This guy got off light.

If you’re into blood and gore, take look at Mediamatic’s Sur Place exhibition on Bike Crash Portraits. People with crushed faces after they get hit by cars or fly over the handlebars. A lot of them look like self-portraits taken in hospital bathroom mirrors. Each portrait has the brief story behind the crash. Brutal stuff.

A man in Jeep Grand Cherokee began yelling at a cyclist for ‘riding his bike on the road’ in Colorado Springs. Things escalated when the duo stopped at an intersection to exchange words, and the driver eventually pulled a gun on the biker. At least the cyclist in Colorado didn’t get shot like this poor guy in North Carolina.

This is where the story gets crazy – in spite of the driver waving a gun in his face, the biker gets out his phone and snaps a photo of the enraged motorist’s license plate. Both take off, but the driver is later arrested hiding in the backyard of his house. Would have been a better ending to the story if the driver was shot down in a halo of gunfire from a squad of bike police.