Woman's 'small penis' slur from ad leads to road rage

His dick must be real tiny!

WOMAN giving another motorist the “small penis” hand gesture – popularised by a driver safety advertising campaign – provoked him lash out in an act of road rage, a court heard.

Simon Jardak was yesterday convicted and fined $400 for maliciously damaging property after throwing a bottle out his window in anger because the RTA hand gesture offended him.

The hand gesture was the basis of a New South Wales advertising campaign against speeding.

Jardak told Balmain Local Court that he felt emasculated by the woman’s hand gesture while driving over the Anzac Bridge in August.

“She started doing that hand gesture, you know, the RTA one,” Jardak told Magistrate Bill Bryden.

“And it offended me… because of, you know, ‘small’… she implied I had a small penis.”

Mr Bryden said that the hand gesture may not be appropriate, but Jardak should not have thrown the bottle out of his window.

“I’m not saying in any way that (the hand gesture) was justified,” Mr Bryden said.

“(But) too often we see people who are reckless with their actions

“It was a stupid piece of behaviour by the accused.”

Jardak, who pleaded guilty to the crime, said that he accepted that it was a “stupid” way to vent his rage.