Originally Posted by
SHBR
Harassment is somewhat subjective.
Far too many people get hung up on words, its the actions that matter.
Deliberate attempts to cause a crash should never be ignored.
Actions that fall short of deliberate attempts to cause a crash also matter. Blasting people with airhorns at short range, close-passing them, screaming at them at close range out of a passenger window and swerving so as to appear to be about to hit the cyclist cannot "objectively" be defended as serving any purpose but to intimidate and/or endanger the cyclist.
There's also what I would consider petty harassment--unnecessary honking when the cyclist is doing nothing wrong, yelling epithets, deliberately speeding up to cut off the cyclist at a driveway, etc. They may or may not qualify as legal harassment, but I certainly reserve the right to respond proportionally.