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A MAN was provoked into an act of road rage when a woman made a “small penis” hand gesture made popular by a road safety campaign, a court was told.

Simon Jardak was today convicted and fined $400 for maliciously destroying or damaging property after throwing a bottle out his window at the car of a woman who was waggling her little finger at him. The hand gesture was the basis of a New South Wales “Speeding. No one thinks big of you” road safety advertising campaign where it is used to mock men speeding (watch video of the ad below.) 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 (Roads and Traffic Authority ) 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 shouldn’t 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.  see the full article here