There’s a cyclist over on Road.cc looking for anyone who can help the police with their (not taken at all seriously) enquiries:

Met Police Doing Nothing in News Scandal

How can the police do nothing, with such damning evidence? 😯

Although the registered keeper of the car was easily traceable it seems that on the day in question the vehicle was left unlocked with the keys in the ignition, only for it to be taken without consent but somehow later returned to the owner by person or persons unknown.

I’m sure this has been said but could they not check the video footage against the registered keeper!? How much evidence is required for the police to make any enquires!

I’d be interested to see what caused that though – people don’t react like that to idle bystanders

the officer(s) who decided not to follow this up should be sacked.

I hope they get the bastard too.

Woody: http://road.cc/content/forum/37729-road-rage

I’m sure this has been said but could they not check the video footage against the registered keeper!? How much evidence is required for the police to make any enquires!

Having read the thread of road.cc, my understanding is that the video confirms that the registered keeper isn’t the driver. Clearly the registered keeper knows who the driver is though, thus he is also clearly a total ****.

woody2000 – Member
I’d be interested to see what caused that though – people don’t react like that to idle bystanders

You’ve never been to Bexly have you? (I’m serious it one of those place were people do kick off over you looking in their direction)

Reading the forum the car overtook at a traffic island, people shouted, the car stopped, some threat from the car driver then drove of wing mirror clipping one of the riders, punch was thrown. The clipped wing mirror may have a bit more to the story but the entire incident screams of thug trying to intimidate then lashing out.

On a side note I **** hate traffic islands when cycling they cause so many needless “close calls”.

Why did he punch in the first place?!

Crazy.

bloody cyclists

FFS people give the Police a break, they do have other more important matters to attend to!

Like a bloke that may have once looked at a cartoon on his PC where the fictitious character was under age (under what ‘age’ I’ve no idea, do cartoon characters even have ages?) and semi-nude – child porn you know – obviously a danger to children! Or a ‘foreign looking’ gentlemen taking pictures of famous landmarks – well suspicious or what – obviously a terrorist! And then there’s people selling Golly’s. Everyone knows that’s blatant racism, and Robinson’s jam was a cover for the Ku Klux Klan.

I think our boys in blue do a super job. Yeah OK, they shoot the odd innocent person dead, beat to death the odd innocent person, lie and cheat and get the odd innocent person or persons incarcerated for long periods, run over and kill the odd innocent person, but come on, no system’s perfect.

So, I guess it goes something like this:

“Oy mate, watch out you f*cking w*nker. T*sser” etc etc

“Who you calling a w*nker?”

<punch>

😕

Now, there’s no excusing what the guy did, but you can only mouth off to so many people before, inevitably, someone’s gonna get out and stick one on you. It’s happened to me before, so I now just try and bite my lip as much as I can. At the end of the day, the kind of person who does something like that isn’t going to change just cos you called him a name. And a dangerous nutter in 2 tonnes of metal is always going to win the argument!

I hope they find the guy though, after all, it could be a child’s face next.

😉

someone fancy paying for this, might help:
https://www.icarcheck.net/icc/FreeSearchResult.aspx?R=KJ56HGF

Could he not be prosecuted for failing to name the driver?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/172
or does that only apply to traffic offences, not getting out and thumping someone?

Now, there’s no excusing what the guy did, but you can only mouth off to so many people before, inevitably, someone’s gonna get out and stick one on you. It’s happened to me before, so I now just try and bite my lip as much as I can. At the end of the day, the kind of person who does something like that isn’t going to change just cos you called him a name. And a dangerous nutter in 2 tonnes of metal is always going to win the argument!

This is true but does that mean we (cyclist) should just be meek and never say anything to someone who endanger our life just incase they are mental? Is this any different from not stopping someone in the street who is being abusive?

This is true but does that mean we (cyclist) should just be meek and never say anything to someone who endanger our life just incase they are mental?

I think he means that if you’re going to give some verbal abuse to a car with 4 big geezers, then be certain that you can back it up with something, otherwise don’t bother – however justified you might feel.

Could he not be prosecuted for failing to name the driver?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/172
or does that only apply to traffic offences, not getting out and thumping someone?

Yes it is just for traffic stuff, but I think the story said the car had clipped the cyclist before the assault, so you’ve got a traffic offence there anyway.

I would speculate that the (sounds to me like) bullshit about the key being left in the ignition was in response to such a request.

TheBrick – Member

woody2000 – Member
I’d be interested to see what caused that though – people don’t react like that to idle bystanders

You’ve never been to Bexly have you? (I’m serious it one of those place were people do kick off over you looking in their direction)

yep, THIS.^

I called someone a “fat See You Next Tuesday” recently (in a bit of a pique). He had the window open and was none too happy. From a safe distance he decided to get out of the car and I realised that he wasn’t fat at all…just about 6’3″ of big bastard squashed into a small car. He’d have beaten me up just by looking at me sternly.

I did a little squirty poo in my pants and rode off like the wind.

Like ernie says, make sure you can back up what you say.

(None of the above condones what those meatheads did by the way; and yeah, the driver does punch like a girl what can’t punch very well).

It’s incredibly frustrating but these days I just let stuff go. Last time I challenged somebody it got way out of hand.
I got hit with a rounders bat and the back window of mrs. S’s 2 day old car was smashed in. Thinking back, we both could have been killed that night over a row about driving. Let the cants get on with it.

I suppose I kind of meant what ernie said, you either need to be able to sort it out if it does get violent (and I don’t just mean fighting), or you need to deal with it in some other way – take the plate and report it, that kind of approach. By mouthing off, you become the aggressor and in some cases that’s enough to get you a thump.

Not a member of roadcc, but has anyone suggested handing it over to Crimewatch – would make a good feature given that there is footage.

yeah crimewatch id parade lets hope it’s there next month. To all you wonderers about what he did to provoke it, this is really irrelevant as he got assualted, you might think its ok to punch people but luckily the law doesn’t.

According to the victim : “I was shaken but not hurt”. It’s not worthy of a slot on Crimewatch imo – not by a long shot.

you might think its ok to punch people

Who said that then ?

take the plate and report

Unfortunately it’s pointless, which is one of the reason people do it. Even that cycling barrister could not get the police to take any action after being present with video footage of some dangerous driving.

FFS people give the Police a break, they do have other more important matters to attend to!

No it’s true. Like giving cyclists who go through a red light (causing no danger to themselves or anyone else) fixed penalty notices. y’know, like proper police work, fighting heinous socially destructive crime… 😉

So lay off them! The poor lambs. 🙁

I did a little squirty poo in my pants and rode off like the wind.

😆

He who insults and rides away lives to insult another day. 🙂

Now if the cyclist were anyone important (a celeb)the police would have got a court order to get all the calls made by the owner and interviewed everyone he had called in the previous week. You can bet the “thieves” would be among them. When dirty Di died in the tunnel they checked out every Fiat with the same paint as they found on the Merc! Now if you or I died in similar circumstances it’s unlikely they’d even look for paint marks.

It’s not worthy of a slot on Crimewatch imo

But I think the bigger picture of many of these sorts of assault is.

There are several similar incidents on film – a nice montage + Feds talking about how it IS taken seriously would be a welcome development.

Prosecute the Police for not doing there Job Not like they have to do much being they
have the Car reg and face pic.

Ah, rings, funny punches, must be freemasons. That explains it

That is just outside a restaurant called Ferari in bexley village .

it is unreal the police can do nothing about it with this kind of evidence .

i thought there was speculation that the agressor, or someone associated with the aggressor, was actually a police person? with all the evidence an intentional avoidance seems more likely than otherwise, though if bexley is that dangerous they might be very over-stretched at the cop-shop.

To be honest, that * attack* wasn’t much of a problem was it? Scary but the driver couldn’t hit a barn door. My wife punches better than him. He should hand himself in for being a bit of a wendy.

oh I dunno, a smack to the back of the helmet can sting some…

Bexley is not that dangerous .

Well Last week taken delivery of a Specalized Deviant full face helmet
So done an Urban ride around the Docklands for a few hours to test it.

Along comes Mister Smart Arss.
Not happy about cutting me up once but twice
I gives i am what a Twanker sign with the wrist the second time.
Then he swerves and pulls over, giving the big N running up to me
but then at the same time he gets a shock has i take the helmet off
and hes faced with a grown man.
I Battered him at the road side and left lying on the bonnet of the car.

there’s just not enough random acts of cuddling in the world.. all a bully really wants is a nice big lovely hug.. try it

The film clip would have given a lot more credit to the cause if they had had the balls to show the previous 30seconds that led up to the punch. I wonder why they edited so short? Can only assume that their behaviour was inflammatory, even if that is not the case.

That reminds me:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7YUeZbWZc[/video]