MADISON (WKOW) -- A man called Madison police Friday after a driver threatened him with a gun while he tried to cross the street.

The man walked across East Washington Avenue at the Wright Street intersection just before 2:30 a.m., according to a Madison police incident report.

A driver stopped his car very close to the crosswalk on a red light and the man decided to brush up against the car.

"Words were exchanged, and the two men appeared ready for a fistfight," police said. The driver pulled out a handgun and held it in the air.

"Thinking better of the situation, the pedestrian finished crossing the street and called the MPD," police wrote.