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.
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?
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"
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
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
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.
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.
In Germany you can go 122km/h in a 50km/h zone, kill three people while doing so and permanently cripple a fourth one, and still you get your driver's license back just like that, because you claim that you need a car for work: https://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/rentner-fuhr-drei-franzosen-tot-doch-kriegt-fuehrerschein-zurueck-zr-91815963.html
In the same article it references a guy who tried to escape the police while being high on cocaine and alcohol and killed a 14yo by running him over. He was sentenced for murder, but also got his license back after 5 years.
You can run a red light in a 40 ton truck and kill a pedestrian right in front of his wife, and you can just keep your driver's license without restrictions, because "nobody would benefit from putting the truck driver out of work": https://archive.is/W59hd
Germany is certainly not a good example for that kind of stuff. Germany is the carbrain capitol of Europe.
Damn... The more I hear about stuff like this the more I like the Danish police and traffic laws... They certainly aren't perfect, but man is most of the rest of the world a shit show when it comes to that.
In Denmark 3 km/h above the limit can get you a ticket. 30% above will get you a "point" to your drivers license and a much larger fine. 60% above and you will immediately lose your license and a large fine or potentially prison.
A "point" stays on your license for 3 years, and it you get 6 cuts, you lose your license.
I haven't heard of anyone keeping their license "because they needed it"... You just have to bike, or take public transport.
You also get a point for many other offenses, such as using a handheld phone, crossing on red, tailgating, driving the wrong way, or many other things.
The first 3 years after getting your license, the limit is lower at 4 points, and if you lose your license and get a new license the limit is only 3 points.
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.
No you don't, there are ample examples of people keeping their license despite killing someone. A guy from my school got killed. He crossed the street on green, the cars had red. Some idiot sped over the red light, must have been way faster than 50. Guy was immeditely dead. Idiot kept his driving license because the poor poor guy needed it.
“How am I meant to hit you?”
-A person who has just hit someone...twice.
Dude is being really chill when the driver basically committed attempted murder.
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.
A Mercedes driver being a cunt? Wow, never seen that before 🤣
At least he used his indicators, which is a minor miracle.
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).
This guys video channel was just him waiting for this to happen
Good.
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.
This is one of the reasons Europeans claim to have freedoms USAmericans don't.
But yeah, context matters.
I don't have to imagine it; I've lived it. Twice. I wasn't shot either time.
Hard to say what the police would've done in the US of A
They would have put the cyclist in jail
After a bit of a beating, the violence of which is scaled by skin color, of course.
not hard
They wouldn't have even shown up.
Police show up
"Sir, this is a bike lane."
Good to see he was not left alone.
Why is it always the kind of person you think it's gonna be? I mean, always. One can match the level of inconsiderable idiocy from car models alone.
Imagine knowing you're wrong and persist and insist this much in continuing to do the wrong thing in front of everyone, so that everyone can behold the thing that everyone knows that is wrong for you to be doing, and you still continue to do the wrong thing that you know that everyone knows that you know that is wrong to do. No? Hurts your brain, doesn't it?
Now... Why is his license plate blurred in the video? Does this level of inconsiderate behaviour deserve that level of consideration in return?
Why is his license plate blurred in the video?
Especially when he read it out loud lol
Thank you for pointing that out to me because I really missed that.
That does make blurring the license plate hilariously futile. Well, unless people need to go get their ears checked or cleaned like me.
Thanks again. You gave me something to laugh and something to worry about.
Cheers.
My observation is that the more expensive the car, the more entitled the driver.
It's Science: the fancier the car, the shittier the driver.
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/Rich-peo.html
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?'
I don't like making generalisations...
But...
I agree.
There is absolutely an observable correlation there. And mentioning exceptions will only prove the rule.
Fitting he's in a Benz.
This was satisfying to watch
This is such a hero villain situation. Bravo to those cyclists who stood their ground.
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).
To the UK's credit, police will prosecute drivers using video evidence, so "CyclingMikey" does this stuff all day long.
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