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- rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -4/+100Hope the driver gets 6 months +
- Hillsfar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+101"Initially when the cop came over, he didn't look like he would have believed him," said Gabriele, one of the students on the trip. "With video footage, you can't deny it any more. It's right in front of your face."
Yep. That sounds like the police all right. - bouche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+84http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H0Pb_qjj6k
- theblueprint, on 10/12/2007, -7/+91The driver fights like a bitch. Kicking dude's bike? Sucker punching someone? If you're going to be Billy BadAss, and get out of your car to "rage-out"... at least look the man in the eye when you punch him.
- glasnostic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65hope those kids get an A+
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64theres no audo, you have no idea what there talking about
"thanks for pulling over and helping me lift up my bike, I dropped a quarter in the frame and I need it for bus fare"
"hey no problem. OMG THERES A BEE ON YOUR FACE!"
"WHAT? QUICK, PUNCH IT OFF! and while your at it could you please punch out this tooth? its been killing me."
"sure, no prob"
*WHACK* - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+63I'll give you a story:
I was driving home from work one day (rush hour, of course), and between my office and the next left turn is about 1 mile of space. I typically don't have any trouble navigating the three lanes to get from the right side of the road to the left for my left turn, but this particular day was heavy in traffic.
I squeezed in between a couple cars (a tight fit to be sure, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't cut off, at least partially, the guy behind me, but, frankly, he wasn't giving me any room whatsoever... I had the left turn signal on for a while.) Anyway, the guy who I "cut off" pulled by me and the passenger was hanging out of his window like a ***** wild orangatan, beating on the side of the car and scream profanities. I was caught off guard and I shrugged and mouthed, "Sorry, What could I do?"
I guess this was the straw that broke this *****'s back, because as we were pulling up to the next light, he started getting out of his car, as I could see ahead. Wanting to avoid a severe ass beating from someone who was obviously off his rocker, I bolted off. I wish I got that *****'s license plate, but I was too busy ***** my pants.
Downtown Phoenix, FTW. I'm glad the cops are around to hit me up with a 6 mph-over speeding ticket, but fail to "protect and serve" me when I'm about to get ***** destroyed. - revmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -9/+631773nium, this incident took place downtown toronto. french canadian? not likely.
- edmdusty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55***** this. It just makes me wonder how often this goes on when there are no cameras.
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -13/+57You'd think a more effective method would have just been running him over.
- c0y0t3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40its on youtube here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8H0Pb_qjj6k - sibhod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43***** you xpankrat. if there's a bike lane i am more than glad to get to the side. even when there's not, i am always at the side with room to let cars pass. but if the road is narrow or there are parked cars i'm not going to risk a door job or getting swiped by some ***** on the phone so you can get to work 20 seconds faster.
i hope we do something about cars in downtown areas, because with the short distances and public transportation there's no reason for everyone and his mom to have their own personal 2 ton hunk of steel. It's not like it's any faster either, since I make it the two miles to work in the same time it takes a car. If more people were on bikes it would be a safer, healthier, and better place. - Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -13/+49"What....you expected something more from a French Canadian?
Let the lashing commence."
French? 1) they didn't release the driver's name, 2) Looks like an Ontario plate to me (thats where Toronto IS, BTW). 3) You're an ignorant dick whose probably never been to the region anyway. - satanatnmtedu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Sorry. cyclists have just as much right to be in the road as drivers. If YOU don't like it, then drive someplace else. Bikes are vehicles.
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36He shouldn't be allowed to drive.
- Gerolsteiner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I've seen a few of these driver-cyclist fights, and its usually the cyclist that beats the living ***** out of the ignorant cellphone-whore drivers.
What a son of a bitch though. There is nothing less manly than a sucker punch. - jun2san, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34He shouldn't be allowed to breed.
- oswell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35@countrygirl
While I cannot defend that aholes behavior, you were in the left lane with no one to your right. Get left to pass then get back over, simple. - nickiank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34@xpankrat:
You've got a great big vehicle that moves faster and you're on a two lane road. Pass the cyclist when it's safe to do so (making sure you're putting at least three feet between you and them), much the same as you would for any other vehicle in front of you that's going too slow for your taste. Cyclists have every much as right to the road as you do. - Horace, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35countrygirl:
The left lane is for passing. If you're not passing then get the @#$%@#$ over. Why is that simple rule of the road so hard to understand? - audiowizard, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36Dugg down for the city news crappy video player that requires some special cookie *****.....and for the idiots blaming Flash, well...you're an idiot, Flash is what handles most of your YouTube video feeds...boners.
Blame the developers ***** aspx crap. - tinhat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26@ronsii
typical motorist.
Cyclists have every right to ride in the lane. Same road. Same rights. Same rules. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+37Stupid ***** flash player. Is this on YouTube anywhere?
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27"What....you expected something more from a French Canadian?"
I was born in Montreal and I've only gotten one speeding ticket (10km/h over) in 13 years and am a very cool-headed driver, so suck my crépe hole. - railsroad, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Actually, he should go to Jail.
I'd bet the attacker has done this before. This is just the first time he's been caught.
Anyone with that short a fuse is a menace to society. - xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24The cyclist has every right to use the road, all of it. You're an idiot, or maybe you just enjoy pollution.
- Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24I know, Themastersb ... we really need to get good examples of Canadian tolerance and understanding like yourself out into the public eye to make up for the damage they're doing.
Till the TV crew is ready you just stay hiding in your hole and someone will come fetch you. - shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Yeah, ***** you, xpankrat.
You *****, maybe you should realize that me going to work on my bike is actually getting YOU there FASTER, since it's one less car to clog the roads. Blame the idiot who can't drive well enough to pass a cyclist without killing someone... so they hang back and crawl. I wave them by me every day.
Oh, by the way, you can also thank me for my very small part in reducing air pollution, and for that matter, your insurance premiums by geting some excercise.
Oh, and vtron, what would you call a reasonable speed? Car speed? The roads is not just for cars, understand that. - SteelFrog, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24"I ***** hate French Canadians so much. They give such a bad name to the other 90% (English people) of the country. Can you believe that some people think all of Canada is French. That really makes me angry when people do."
1. I'm a French Canadian.
2. We don't like you either.
3. You're a *****. No one thinks Canada's all French, except the rednecks. - Aazlain, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24@1773nium:
Hello. First, let me say I'm very sorry if any of my of my French speaking fellow-countrymen have ever done anything to upset you.
Perhaps I could convince you to share with me what caused you to have such low expectations towards French speaking Canadians? It's probably just an unfortunate misunderstanding.
P.S.: Please excuse my rudimentary English writing skills.
Edit: May I extend my querry to themastersb? - markowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Man, it's hard enough being a cyclist in town without this kind of idiot...
- daborg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20countrygirl31: "We were going with the flow of traffic and did nothing wrong. "
WTF? Do you honestly not know that the left lane is FOR PASSING ONLY? Seriously? What you did is illegal in most countries and several US states. If there's space on the right, KEEP TO THE RIGHT. It's the law.
Obviously that's NOT justification for the driver to act like a complete ***** but please don't tell us you "did nothing wrong" when you clearly did. - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24@thetaoofbill:
It's coincidental, not ironic. An example of irony would be a security camera installer who was a proponent of security cameras was caught stealing security cameras by the security cameras he installed. - tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19the bicyclist was smart-- he didnt hit back and it seems like he calmly took down the license plate number. plenty of eye-witnesses and a video of the encounter.
cha-ching - IADTatami, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Or you could knock even more teeth out of the mouths of those bicyclists who dare to follow traffic laws while they're in front of your car.
- versatilewt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17One day I was biking somewhere, and on the last stoplight of my journey I was in the *bike lane.* I was going straight, and some idiot coming the other way cut a left in front of me and nearly took me out.
I waved my hand so as to say "moron." The guy saw me and pulled a tight and crazy illegal turn, almost hitting another car. He then proceeded to speed up behind me in his tin can and I jumped the curb. He squealed his brakes and jumped out of his car. I would've told him off but the guy was clearly crazy so I just diffused the situation.
Since then, I have purchased a bigger, heavier bike lock :)
Philly, the city of brotherly love, FTW - stybrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Were you on your way to retard school?
- knickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17"Hope they do something about cyclists on roads, esp. in a downtown area. Vast majority of them consider blocking one lane of a two lane street to be a perfectly normal way to commute to the work .. even if it means they are holding 2 blocks worth of traffic behind them."
Guess what, xpankrat? Bikes are under the auspices of the Highway Traffic Act here in Ontario and are entitled to that lane. Most cyclists try to strike a balance but if their safety's in jeopardy, you'd rather they get shmucked? And, about the doofus car driver, the cyclist was doing the legal thing. Once caught, he's in for a whole heap 'o hurt both in terms of criminal charges as well as the inevitable civil suit that'll come out of this.
It just isn't on to be taking ***** out on somebody because you drive a Pontiac - leachja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Ronsii,
You are such a stupid *****, Bikes have just as much right of way on the roads as a car, bike lanes are rarely 3 feet wide, and if you think any cyclist is riding the white line to force a car to drive across the middle line, you are delusional. Bikers don't want to be forced into parked cars/other obstacles, so they use the space they need. - screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17@countrygirl31
I'll tell you what you did wrong. You were driving in the left lane. The far left lane on an expressway is reserved for passing. I like to call that lane abuse.
Then, you replied to the first poster here, apparently to get your post closer to the top of the page. Your post did not further the topic that the OP or his repliers were discussing. Around here, that's called comment abuse. - 1021, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15it was absolutely wrong for the driver to go off on the bicycle dude like that but I think that first punch might have been caused by the bicyclist trying to throw his bike onto the car, or so it seemed (at least to me).
The rest of the shots were just cheap and stupid on part of the driver though, at least he will have to pay up, either with $ or time, in court. - adamkhel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Ok, imagine you're the biker. Some wacko just got out of his car and is yelling and cussing at you, and he's already kicked your bike at least once (in the video, before the guy lifts the bike). You'd probably first lift the bike back up after it's been kicked, and then you might lift the bike up a bit to protect yourself or at least show that you have something in your hands to defend yourself.
Realize, it's the guy in the car who *got out of his car* and accosted the bicyclist. - maffick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I used to be a bike messenger in Philadelphia. A taxi driver assaulted me in a very similar manner, but with a knife. No bystanders would help, nor would the police once I found some. Too bad no one was filming.....
- davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14So because of this you just stood by and watched him get physically assaulted? Did you at least have the decency to give the police your statement? Or were you just too happy that he got what he deserved?
- RobN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16You have to see the unedited video (there's a link at the bottom of the article). Just before the punch, the driver kicks the tire of the bike, nearly knocking out of the biker's grasp. It looks like he's picking up his bike to move to the sidewalk away from the guy, when the first punch is thrown.
- nimski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14A bike lock works well, always keep it looped over your handlebars or clipped to. Also for giving a car a nasty whack if you get hit.
- davesbrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Actually it looks like he was getting ready to move his bike and the driver kicked the rear tire, causing it to move up in the air. It looks to me like the biker was trying to get out of the road and the driver came up behind him and punched him in the side of his mouth. Nothing in this video makes me believe the driver was acting in self defense or to protect his vehicle.
- daborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10And a lightsaber.
- sibhod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Yeah, I'm sure he was going to ***** up his $1500 bike to do a couple hundred dollars of damage to the car, just to prove a point.
If a tree makes you mad, don't run your car into it. - wing05, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_10838.aspx
It gets better.
The perpetrator is a cop. -
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