Why were they out of their car anyway? Solid move, potential lethally injuring someone and then shuffle off. Great people, both of them, really.
In his defence the car had “L” plates so he is a learner driver… seems he has more to learn than most though.
I think you can have them on even if you’re not a learner driver, it’s less of a hassle ti change them and in some places they are a sticker that can’t be removed without damage
L (or Welsh D) - plates should be covered or removed if the driver is licensed according to the UK’s .gov website.
Nah you can’t defend any of that
I mean, if it helps, you can have one of these: /s
I know it’s hard to detect tone in text, honestly I do, but, you know?
Some actions are blatantly indefensible and this so obviously is one such case.
Oh bloody hell I’m such a goose, it did not occur to me that it was /s-worthy. Please ignore me :D
I won’t ignore you, my friend.
wait wait wait this is the internet everyone is supposed to call each other nasty names and get banned i am disappoint
I know. Sorry. I try my best to be combative, defensive, offensive and offended all at the same time; whilst feeling morally superior… but I just can’t care enough anymore. It’s a me thing. I’m gonna take some time and work on myself.
Well, this is better, at least. ;-) <3
Its a UK video, shouldn’t need the /s, that’s standard.
UK comments should have a special way to indicate sincerity!
Perhaps people in the UK should adopt “/s” to mean sincere? That would completely fuck with everybody else - and strikes me as an incredibly British thing to do.
I love it.
All British communities online need to adopt this by end of this year
How about /s for sincerely? /s
edit: added /s for clarification
I appreciate this level of clarity so much!
You’re welcome. /s
I wish I hadn’t seen this. Genuinely this needs a content warning.
I feel so badly for the victim. His life is over even if he technically survived.
Straight up attempted murder in my eyes.
Why are you clickbaiting us when you won’t even make money off your posts, did you know you can describe the contents of your post within the title ?
Why would anyone want a video described as a story in the title, that’s just dumb unless you’re visually impaired
This comment will shock you
This guy should be locked up in prison for atleast a decade and the woman for couple years for leaving an injured person on the road. But they will likely anyways plead guilt and go with something like “I did not mean to push him that hard, I just wanted to topple him” bla bla. His shirt explains everything one needs to know; wears a shirt thay says in England, lives in Edinburgh and probably wants immigrants out of UK. What a tool.
Do you feel the guy who did this to the cyclist will be hit with attempted murder charges?
Unlikely, he will probably go with something like “I just wanted to topple him” and they will accept it and probably give him “causing injury by reckless behaviour” or sth like that
No his defense will be he did not wear a helmet
Okay so, that’s a felony. Dude who got out of the car committed a felony.
I can’t help but feel the cyclist is being innocent washed though. No story whatsoever about the moments leading up to this incident? Like, why are we stopped in traffic like this long enough for both the passenger and driver to feel the need to get out?
What, could POSSIBLY, warrant that response? “Innocent washed”? My brother in Christ, it doesn’t matter how annoying he was being before, unless he’s a credible threat to life and limb that level of violence is not warranted.
Well I harken back to my father teaching me to drive, and the little nugget of wisdom that has saved my life in traffic multiple times over the last 25 years on the road and in the air: It’s better to be alive than right.
People are going to cut you off, they’re gonna break traffic patterns, they’re gonna drive the wrong way up the road, they’re gonna drive drunk while doing lines of cocaine off the ass of the prostitute they’re murdering, and you can list all the crimes you saw them do to the ER staff as they try to stop the bleeding around the steering column sticking out of your chest. You have a duty to yourself to steer around the jackasses.
It looks for all the world to me that Bikey Mikey is pulling some Karen-esque move blocking traffic to assert a cyclist’s right of way or some shit. He might have gone on a bike ride tomorrow if he’d just pedaled away. He had a chance to de-escalate the situation, which he didn’t take. So he took a street to the dome. That guy’s going to prison, that guy’s going on a respirator. Was whatever point he was making…worth it?
I get the feeling he chose to incite the incident. He chose to be in the way, he chose to stay in the way. I don’t give the first two half-flaccid thrusts of a reluctant pity fuck if he deserved to have his skull caved in, it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t incited the incident.
Even if the cyclist was the most dumb or annoying person in the world… So what? Smashing someone’s head in because they are annoying is in no way an appropriate response to anything outside of a life threatening situation. Nobody should ever expect to have their head smashed in over an argument. What’s next? Stabbing kids because they were making annoying noises? I mean everybody knows it is common decency to not make annoying noises. They made annoying noises, so they were asking for it.
So you’re a pussy
“Well, what was she wearing? Had she been drinking that night? Why was she alone?” -Captain Aggravated
Way to blame the victim bub. You want a perfect victim? That doesn’t exist. You really need to check you moral compass
My moral compass points to “don’t pick fights, you might get beaten up” but go the fuck off.
What were the circumstances that led to the first frame of the video?
“She needs to be more aware of her surroundings, maybe she shouldn’t be drinking alone. That clothing was really revealing, don’t wanna give guys the wrong idea” -Captain Aggravated
Rapist mentality.
What the fuck does rape have to do with this? Why are you so fixated on rape? Are you a rapist? Should I address you as senator? Do we need to look through your browser history?
Before the video starts, probably by a few minutes, we get into this situation where a car and a bike are sitting in traffic. This has apparently been going on long enough for the female passenger of the car to get out and start talking to the biker. She’s gesturing broadly in the direction the bike is pointing so gather she’s saying whatever translates out of Scot’s incomprehensibabble into “get out of the way”. Then the driver of the car gets out, grabs the biker by the throat and slams him to the pavement.
The driver of the car committed a felony. Committing that felony is his own fault.
For the likely several minutes he was sitting on his bike, stationary in traffic, the cyclist could have ridden away, continued with his bike ride, escape a dangerous situation. For whatever reason he decided not to do that, and now he’s got a fractured skull.
Did he deserve a fractured skull? NaN. Deserve doesn’t factor into it, car driver slammy man isn’t a judge or jury, there’s no “deserve” here. The law isn’t about preventing bad things from happening, the law is about systematically hurting more people after the fact. That’s all it does, that’s all it can do. The law didn’t stop the driver from choke slamming the cyclist. The law is not plot armor.
I notice the cyclist is also not wearing a helmet. Going for a bike ride without a helmet on is a risky activity. He could have fallen down and hit his head, which could have resulted in a skull fracture and blood on the brain causing permanent damage to his nervous system. If he had just fallen, as cyclists do all the time, did he “deserve” it? Is a fractured skull the legal punishment for riding a bike without a helmet? No, but that’s what you get. Now, while you’re engaged in the wholesome family activity of riding your bike without a helmet, does standing in the street blocking automobile traffic increase, or decrease your level of personal risk? I didn’t ask “SHOULD standing in the street…” I asked “DOES standing in the street…” I know which one you’ll answer though.
What did you think I was talking about with the quotes? A lot of people in the world blame the rape victims for their rape by saying things very similar to what you say. “They shouldn’t have been there, they shouldn’t have done that” etc…
Rapist mentality. You have a rapist mentality. I’m not saying you’re a rapist, just that you’d blame a rape victim for their rape.
I’m under no obligation to answer your fucking questions.
What you are doing here is called reversal of victim and perpetrator roles.
it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t incited the incident.
Your logic applies just as well to the car driver, and he could just as well have ended up on the pavement. Was whatever point he was trying to make worth it? I think it’s flawed to see this interaction and think about what the victim could have done differently, but at the very least, don’t make it sound like he was the only one that “incited the incident”.
So assume he had the right of passage and wanted to exercise this despite seeing the car coming. You call this “inciting an incident” and then not letting the car lass “karenesque”? This is called victim blaming and usually is done by people who already have prejudices against one of the parties (and you strongly seem to have one). Goes along the same lines as “if she didn’t want to get sexually assaulted why did she wear a skirt”.
In what other circumstance is a man going to be standing on a bike in traffic long enough for a woman to get out of the car to start fussing at him?
I do not give a FUCKSHIT about “victim blaming.” Look, two guys in a bar. They bump into each other, some beer is spilled. Guy 1 starts getting up in Guy 2’s face yelling “YEAH? WHATCHA GONNA DO? WHATCHA GONNA DO?” Guy 2 slams Guy 1’s head into a table so hard he never walks, speaks or sees in color ever again. I can have no fucking sympathy for Guy 1. I don’t care if his “punishment” fits his “crime.”
Being a victim of a crime does not make one innocent.
Being a victim does not make one innocent, but being in an argument does not make one guilty.
I know you probably aren’t, but the way you’ve talked here makes you sound like the exact sort of person as the assaulter in the video. Someone who thinks abrupt violence is a justified way to handle an argument.
Man, I saw people pistol whipped over toilet paper. The fact that what that dude did was illegal isn’t going to make your stay at the ER any more comfy. Don’t push people’s buttons.
Captain Aggravated is, very obviously, a rapist.
It’s never been a worse time to be a cyclist in the UK the amount of hard men who shout abuse at me is unreal, and i only go out on a Sunday for leisure. Never happens when I go out with a group though.
What’s their problem? Cyclists on intersections don’t allow the manly men to roam free on the road? Or they hurt their small pp big car energy? Or what?
I think it’s the big man in car vs a vulnerable road user. Power goes so quickly to some people heads
I hate how much I can relate to this, thanks to having been a bicycling 12 year old girl.
Edinbuger here.
They reported this in the local paper today, you know it’s bad when the Edinburgh evening news was taking the side of the cyclist.
But then again Edinburgh drivers think they are above the law and riot when not catered to as God emperors of the city. Every time there’s an improvement to public transport or cycling or pedestrian areas, they throw a hissy fit.
Do you know what are the charges?
Edit: he plead guilty but awaiting sentencing. Likely 2-4 years range.
I’m sure that’s a local phenomenon, it’s not like every city everywhere claims they have the worst drivers (except the person who shares that fact about their city, who either doesn’t drive or isn’t too bad in comparison).
A braver person would claim something like “(bad) drivers are like that everywhere”, but that would mean we need to overhaul the whole transport system instead of reminding specific cities of the traffic laws.
The fucker belongs to jail. He’s danger to society.
95% Of sane people wouldn’t have to resolve to violence about some shitty I-passed-before-you you-cut-me-off situation! How late was he going to be 1 minute extra?! Intentional not or not intentional?! Okay sorry calm your tits down have a nice day gtfo… But why take it there!
Was he riding a bike with no helmet? Why was he stopped right in front of the car, talking to the woman, it looked like he was blocking the car to be a jerk, blocking them and she was trying to talk him into moving. Then asshole makes an appearance. I vote everyone shitty here. Obviously asshole more so.
lol without any context you go against the assaulted person. What a work of art you are
It looks like the car was going to turn into the bike
So you’re saying there’s zero context to make even a reasonable judgement of the situation.
Yep. Article says nothing
tooas well.
this is fucking terrifying😭😭😭
He should have worn a helmet.
Not wrong through… I don’t get how people can ride without a helmet. Takes seconds to put in and can make a big difference even in normal circumstances. I’m not saying buddonbonbthe bike deserved any of this, but there’s a good chance it would have had a far better outcome had he been riding his bike with a helmet on.
Bro he got violently assaulted for no reason and this is your response. I hope this happens to you.
Fuckin’ yeesh lol.
Two things can be true; the cyclist didn’t deserve to be treated that way, but also if you’re riding in traffic, you should probably wear a helmet.
He still should have worn a helmet. It’s unsafe to ride without it.
WTF! Someone needs locking the fuck up.
Found the exact spot
That’s looks to whereabouts they found that poor guy’s head on Halloween night in 2024. It’s been a few years, so I may not be remembering the exact spot.
What, this is even more bizare! What was that about?
It was something else. My wife and I were walking through the Cowgate and we heard a commotion and a guy in a leather jacket and kilt flew past us running. We looked back and saw a crowd gathering. Thankfully, we didn’t go back to see what it was.
