{"id":194877833,"date":"2011-03-06T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T12:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194877833"},"modified":"2011-03-06T12:43:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T12:43:53","slug":"cyclist-attacked-after-asking-driver-to-put-phone-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194877833","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist Attacked After Asking Driver To &#8216;Put Phone Away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. &#8212; A father and daughter are accused of assaulting a 13-year-old cyclist after he told them to watch out for cyclists on the road.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHartley, a competitive cyclist who trains every day with a daily 10-mile round trip, said a white pickup truck came within a foot of him and passed by. Hartley said he met up with the truck at the next stop light and noticed the driver looking at his phone and texting.<br \/>\n&quot;I just tapped him and said, \u2018You almost hit me back there. Could you put the phone away?\u2019 And he told me, \u2018Pull over.\u2019 He was going to talk to me,&quot; Brody Hartley said.<br \/>\nBrody said he pulled over at a gas station just up the road and pickup truck driver, 45-year old William Tinnell, got out of the vehicle, enraged.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was just saying I shouldn&#8217;t be on the road, it&#8217;s not a vehicle. I shouldn&#8217;t be on the road because I\u2019m a kid,&quot; Hartley said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/27080535\/detail.html\">https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/27080535\/detail.html<\/a>oldId.20110306124353566<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. &#8212; A father and daughter are accused of assaulting a 13-year-old cyclist after he told them to watch out for cyclists on the road. &#8230; Hartley, a competitive cyclist who trains every day with a daily 10-mile round trip, said a white pickup truck came within a foot of him and passed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194877833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cyclist Attacked After Asking Driver To &#8216;Put Phone Away&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194877833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194877833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194877833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194877833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194877833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194877833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194877833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}