Read the police report (linked in other commments). Author was buzzed and buzzing around, and creatively left a few important details out of his story.
(not saying the police report is 100% of the story either of course)
Re:Good Samaritan Backfire
by icebraining on Sunday March 30, 2014 @01:08PM
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What makes you think that the police didn't creatively add a few details to the story?
I find the sequence of events the author was subjected to is impossible to justify with any conceivable amount of being "smug and obnoxious". This is behavior that should be reserved for dangerous, combative criminals (and probably not even then), certainly not bystanders who are merely annoying.