LB10SFJ very NSFW swears and tantrums

[User16625]

Was like a scene from a Guy Ritchie movie........get the kettle on Errol

I agree. Cyclist should av stuck his head in the door:

 

[theclaud]

It may not come across well when viewed idly and at leisure on the interwebs, but in my view the cyclist made exactly the right call by going completely ballistic back at this horrible man. The driver was counting on being able to tyrannize the cyclist, and was clearly wrong-footed by being given as good as he got. I've said this before, but your mum was right about bullies - they are cowards, and the best strategy is to stand up to them. I've noticed that car drivers who abuse me are often terrified if I catch them at the lights and tap on the window, although as I don't look very big and scary I generally find calm psycho or blatant contempt modes more effective than throwing a mahoosive sweary wobbler. I'm saving that one up for a situation when it is really called for, like the one we are discussing.

 

[martint235]

It may not come across well when viewed idly and and leisure on the interwebs, but in my view the cyclist made exactly the right call by going completely ballistic back at this horrible man. The driver was counting on being able to tyrannize the cyclist, and was clearly wrong-footed by being given as good as he got. I've said this before, but your mum was right about bullies - they are cowards, and the best strategy is to stand up to them. I've noticed that car drivers who abuse me are often terrified if I catch them at the lights and tap on the window, although as I don't look very big and scary I generally find calm psycho or blatant contempt modes more effective than throwing a mahoosive sweary wobbler. I'm saving that one up for a situation when it is really called for, like the one we are discussing.

I find that when I catch them up at lights, there's always something profoundly interesting directly in front of them that means they won't even look out of the side window. Because of this, I've found that putting my bike in the road in front of their car gives them something to look at while I continue tapping on the window asking ever so politely if they wouldn't mind stepping out of said vehicle for a quiet chat. It's still amazing how few of them will even wind down the window, very depressing.

 

[theclaud]

I find that when I catch them up at lights, there's always something profoundly interesting directly in front of them that means they won't even look out of the side window. Because of this, I've found that putting my bike in the road in front of their car gives them something to look at while I continue tapping on the window asking ever so politely if they wouldn't mind stepping out of said vehicle for a quiet chat. It's still amazing how few of them will even wind down the window, very depressing.

If ever you do decide to throw a mahoosive sweary wobbler, please catch it on camera.

 

[ianrauk]

If ever you do decide to throw a mahoosive sweary wobbler, please catch it on camera.

He did once catch on camera a tiny sweary midget......

 

[martint235]

If ever you do decide to throw a mahoosive sweary wobbler, please catch it on camera.

I took my camera off (if anyone wants a camera let me know). I only used it to calm me down, the reasoning being "I don't need to get upset I'll just report them". However the police never did anything so I just went back to the quiet chat idea. Very upsetting when no one wants to talk. I put it down to them feeling very bad about endangering me.

 

[martint235]

He did once catch on camera a tiny sweary midget......

Oh yes. He was a yob on a bike though.

 

[ianrauk]

I took my camera off (if anyone wants a camera let me know). I only used it to calm me down, the reasoning being "I don't need to get upset I'll just report them". However the police never did anything so I just went back to the quiet chat idea. Very upsetting when no one wants to talk. I put it down to them feeling very bad about endangering me.

That, and you're 7 foot tall..and 2 feet wide at the ears...

 

[subaqua]

bear with me, just about to get on my high horse



You can change statute, thats enlightening.

I can do something about vehicles and type , but not waste disposal skips. Which are NOT construction vehicles despite the protestations of those who need to go back on moderation. Sadly I can't do anything about nobbers in fiddle panzers with really tiny willies.
But I have made approaches to my MP , who although is a twat , might be able to do something. The fixed penalty is a lazy cop out , had the Met ( or Surrey) been bothered they could have pressed for more . However I don't spit a dummy .

 

[subaqua]

It may not come across well when viewed idly and and leisure on the interwebs, but in my view the cyclist made exactly the right call by going completely ballistic back at this horrible man. The driver was counting on being able to tyrannize the cyclist, and was clearly wrong-footed by being given as good as he got. I've said this before, but your mum was right about bullies - they are cowards, and the best strategy is to stand up to them. I've noticed that car drivers who abuse me are often terrified if I catch them at the lights and tap on the window, although as I don't look very big and scary I generally find calm psycho or blatant contempt modes more effective than throwing a mahoosive sweary wobbler. I'm saving that one up for a situation when it is really called for, like the one we are discussing.

I have never met you , but you scare me ! So gawd elp those that do cross you.


Cracking post though, and the police rarely do anything if you do react as nature intended

 

[theclaud]

I have never met you , but you scare me !

 

[subaqua]

Giggles like a schoolboy . Or is that nervous laughter :-)

 

[jonny jeez]

I've just watched the vid for the first time with sound and I have to say that I really feel for the cyclist.

Forget the fact that he is a cyclist and of course I am too, as a human being he was clearly very scared and totally beside himself with fear and anger at the way he had been treated.

I am amazed this didn't escalate and think the rider handled it as well as any of us (if not a whole lot better) could manage.

Props to the fella on the receiving end of that kind of threat, I think he showed genuine (not Hollywood) courage. The swearing , shouting and gesticulation was a mere distraction caused by fear, disbelief and a massive surge of adrenalin .

 

[jonny jeez]

I find that when I catch them up at lights, there's always something profoundly interesting directly in front of them that means they won't even look out of the side window. Because of this, I've found that putting my bike in the road in front of their car gives them something to look at while I continue tapping on the window asking ever so politely if they wouldn't mind stepping out of said vehicle for a quiet chat. It's still amazing how few of them will even wind down the window, very depressing.

Long time ago when I lived and worked in blackheath, my boss ( a tiny fella) was cut up in traffic and jumped out at the lights for a "chat". The guy in the offending car sat staring at him and refused to get out. He was in his late 50s I would guess. My boss got increasingly brave as the fella refused to budge and his insults and invitations to "come and av a go" reached Oasis proportions. Finally the fella in the offending car pointed across the street at a copper stood on the pavement and raised the tip of a huge knife up and tapped the very bottom of his own window with it....winked and drove off.

 

[jonny jeez]

Sounds like he met Kenneth Noye.

Or a Richardson .

My best mate at school used to work as a bottle boy at the George in old Bexley, one of the regulars insisted on buying him a pint ever Saturday night.

A decade later he recognised him as Kenny Noye...it's all goin off in sarf London