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[–] 149 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck these entitled twats.

Power to this dude and the fellow cyclist for standing up to this bullshit💪🍀

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wish he hadn't said no to pressing assault with a deadly weapon charges when the officer offered though

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  • That's the unfortunate reality. You and I and he are sympathetic to other people's space and well-being so it's difficult in the moment to press more serious charges like assault with a deadly weapon when you can hope that the situation and being informed that he COULD have been charged with that will be enough to change his behavior.

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  • [–] 125 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Here's the original video on CyclingMikey's YouTube channel!

    I love his calm and simple approach to calling out dangerous behaviour from motorists.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man, I wouldn't have been able to stay that calm. That comes from years of practice in dealing with these knobs. I would have been sorely tempted to grab that door and yank it forwards, which would only make matters worse.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I’m always ambivalent. Yeah he’s right, and those drivers need to be called out, and traffic enforcement clearly isn’t doing anything … but he’s being stubborn, risking his life, when the guy is only getting a small ticket. You know he’s just going to be ragier next time. Here in the US I can’t see it going that well

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  • [–] 106 points 1 year ago*

    “How am I meant to hit you?”
    -A person who has just hit someone...twice.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago

    Dude is being really chill when the driver basically committed attempted murder.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He smacked the cyclist with his car, twice, on purpose, while in a bike labe he drove into, also on purpose.

    If this was Denmark he'd lose his car and the license to even own one.

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  • [+] -25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He should lose his life. He threatened to kill him TWICE with his vehicle while he was in the wrong and actively breaking the law, he has no right to live. Hang him and throw him in a trash heap

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Nope, not even close. I'm just not a pussy who would let someone willing to threaten someone else with a two ton vehicle keep living. But hey, you keep being a pussy if it makes your worthless life easier. Maybe go jump in front of a car

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @gurnu @WorldsDumbestMan Misogyny is part of why so many men buy oversized cars and drive them aggressively. Find a better insult that actually focuses shame on the person behaving badly.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Imagine someone wishing death on you, because you are level headed, and realized that executing everyone who does something wrong, is not the way. I hate that guy as much as the next one, but I at least managed to hold back from wishing death on him.

    This guy is just rampaging around, probably stubbed his toe or something.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    Police show up

    "Sir, this is a bike lane."

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure in my country the police would have just tased the cyclist 😢

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    To the UK's credit, police will prosecute drivers using video evidence, so "CyclingMikey" does this stuff all day long.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    This wasn't even a one off. This guys video channel was just him waiting for this to happen and it happened very frequently. I do remember seeing several where the police weren't really that supportive (probably as, though it made a point it was basically planned confrontation for video views).

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  • Damn, that's pretty hardcore. When I was watching the above video, I thought "he's perhaps a bit stupid to put himself in harms way like that and to draw the ire of assholes, but also he seems like he knows how dangerous it is and thus I gotta respect him for his resolve". Learning that he does this often caused me to think the same thought, but an order of magnitude stronger. What a silly, principled badass. I hope that some day, people like him won't feel it necessary to resort to vigilantism.

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  • [+] -54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

    See, that's the point where my sympathy evaporates. As soon as you set out to trap the desperate, you're nothing more than a predator.

    Edit: Ooh, kicked the nest! Sorry folks, but if this were a pedestrian stopping cyclists from illegally mounting the pavement I suspect there'd be a different tune (I am a pedestrian who routinely has to deal with shitty cyclists mounting the pavement to skip traffic, or lights, when I'm on my way to work).

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The desperate lol, you mean people intentionally breaking the law in their car?

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Blocking a vehicle from going the wrong way and potentially hurting someone is not the same as blocking someone for no reason.

    The guy in a Mercedes who is breaking the law because he's an angry asshole just needs to be stopped.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh cut the bullshit. He took his car on a non-car pathway.

    There's no "trapping" here, all people have to do to not show up on his chan is follow basic fuckin' road laws. This is the same sort of whinge that claims speed cameras are traps.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm going to guess they might not show up on the channel if, when confronted, they went "Oh I fucked up. Sorry." and safely remedied the situation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    i've been watching mikey for a while and he would 100% at least blur identifying features and make it clear that the person realized they did something wrong.

    but that doesn't excuse them still fucking doing it, so it might very well still be posted to youtube

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Disagree with the first bit. They have a chance to make a little bit of positive change, and they do. Good on them.

    Super feel you on the last bit though. Happens at least once a day to me. I even have some low level chronic pain from a cyclist hitting me a few years back. I really wish the anti car community was ready to address this problem.

    Conclusion: like, both are bad. Just because the latter is bad and there's many apologists for the latter doesn't mean it's not right to call out car drivers for this egoistical behavior. Even those who don't realise that both are bad (there's many of them, I know) are your allies in this. How'd you feel if a pedestrian managed to get a cyclist prosecuted for this behavior? Would you see them as a predator?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I really wish the anti car community was ready to address this problem.

    What do you think pushing for separate infrastructure for cyclists is, if not that? Nobody wants to ride on a sidewalk trying to dodge pedestrians; it happens when cyclists are forced off the street by drivers and have nowhere else to go.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    As a matter of experience, cyclists will use the sidewalk right next to the cycle path if it means they can skip a red light or makes their path 10m shorter. Or even just because. Or to pass a stopped tram, people getting off it be damned. These are all things that happen daily in my city, the very last one has caused the collision that left me with chronic pain.

    Endangering others for your convenience is nobody's right.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yo, not what I'm saying. The person in the video didn't manufactor a dangerous situation, the driver created it and the filmer called it out and shames the driver publicly. It's the only way some people learn, so, good on the filmer. Next time you get endangered by a cyclist on the sidewalk, feel free to do the same.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wild seeing police do anything constructive.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They're not US police. That's probably why the video didn't end in everyone getting shot.

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  • UK police can be absolute shits too. Policing as a profession can attract people who absolutely should not have power over others, and the culture within the police can promote pretty fucked up attitudes in ppreviously decent people; it's qualitatively the same pernicious problems that we see in the US, albeit to a much milder degree.

    General condemnation of the police aside, I'm glad to see how this particular incident was handled.

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    There's no justifiable reason for the driver to still be allowed to drive, the only reasonable consequence for these actions is the permanent loss of their drivers license

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    According to the original video posted elsewhere on this thread, he got fined a whopping £140.

    £50 for driving like a twat, and £90 for trying to run the cameraman over.

    Being drunk at the wheel is about the only sure fire way to lose your license in the UK.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I just saw an article about Emma Watson losing her license because of speeding?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    She did a lot of speeding. And lost her license for 6 months.

    As a comparison my missus has been driving since Emma was in the first movie and has one speeding fine and no points on the license because it was by such a small amount.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    this is so foreign to me. 38mph in a 30, and 3 points and license lost (due to a previous 9 point total)

    in Canada, going 63 in a 50 km/h zone is the expectation. you will never get a ticket for that, let alone pulled over, other than automated speed cameras (which are clearly warned about in advance and identifiable)

    I wish we stuck to the rules like that. don't make it a 50 if you're not going to enforce it - it's a false sense of safety

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If people are routinely speeding, the road is too wide.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    For sure, I-88 in upstate New York is the road that always gets me. So straight and wide, great visibility,no traffic, very little population, towns are few and far between, built for speed. It’s painful to hold to the limit, painful to hold to my standard +8. Even worse, it was 55mph for the longest time.

    And I’m sure highways in the Midwest are much worse

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago

    A Mercedes driver being a cunt? Wow, never seen that before 🤣
    At least he used his indicators, which is a minor miracle.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hard to say what the police would've done in the US of A

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He doesn't need a ticket. They should seize his car and sell it and take his license forever.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm thinking the appropriate punishment is being drawn and quartered...except between four cybertrucks.

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  • [+] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why is his license plate blurred in the video?

    Especially when he read it out loud lol

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And why doesn't that reg no show up in the MOT history search?

    Did he manage to crash and write it off before it needed an MOT?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    UK privacy laws. the driver may have had an attorney come after the biker and clean the MOT. This seems like malicious compliance on Mikeys part to me...

    Now I'm wondering if the carbrain is someone "important".

    Edit: just checked the YouTube video, it's fully blurred now.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My observation is that the more expensive the car, the more entitled the driver.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    See? It's not bigotry - it's observation.

    Audi were running billboards a few years ago with the slogan 'Born To Lead' - I thought to myself 'is that why they never let you merge in front of them?'

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Fitting he's in a Benz.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Kinda hilarious someone blurred out his license plate but the cyclist reads it out and that was left in.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    This was satisfying to watch

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I was hoping the cyclist would lose his balance and fall on the hood of the car when he was rammed. Not that I want the cyclist injured, of course, but damage to the precious car? I'm all for that.

    I had a road rage incident while I was out riding yesterday - I was in the middle of the lane passing some pedestrians. Note, this is a country road, and there's no sidewalk or even shoulder. It's a pretty popular cycling route, but it's the first time I've seen people walking there (I'm not even sure where they were going). Some jackass rolled up right behind me and blew the horn, as I was next to the pedestrians. I gave the "what the hell" gesture, then after I passed the pedestrians, I moved closer to the right edge of the lane, and he swerved over to run me off the road.

    Set a few PRs after that incident. lol Later, the rear derailleur cable broke, and I got rained on, so the end of the ride was less great than the rest of it (which was a pretty good ride aside from those incidents).

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Good to see he was not left alone.

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