• ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      10 months ago

      Thank you for finding/posting a version without shitty music that makes it harder to hear what people are saying.

    • MrSmith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      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”

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      410·
      10 months ago

      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

      • gurnu@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
        122·
        10 months ago

        Good thing they’re not in an undeveloped backwater piece of shit country like the US

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    622·
    10 months ago

    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

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      10 months ago

      Then the news would report you as a protester, because running over protesters is now socially acceptable in this land of freedom.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    441·
    10 months ago

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

  • Ex Nummis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    442·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • gurnu@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      429·
      10 months ago

      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

      • jimjam5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Nice. The word “fucking” here isn’t an adjective, it’s a verb.

      • buttnugget@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
        32·
        10 months ago

        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.

          • buttnugget@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
            21·
            10 months ago

            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.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

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

  • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    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).