This is why you don't threaten to kill a total stranger

[Mosaic]

...they may just be a barrister.....with a camcorder attached.....bad choice...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...nd-berkshire-16726409

[DTCwordfan]

brilliant !

must wear the camcorder this afternoon....

[Mosaic]

It also makes you ponder the likely outcome of the exchange had it taken place in the USA.

[daffy654]

Maybe the cyclist should have been riding at the side of the road instead of taking up the whole lane then.

[Booldawg]

As the video didnt work on the BBC site I found it on YouTube. Theres alot of similar video footage up there.

Its seems to be a neccessity for anyone who commutes by bicycle to have one of these.

For fear of stirring up another motorists v cyclists thread, as I'm well aware theres examples of bad road use on both sides I am considering getting one of these helmet cams as I've had more than a few close ones on commute to work!

[Booldawg]

daffy - not sure if it appeared in the BBC version but the YouTube clip explained that its approved practise taught to cyclistand endorsed by the Institute of Advanced Motorists and other professional transport bodies.

Taking the middle line through traffic calming points stops cars attempting to 'squeeze past'

[NOX]

Bit of a non event tbh.

[Mosaic]

Thanks Nox....?

[NOX]

Well seriously, it was hardly a road rage incident, or an incident where someone could have genuinely feared for their safety, I wasn't knocking you for commenting on it, just for the bloke with the cam being so woosified- imho it was a total non event and the sort of thing that happens everyday to someone.

[Philtaz]

Making threats to kill is hardly a non event NOX and one that the Police usually don't take very lightly.

[Philtaz]

Warning, strong language.

Full footage of the incident.



Hardly 'woosified', I'd have taken any threats to kill by an irate driver as very serious.

[NOX]

Each to their own Phillatz, but some people must live a very sheltered life...

[Philtaz]

Sheltered life? If you were travelling to work and someone threatened to kill you, how would you react?

The UK is the worst country in the world for road rage statisitcs so I think the guy on the bike was more than justified in seeing the driver prosecuted.

[ummmm]

I think it's just different worlds NOX.

[NOX]

Look I'm really sorry but you post something and ask for people's opinions and then when I give one you argue about it- okay it's less than nice behaviour- but I repeat this sort of thing is said all the time, and it doesn't mean anything, it's a storm in a tea cup, the guy was obviously just venting because the guy on the bike rightly or wrongly got up his nose- at no point did the bloke in the car appear to me to be genuinely aggressive. You clearly disagree, which is fine by me.

[NOX]

Damned right there Ummm... I'd love to take him for a drink up the Falls ;-)

[ABerrant]

It transpires [the driver Scott] Lomas was in breach of a suspended prison sentence imposed by the Crown Court in April 2010 following his conviction of a crime of violence, malicious wounding. He was not referred back to the Crown Court for consideration of whether to activate that earlier sentence.

http://thecyclingsilk...nd-sentenced-for.html

[Philtaz]

at no point did the bloke in the car appear to me to be genuinely aggressive.

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You're joking, right?

[NOX]

No not at all- as Ummm said we're obviously from very different worlds, and what is shocking to one person is not to another. If that frightens you, then fair enough, but where I am from originally that's absolutely nothing, really.

[Philtaz]

Which world are you from then NOX? I'm from the one where threats to kill cyclists by motorists are taken with the gravitas they deserve.

I don't know what the implication of 'from different worlds' means. I'm ex HM Forces and currently work in an Operating Theatre so you might say 'I've seen a few things' and don't live in an ivory tower, if that's the suggestion being made.

As I said, the UK has the worst stats of any country for road rage incidents but I'm guessing that threats to kill and offers of violence must be commonplace and part of daily life in 'your world', yes?

I'm perplexed that you deem this matter to be trivial yet purport to struggle not to offer violence in respect of the poor little girl in the classroom wetting thread.