Cyclist who reported Range Rover driver for using his mobile
Discussion
jasonrobertson86 said:
Absolutely. If you're an absolute scumbag/have been dragged up. Hence the penalty for assault is very severe.
What pray tell do you think the penalty is ?Say if a co worker hits you and tries to glass you because he mistakenly believes you're having an affair with his wife ?
KTMsm said:
jasonrobertson86 said:
Absolutely. If you're an absolute scumbag/have been dragged up. Hence the penalty for assault is very severe.
What pray tell do you think the penalty is ?Say if a co worker hits you and tries to glass you because he mistakenly believes you're having an affair with his wife ?
ffs.
heebeegeetee said:
M.F.D said:
Firstly, Volvo driver and passenger are indeed coming across entitled and obviously shouldn't be going on the wrong side.
Last time I checked, only a constable in uniform can stop a vehicle on a roadway. This idiot literally hides behind a hedge and then stops a vehicle on the road. Then it's a cock waving competition to see who backs down first. All the while, the traffic backs up and causes even more congestion. How can anyone think these actions are justified?
I guess in the same way they you're trying to justify driving on the wrong side of the road at a near-blind junction. Certainly Pedestrian Mikey's (see what I did there Last time I checked, only a constable in uniform can stop a vehicle on a roadway. This idiot literally hides behind a hedge and then stops a vehicle on the road. Then it's a cock waving competition to see who backs down first. All the while, the traffic backs up and causes even more congestion. How can anyone think these actions are justified?
) behaviour is less extreme than approaching a junction on the wrong side of the road, imo.Btw, the traffic was already backed up, hence the driving on the wrong side of the road.
Super Sonic said:
KTMsm said:
jasonrobertson86 said:
Absolutely. If you're an absolute scumbag/have been dragged up. Hence the penalty for assault is very severe.
What pray tell do you think the penalty is ?Say if a co worker hits you and tries to glass you because he mistakenly believes you're having an affair with his wife ?
ffs.
I can only give you the examples I have experienced - I was assaulted by a senior manager and his penalty was - bugger all !
I reported it to the police in case it was used against me in some way as I was the junior - the police said it was a internal work matter.
Work said the manager was under stress and would be disciplined but nothing happened
KTMsm said:
jasonrobertson86 said:
carlo996 said:
Doesn't matter tbh, the fact it 'might' happen and if it does it will be hilarious, is enough for most
It will be hilarious if he gets assaulted?Hope someone videos it and posts it up for entertainment in the same way that he does
So why the hostility to CM from a proportion of the posters here? Sooner or later someone will do the same thing with shoplifters and burglars (maybe it already exists?) obviously the danger level is higher, but will people on here still wish these You Tubers harm? Why?
I suspect that many of the negative comments are from people who are interested in driving and don’t tolerate the bad driving of others. But they get a bit twitchy and arsey if they think there’s a risk that someone might shine the light on their own driving stands.
Hence they’re happy for the tiny number of police to look out for driving standards because they know there’s only a tiny chance they’ll get caught. Introduce a shed load of cameras to enforce standards though and they’ll wail about how unfair it is. If heaven forbid the government were actually to fund the police properly so there were traffic cars all over the place pulling people for speeding, phone use and careless driving then those same people claiming they’re happy for the police to enforce laws but not dashcams would suddenly switch to wailing about how we live in a police state.
Or in other words, it boils down to “I’m all right Jack, leave me alone”.
Hence they’re happy for the tiny number of police to look out for driving standards because they know there’s only a tiny chance they’ll get caught. Introduce a shed load of cameras to enforce standards though and they’ll wail about how unfair it is. If heaven forbid the government were actually to fund the police properly so there were traffic cars all over the place pulling people for speeding, phone use and careless driving then those same people claiming they’re happy for the police to enforce laws but not dashcams would suddenly switch to wailing about how we live in a police state.
Or in other words, it boils down to “I’m all right Jack, leave me alone”.
MrTrilby said:
Or in other words, it boils down to “I’m all right Jack, leave me alone”.
Nope, I don't think that's it at all.As has been pointed out earlier most probably have no issue with reporting people who are using their phone whilst driving.
It's the confronting them and following them to prolong the confrontation; whilst all the time filming them for "entertainment" so that you can upload the footage to YouTube in order to make money. That's what pisses people off and makes them wish t
ts like CM would get a slap.MrTrilby said:
So presumably you’d just delete dashcam footage of a car on the wrong side of the road, heading straight at you, because it was overtaking around a blind bend?
Funnily enough I’ve never seen it? In all my years of driving I’ve only seen 2 or 3 really mad things, and I was more concerned for self preservation than YouTube. I don’t want, or feel the need for a dashcam. By his admission, roughly half of the reports he sends in are for innocent people going about their day. So he'll happily impose financial and mental penalties on these innocent people.
The other half that get prosecuted, some will be convicted and others would be found not guilty. Of the ones found guilty another small fraction of those would be actually innocent if we take into account that the justice system cannot be 100% accurate.
My point is that he constantly puts his financial gain before the lives of innocent people. This cannot be applauded in any way
The other half that get prosecuted, some will be convicted and others would be found not guilty. Of the ones found guilty another small fraction of those would be actually innocent if we take into account that the justice system cannot be 100% accurate.
My point is that he constantly puts his financial gain before the lives of innocent people. This cannot be applauded in any way
PinkHouse said:
By his admission, roughly half of the reports he sends in are for innocent people going about their day. So he'll happily impose financial and mental penalties on these innocent people.
The other half that get prosecuted, some will be convicted and others would be found not guilty. Of the ones found guilty another small fraction of those would be actually innocent if we take into account that the justice system cannot be 100% accurate.
My point is that he constantly puts his financial gain before the lives of innocent people. This cannot be applauded in any way
50% of his videos don't contain evidence of a sufficiently high quality to trigger a case from the CPS ?The other half that get prosecuted, some will be convicted and others would be found not guilty. Of the ones found guilty another small fraction of those would be actually innocent if we take into account that the justice system cannot be 100% accurate.
My point is that he constantly puts his financial gain before the lives of innocent people. This cannot be applauded in any way
NikBartlett said:
I presume Cycling Mikey has some mates. What does he do if he catches one in their car on their phone ? Does he dob them in to the Plod like everyone else or pretend he didn't see them ?
Anyone reading the previous posts will conclude CM has no mates. I suspect he has many mates who he's never met.NikBartlett said:
PinkHouse said:
By his admission, roughly half of the reports he sends in are for innocent people going about their day. So he'll happily impose financial and mental penalties on these innocent people.
The other half that get prosecuted, some will be convicted and others would be found not guilty. Of the ones found guilty another small fraction of those would be actually innocent if we take into account that the justice system cannot be 100% accurate.
My point is that he constantly puts his financial gain before the lives of innocent people. This cannot be applauded in any way
50% of his videos don't contain evidence of a sufficiently high quality to trigger a case from the CPS ?The other half that get prosecuted, some will be convicted and others would be found not guilty. Of the ones found guilty another small fraction of those would be actually innocent if we take into account that the justice system cannot be 100% accurate.
My point is that he constantly puts his financial gain before the lives of innocent people. This cannot be applauded in any way
carlo996 said:
MrTrilby said:
So presumably you’d just delete dashcam footage of a car on the wrong side of the road, heading straight at you, because it was overtaking around a blind bend?
Funnily enough I’ve never seen it? In all my years of driving I’ve only seen 2 or 3 really mad things, and I was more concerned for self preservation than YouTube. I don’t want, or feel the need for a dashcam. carlo996 said:
MrTrilby said:
So presumably you’d just delete dashcam footage of a car on the wrong side of the road, heading straight at you, because it was overtaking around a blind bend?
Funnily enough I’ve never seen it? In all my years of driving I’ve only seen 2 or 3 really mad things, and I was more concerned for self preservation than YouTube. I don’t want, or feel the need for a dashcam. CoolHands said:
It’s not difficult, most people don’t like tts who try to police their environment like a Walt. Go and join the police if that’s what you want to do. Also most people don’t like sanctimonious tts, and therefore will be happy if he gets lamped
CM is something of an extreme example, but I doubt that ‘most’ people particularly dislike him. As far as I can see he doesn’t harass anyone who hasn’t completely set themselves up for it.ts who try to police their environment like a Walt. Go and join the police if that’s what you want to do. Also most people don’t like sanctimonious tts, and therefore will be happy if he gets lamped I would say that the contributors here who are coming out with the underworld language, gangs etc. are possibly even bigger Walter Mittys than ‘Mikey’ himself.
Separating ‘The Police’ from society is always going to end badly. Living in an area where no one has any ‘buy-in’ to local law and order is never going to be much fun. Something like 50 years ago as a Saturday boy in a local shop, I remember seeing a shoplifter chased up the road by a shop owner and other workers and members of the public joining in to catch him. No ordinary person would then have considered that there was anything wrong in helping the Police if necessary, and reporting criminal activity for the general good.
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