then goes on about how Jesus doesn’t like cheaters and I’m going to hell

Biker said "You're on the wrong side of the road, a**hole" as he passed me on a path that is fundamentally a pedestrian path (98% of people using it are non-bikers)

My personal favorite is when a guy in a suspicious van pulled up alongside me during a late night run.

He pulled out a pistol and said “Get in”

blatz40 wrote:

"Put some trousers on you wanker." In Ireland, running in shorts , temp about 45*.

My story is very similar to this. About 25 years ago, I was running down Market Street near Independence Mall in Philadelphia on a rare 60F morning in January and a homeless guy yelled “Cover your naked a$$, bltch!”

Canada Girl wrote:

Back when I lived in Edmonton, a random stranger drove by me and called me a b!tch while I was out for a run, on my birthday of all days.

Was it Greg?

That’s actually a very polite greeting for Philadelphia.

jamin wrote:

Biker said "You're on the wrong side of the road, a**hole" as he passed me on a path that is fundamentally a pedestrian path (98% of people using it are non-bikers)

What side were you on? Stay to the rjght, azzhole.

I don't think this a troll, so fyi, this is rolling coal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY

Canada Girl wrote:

Back when I lived in Edmonton, a random stranger drove by me and called me a b!tch while I was out for a run, on my birthday of all days.

Why were you wearing giant headphones and huge sunglasses? This, friend, is the problem.