Is this the unraveling of CyclingMikey?

I've just watched his own video and it's pretty clear that his intention is to play chicken propelling himself in front of cars. I think trying to make it out to be a right wing conspiracy spun by the newspapers is a bit far fetched tbh.
 
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Maple Leaf said:
In what world was driving at him and accelerating acceptable?
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Sorry but regardless of the rights or wrongs the driver had clearly already committed and was obviously "going for it" before Mickey put his bike in the way, the only way the driver would have avoided a collision at that point was a full on emergency stop and even that is borderline, Mikey had the full ability to avoid a collision there and it is entirely on him that the collision happened.
 
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sidimmu said:
Pushing this on to the public to undertake is extremely stupid.
No member of the public should be undertaking any form of vigilantism.
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It's only going to become more prevalent since the authorities have cottoned on to the fact plenty of people are willing to report each other for obvious offences with camera footage that just needs a bit of follow up paperwork and a FPN on their behalf.
 
Kenai said:
It's only going to become more prevalent since the authorities have cottoned on to the fact plenty of people are willing to report each other for obvious offences with camera footage that just needs a bit of follow up paperwork and a FPN on their behalf.
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So you're justifying vigilantism to be undertaken by the public? Regardless of the dangerous precedent it would set?

Lets go, lynch mobs are allowed again all!!!!!
 
sidimmu said:
So you're justifying vigilantism to be undertaken by the public?
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I'm not 'justifying' anything, i'm just saying it how it is.

The authorities are actively encouraging people to report each other via video footage submissions these days, what do you think the result of that is going to be? It's obviously going to encourage more behaviour generally in the mould of that seen with people like CyclingMikey. You'd be extremely naive to think it would lead to anything different.
 
JonRGV250 said:
How exactly is he justifying anything?
Read the post properly.
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Go back to the original post he stuck up for, very clear they are happy for vigilantism to be undertaken by members of the public without context, due diligence, court proceedings etc.

Kenai said:
You'd be extremely naive to think it would lead to anything different.
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Maybe go back and look what post you are defending.
Vigilantism is okay for some but not others, wheres the limits? how does the public know the limits?
There is so much wrong with giving the public that power, you'd be naive to think otherwise.
 
Having now watched the incident from all the recorded angles, it’s blatantly obvious he walked into the road on purpose. The guy is just a bell*** who thinks he’s more important than he actually is. You don’t walk in front of a moving vehicle expecting them to stop unless it’s at a pedestrian crossing, and even then you’d wait for the car to be definitely slowing down rather than just step out.

He’s just trying to revive anyone channel which doesn’t get that many views compared to a few years ago.

Is the Fiat driver in the wrong? Yes. He shouldn’t be driving down that road. Should he have driven off after the collision? No.

Unfortunately, being right or wrong doesn’t help you if you honour in front of a moving vehicle that is much bigger than you. Physics always wins.
 
sidimmu said:
Avoid every other question and concern, nice one.
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You're so desperate to look for a confrontation here that you can't even see my post #125 was essentially agreeing with you and making the additional point that it's only going to get more prevalent as the authorities encourage it.
 
Kenai said:
You're so desperate to look for a confrontation here that you can't even see my post #125 was essentially agreeing with you and making the additional point that it's only going to get more prevalent as the authorities encourage it.
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Not looking for confrontation, looking for common sense to be applied to the general public. Dids was happy to let the public to undertaken vigilantism in his posts, no context of how far etc.

Police force might encourage it for now, but dont think they realise how that will come with a negative effect on how the public view how far they can go.
Mr Mikey here seems to think he can cause criminal damage in relation to a witnessed "crime".
Using crime in that way because, no one has been to court, no one has been deemed guilty.
 
Kenai said:
I'm not 'justifying' anything, i'm just saying it how it is.

The authorities are actively encouraging people to report each other via video footage submissions these days, what do you think the result of that is going to be? It's obviously going to encourage more behaviour generally in the mould of that seen with people like CyclingMikey. You'd be extremely naive to think it would lead to anything different.
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I disagree, while there are plenty of attention-seeking social media celebrity wannabes, there are significantly more "normal" people who just want to go about their day safely and in peace. There's a massive difference between the minority of people like Mikey who actively go out of their way looking for trouble and turn every minor misdemeanour into a huge drama for views, compared to your average Joe who'll send in maybe 1 clip a year when they happen to catch someone doing something actually stupid & dangerous on their dashcam, and then not rush to post it on social media.
 
sidimmu said:
Mr Mikey here seems to think he can cause criminal damage in relation to a witnessed "crime".
Using crime in that way because, no one has been to court, no one has been deemed guilty.
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We need to remember these things take a few months to play out, the collision incident happened a matter of days ago, he's no doubt submitted the footage to the police as he tends to do so we'll wait and see where they choose the draw the line here.

They've never had a problem with anything he's done previously but that's not to say they don't have a problem with what he's done in this particular case, we just don't know about it yet.

I suspect he and the car will both get a slap of some sort for their parts in the whole incident and as a result he'll probably be a little less bold/risky about his stepping in front of traffic in future.
 
sidimmu said:
So you're justifying vigilantism to be undertaken by the public? Regardless of the dangerous precedent it would set?

Lets go, lynch mobs are allowed again all!!!!!
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Bit dramatic, no?

If I commit a crime and put people in danger on the road, I’d fully expect the possibility of someone submitting the dash cam footage to the police. That’s not being a vigilante, it’s being a concerned member of the public.

One thing is for certain, many corners of the internet are talking about and aware of these cam cyclists, perhaps it’ll save a life one day and for that, I can’t argue with it.
 
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