I DON'T tend to see a lot of this around and about, but I was the victim of it recently.

I was out cycling with a mate when we stopped to fix his bike. Suddenly, I was hit on the leg by something and at first I thought it was a passing car that had flicked up a stone.

Looking down, I saw that I had been 'egged' - yes, someone had thrown an egg at me from a passing car.

By the time I had got up and turned around, the car was in the distance and unfortunately I couldn't get the registration number.

It was painful for a few minutes and I was left with a bruise, but what if the next victim gets it in the face?

These nutters don't realise that someone could get seriously hurt.

My advice to them if this is the latest craze is - get a life, have you nothing better to do than cruise the streets with half a dozen eggs as ammunition against some poor unsuspecting person?

Keep on doing it and you will get caught eventually.

GORDON HARDMAN

Bury