If you pave it, they will drive on it—even if it's a bike path. That is the lesson proven once more in a video posted today by bike commuter Steven Stone. Riding to work on the recently completed Pulaski Bridge bike path this morning, the Greenpoint resident encountered a putz behind the wheel of a Volkswagen sedan taking up almost all of both of the bike-only lanes.

Describing the moments before he pressed record, Stone said:

I was just minding my own business, generally, going over the bridge. I thought maybe it was a DOT vehicle or a cop, because I’ve seen that before. [No,] this is definitely not some professional person driving over here, definitely some civilian. I started recording, mind blown.

When the driver came up behind a cyclist, so astoundingly prodigious was the driver's sense of entitlement that he started flashing his lights at the bike-rider.

"Unreal," Stone said.

Also, there was an "OFFICIAL CLERGY BUSINESS" placard on the dash, "so clearly this was a godly event."

The new separated, protected, bidirectional bike lane on the Pulaski Bridge is open, #BikeNYC! pic.twitter.com/nwXvElbZE6 — Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) April 23, 2016

Stone said that the lone flexible plastic bollard placed at the Long Island City entrance where this nincompoop seems to have driven onto the path is missing. There is no bollard on the Greenpoint end, meaning cyclists were likely deprived of the schadenfreude of watching Driver Von Drive-Anywhere having to drive back across the bridge in reverse.

Stone isn't sure exactly how the rest of the out-of-bounds excursion played out, as he was running late for work. In retrospect, he wishes he had channeled the righteous indignation of Russia's Stop a Douchebag movement, whose members block the paths of wayward drivers, place giant stickers on their windshields, and force them to go back the way they came.

Stone lives near the foot of the Pulaski Bridge, and watched the often-delayed construction of the new path, first proposed in 2012. No stranger to driver incompetence clogging up bike lanes, he never considered this particular scenario until today.

"I never imagined them needing to drive on the bike path," he said. "It's one of those things you don’t expect to see, especially because it’s very obviously designated for bikes only."

This isn't this vehicle's first walk on the wild side, as it were: State records show that the owner of the VW owes $75 for someone running a red light on Beach Channel Drive back in March.

We've reached out to the NYPD for comment on whether any enforcement action might be taken against this maniacal motorist, and the DOT for clarity on what's going on with the bollard, and why more solid ones weren't installed as part of the path's design. We'll update if we hear back.