No, it has everything to do with it. You go out looking to yank someone's chain and you're going to find trouble. It's not like he beat the kid or anything. He gave him what he damn well deserved, a good tongue lashing. If I had called my mother up in that situation at age 14, the conversation would have gone something like this:
Me: Mom, this cop is giving me a hard time about skateboarding.
Mom: Were you skateboarding where you're not supposed to?
Me: Yeah, but...
Mom: Well, when you get home you'll get it even worse from me. And when your dad hears about this...
Me: (to cop) Sir, please take me to jail.
I never really understood this mentality that it was cool to be rude to people and try to get them pissed off. Like I said, you get what you give.
Last weekend on the CSC ride I unfortunately witnessed bad behavior on the part of some of our members. We pulled into a gas station and had quite a few bikes. We were blocking one entrance to the gas station from an adjoining parking lot. A guy in a car pulled up and wanted to get into the gas station but a couple of bikes made it impossible for him to get through. I watched for a few seconds, hoping the bikes' owners would notice and push their bikes off to the side so he could get by. They didn't notice. So I walked over and suggested that they move their bikes. It would have taken nothing, but the response was something to the effect that the guy could go around the other way. The guy in the car, patiently waiting up to this point, finally ran out of patience and drove around the other side of the gas station.
Now, here was a chance for some motorcyclists to make a positive impression on a cager with very little effort on their part. But instead, they acted like inconsiderate dicks and pissed the guy off for no reason. I guess they thought it was cool to be an ass about it. Now we have another cager with a negative experience with motorcyclists when it would have been easy to make the situation turn out to be a positive one for us. Being a rude ass isn't cool. Being considerate to fellow citizens is cool.
Dirk