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VIDEO: Bikers attack Range Rover driver after he drives over them during a rally(NY)

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I've seen seen groups like this riding ATVs and bikes a few times. All they do is make noise and try to intimidate people. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the SUV driver had done nothing whatsoever to provoke them.

The cops must be scared to do anything because in the groups I've seen, half of them are riding non-street legal vehicles like dirt bikes and 4 wheelers.
 
Pandoracell said:
As I said in my first post. I agree the guy in the SUV did not do anything wrong. You can "road rage" (ie purposefully/accidently cause harm to somebody with a vehicle) in a situation that's not your fault.



My initial thought was that he was careless in how he went about handling the situation. That's all. And i'm coming to see that he probably wasn't.
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Road rage is anger fueled asshattery in a vehicle. Fight or flight isn't road rage.
 
Drazgul said:
And you think that makes it alright?
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Don't be a jerk and try to circumvent traffic because you're on a motor vehicle that can drive in between cars because you're impatient.

Obviously he wouldn't be going too fast.

I just can't stand the mentality of any cyclists to be honest. Very few of them understand laws of the road.

I wouldn't do it because if it's a bottleneck traffic jam, I'd be screwed he can easily mess me or my car up.
 
belvedere said:
If the driver of the RR/LR had his family in the car and he was honestly trying to get away, that's one thing. Either way, that biker started a train wreck of shit regardless (assuming he wasn't provoked before the video started).
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The range rover driver already hit someone before the brake check to stop him. You can't just flee an accident like that.
 
a biker seems to be taking issue with the Rover at the start. He brake tests them and they run into him. They then get scared due the the 2 dozen odd motorcyclists ganging up around them so they panic and flee.

They then get chased down and attacked.

Stupid behavior from both sides really.
 
Holy shit the Range Rover just mowed the fuck out of those bikers. It looked so comical when the truck just popped out of the air but yea I don't know why that one guy just stopped in front of the Range Rover which caused him to get bumped. Also why the fuck would you surround the car like and and attack the driver of the car when it's clearly your dumb fuck friend's fault for hard braking in front of a car on the highway.

Time to buy a Range Rover lol.
 
also the part where the one guy tries to smash the rear window - where the kid is seated - makes me so mad i actually wouldn´t mind seeing him get shot over this.
 
Kite said:
From the reddit thread:
Apparently no one was killed but the driver had to be treated for lacerations on his face and body after his windows were smashed. As to what started the confrontation: Daily Mail article
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Yeah if this is all true then the biker gang are pieces of shit. You start crowding around and assaulting my vehicle with wife and child in tow after you've forced me to stop by purposefully braking in front of my car, you bet your ass I will act in my best interest to protect myself and my family by any means necessary. RR driver was justified, though he or his wife should have also called the police immediately.
 
Batigol said:
Fuck those bikers.

One of them braked hard in front of him, waiting to get 'hit'. As soon as he did they swarmed him.

Have no problem with him driving through them to get away. Who knows what the fuck they would've done and he had a kid in there too
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Yep. I wonder why he got off the freeway though. I would have been on the phone with 911 immediately after being surrounded and just kept driving.
 
CrunchyFrog said:
Yeah if this is all true then the biker gang are pieces of shit. You start crowding around and assaulting my vehicle with wife and child in tow after you've forced me to stop by purposefully braking in front of my car, you bet your ass I will act in my best interest to protect myself and my family by any means necessary. RR driver was justified, though he or his wife should have also called the police immediately.
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Bingo, have the wife call the cops, and then just tell them where you are and where you'd try to lead the caravan of cyclists to.

Stay on the highway where you can get away and don't have to worry about red lights and grid lock.
 
Reminds me this gif:

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gohepcat said:
...and you will spend some time in jail.

Seriously? Because you are afraid....you can kill them?
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If you fear for your life, then yes, you can kill the person attacking you. That of course is complete false equivalency that had nothing to with.... Oh, your title. Your doing this on purpose aren't you :|
 
peteykirch said:
Bingo, have the wife call the cops, and then just tell them where you are and where you'd try to lead the caravan of cyclists to.

Stay on the highway where you can get away and don't have to worry about red lights and grid lock.
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Actually, I think they forced him off the freeway now that I think about it. He was in the right lane and they blocked him in and he couldn't continue on the freeway without running over more of them.
 
peteykirch said:
Bingo, have the wife call the cops, and then just tell them where you are and where you'd try to lead the caravan of cyclists to.

Stay on the highway where you can get away and don't have to worry about red lights and grid lock.
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It's not like they didn't block him on the highway before... He could have been hoping that they would be less likely to do something in the city with a bunch of people around than on the highway all by himself.
 
Going by the video, the RR driver is in the right. From what we can see in the video, it's reasonable to think that he was acting in self-defence. A gang of aggressive hoodlums surrounded him and acted in a way that a reasonable person would fear that he was being carjacked, or robbed. If he actually had his family with him, that makes it even more reasonable, if anything.
 
Flo_Evans said:
The range rover driver already hit someone before the brake check to stop him. You can't just flee an accident like that.
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Without seeing the video, typically yes, you cannot flee the scene of an accident. Were the bikers acting aggressively from the start? If a fucking biker gang is coming at me to assault me, you bet your ass I will flee the scene.
 
King Mystery said:
I don't hate bikers, but I hate "loud pipes". I'm surprised Bloomberg didn't try to ban them like he did everything else.
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I'm pretty sure most cities in the country have noise ordinances, including NYC.

These people are riding ATVs on the west side highway, what makes you think they're going to use a reasonable muffler?
 
I'm confused, did the guy in the Range Rover really think he would outrun that many bikers...in a car...while they are on bikes...?
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
It's not like they didn't block him on the highway before... He could have been hoping that they would be less likely to do something in the city with a bunch of people around than on the highway all by himself.
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It would've been awesome had he pulled off some amazing random u-turn to go in the opposite direction.

Still if I was in the RR and these guys were following me I'd be driving on the sidewalks and everything to get away not following basic traffic laws if I felt my life was in danger.
 
Living in the land of asshole biker "clubs" I'm not surprised by this vid...

When I lived near the canyons/hills I hated driving on Sunday afternoons because of the packs of roving idiot stock brokers and salesmen playing at being Easy Rider.
 
Why was that biker with the white shirt black backpack that pulled close to the Range Rover staring the driver in the RR down?

EDIT-Why didn't anyone call the police?
 
gohepcat said:
...and you will spend some time in jail.

Seriously? Because you are afraid....you can kill them?
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You're basing your argument off of the known outcome of this situation. Rewind, put yourself in the seat of the vehicle, your family inside, being surrounding by a bunch if thugs beating on your vehicle (per the news report). Sorry, but if that were me, with my 3 year old girl in the car, I'm turning you into a speed bump.

Or is it only okay to defend yourself after you're stabbed or shot?
 
peteykirch said:
Don't be a jerk and try to circumvent traffic because you're on a motor vehicle that can drive in between cars because you're impatient.

Obviously he wouldn't be going too fast.

I just can't stand the mentality of any cyclists to be honest. Very few of them understand laws of the road.

I wouldn't do it because if it's a bottleneck traffic jam, I'd be screwed he can easily mess me or my car up.
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It's a dick move, not disputing that, but you're still talking about potentially harming someone - very seriously at that, if things go wrong; over something that is completely trivial in the end. The slow speed can actually be a bad thing in this case, as some bikes are very heavy and if you lose your balance, you could easily fall and get run over.
 
I've personally been stuck in-between packs of bikers before and it's a scary situation. As someone mentioned, they definitely have a "mob mentality" when riding together and they have a "pack leader" who will typically dictate actions such as when to change lanes, when to spread out, etc. Sports bike riders seem to be more aggressive (in my observations) when riding together due to their extremely high road agility and excessive horsepower. On the opposite side of things, cruiser riders seem far less aggressive (again, in my personal observations of group riders and should not be taken as a matter-of-fact for all riders) as they tend to be in to it more for the ride than stupid antics.

I would have done the same thing as the RR driver except I wouldn't have stopped with just hitting one. If you take enough of them down, they'll back off. That guy had plenty of open road to just start swerving like a freakin' mad man and swatting them like the pissy little flies they are.

I own a '09 Honda Rebel; It's a very light and very under powered cruiser. It has pretty good agility as it's only 330lb (riderless), has a short wheelbase, and sits relatively high like a sports bike. I have never acted like those idiots in the videos and quite frankly I'd be scared to death to even try. Anything that happens/happened to them is more then well deserved.
 
Flo_Evans said:
The range rover driver already hit someone before the brake check to stop him. You can't just flee an accident like that.
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From all reports I have seen that is not true. The first time he hit someone was during the "break check" incident. I haven't seen a legitimate source say otherwise.
 
The situation looks like it was handled poorly by the bikers and the Range Rover.

All in all... stuff like this is why I don't ride on the streets much. Track time is the best time for a motorcycle.
 
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