SoCal bicyclists are not happy to be victims of a new viral trend: the ‘butt dart’

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Cyclists in Orange County are freaking out about a new online trend: the butt dart.

The guy behind the butt dart, Chad Towersey, said he came up with pointing a finger gun at passing cyclists and making a shooting noise because he saw so many of them disobeying the rules of the road and he wanted to do something about it.

A few examples of the butt dart:

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“Please ride safe and obey the rules of the road — That is all we ask,” he wrote in one of his Instagram posts.  But not everyone is on board. A law firm is considering filing a lawsuit against Towersey.

“What we want is for (Towersey) to denounce this,” Gven Sariol, a cycling safety advocate at the Sariol Legal firm in Santa Ana told the Orange County Register.

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But, they might have a hard time with that as law officials say there is nothing illegal going on as there is no law against drivers or pedestrians harassing cyclists.

“There are very specific violations of a law that has to take place in order for a criminal report,” Newport Beach police spokeswoman Jennifer Manzella told the paper. “There are a lot of acts that may fall short of that.”

Target practice

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Manzella did recommend that any cyclist who is the victim of a butt dart call police anyway if they fear that a situation may escalate.