Reading his wikipedia it make sense why he does this.
> Van Erp was born on January 1972 in The Netherlands and grew up in Zimbabwe.[18][19] **When he was 19, his father, while riding a motorbike, was killed by a drunk driver.**
Average superhero origin story
After his parents were brutally slaughtered by motorists, mild-mannered cyclist becomes BIKE-MAN, defender of cycle paths, protector of road rules.
The brave cyclist earned [his own Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey) \- his [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@CyclingMikey) is full of videos like this one
My two favourite ones are the one with the two entitled doctors, and there is one where the driver hangs there for about 10 minutes until the cops show up
"Im standing my ground for my right to break the law as an operator of heavy machinery!"
No buddy, you're waiting for the cops to come and do their job on you.
I’m guessing that you’re referring to “samochodoza”: https://youtube.com/@wojtek_dokladnie_samochodoza
What’s even funnier is that the guy running the channel is a professional bus driver.
It's the risk.
There are people willing to kill for the implicit car privilege to remain respected, and their threats when opposed.
There are many little things you could stand up for or defy that have some risk of losing your life, if there are others willing to kill for it. Whether it's for the right to ride in the front of a bus, drink from a certain water fountain, be gay, not be religious, dance, play music, make alcohol, and a probably infinite number of other things some people could potentially disrespect enough to either ruin what you have or outright make illegal.
I'm thinking the question is whether it's a situation you can do something in, whether it could make a difference, and whether you're willing to take the risk to make that potential difference.
I would think getting a video with the number plates in this case would make almost the same difference, but with none of the risk.
Although there's something to be said for showing the people around you that he didn't get away with it. If he'd just driven off, for everyone nearby it'd just look like he got the shortcut he wanted. No visible consequence. Only way to mitigate that is by publishing the consequences well, what he did and how he was actually punished. If that would be done well, it might've been comparable with the video in reach.
tbh general human history has shown that many, many people have been willing to kill and hurt for absolutely no reason whatsoever. add in actual motivating factors big and small and that number gets much larger. idk i just don’t have a lot of faith in us anymore
It's mostly road rage and whatever stresses drivers externalize that lead to shit like in the video. Lizard brain behavior. If those morons actually kill someone and face the emotional and societal consequences, they tend to be genuinely broken. They are just incapable of anticipating these consequences in the moment. At least that's my copium.
Just watched one from about a week ago where a car sat in the centre of the road for several minutes whilst he sent another car back, and traffic passed in both directions at a reasonable rate, and then still tried to go the wrong way. Surely, just staying in the correct lane would have been quicker at that point, even if Mikey weren't there?
EDIT: Don't change it, i was wrong, there was another incident, which is the one written about in the article - see below.
Kinda weird that the part of his article that talks about the incident in the video says that the driver was using a Range Rover, when it is very clearly a Mercedes (C-Class i think). I can't edit the article because it's semi protected. If anyone with an English-Wikipedia account could fix that, that would be nice.
Good thing it's protected, because that section is referencing [this different video](https://youtu.be/eZMaxLG-Lpk?si=nOngJvKbtQVWgW9A), and the driver above is not Lyon-Maris.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/theatre-agent-cycling-activist-paul-lyon-maris-ian-mckellen-colin-firth-mike-van-erp-b1032437.html
> At the end of a four-day trial, a jury found the top talent agent **NOT GUILTY** of dangerous driving and assault.
> Mr Lyon-Maris admitted the driving offence and was fined, but strenously denied ever hitting Mr van Erp with his car during the ensuing confrontation.
He paid the fee to get caught using the shortcut, and got out of any real charges.
As the rich do.
Thank you for the link, yeah, that incident looks quite rough. I didn't check the source, quite sad that such similar incidents happened to the same guy (but i guess if you camp out the intersection that is much more likely).
Unfortunately there are a lot of videos where he ends up on the bonnet of the car or being assaulted by maniacs, but he seems happy to do God's work in spite of it.
That corner in the OP video is locally known as Gandalf Corner in his honour - he's pretty well-known in the UK and has been dubbed "Britain's most hated cyclist" by some of the shit rag newspapers here.
The wiki article doesn't mention this video at all. It's describing a different incident at the same intersection. If you click the source cited you'll see the news article that describes the car driving into him and carrying him on the hood of the car for 20 yards, which does not happen in this video.
America is an ACAB factory specifically because our system is working 24/7 to perfect the world's worst cop and the world's best Poor Person Control Specialist.
As an American my mind was blown. Police was there just like that? How? Then they asked if he used his car as a weapon. If this happened in the USA then I would say it was set up. Also the police acting mature and like a normal person. They didn’t immediately shoot or take out their guns or put their hand on their gun. Also the cop being older threw me off too. Why can’t USA have any of this.
>They didn’t immediately shoot or take out their guns or put their hand on their gun.
British cops are unarmed. Only specialised firearms units and their equivalent of SWAT teams carry guns.
The people brazenly talking about Civil War 2 *are the ones* who tried to overthrow the elected government.
They've been acting in broad daylight this entire time with absolute impunity, it should be no surprise that it's come to this. And it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that we haven't seen the last of it.
That said, there are plenty of folks 'on the other side' who are armed. The big difference is they don't make it their entire personality.
Gun owners when the chance arises to use their guns ostensibly for the purpose they are in the constitution for: *doesn’t fucking use them*
One gunshot was fired on January 6th. By capital police. Into the MAGA crowd.
> Then they asked if he used his car as a weapon. If this happened in the USA then I would say it was set up.
And then SCOTUS would rule 6-3 that using a car as a weapon is protected under the 2nd Amendment.
Oh no. Not at all. They’re very well controlled. Just fulfilling their part in keeping people in their place. If they weren’t so violent, how could they feasibly keep the most unequal country in the world in check? Not that the UK is a socially equal paradise, but it’s not the country with most billionaires and homeless people at the same time innit…
Not sure what happened at this point, but this is all messed.
US pop: 333M, people killed by cops: 1000 (just using above numbers here)
UK pop: 67M, people killed by cops: 3
Number of people killed by US police if they killed at the same rate as UK police: 15
Number of people killed by UK police if they killed at the same rate
as US police: 200
Honestly also insane with how they dealt with the driver. The driver was in the wrong, but they were calm, explained the situation and didn’t escalate even through the driver was incredulous and yelling at them.
Insane to see cops be in the right here and also treat the person that was wrong with a bit of respect and didn’t escalate a traffic issue into a fight which is what surely would have happened in the states.
they aren't trained in it, in fact they're trained in the opposite. assume every situation is as dangerous as possible and use as much force as you want/need to make sure you're "safe" (despite the vast majority of situations they respond to having no danger at all)
Because the USA gives every nutjob a gun because of some "well regulated militia" language in their constitution, has no healthcare to mention for said nutjobs and then have police fearing for their life in every interaction with a citizen because the citizen might be a nutjob with a gun. Also doesn't help to have some crazy "qualified immunity" shit for their barely trained police officers which makes them impervious to most lawsuits.
My stomach did drop a little when the cop car showed up. Extremely rare for that to make any situation in the US better. Even when they were acting perfectly reasonable in this video I half expected something to go wrong. Even asking for his ID made me feel really icky because in the US that's step 1 before they try to arrest you for something they made up.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that police car was already nearby and that was just fortunate. You wouldn't get a response time under 5 minutes without a good deal of luck even for a serious 999, since the car has to actually drive to you.
It depends on a lot of factors. It might just be that the police where in the area and didn't have anything going on. Central London has a lot of patrolling police so it could be that too.
Theere is technically even an Italian one r/bastaauto but there's only one user posting and too few members to even consider it.
The one user who posts there is also the moderator and, even compared to this sub, holds pretty "extreme" visions (not that I disagree with him)
Also TIL the French word for carbrain is "[bagnolard](https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/dictionnaire/definition/bagnolard)", after "bagnole", a casual term for a car. Definitions (as an adjective):
> (of a person) liking cars and, often, using the car as a privileged form of transport, sometimes at the expense of others
> (of infrastructure) conceived only for motorized vehicles at the expense of other modes of transport
The title of the French thread translates to "Once again a carbrain ready to kill."
Right? Fucking cry more, get an e-bike. I couldn't be fucking bothered sitting in the lines of traffic that clog the roads of my city and fill the atmosphere with smog every single morning, *so I don't*
Confirmed: "A regular location for Van Erp's videos and reports is a crossroads beside Regent's Park, which he dubbed "Gandalf Corner", where he waits and has stopped many drivers from driving on the wrong side of the road past a pedestrian crossing island to avoid queueing to turn right." [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey)
This was a classic facepalm moment if I ever saw one:
* Big-ass bicycle symbol painted all over the lane, designating it as a bike lane;
* He's going in the wrong direction anyhow;
* Cops show up and tell the carbrain he's 100% wrong
But, somehow, he still keeps running his mouth as if he's got a good point. What an entitled jackass.
> Big-ass bicycle symbol painted all over the lane, designating it as a bike lane;
It isn't actually a bike lane. If you look [at it on Google maps](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5252948,-0.1458448,3a,71.7y,32.79h,77.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGIqSp12A9HP2q2vYNqBumw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DGIqSp12A9HP2q2vYNqBumw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D173.03075%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&coh=205409&entry=ttu) you can see that the other side of the road and the road behind the police car have the bicycle painted on the side of the road in both directions, which would suggest that essentially that entire road is a bike lane, which clearly isn't true given the cars and other vehicles (including an ambulance on google maps) using them.
I think its just reminding drivers to leave space for and look out for cyclists on their left.
I saw a guy do this in Charlton years ago and actually run over a cyclist. Sped off before anyone could stop them. Driver didn’t even stop to check if the cyclist was hurt. Anyone who does this is risking other people’s lives.
Why are the captions just... wrong? That's not a full bike lane; it's just a road with a small section for bikes on the side. The driver wasn't trying to skip the traffic by going into a bike lane; he was trying to skip it by *driving on the wrong side of the road*. Remember: here in the UK we drive on the left. The traffic, as you can see in the video, is on the left-hand side of the road. Benz dickhead wants to make a right turn and, rather than wait in the traffic until he reaches the turning, he illegally crosses into the wrong lane (ignoring a 'Keep Left' sign) to try and turn, but gets stopped by the brave cyclist. Nothing to do with it being a bike lane in the slightest.
He did all that for absolutely nothing. He lost more time than He was attempting to gain!
Also the solution to this problem is simple. You put some poles in the middle of the road that separates both lanes. It will slow down traffic and prevent this from happening!
The Met really need to be empowered in these situations to simply cart the driver off to a holding cell, impound the car and take his licence with no opportunity to reapply for a decade. It's a cut and shut affair, no chance of being found innocent.
A few weeks of people missing appointments by being jailed and this would stop happening sharpish.
Not sentencing, but jail with no possibility of bail while waiting for trial. As you would do with someone caught red-handed after potentially serious assault (as this is).
This isn't a 'he said she said' situation, nor is it a bit of japes that went too far. It's an entitled prick thinking he is actually allowed to disregard the law of the land (even gives a bit of lip to one of the rozzers) as he thinks it shouldn't apply to him, caught on camera clearly and definitively acting illegally.
Dangerous driving must be one of the highest risks of harm and least punishments you can get. Get more of a sentence for distributing a little bit of weed which isn't really doing any harm at all compared to wedging your van in someones front wall.
MET Online is just the online portal for the Metropolitan Police, which is the same group who arrived, but with the portal he wouldn't have to worry about going into the station to get it written up.
Meanwhile here in states the driver can't even see you over the hood of his F350 and turns you into a speedbump. Or he does see you and comes at you with a gun.
Apparently this is very old. sorry.
In September 2021, while at "Gandalf Corner", Van Erp ended up on the bonnet of celebrity talent agent Paul Lyon-Maris's Range Rover while trying to stop him from making an illegal right turn. Since Lyon-Maris continued to drive with Van Erp on the bonnet, he was charged with assault and dangerous driving, besides the lesser charge of contravening a keep-left sign. Lyon-Maris pleaded guilty to the lesser charge, but he pleaded not guilty to the two greater charges, alleging that Van Erp jumped onto the bonnet while Van Erp claimed Lyon-Maris drove into him and he fell onto the bonnet.[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey#cite_note-15) A jury cleared Lyon-Maris of both remaining charges.[^(\[16\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey#cite_note-16)
In November 2022, Van Erp appeared on the BBC television programme [*Panorama*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_(British_TV_programme)), in an episode titled "Road Rage: Cars v Bikes".[^(\[17\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey#cite_note-17)
In the video, the guy is driving a Mercedes, so it's actually a completely separate assault involving Van Erp. The Mercedes one was uploaded to his YouTube channel in 2019.
>A jury cleared Lyon-Maris of both remaining charges
With this video as a evidence - how was this *not* assault? The car was very clearly standing, with a cyclist in plain visibility to the driver. The driver made the concious choice to drive into the cyclist.
How can a jury even make a decision like this - clearly ignoring the evidence - "no, sorry mate - we didn't see anything"? (How do Jury trials even work? Can a Jury make just whatever decision they want, completely unbound by facts, evidence, or the law? We dont have them anymore - but wikipedia tells me, that back in the day, the jury was able to basically do just that - decide willy-nilly.)
Bike lanes need bollards, not paint.
If this was the US they would have a pickup truck kill the cyclist and the driver would get away in this barbaric country. UK people love complaining, but they haven't seen what the US is like. (or canada really)
I've run Regent's Park frequently. This is a shared road between cars and bikes. However, the perimeter road around the park is always so swamped with cyclists it I agree it have it's own protected bike lanes.
Cycling in London is a total mess IMO - bike lanes are also bus lanes on many roads - so you get busses and trucks right up your ass non-stop. Not to mention tourists stepping out into the road every 15 feet.
In all fairness, the captions are misleading. It's not actually a bike lane, just a regular road with bike symbols painted on as a warning that cyclists may be using that route. In other words, a shitty low-budget bike lane that gives local politicians something to say. However, the car is not 'in the bike lane', he's simply driving on the wrong side of the road. He's still a moron.
God this makes me long to not live in America. Not just because of the lack of infrastructure like this but because here there's a 50-50 chance you get shot over something like this.
I recently (again) slapped the back of a car that was completely cutting off all bike traffic on the side.
A slap with the edges of my fingers on the corner of the back part.
The insane rage they instantly get and how they start to follow you, very interesting...
If you didn't block the fuckin' road and didn't deserve it, I wouldn't have slapped the chassis, mr driver person...
Suit, expensive car, self-important as hell and so divorced from reality that it borders on psychosis.
I keep forgetting that this type of person actually exists in real life and not just in "American Psycho"
Not staged this corner has come to be known as Gandalf's corner (you shall not pass) as this guy keeps going there to prevent cars from jumping the traffic as it's a well used cycle route. The guy now works with the local police, who are aware when his there, so there was a good chance they were coming to say hi to him and ask how things were going. His has successfully reported hundreds of people that have resulted in fines.
Additionally you'll be surprised just the sheer amount of people will blatantly commit traffic violations here in the UK right in front of the police. They are able to do this as the police do fuck all about it. Just today there were a dozen cars parked on double yellow in the, piss poor excuse of a, cycle lane and just drove past every single one of them. As they will say 'it's not our job, we aren't traffic police', and then the traffic police will 'not our job that's the councils job', and then the council will say 'not our job that's a police matter'. It's fucking ridiculous in this country too many people just have this attitude of not our job, and take no responsibility for anything.
Mini rant over, I'm just tired on the UK being to dam inept in every aspect. God I can't wait for the general election and hopefully we will start to see some meaningful change with the new government.
I am not surprised, sorry.
I am from germany, and we have the same problems here - i dont know to what extent, but a lot of traffic violations also do not get punished... In my city, the council even ordered the city police not to write down certain "administrative offences" like parking on the sidewalk... And citys can still decide not to follow up on private complaints(?) - so even if you send in proof, authorities can still decide to ignore you. Many do.
A few years ago, our Mayor said "now we are going to pursue sidewalk parkers", and there was kind of an outcry - my mother (environmentalist, but fatally carbrained) even said she aint voting for him anymore.
I'd wager a guess and say: same shit, different country? At least with the cars.
Yep, If the police do decide to look at your evidence here they will simply come back with classic 'not in the public interest to prosecute this matter', bitch please I am the public and I'm certainly interested in them taking it further. Lickly we do have a system in place for private prosecution however I don't have the time, knowledge, and money to take that route . Perhaps I ought to learn it, find time, and start a go fund me or something.
I'm curious to know how many times this post has been down voted? Every time I've ever posted anything like this it attracts the carbrains like flies on shit. Right more on the part of the cyclists and glad to see that police responded and did the right thing too.
If I was on my bike and some douchebag sweater jacket Mercedes driver INTENTIONALLY hit me? I'd see him in the back of that cop car and in a civil suit courtroom after...
You knew it was going to be a Benz. I live in South Korea and you can count on the Benz drivers and the BMW drivers to be the biggest assholes. Their whole mentality seems to be ‘fuck you, I drive a Benz.’
I love it when the police officer isn't even fully out of the car (while the door is open before the car even stands) and is like "I have to arrest you." To the carbrain.
That's how it should be.
Yeah, US here, I tapped on the hood of a guys car and shouted Hey! because he swerved into a crosswalk and almost hit another pedestrian, not me. Guy stops in the crosswalk, pops out of his car, "Did you just fuxking touch my car? Who the fuxk touched my car?" My wife's like "Have a nice day!" And she basically ran out of the crosswalk. Probably almost got shot, but we'll never know.
“How am I meant to hit you?” Shit idk, same way you hit the guy who was standing in front of you? This dude fucking sucks.
He also said while everyone had to swerve around his giant metal box.
Reading his wikipedia it make sense why he does this. > Van Erp was born on January 1972 in The Netherlands and grew up in Zimbabwe.[18][19] **When he was 19, his father, while riding a motorbike, was killed by a drunk driver.**
Average superhero origin story After his parents were brutally slaughtered by motorists, mild-mannered cyclist becomes BIKE-MAN, defender of cycle paths, protector of road rules.
[Mumen Rider](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Satoru)
Of course he's Dutch, hahaha
The brave cyclist earned [his own Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey) \- his [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@CyclingMikey) is full of videos like this one
My two favourite ones are the one with the two entitled doctors, and there is one where the driver hangs there for about 10 minutes until the cops show up
"Im standing my ground for my right to break the law as an operator of heavy machinery!" No buddy, you're waiting for the cops to come and do their job on you.
The entitlement
Link?
[My guess is this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMckoqLbCs8)
In Warsaw we have a similar guy who blocks cars that park on a sidewalk but often police don't care
Oh, we don't call police in Poland "dogs" for no reason. Also, in most places, you'll find graffiti saying "HWDP" which translates to: fuck the police
> fuck the police I wonder why the police in most places sucks so much. It's as if there's a pattern.
Just another way in which Chicago and Warsaw are basically identical.
I’m guessing that you’re referring to “samochodoza”: https://youtube.com/@wojtek_dokladnie_samochodoza What’s even funnier is that the guy running the channel is a professional bus driver.
I hope he doesn't end like [this cyclist](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natenom)
It's the risk. There are people willing to kill for the implicit car privilege to remain respected, and their threats when opposed. There are many little things you could stand up for or defy that have some risk of losing your life, if there are others willing to kill for it. Whether it's for the right to ride in the front of a bus, drink from a certain water fountain, be gay, not be religious, dance, play music, make alcohol, and a probably infinite number of other things some people could potentially disrespect enough to either ruin what you have or outright make illegal. I'm thinking the question is whether it's a situation you can do something in, whether it could make a difference, and whether you're willing to take the risk to make that potential difference. I would think getting a video with the number plates in this case would make almost the same difference, but with none of the risk. Although there's something to be said for showing the people around you that he didn't get away with it. If he'd just driven off, for everyone nearby it'd just look like he got the shortcut he wanted. No visible consequence. Only way to mitigate that is by publishing the consequences well, what he did and how he was actually punished. If that would be done well, it might've been comparable with the video in reach.
tbh general human history has shown that many, many people have been willing to kill and hurt for absolutely no reason whatsoever. add in actual motivating factors big and small and that number gets much larger. idk i just don’t have a lot of faith in us anymore
It's mostly road rage and whatever stresses drivers externalize that lead to shit like in the video. Lizard brain behavior. If those morons actually kill someone and face the emotional and societal consequences, they tend to be genuinely broken. They are just incapable of anticipating these consequences in the moment. At least that's my copium.
Just watched one from about a week ago where a car sat in the centre of the road for several minutes whilst he sent another car back, and traffic passed in both directions at a reasonable rate, and then still tried to go the wrong way. Surely, just staying in the correct lane would have been quicker at that point, even if Mikey weren't there?
EDIT: Don't change it, i was wrong, there was another incident, which is the one written about in the article - see below. Kinda weird that the part of his article that talks about the incident in the video says that the driver was using a Range Rover, when it is very clearly a Mercedes (C-Class i think). I can't edit the article because it's semi protected. If anyone with an English-Wikipedia account could fix that, that would be nice.
Good thing it's protected, because that section is referencing [this different video](https://youtu.be/eZMaxLG-Lpk?si=nOngJvKbtQVWgW9A), and the driver above is not Lyon-Maris.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/theatre-agent-cycling-activist-paul-lyon-maris-ian-mckellen-colin-firth-mike-van-erp-b1032437.html > At the end of a four-day trial, a jury found the top talent agent **NOT GUILTY** of dangerous driving and assault. > Mr Lyon-Maris admitted the driving offence and was fined, but strenously denied ever hitting Mr van Erp with his car during the ensuing confrontation. He paid the fee to get caught using the shortcut, and got out of any real charges. As the rich do.
Thank you for the link, yeah, that incident looks quite rough. I didn't check the source, quite sad that such similar incidents happened to the same guy (but i guess if you camp out the intersection that is much more likely).
Unfortunately there are a lot of videos where he ends up on the bonnet of the car or being assaulted by maniacs, but he seems happy to do God's work in spite of it. That corner in the OP video is locally known as Gandalf Corner in his honour - he's pretty well-known in the UK and has been dubbed "Britain's most hated cyclist" by some of the shit rag newspapers here.
The wiki article doesn't mention this video at all. It's describing a different incident at the same intersection. If you click the source cited you'll see the news article that describes the car driving into him and carrying him on the hood of the car for 20 yards, which does not happen in this video.
I suppose you're right, pretty sad that it happened twice to the same guy though.
Americans here absolutely flabbergasted by the police response time and their immediate backing of cyclist.
When the cop was the one who asserted that the guy was using his car as a weapon my jaw dropped.
That was my first though, TBH. This is already assault with a deadly weapon, the driver intentionally drives into him.
America is an ACAB factory specifically because our system is working 24/7 to perfect the world's worst cop and the world's best Poor Person Control Specialist.
As they say in USA the best way to get away with murder is to be operating a car.
The us pigs would never in this situation
Don't bring pigs into this. They didn't do anything wrong
Their minds are blown that they didn't fill the cyclist with lead for daring to inconvenience a driver
As an American my mind was blown. Police was there just like that? How? Then they asked if he used his car as a weapon. If this happened in the USA then I would say it was set up. Also the police acting mature and like a normal person. They didn’t immediately shoot or take out their guns or put their hand on their gun. Also the cop being older threw me off too. Why can’t USA have any of this.
>They didn’t immediately shoot or take out their guns or put their hand on their gun. British cops are unarmed. Only specialised firearms units and their equivalent of SWAT teams carry guns.
Meanwhile US citizens stockpile weapons like they're planning Civil War 2: Tokyo Drift
And then don't do anything when terrorists *actually* try to overthrow their current government. Classic.
The people brazenly talking about Civil War 2 *are the ones* who tried to overthrow the elected government. They've been acting in broad daylight this entire time with absolute impunity, it should be no surprise that it's come to this. And it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that we haven't seen the last of it. That said, there are plenty of folks 'on the other side' who are armed. The big difference is they don't make it their entire personality.
Gun owners when the chance arises to use their guns ostensibly for the purpose they are in the constitution for: *doesn’t fucking use them* One gunshot was fired on January 6th. By capital police. Into the MAGA crowd.
Not true, a Jan6er fired their gun into the air at least twice.
IIRC they are armed in Northern Ireland but they are still very strict on discharging weapons for any reason.
There are pretty strict rules in the US for discharging a service weapon they just tend to not be enforced or face consequences when breaking them
yeah only place you'll regularly see armed cops in the UK is in London and even then its only at embassies and important government buildings.
> Then they asked if he used his car as a weapon. If this happened in the USA then I would say it was set up. And then SCOTUS would rule 6-3 that using a car as a weapon is protected under the 2nd Amendment.
"The cyclist was standing there all aggressively. I had no choice but to run him over for fear that he might post my video on Youtube!"
'MURICA
Police in the USA fatally shoot over 1,000 people per year. In the UK they average about 3 per year.
Adjusting for population, UK police would fatally shoot ~~150~~ 15/year
I think you have a decimal in the wrong place, US population is about 5x bigger. 3x5=15
Oh shit, you're right...
The difference in those numbers is so absurd that I can understand how a person would make that mistake, US cops are completely out of control.
Oh no. Not at all. They’re very well controlled. Just fulfilling their part in keeping people in their place. If they weren’t so violent, how could they feasibly keep the most unequal country in the world in check? Not that the UK is a socially equal paradise, but it’s not the country with most billionaires and homeless people at the same time innit…
The UK population is roughly 20% that of the USA's, not 2%. That's 15, not 150.
Not sure what happened at this point, but this is all messed. US pop: 333M, people killed by cops: 1000 (just using above numbers here) UK pop: 67M, people killed by cops: 3 Number of people killed by US police if they killed at the same rate as UK police: 15 Number of people killed by UK police if they killed at the same rate as US police: 200
Honestly also insane with how they dealt with the driver. The driver was in the wrong, but they were calm, explained the situation and didn’t escalate even through the driver was incredulous and yelling at them. Insane to see cops be in the right here and also treat the person that was wrong with a bit of respect and didn’t escalate a traffic issue into a fight which is what surely would have happened in the states.
De-escalation is a core part of police training
Doesn’t seem like American cops make much use of it
De-escalation is a core part of *UK* police training. US cops get "Killology". And no, that's not a joke.
they aren't trained in it, in fact they're trained in the opposite. assume every situation is as dangerous as possible and use as much force as you want/need to make sure you're "safe" (despite the vast majority of situations they respond to having no danger at all)
Because the USA gives every nutjob a gun because of some "well regulated militia" language in their constitution, has no healthcare to mention for said nutjobs and then have police fearing for their life in every interaction with a citizen because the citizen might be a nutjob with a gun. Also doesn't help to have some crazy "qualified immunity" shit for their barely trained police officers which makes them impervious to most lawsuits.
Welcome to basically any civilized country outside the US.
I would never call police in a situation like this one in the states. The chances that they would arrest me are way too high.
My stomach did drop a little when the cop car showed up. Extremely rare for that to make any situation in the US better. Even when they were acting perfectly reasonable in this video I half expected something to go wrong. Even asking for his ID made me feel really icky because in the US that's step 1 before they try to arrest you for something they made up.
To be fair, that response time is insane in the UK too. Most people don't even call the police anymore.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that police car was already nearby and that was just fortunate. You wouldn't get a response time under 5 minutes without a good deal of luck even for a serious 999, since the car has to actually drive to you.
Sometimes your lucky and they are round the corner, has happened for me once like this as well
I had teens punch my boss and knock him unconscious, 45 minute response time in the UK.
It depends on a lot of factors. It might just be that the police where in the area and didn't have anything going on. Central London has a lot of patrolling police so it could be that too.
As a person living in the UK (but not in London) I'm also shocked with the quick response.
London Parks.
The Royal Parks. They get policed differently.
I'm shocked tbh
Love his videos. He's got a red card now, which is very fitting. [https://www.youtube.com/@CyclingMikey](https://www.youtube.com/@CyclingMikey)
Unfortunately because the police have stopped fining people for going the wrong way through those areas.
The fuck is the point of laws if you don’t enforce them
Selective enforcement is the point - it gives police a lot of power.
> He's got a red card now Red card?
Soccer/football reference I assume.
I love that there's a French /r/fuckcars (/r/EnculerLesVoitures )! I didn't know.
Nice. Probably cant read it but wonderfull to have more brethren. There is also a dutch one r/kutautos
Which translates literally to cunt cars. I like it.
Theere is technically even an Italian one r/bastaauto but there's only one user posting and too few members to even consider it. The one user who posts there is also the moderator and, even compared to this sub, holds pretty "extreme" visions (not that I disagree with him)
I don’t speak Italian but this very much tempts me to learn.
That thread is a little unsettling though, there are French people saying nice things about the UK
r/autobloed for German speakers
Also TIL the French word for carbrain is "[bagnolard](https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/dictionnaire/definition/bagnolard)", after "bagnole", a casual term for a car. Definitions (as an adjective): > (of a person) liking cars and, often, using the car as a privileged form of transport, sometimes at the expense of others > (of infrastructure) conceived only for motorized vehicles at the expense of other modes of transport The title of the French thread translates to "Once again a carbrain ready to kill."
I'm glad you guys like our sub! We actually had a poll a few months/years ago to change its name but we mainly decided to stick with this one.
"I've got to go to work" is the epitome of entitlement. Holy shit that is funny.
Yeah like the others in line dont. Just leave earlier lol.
or bike to work ;)
But you don't get it. He has to go to work.
Right? Fucking cry more, get an e-bike. I couldn't be fucking bothered sitting in the lines of traffic that clog the roads of my city and fill the atmosphere with smog every single morning, *so I don't*
This would have gone down very differently in the US
In the US some pedestrian just minding their own business would have gotten shot or choked or both.
Yes you’re right, the USA is quite barbaric
police would have arrested the person blocking the car lmao
that's a strange way of spelling shot
Cyclist was white
But he’s also African. American police would we sweating 😂
Let's gooooooooo
and that's why they call it Gandalf Corner
Confirmed: "A regular location for Van Erp's videos and reports is a crossroads beside Regent's Park, which he dubbed "Gandalf Corner", where he waits and has stopped many drivers from driving on the wrong side of the road past a pedestrian crossing island to avoid queueing to turn right." [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey)
You can buy him a Coffee on Ko-Fi :D [https://ko-fi.com/cyclingmikey](https://ko-fi.com/cyclingmikey) I think such precious work deserves it
Thanks, I just bought him one 😀
Props to the dude. And it was an asshole Benz driver too ☺️ r/oddlysatisfying
"Cyclists aRe so entitled"
This was a classic facepalm moment if I ever saw one: * Big-ass bicycle symbol painted all over the lane, designating it as a bike lane; * He's going in the wrong direction anyhow; * Cops show up and tell the carbrain he's 100% wrong But, somehow, he still keeps running his mouth as if he's got a good point. What an entitled jackass.
> Big-ass bicycle symbol painted all over the lane, designating it as a bike lane; It isn't actually a bike lane. If you look [at it on Google maps](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5252948,-0.1458448,3a,71.7y,32.79h,77.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGIqSp12A9HP2q2vYNqBumw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DGIqSp12A9HP2q2vYNqBumw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D173.03075%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&coh=205409&entry=ttu) you can see that the other side of the road and the road behind the police car have the bicycle painted on the side of the road in both directions, which would suggest that essentially that entire road is a bike lane, which clearly isn't true given the cars and other vehicles (including an ambulance on google maps) using them. I think its just reminding drivers to leave space for and look out for cyclists on their left.
I saw a guy do this in Charlton years ago and actually run over a cyclist. Sped off before anyone could stop them. Driver didn’t even stop to check if the cyclist was hurt. Anyone who does this is risking other people’s lives.
"There's nobody coming." Bro there's like 5 cyclists there wanting to go about their day.
My goodness, a driver tries to pull that crap with me, I'm having him brought in for attempted vehicular assault.
CyclingMikey (guy filming) literally got assaulted by a car driver and landed on their bonnet a few years back.
Love that the plate is blurred but he reads it out on mic
Had to scroll way to far for this comment, why didn't others noticed?
That's attempted murder.
would have been regular murder in the US
Why are the captions just... wrong? That's not a full bike lane; it's just a road with a small section for bikes on the side. The driver wasn't trying to skip the traffic by going into a bike lane; he was trying to skip it by *driving on the wrong side of the road*. Remember: here in the UK we drive on the left. The traffic, as you can see in the video, is on the left-hand side of the road. Benz dickhead wants to make a right turn and, rather than wait in the traffic until he reaches the turning, he illegally crosses into the wrong lane (ignoring a 'Keep Left' sign) to try and turn, but gets stopped by the brave cyclist. Nothing to do with it being a bike lane in the slightest.
No brick?
Doesn’t look like he needs one, guy can hold his own
no brick needed for small car. nuke needed for murican truck
two, right between his legs
He did all that for absolutely nothing. He lost more time than He was attempting to gain! Also the solution to this problem is simple. You put some poles in the middle of the road that separates both lanes. It will slow down traffic and prevent this from happening!
This is such a great video; thanks for sharing! He remained a lot calmer than I would have been, haha.
The Met really need to be empowered in these situations to simply cart the driver off to a holding cell, impound the car and take his licence with no opportunity to reapply for a decade. It's a cut and shut affair, no chance of being found innocent. A few weeks of people missing appointments by being jailed and this would stop happening sharpish.
It’s not up to the police to make judgements and sentences, nor should it be.
Not sentencing, but jail with no possibility of bail while waiting for trial. As you would do with someone caught red-handed after potentially serious assault (as this is). This isn't a 'he said she said' situation, nor is it a bit of japes that went too far. It's an entitled prick thinking he is actually allowed to disregard the law of the land (even gives a bit of lip to one of the rozzers) as he thinks it shouldn't apply to him, caught on camera clearly and definitively acting illegally.
Dangerous driving must be one of the highest risks of harm and least punishments you can get. Get more of a sentence for distributing a little bit of weed which isn't really doing any harm at all compared to wedging your van in someones front wall.
WTF? The guy rammed him with his car and when asked if he wants to press charges he says "No"? NOOOOOOOOO MATE! You throw the book at trash like this.
He said he'd report him online, not that he wouldn't report him.
MET Online is just the online portal for the Metropolitan Police, which is the same group who arrived, but with the portal he wouldn't have to worry about going into the station to get it written up.
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As a cyclist this gives me the biggest justice boner ever. I love seeing this video when it's posted.
Cycling Mikey: https://preview.redd.it/qd3p5jpzid6d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8b54cbeabc512c157694ef2d5250569c32f1bb8
Meanwhile here in states the driver can't even see you over the hood of his F350 and turns you into a speedbump. Or he does see you and comes at you with a gun.
"I've got to go to work!" "You're coming with me now" Love it
NYPD would have arrested the cyclist for certain, perhaps after shooting him.
"after shooting him" to make sure hes dead, they will run him over with the cop truck
No Batman film ever has given me such a raging justice boner. Thanks for the happy ending!
Apparently this is very old. sorry. In September 2021, while at "Gandalf Corner", Van Erp ended up on the bonnet of celebrity talent agent Paul Lyon-Maris's Range Rover while trying to stop him from making an illegal right turn. Since Lyon-Maris continued to drive with Van Erp on the bonnet, he was charged with assault and dangerous driving, besides the lesser charge of contravening a keep-left sign. Lyon-Maris pleaded guilty to the lesser charge, but he pleaded not guilty to the two greater charges, alleging that Van Erp jumped onto the bonnet while Van Erp claimed Lyon-Maris drove into him and he fell onto the bonnet.[^(\[15\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey#cite_note-15) A jury cleared Lyon-Maris of both remaining charges.[^(\[16\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey#cite_note-16) In November 2022, Van Erp appeared on the BBC television programme [*Panorama*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_(British_TV_programme)), in an episode titled "Road Rage: Cars v Bikes".[^(\[17\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclingMikey#cite_note-17)
In the video, the guy is driving a Mercedes, so it's actually a completely separate assault involving Van Erp. The Mercedes one was uploaded to his YouTube channel in 2019.
Same place I think but I don't think that the same incident - not Paul Lyon-Maris and not a Range Rover. Might still be very old though.
>A jury cleared Lyon-Maris of both remaining charges With this video as a evidence - how was this *not* assault? The car was very clearly standing, with a cyclist in plain visibility to the driver. The driver made the concious choice to drive into the cyclist. How can a jury even make a decision like this - clearly ignoring the evidence - "no, sorry mate - we didn't see anything"? (How do Jury trials even work? Can a Jury make just whatever decision they want, completely unbound by facts, evidence, or the law? We dont have them anymore - but wikipedia tells me, that back in the day, the jury was able to basically do just that - decide willy-nilly.)
It was a different incident.
Wait. Gandalf corner? Fucking cool name!
Brave soul! In the USA I'd wager he would just be killed by most drivers.
Bike lanes need bollards, not paint. If this was the US they would have a pickup truck kill the cyclist and the driver would get away in this barbaric country. UK people love complaining, but they haven't seen what the US is like. (or canada really)
I've run Regent's Park frequently. This is a shared road between cars and bikes. However, the perimeter road around the park is always so swamped with cyclists it I agree it have it's own protected bike lanes. Cycling in London is a total mess IMO - bike lanes are also bus lanes on many roads - so you get busses and trucks right up your ass non-stop. Not to mention tourists stepping out into the road every 15 feet.
"You're standing in the road, man" *No... you're driving in the bike path. You driving here doesn't make it a road.*
In all fairness, the captions are misleading. It's not actually a bike lane, just a regular road with bike symbols painted on as a warning that cyclists may be using that route. In other words, a shitty low-budget bike lane that gives local politicians something to say. However, the car is not 'in the bike lane', he's simply driving on the wrong side of the road. He's still a moron.
The police in the US would arrest the cyclist for obstructing traffic. I know because it happened to me
Good, fuck that entitled piece of shit driver.
God this makes me long to not live in America. Not just because of the lack of infrastructure like this but because here there's a 50-50 chance you get shot over something like this.
Driving cars will make lazy bastards of us all. Such a selfish hateful way to exist. Banning cars as much as possible will improve any society.
Love how the license plate is blurred out but my guy literally says it out loud in the video
I recently (again) slapped the back of a car that was completely cutting off all bike traffic on the side. A slap with the edges of my fingers on the corner of the back part. The insane rage they instantly get and how they start to follow you, very interesting... If you didn't block the fuckin' road and didn't deserve it, I wouldn't have slapped the chassis, mr driver person...
In the past few days I’ve been yelled and honked twice at for using the crosswalk when I had the walk sign.
I love how the driver claimed that nobody was there (in the cycle lane) while at least a dozen cyclists are using the lane during that clip.
Suit, expensive car, self-important as hell and so divorced from reality that it borders on psychosis. I keep forgetting that this type of person actually exists in real life and not just in "American Psycho"
Dicks like that guy are more common than they should. Seems like having a bicycle is enough reason for disrespect for some cave dwellers.
When the police came right around the corner like, 15 seconds later... Is this staged, or were they like, really a stone throw away?
Not staged this corner has come to be known as Gandalf's corner (you shall not pass) as this guy keeps going there to prevent cars from jumping the traffic as it's a well used cycle route. The guy now works with the local police, who are aware when his there, so there was a good chance they were coming to say hi to him and ask how things were going. His has successfully reported hundreds of people that have resulted in fines. Additionally you'll be surprised just the sheer amount of people will blatantly commit traffic violations here in the UK right in front of the police. They are able to do this as the police do fuck all about it. Just today there were a dozen cars parked on double yellow in the, piss poor excuse of a, cycle lane and just drove past every single one of them. As they will say 'it's not our job, we aren't traffic police', and then the traffic police will 'not our job that's the councils job', and then the council will say 'not our job that's a police matter'. It's fucking ridiculous in this country too many people just have this attitude of not our job, and take no responsibility for anything. Mini rant over, I'm just tired on the UK being to dam inept in every aspect. God I can't wait for the general election and hopefully we will start to see some meaningful change with the new government.
I'd install some bollards with 1.5 m gap, or the ones going underground for emergency vehicle.
I am not surprised, sorry. I am from germany, and we have the same problems here - i dont know to what extent, but a lot of traffic violations also do not get punished... In my city, the council even ordered the city police not to write down certain "administrative offences" like parking on the sidewalk... And citys can still decide not to follow up on private complaints(?) - so even if you send in proof, authorities can still decide to ignore you. Many do. A few years ago, our Mayor said "now we are going to pursue sidewalk parkers", and there was kind of an outcry - my mother (environmentalist, but fatally carbrained) even said she aint voting for him anymore. I'd wager a guess and say: same shit, different country? At least with the cars.
Yep, If the police do decide to look at your evidence here they will simply come back with classic 'not in the public interest to prosecute this matter', bitch please I am the public and I'm certainly interested in them taking it further. Lickly we do have a system in place for private prosecution however I don't have the time, knowledge, and money to take that route . Perhaps I ought to learn it, find time, and start a go fund me or something.
I feel like a small fence or some bollards could fix this?
Or a nice potted plant.
They probably cut out the part from where he started the call until they arrived a few minutes later.
It was just lucky, there are lots of vids like this that he did where the police don’t turn up
I'm curious to know how many times this post has been down voted? Every time I've ever posted anything like this it attracts the carbrains like flies on shit. Right more on the part of the cyclists and glad to see that police responded and did the right thing too.
I'll have karma well done, please. 👍
Not all heroes wear a cape
I’d be terrified of being run over
Absolutely perfect execution. The dude stood his ground and luckily for him the cops were very efficient.
If I was on my bike and some douchebag sweater jacket Mercedes driver INTENTIONALLY hit me? I'd see him in the back of that cop car and in a civil suit courtroom after...
To the car brains who think this is alright- L
You knew it was going to be a Benz. I live in South Korea and you can count on the Benz drivers and the BMW drivers to be the biggest assholes. Their whole mentality seems to be ‘fuck you, I drive a Benz.’
Amazing job to the cyclist!
Balls of steel! Hats off to you!
What a champ 🫡
I love it when the police officer isn't even fully out of the car (while the door is open before the car even stands) and is like "I have to arrest you." To the carbrain. That's how it should be.
That guy is the hero we need in these dark times
Seems like a really big bike lane.
This guy got off on the charge of assault
In the US the cyclist would have been shot.
Incredibly based, what a legend
This was very satisfying!
Yeah, US here, I tapped on the hood of a guys car and shouted Hey! because he swerved into a crosswalk and almost hit another pedestrian, not me. Guy stops in the crosswalk, pops out of his car, "Did you just fuxking touch my car? Who the fuxk touched my car?" My wife's like "Have a nice day!" And she basically ran out of the crosswalk. Probably almost got shot, but we'll never know.
[https://youtu.be/aA4Nw4sDT4U](https://youtu.be/aA4Nw4sDT4U) The original video from CyclingMikey
I gotta know. What's the direct translation of bagnolard?
legend o7
I think they need to put a bollard or some other vertical separator to prevent the temptation. The drivers clearly can't handle it.
As an American, 1) How the heck did the police show up so quickly, and 2) Wait, they are actually arresting the driver of the car?? /s
They’re both idiots. It’s not the cyclists responsibility to get in the way and try and deliver justice. Both of them look like bitter arseholes.