Fuck these entitled twats.
Power to this dude and the fellow cyclist for standing up to this bullshit💪🍀
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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.
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“How am I meant to hit you?”
-A person who has just hit someone...twice.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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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.
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Police show up
"Sir, this is a bike lane."
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).
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.
This guys video channel was just him waiting for this to happen
Good.
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He doesn't need a ticket. They should seize his car and sell it and take his license forever.
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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?
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Fitting he's in a Benz.
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