Bizarre Behavior: Driver Takes Cruise on W+OD

You're cruising along one morning, commuting by bike on the W+OD Trail, when you run into a car.

You read that right: A car.

That's what happened as one cyclist was traveling the trail last week. In a YouTube video, reposted by Vienna's Spokes Etc., a local bicyclist with a handlebar camera comes upon a black sedan, idling in the middle of a trail also being used by bicyclists and runners.

Though the video lacks sound (watch in media player at right), the bicyclist apparently asked what the driver was doing, to which the driver responded "I'm lost."

The bicyclist suggested turning around and then followed the car a ways down the trail until the car exited into a pulloff area, which connected to a nearby neighborhood.

Commenters on Spokes Etc.'s Facebook page said this isn't the first time it's happened: Last year in Vienna, a man apparently tried to cut through to Cedar Lane using the trail, one user wrote.

Others reported seeing cars on the W&OD just west of Route 28 in Ashburn, and along various other entrances to that trail and the Capital Crescent Trail, too.

How would you handle a car on the trail? Is this a random occurence or something you've seen yourself? Tell us in the comments.

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