'Vigilante' cycle gang attack taxi in bus lane

[machew]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-vigilante-cycle-gang-attack-6197136

 

[fossyant]

Idiots

 

[steve52]

i second fossyant, guys if your out on ya bikes ride them and have fun

 

[Firestorm]

"Who dont even pay road tax"

Oh dear......

 

[glenn forger]

The driver was breaking the law, the signs are clear. The driver refused to move, then drove on the wrong side of the road and hit a pedestrian:


http://www.birminghamcyclist.com/fo...tId=3004025:Comment:123550&xg_source=activity

That's how his wing mirror got bust. There was a woman there who had her child killed on the road, this cabbie kicked off, attacked cyclists then complained about damage to a car he was driving illegally.

 

[glenn forger]

Then, quite ridiculously, Mr Hussain decided he was not going to budge when we refused to do so as we occupied the bus lane on the Horton Square side. He was not "surrounded" as he erroneously claims, we were in front of him, in the bus lane. the lane he should have taken, to his left remained clear throughout the incident, apart from when cars occupied it as they waited for the lights to change when joining the ring road.

I saw the incident with the wing mirror. The "cyclist" in question was not on his bike at the time. So should he be referred to as a pedestrian? And, by association, is he then giving all pedestrians a bad name? Anyway, the police officer ushered the taxi into the right hand lane to continue, illegally, across the bus gate. I don't know if the PEDESTRIAN saw the taxi coming but the next minute, he was rolling off it's wing, and off came the mirror, as per its design, so that it did not injure the PEDESTRIAN further.

We have had less furore in recent weeks in the local media after a cyclist was killed. Yet alas, due to an easily repairable bit of damage to a Hackney Carriage, reported entirely from the point of view of the driver and with the added flashing lights and bells and whistles of the entirely disgusting sensationalist headline, members of this group have decided to condemn events that they did not witness themselves. An absolutely reprehensible source, generating some oddly vehement feedback, in my opinion.

 

[Cycling Dan]

I want the taxi driver to upload his video start to end as I suspect there is more than this report suggests.

 

[glenn forger]

Disgusting reporting, how they get away with this shoot.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That birminghamcyclist blog says "cycling community".

*wince*

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Oh dear. Not the way to go about things IMHO

 

[fossyant]

Bad move on both sides. Two sets of idiots.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Is this meant to be in the cafe?

It's the sort of thread that attracts the zealot fringe of car-hating loonies like me.

Can we please move it before I drown in my own bile of opinionated claptrap?

The cafe should be for the daft, the jolly and the harmless. And the tea.

 

[fossyant]

Dunno, chill. It's not commuting is it ?

 

[ComedyPilot]

And it's not in Yorkshire either....so is not important

 

[MarkF]

"I saw the incident with the wing mirror. The "cyclist" in question was not on his bike at the time. So should he be referred to as a pedestrian? And, by association, is he then giving all pedestrians a bad name?"

I couldn't even be bothered to get the bottom of this sorry squabble.