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Pretty sure in my country the police would have just tased the cyclist 😢
Then the news would report you as a protester, because running over protesters is now socially acceptable in this land of freedom.
Fuck these entitled twats.
Power to this dude and the fellow cyclist for standing up to this bullshit💪🍀
Wish he hadn’t said no to pressing assault with a deadly weapon charges when the officer offered though
I applaud the dude for doing this, really, but I honestly wouldn’t be ready to throw my life away that easily. Imagine the situation if this was in the US instead of the UK and someone was carrying.
I don’t have to imagine it; I’ve lived it. Twice. I wasn’t shot either time.
This is one of the reasons Europeans claim to have freedoms USAmericans don’t.
But yeah, context matters.
“How am I meant to hit you?”
-A person who has just hit someone…twice.Here’s the original video on CyclingMikey’s YouTube channel!
I love his calm and simple approach to calling out dangerous behaviour from motorists.
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.
It’s even more impressive when you learn his father was killed by a careless driver.
His calmness, actually, ensured that the driver was immediately identified as the perpetrator without any “let’s see what the bloody cyclist has done now”
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
Good thing they’re not in an undeveloped backwater piece of shit country like the US
Police show up
“Sir, this is a bike lane.”
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
You would actually lose your license in germany over such behaviour. You may get it back, but you need to convince a psychologist beforehaned that you’ve got your temper under control.
Proper action right here. I wish the states took away drivers licences for road rage like this.
sadly true, I could see US cops taking the “well you’re both wrong” tact instead of punishing the one who actually broke the laws.
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.
I just saw an article about Emma Watson losing her license because of speeding?
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.
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
If people are routinely speeding, the road is too wide.
