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He doesn’t need a ticket. They should seize his car and sell it and take his license forever.
This. Maybe only take the license for a few months and make him do a new test. The fact he argues shows his disregard for the rules he agreed to follow by operating the a
dangerous weaponvehicleI’m thinking the appropriate punishment is being drawn and quartered…except between four cybertrucks.
ChatGPT gone wrong.
Police show up
“Sir, this is a bike lane.”
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.
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
Ah, an American.
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
@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.
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.
This is such a hero villain situation. Bravo to those cyclists who stood their ground.
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.
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Imagine if it was all exactly the same… but the driver used the accelerator for an extra couple of seconds.
One’s choice assuming one has no dependents I suppose (but wouldn’t want to grow up without a father for this incident in particular)
This is bad design. If a bike path is large enough for a car to get on it and it is next to a road with bad traffic design that holds up cars you should be able to anticipate someone will create a problem. So you should add some vertical columns in the center. Not very many of them because that’s a nucence. Obviously a clear trail is preferable. But two or three polls will make this a non-issue.
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).
Had to turn it down because of the shitty music but the content itself was great.
This is why I applied for a conceal carry permit because I want a gun on myself legally when I’m biking.
In case someone is frustrated with traffic on the way to work so you have no choice but to personally murder them?
I ride a 6000$ bike. In places where gangs have robbed bikers at gun point. I have also had people try and crash into me with their cars to be dicks about giving space to a bike on the same road. If anyone is going to try and harm me or rob me. I’d like to be prepared legally.
Insurance affordable for the bike? Imagining you succeed fending off a couple gang members but one pulling up the rear unseen executes you or something.
Prob cuz I watched a video where a hero tried to take out a shooter in a grocery store but a second one snuck up behind him, tragic. Stuck with me, now I’m locked in “be a little wimp, give up everything, try to survive” mode (of course the world might not be a perfect place if everyone were like that)
Or you could just have GPS protection on your bike, a dashcam, and that’s it.
Not all solutions need be violent. I support ya in fighting cars, but there are more peaceful solutions that’ll work just as well.
Here’s the original video on CyclingMikey’s YouTube channel!
I love his calm and simple approach to calling out dangerous behaviour from motorists.
Thank you for finding/posting a version without shitty music that makes it harder to hear what people are saying.
Thank you for posting the original. If you hadnt I would have had a hunt and done it myself.
As a general request can ppl post original videos without shitty tick tok music bollocks?
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
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
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.
Wild seeing police do anything constructive.
They’re not US police. That’s probably why the video didn’t end in everyone getting shot.
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.
Actually, shortly after the recording was stopped some vacationing US cops heard an acorn drop nearby and shot 2 cyclists and one UK officer
Naturally. What else would you expect?
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.
But… He has to go to work, you guys. SMH my fucking head.
You’re shaking your head your fucking head?
Nice. The word “fucking” here isn’t an adjective, it’s a verb.
You can say fuck, the fucking fucker’s fucked
People sometimes say SMH like this for emphasis. Another one I’ve seen is “SMHing my SMH”. It’s not meant to be literal. It’s similar to when an acronym becomes its own word, like ATM machine.
HIV virus.
Exactly! It’s similar to that kind of thing.
ATM ain’t an acronym. Neither is SMH.
They are both acronyms.
No. Acronyms are words, it’s in the “nym” part. Initialisms where you pronounce each letter individually are not acronyms, since they ain’t words.
Sorry, that’s not correct. Acronym is the word we use for both when it forms a word and for an initialism. They are all acronyms. Perhaps next you’ll tell me that decimate means reduce by ten percent?
@xeekei@lemmy.zip is right.
An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a single word.
An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or phrase used to save time and space, avoid repetition, or follow convention.
All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms.
SMH and ATM are both abbreviations. NASA, radar, laser etc. are all acronyms.
Ah, the “language evolves” defence. How come everytime it evolves it’s in the less useful direction?
ATM machine
😰
I don’t know what that emoji means, sorry. Have you never encountered this before? Acronyms sometimes transition into their own words that are divorced from the original meaning.
ATM originally meant automated teller machine, but after it took on its own separate word identity, people started adding in machine. It’s weird If you know the original acronym, but it’s a natural phenomenon.
It’s a weird fucking acronym. I have never in my life hear a person actually say “shaking my head” but apparently some people say it SO FUCKING MUCH that I was seeing “SMH” for ten years before I even knew what it meant.
damn right
What other kind of head would you shake?
Buy me a drink first, tiger.
In British parlance ‘what a cunt’
