Richmond Park road rage nutjob..

So you’re fine with one guy being crucified because another got a way with it? Strange logic that.

I think the cyclist was in the wrong place at the wrong time when the driver did a foolish thing.

dangerous thing. He drove his car at a vulnerable road user when he couldn’t complete an ill judged manoeuvre (he could have hit the brakes instead but chose not to) then lost his shit when the cyclist complained (“Oh come on” I believe).

“foolish” is rather disingenuous

There’s something wrong with the system.

absativley

There is only one response in such circumstances..

It’s all ok. He’s sorry now…
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/australian-butcher-jason-wells-caught-in-extraordinary-road-rage-rant-at-cyclist-im-sorry-10291060.html

Interesting point highlighted by that Indy headline. He only didn’t do something he wasn’t supposed to because there were witnesses. I wonder what he gets up to in his kitchen when there is nobody to witness what he is doing (or those who do are directly employed by him) – irrespective of your feelings about this, would you want to eat in a place run by somebody who only feels constrained in his actions by the presence of witnesses?

I wonder what he gets up to in his kitchen when there is nobody to witness what he is doing

allegedly

If anyone’s curious about ‘that photo’ just look at @AnarchoBarista on Twitter. There’s also some interesting opinions and stories about Jason Wells. Sometimes, the feeling of schadenfreude may well be justified… #boycottbrew is also a good search term.

No apologies accepted once the pitch forks are out and the torches are lit 😆

Of course. He’s sorry it’s going to affect his life/money/etc. I doubt he’s actually sorry about trying to run the cyclist off the road.

Funnily enough, I’ve had a similar conversation on that road but going the other way and while both of us were still moving.

If anyone’s curious about ‘that photo’ just look at @AnarchoBarista on Twitter. There’s also some interesting opinions and stories about Jason Wells. Sometimes, the feeling of schadenfreude may well be justified… #boycottbrew is also a good search term.

The behaviour on that video certainly isn’t inconsistent with someone coked off their head… allegedly… those tweets are pretty damning if true

So what level of apology would work for the baying mob?

c’mon just how far should ‘the mob rule’ go? Two wrongs dont make a right. In my experience its truly very difficult to get somebody to truly see the world through your eyes and understand what they did wrong. They should certainly feel and show remorse to a believable level. Lance Armstrong has always failed on this count for me. But what would it take for you to forgive him?

I think he should be relieved of the privelege of being able to drive a car for a while. Being forced to ride a bike around London for a few weeks/months would do for me (that goes for any of these selfish thugs).

Just seen “the picture” on twitter, proper LoL 😆

So what level of apology would work for the baying mob?

One that comes across as genuine. Which admittedly risks it being managed by PR but that’s how these things work.

the evil thing would have been to mail it to his wife “found this on craigslist” 😉

What bloody pic? Is this some kind of secret joke thing, like Mornington Cresent?

I think it’s the one of he scales on the twitter feed.

Go to the Twitter link on page 7. If you really want to see a middle aged mans willy.

Ah. Right. No ta. I take it it’s far from impressive?

So what level of apology would work for the baying mob?

The real answer to this is, mobs don’t accept apologies. No matter how genuine they might be.

There will always be a reason not to accept whatever is offered.

What bloody pic?

was removed form here, but was of a POV shot of gentleman stood on a set of scales.
The combination of physical deficiency and the perspective of the photo showed a reflection in the surface of the scales of a very small member

Ah. Right. No ta. I take it it’s far from impressive?

it’s like Scaramanga’s third nipple, but lower down.

He’s not really apologising for his actions, is he?

If this hadn’t all blown up in his face, he’d still be quite happy with the Billy Big Bollocks act, driving aggressively, getting all ‘come on then, son’ and flinging globs of spittle all over the place.

He’s probably regrets not realising there was a camera on him & he’s sorry that he’s been caught and outed on social media, not sorry for how he behaved….

I struggle to find sympathy that it’s all gone a bit wrong for him on social media.
I love the irony of his coffee mornings/bike fixing sessions…..

Yeah, he had ample time to apologise in the previous two weeks since the incident, and he chose not to. This apology is completely insincere and no doubt motivated by damage limitation. Oh well.

Of concern is that I’d never heard of ‘Brew’ cafes before, and now the name is all over Twitter. There’s no such thing as bad publicity…

So you’re fine with one guy being crucified because another got a way with it? Strange logic that.

That’s not what I said. Having your business (slightly) damaged and your manhood mocked on Twitter is not even really a fair punishment for attempting to injure someone and then the intimidating verbal abuse / threats etc. People shouldn’t be able to go around doing that sort of thing.

On a slightly different note, I wonder what would have happened had the police had been called at the time of the incident. I suspect they would have drug-tested him. Who knows what the outcome would have been after that, but it’s a minimum year driving ban for driving while coked up. Which is all, of course, entirely speculative.

I love the irony of his coffee mornings/bike fixing sessions…..

Maybe someone should take a mangled bloodstained wreck of a bike in and ask for a quote to repair.
Apparently someone on twitter is going to organise a ‘die-in’ outside his café/bar establishments.
The aftermath of this will hopefully be a new found respect of cyclists by drivers. Unfortunately this may be because they’re scared of being filmed but it will have the same effect. How ever it happens I welcome it. Stick or carrot (snigger), I care not! I recommend every cyclist buys a fake camera and wears a ‘CCTV’ sticker/patch/badge front and rear.

Well to be fair (I’m trying with great difficulty to be) there was no obvious opportunity for him to do so publicly until the video became public. Though the fact he had a spokesperson “no comment”ing after the video came out, but before the shitstorm really hit doesn’t look so good.

On a slightly different note, I wonder what would have happened had the police had been called at the time of the incident. I suspect they would have drug-tested him. Who knows what the outcome would have been after that, but it’s a minimum year driving ban for driving while coked up. Which is all, of course, entirely speculative.

Interesting and plausible speculation – it would explain a lot about his behaviour.

Just watched the vid..not read the 8 pages of comments

Whilst Mr Wells is clearly an absolute nugget, I’m not sure that the cyclist involved came out with much credit either…

Both appear to have anger management issues

What is wrong with these people…

I presume you don’t think your point might have already been made and answered several times?

Are you claiming that on STW someone had a go at the cyclist in an altercation with a car driver who ended up being convicted of a public order defence.

What are the chances of that happening eh ?

It’s been a while but I do find that I’m a fair bit less cool than usual if I feel that someone has tried to hurt/kill me with their car. Even less cool if it’s deliberate. I think that’s generally fairly standard behaviour for humans.

What makes this incident special is that now it’s gone public, a lot of other alleged ‘misdemeanours’ connected with this chap are coming out of the woodwork. And the naked tiny knob pic is just… priceless! This thread is worth reading. I can’t keep away. I keep looking at twitter on my phone as well.
Must. Look. Away. And. Get. Some. Work. Done. Oh look, @theJeremyVine is having a go at him now!

Awoooga!…
<circular thread alert>
Appreciate the ‘I struggle with long sentences’ sentiment, but actually RATS would stop you making the same (fairly obvious) point that has already been made several times, AND is arguably the actual point of STW. Y’know; RATStrackworld.

EDIT; LOVING the auto edit for I.N.R.A.T.S. 😆 😆 😆 Brill

Well to be fair that’s kind of inevitable after 7 or 8 pages. Maybe they should add a sticky to the top of every page of a thread after about 4 pages:

“Please RATS before commenting, somebody else has almost certainly already written what you’re thinking”

I struggle with long sentences

(just to see what the substitution is 🙂 )

EDIT – it’s true though 😳

A look at the “cycle infrastructure” along that road: https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/the-solution-is-design/

nothing wrong with that…

aracer…

I presume you don’t think your point might have already been made and answered several times?

Yeah I thought it may have been, apologies for voicing my opinion without downing tools at work and spending an hour or so reading through the thread in detail. I genuinely didn’t realise this wasn’t allowed on here.

I couldn’t care in the slightest whether it had or not…I was voicing my opinion which may or may not be the same as others on here

According to http://brew-cafe.com/our-story/ Jason Wells @BrewWells has a personal trainer.

Jason, it’s not working. Get a bike.

No amount of personal training is ever going to fix that.

Can see this whole thing becoming a study topic for Social media marketing courses, all quite interesting really.