Another carbrain ready to kill innocent people

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.

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.
- 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"
- 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

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

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.

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.
  
  I just saw an article about Emma Watson losing her license because of speeding?
- 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.
  
  Proper action right here. I wish the states took away drivers licences for road rage like this.
  
  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.
- Best I can do is a ticket this Mercedes owner wont even notice /s

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

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

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.
- 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)

Police show up
"Sir, this is a bike lane."

But... He has to go to work, you guys. SMH my fucking head.
- You're shaking your head your fucking head?
  
  damn right
  
  What other kind of head would you shake?
  
  Nice. The word “fucking” here isn’t an adjective, it’s a verb.
  
  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.

This was satisfying to watch

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

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.
- 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.
- 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).
  
  The desperate lol, you mean people intentionally breaking the law in their car?
  
  Haha "the desperate" is what you call entitled shitasses who can't drive properly?
  
  the desperate
  A yes the poor desperate Mercedes drivers trying to vehicular manslaughter someone for being stubborn (but right)
  
  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.
  
  A "predator" who keeps drivers from driving in the bike lanes forcing them to... hit people with cars and threaten them with their fists instead of simply turning around and following the law.
  
  set out to trap the desperate
  
  A cyclist would leave that part of the pavement and continue biking. I'm guessing that they also wouldn't try hitting people with their bike which also doesn't pay 2 tons.
  
  The impatient
  
  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?

Wild seeing police do anything constructive.
- They're not US police. That's probably why the video didn't end in everyone getting shot.
  
  Actually, shortly after the recording was stopped some vacationing US cops heard an acorn drop nearby and shot 2 cyclists and one UK officer
  
  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.

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.
- They wouldn't have even shown up.
- not hard

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

Fitting he's in a Benz.

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.
  
  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?
- 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
  
  I don't like making generalisations...
  But...
  I agree.
  There is absolutely an observable correlation there. And mentioning exceptions will only prove the rule.
- I like cars, and even some luxury cars...
  but it takes a special type of person to purchase a car that's 2-3x as expensive as a basic commuter to own and costs 2x to operate.
  Think about all the Hellcats you see (not luxury... but)... 70k and under 10mpg for a fuckin 2 door
  
  Yup. It does, doesn't it?
  I know people with a lot of money to their name who buy second hand just to get around, and people with not much that end up with barely a cent to spare because they're paying a loan to own a car they couldn't really afford. Go figure.
  "It takes a special type of person"- as you said.
  Also, my comment wasn't a dig at people for liking or enjoying cars at all. It's about specific ones and how they're being driven around... we see them around right?
  It's the same with motorcycles to.
  The problem is never the vehicles themselves, obviously, it's the idiots that get drawn to them and ruin what others might enjoy in them as well.

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).

Kinda hilarious someone blurred out his license plate but the cyclist reads it out and that was left in.
- Broad censorship can die, but personal protection is a good thing, usually. Hopefully this leak didn't result in much.

Good to see he was not left alone.

This is such a hero villain situation. Bravo to those cyclists who stood their ground.

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.

At first I thought surely this is staged for the video (what social media makes us question these days) but the police showing up made me believe. What an idiot driver.

I had someone do this recently in Central London. I swerved on my bike but the truck behind stood their ground.

In British parlance 'what a cunt'

I don't understand why he didn't get a U-lock in the teeth. Honestly, though, he's attacking cyclists with his car, and he got to leave completely uninjured and with no damage to his vehicle.
- Then the cyclist gets hit with an assault charge. Police response looked prompt and legally correct from the video, so absolutely the right call to handle it completely legally.
  
  Cyclist was struck (iirc) three times while bystanders witnessed and shouted at him. At this time there was no indication there would be timely police intervention. I'm not advocating, I'm just finding it surprising. If it was one skater getting attacked in front of other skaters, by a dude driving in a skate park, I feel like there would be a set of trucks through that window.
- Assault with a deadly weapon. The driver should get charged.

What is this criminal class we allowed to fester!? We need to report all of these scum, don't let any get away!

Classic entitlement and ego. In different scenarios, Darwinism would remove the drivers genes from the gene pool

wasn't this a longish time ago

Oh that windshield would be toast. I carry a buck knife with a window punch on the end.
- That would be sweet but then police would arrest you too. This is the best outcome.
  
  Police in the US probably wouldn't even bother to respond, unless it was a lawmaker or CEO.
- Ah yes, escalation is always better
  
  IdK man, seems like his vehicular assault was the escalation.
  
  What a pussy you are. What's a pasty little removed going to do after they get out of their car? Whine like you and then cry some more?

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.