The responsibilities of a taxi driver

[Dan B]

Yes, I agree. If you discount the harassing behaviour, he isn't otherwise harassing anybody

 

[Lanzecki]

I just saw it, and notice that it's been removed.

Maybe the youtubers should repost it as has been done before? I understand it's called the Streisland effect.

I'm guessing here, but the drivers are employees of the taxi company. Therefore they wouldn't drive the same car. Matthew mat have had a run in with a different coastline car, but that driver.

The company's not gonna be impresses with their driver using sign written company vehicles in such a manner.

Do the local papers know? Maybe they shouldn't. They'll only get it wrong.

 

[Hip Priest]

It's only the premeditated nature of the following incident, and the fact that he did follow Matthew, and look for him when they lost him, that are disturbing.

But these are the very reasons why it is harrassment, and not just a common or garden argument on the road. You can't really discount this bit.

 

[Amanda P]

But these are the very reasons why it is harrassment, and not just a common or garden argument on the road. You can't really discount this bit.

Yes, fair point. But if he had not drawn the fact that he was following Matthew and filming him to Matthew's attention, Matthew probably wouldn't even have noticed... but he did draw his attention to that fact, and that, I guess, makes a difference.

However, I suspect that in the taxi-driver's mind, there's no difference between Matthew's behaviour and his own.

And, yes, please re-post the taxi-driver's video, with appropriate tags!

 

[fossyant]

By magic the video vanishes !

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

By magic the video vanishes !

Not that the person what posted it thinks that they should be worried about it being seen ? OH No, no not at all!

 

[Lanzecki]

Not that the person what posted it thinks that they should be worried about it being seen ? OH No, no not at all!

I think it's too late. It's been reposted by one guy already, and several people here have copies People seem to forget once it's posted on the internet they loose control/ownership.

It vanished from the posters account between 13:30 and 13:45.

 

[fossyant]

Not that the person what posted it thinks that they should be worried about it being seen ? OH No, no not at all!

I think it might be too late ?

 

[manalog]

I think it might be too late ?

Definitely! monkeysnutscom Streissand Effect.mp4

 

[HLaB]

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That is just plain weird

 

[markharry66]

just an observation someway into the video just before the driver says you need to ride on the right side of the road, in the cards wing mirror you get the person who is shooting the videos reflection take a screen print would do it myself but I am on a laptop

 

[veloevol]

just an observation someway into the video just before the driver says you need to ride on the right side of the road, in the cards wing mirror you get the person who is shooting the videos reflection take a screen print would do it myself but I am on a laptop

02:13?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Me thinks some of the posters on the first and second pages should be somewhat ashamed at saying ''just let it go''.

I was one of them. I am not ashamed - in truth, the opening post was not very clear about the seriousness of the incident.
I am very uneasy about this whole situation.
Clearly, in a small town, Matt's videos (happy birthday, Matt!) have not gone unnoticed. It seems to me the taxi driver believes to be in the right in saying that Matt is not supposed to ride in the middle of the road, and wants to retaliate with his own video.
This pay back stuff is not good for cyclists as a whole. Uploaded videos of angry cyclists and now of angry taxi drivers? What, the BBC programme was right? Is there a war on?
A couple of months ago I got harassed and filmed by a taxi's passenger, riding home at about midnight.
In honesty, I skipped a red light: the junction was deserted, I usually get grief there from cars as I have to take primary because of a bend in the road, so i rljumped. Immediately the passenger starts shouting, this carries on till the next junction. I am now a bit worried, as I'm in an isolated spot, so I skip the lights again.
The taxi follows, passenger still shouting he caught me on camera.
What made him say that, I wonder?
By all means, I'm not saying my episode was as serious as Matt's, I'm only noticing there is ill feeling on the roads, can't help thinking you tube videos at times exacerbate that feeling.
Hope Matt gets an apology, but the matter remains that the taxi driver will still think he's in the right, still resent cyclists.

 

[veloevol]

A couple of months ago I got harassed and filmed by a taxi's passenger, riding home at about midnight.
In honesty, I skipped a red light: the junction was deserted, I usually get grief there from cars as I have to take primary because of a bend in the road, so i rljumped. Immediately the passenger starts shouting, this carries on till the next junction. I am now a bit worried, as I'm in an isolated spot, so I skip the lights again.
The taxi follows, passenger still shouting he caught me on camera.
What made him say that, I wonder?

And did you report this incident?

 

[BentMikey]

, but the matter remains that the taxi driver will still think he's in the right, still resent cyclists.

To be fair, that likely hasn't changed from before he met or even heard about Matt.