Angry Driver Attacks Cyclist... [NSFW - Swearing]

[NorvernRob]

As soon as that bloke swung a punch I would have been off the bike windmilling him. Self defence. I'm no 6'5 bruiser but I wouldn't take being bullied like that by a complete twat who would probably have a heart attack as soon as you dug him one in the chops.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Pevensey. Classic Sussex sense of entitlement nobber-driver / cyclist interaction. Shame we don't see the prelude though. One for http://www.operationcrackdown.org/

 

[Cuchilo]

I wouldn't be able to stop myself calling him a self-gratification artist as I cycled off

 

[glenn forger]

I'd like to think the driver will get arrested and charged, appear in the press and tv media and become a familiar face to people in the area who will take every opportunity to bellow "W@NKER!" at him all day every day.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

These days unless an incident is really dangerous I tend to ignore, but if I had seen him ahead I would have got of the bike first then let him have a go, its difficult whilst still attached to the bike, I have took a few blows over the years and surprised the person who throw the punch as I carried on as nothing had happened, I might look slender but I have worked in some hard industries (creel fishing, weighing in 50-70 Kg baskets of iced prawns ect.., roping and sheeting flat bed wagons, carrying 1/2Wgt bags of whelks over rough Sottish shorelines for up to 2 miles)

 

[OurJud]

All joking aside that must have been a pretty frighting incident for the cyclist... that is, if like 5000tears and myself, you go out of your way to avoid confrontations.

Another thing to consider is that 'teaching him a lesson' by putting him on his arse could have consequences that don't bear thinking about. Verbally give it back by all means, but then you risk a good smack in the gob which, again, could lead down a very ugly road for everyone.

 

[MarkF]

The problem with this is that many cyclists, me very much included, couldn't fight there way out of a paper bag. So whilst I have made gestures at times when I have been endangered by motorists, if push came to shove I am in no position to get into a brawl.

Well said 5000tears, a lot of people in similar threads would do "this" and would do "that". I avoid confrontation nowadays, but, I am capable and being hit doesn't send me into shock. If a person is not capable, not used to fighting, or being hit, then a smack on the conk will send them into shock and things can very quickly get worse for them.

If you are not familiar with fighting in your everyday life, why would you be any good at it in daft driver/cyclist scrap?

All joking aside that must have been a pretty frighting incident for the cyclist... that is, if like 5000tears and myself, you go out of your way to avoid confrontations.

Another thing to consider is that 'teaching him a lesson' by putting him on his arse could have consequences that don't bear thinking about. Verbally give it back by all means, but then you risk a good smack in the gob which, again, could lead down a very ugly road for everyone.

Yes, I wouldn't have hit him because I would have been afraid that at his age and state of excitement, it might have killed him.

 

[Dragonwight]

My wife reckons he sounds like Angry Kid, he certainly acts like he has a butt plug inserted.

 

[Roadrider48]

Why do cars massively change most peoples personality?

 

[Cubist]

So, yet another reason to implore folk not to call out, gesticulate, abuse and generally invite trouble. Only a very minor percentage of people will react like the angry man in the clip, and as posters have made clear above, many commuter cyclists are neither equipped nor disposed to backing their words up when toe to toe.

The angry man was wrong, but he wouldn't have got out of the car if he hadn't been called a self-gratification artist.

 

[50000tears]

The problem with striking out against a guy of this age is that you immediately turn yourself into the aggressor and him into the victim. You can see the headlines now "cyclist thug assaults innocent grandfather of 4 in unprovoked attack".

Most of us don't carry recording equipment to show the true story.

In this situation I wouldn't have stopped and just ridden by. If he tried to take me off the bike then even mild mannered me would lose it big time!

 

[Sara_H]

Love to know what provoked that. Thought he was going have a heart attack. Fakking Cant!

 

[glenn forger]

Driver jumped a red, encroached an asl.

Foul-mouthed driver, meet the internet:

 

[MontyVeda]

As soon as that bloke swung a punch I would have been off the bike windmilling him. Self defence. I'm no 6'5 bruiser but I wouldn't take being bullied like that by a complete twat who would probably have a heart attack as soon as you dug him one in the chops.

Yup, this is one scenario which you could ponder over... sitting in a prison cell and wondering "What should or could I have done differently?"

 

[Matthew_T]

Driver jumped a red, encroached an asl.

Thats one thing that always gets me. As I understand it, crossing the first line of the ASL is jumping a red isnt it? It doesnt matter if they stop at the second, they have still jumped the lights and are now blocking the ASL.
Is this right? Or is jumping for first line classed as a minor traffic offence, and jumping the second is a major?