Not cool at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTZkZTYkaM&feature=player_embedded
heh hmmmmm not cool. was also reading the haters comment.s . one about i despise all rednecks etc. wtf. dont blame all people for what a few do. a few like that jackwagon did. was no reason for it . none whatsoever
Apparently the guy was chuffed at all bike riders cause one rider had supposedly run his mama off the road. But what a complete idiot cutting blind corners all to stop a bike passing you. Imagine any vehicle coming the other way be it car or bike would have ended up very messy. Only thing I could think that the rider behind could have done in hindsight is pull over and just let the idiot get ahead in the hope he would stop cutting the bends when he realised the bike was not behind him anymore.
I hope the idiot went to jail. Today I had some a**hole in a 3/4 truck riding about 5 foot (seemed like 1 foot) off my tail light at speeds of 60 mph. Really scary. A LEO on a HD passed us going the opposite direction, did a u-turn and stopped him. I turned around and stopped as well, but the LEO told me he would take care of it and waved me on. Probably thought I was going to start something. Probably a good idea he sent me on my way because I was pissed. Fortunately my experience was not near as bad as the guy in the video.
Quote from: Twisted on May 29, 2011, 06:53:42 AM
Apparently the guy was chuffed at all bike riders cause one rider had supposedly run his mama off the road.
Was his mama pregnant him when she got run off the road? Might explain the brain damage this guy has.
Trying to run somebody off the road with your car is the same as shooting at somebody with a gun - you might miss but the consequences would be the same if you hit them.
I gotta say the idiot tried to pass on a blind double yellow line though. His bad for that, but the idiot in the trucks bad for keeping it going and driving like a complete moron with total lack of respect for anybody but himself. Could have killed multiple people and hopefully they will both get cited. One for passing on a double yellow, and the other for attempted manslaughter.
I'd call that a safe pass. Illegal, but safe.
You won't see me riding like that.
Damn, that gave me chills. Some people!!! Unbelievable
SCARY!
It also amazes me that people are saying "Yea, but he crossed a double yellow line........"
So that justifies murder? He should lose his life because some jackass on a back country road takes offense to him passing him?
Apparently, there are rumous floating around that the driver was charged with attempted murder (not manslaughter, mans rea was involved here). I posted a request for an update to the case to the dude that posted the video, lets see what he says.
I don't think he was actually arrested and charged.
Here's a post at 13x.com from the guy who was running the video:
http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?p=3554243#post3554243
good GOD i thought some of our arguments here. were longwinded. or my 3 word game was. or the last poster wins shiite. but 37 p[ages about somethign that took 7 minutes to happen. in that vid id say both are at fault to a degree. the trucker having about 98% of it
and another incident. thats why i love having a CCW
http://www.wpxi.com/news/28085150/detail.html
Just a update * http://www.maysville-online.com/news/local/article_89a04436-95d4-11e0-8ef7-001cc4c002e0.html *
cool. worst case for biker is he gets an illegal lane change ticket. far less than the guy in the truck
I don't think I think the same way some of you do on this. Yeah, the kid driving the truck is an arse who tried to take-out the bike who was passing him. I don't dispute that, but as far as I could tell everyone in this video was breaking the law with speed, crossing lines, or both, so if I were in involved in it I wouldn't want to attract attention to it.
Quote from: bill14224 on June 16, 2011, 08:35:51 PM
I don't think I think the same way some of you do on this. Yeah, the kid driving the truck is an arse who tried to take-out the bike who was passing him. I don't dispute that, but as far as I could tell everyone in this video was breaking the law with speed, crossing lines, or both, so if I were in involved in it I wouldn't want to attract attention to it.
True but I know I am guilty of crossing double whites on back country roads to get around slower vehicles. Nobody was in the right in this video but the utility driver was the worst of them.
Who cares what person did what illegally. Seriously! Someone tried to KILL another person. If people speeding and crossing unbroken lines is what worries you about this video get off the road cause obviously human life means little to you.
I'm surprised they were so restrained when they caught up to him I know I would not have been.
Quote from: Shaddow on June 19, 2011, 07:36:33 PM
Who cares what person did what illegally. Seriously! Someone tried to KILL another person. If people speeding and crossing unbroken lines is what worries you about this video get off the road cause obviously human life means little to you.
I'm surprised they were so restrained when they caught up to him I know I would not have been.
yeah my irish temper woulda got the worst out of me as well