What would you do if someone threw a bottle at you?

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Recently a frustrated aspie on the forum expressed his opinion that using violence such as throwing projectile weapons at people is his preferred method for resolving a problem where an annoying person was causing him distress due to the excessive noise his/her motorcycle made when he/she went past his house/flat.

Now, i am not judging the aspie, as i know from my own condition how frustrating it is to put up with sensory overload and triggers.

However, I was thinking what people's reactions would be if they were NT and they rode past on their motorcycle, and someone threw a bottle at them?

Personally, if someone did that to me, i may be inclined to get off my bike and get involved in a fight with the person who threw the bottle. I am not saying that I have a problem with the guy who wrote the recent post, and of course, if i knew that a person had ASD with sensory issues, i would not ride a noisy motorcycle near him, as I would be conscious that it may cause him distress.

But i am trying to get people to see things from the other persons perspective, as well as to help people realise what danger they could be in, as some people in this planet are really aggressive and dangerous.

The police may also consider throwing a bottle at a motorcyclist as extremely dangerous and a judge in a court of law may feel that such actions are enough provocation to start a fight.

Just out of interest.
If someone was swearing at me and started throwing bottles at me, and i didn't understand why
I probably would be offended and their actions may also trigger my sensory overload
Which triggers my fight and flight response, which may very well cause me to fight.

this is how things get out of hand.
Just out of interest.

I'd feel myself get all flustered and yell, "Fracking sch***t!" After that, I'd literally try not to soil myself.

I'd be very tempted to f**k them up.

What kind of beer?

My life is a little bit bigger and richer to worry about some jackass throwing something at me. I would not both to stop.

If it was a nice German beer, I'd drink it. Other than that, I'd get flustered. Some kids threw a drink at me from a car window one time, so I threw the drink at the car of the owner and the cup fell apart and the pop fizzed and splattered all over the car. I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the day.

I would report that person to the police immediately.

If I deserved it then I'll feel guilty, but I wouldn't do anything to deserve having bottles thrown at me in the first place.

If I didn't deserve it, I'll probably be very upset but usually the advice I get here whenever something unfair happens to me is to "move on and not react". But why should people get away with treating me unfairly?

Honestly?

I'd have a meltdown. Probably throw the bottle back.

However I wouldn't be found in that situation in the first place. I don't ride motorbikes.

And it's not likely I would be too noisy for neighbours. I am hyper aware of noise.

Irl me and my neighbours both hate noise. The only times we experience it are 1 if mum's dog's over and barking/if their dog's barking and 2 if either of our TVs is too noisy. We bang on the walls at each other and turn the noise down/calm the dog down. Our TVs end up at the same volume as each other so only the people in the respective houses can hear them.

I imagine that's what's going on for Weirdness: it's a meltdown.

I would put a note in it and throw it back!

I love how the British are able to keep calm and carry on.

In the old days, empty soft drink bottles were like gold to a child. You would turn them into a store and get a nickel and then buy a candy bar. Even today you sometimes see the homeless picking up soft drink cans so they can return them to recycles for cash.

I wish juice vans still existed.

Kids could pick up bottles and clean them out or clean out their own old bottles then take them to the van and they would get them filled up with pop for free.

Wouldn't make it ok to throw bottles at moving vehicles but would make the issue of throwing bottles on the floor slightly less bad.

I'd catch the bottle, rub it and wish for:

1. Lots of money
2. World domination
3. More wishes

Depends on where and if it hit me. I'd be very tempted to throw it back at the moron who threw it.