http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546709/Moment-Audi-passenger-got-car-PUNCHED-cyclist-pushing-bike-taxi-shocking-act-road-rage.html(Watch the clip with sound turned on).
Do you:-
1) Wish the Audi driver had hit him harder; or
2) Feel sympathy for the cyclist.
Sorry but I'm in the first category.
Comments
Not condoning it in any way and I am a cyclist but that does not look clear cut (car) road rage to me.
In all seriousness, other cyclists piss me off as much as drivers a lot of the time. From silly cows without helmets, cycling along at a snail's pace on their basket bikes in central London rush hour and getting upset when artics cut them up, to imbeciles riding like morons seemingly trying to make everyone despise them. That said, the driver is entirely in the wrong for pulling up in the cycle box - just as a huge amount of drivers do in london with absolute impunity every day on my commute. This drives me up the f***ing wall, because it is ridiculously bloody dangerous to do so a lot of the time.
So, in short, they're both cockwombles.
At the end of the incident the cyclist who shoots away from the lights as fast as he can annoyed me. It's very unnerving as a driver in busy traffic when cyclists are using their trip as a training session - cyclists should ride in a more predictable manner.
You are the King of new obscure insults. Yet again I find myself chuckling at these new demeaning phrases and will attempt to birng them into my daily conversations.
'Cockwomble' is just sublime.
Cockwomble - Nice one.
Cyclist was a cock for going looking for a fight (albeit he was probably only expecting a verbal one).
Either way, it's the Audi driver that can be prosecuted as the only thing the cyclist technically did wrong was to "speak in a threatening manner" when he swore at the driver.
(from a cyclist that's about to buy an Audi!)
Doesn't matter what people here think about it but one inescapable fact is that that passenger is going to regret that incident for the rest of his life. That is an extremely violent and unprovoked assault. That cannot be less than 12 months jail and a criminal record.
The audi driver initiated the problem by being where he shouldn't be.
I hope he comes forward and the police get involved.
As for your I wish he hit him harder, now that is a first class pr!ck comment.
I can't speak from much experience because I don't ride a bike, nor do I drive like a tw*t. But put me down in category 2.
Whats the difference between an Audi and any other car? The issue is that the driver is a dick for lamping the bloke who himself is a dick for...... well, for being a dick! The driver would be a dick regardless of the car he drives. Yes I do drive an Audi........but I would never lamp someone unless I had a very very good reason or no choice in the matter - e.g. being attacked.
Anyone else notice at the end of the video 1:45 when the traffic lights are still red, some people haven't even finished crossing the road and a cyclist goes steaming through the light.
cyclist chases the driver and confronts him in an aggressive manor, driver just has to say he got out because he thought his window was about to be put through in his face then acted in pre-empted self defence.