Had an exciting commute this morning at traffic lights somewhere north of Balham. Helped perform a citizen's arrest on a drunk driver who had just downed two motor-scooter riders and slammed into the back of the van in front before driving off to escape the consequences. The van in front chased him down and I had pedalled off hoping to maybe catch him at the next lights or something. Anyway, I found that the second van driver had somehow got him to stop despite being parked behind him (?) and was on the blower whilst the first van driver was alternately getting in and out of his crumpled vehicle and eventually trying to pull away and escape, so I stood in front of his van and shouted "Don't you move"! Two more cyclists who had been at the scene turned up and helped me. The guy was obviously completely hammered. When the cops arrived, they took his ignition key out, so I left at that point...
On the downside, nobody was wearing a GoPro. Where's CyclingGaz when you need him? 😆
You iz da law!
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good work
me and a neigbour did the same a while back with a hammered girl in a corsa, shed been playing pinball off some of the cars down our street
certainly gets you adrenalin pumping, bet the rest of your commute was at record speed
Might be worth contacting the local station and offering your name as a witness.
Not sure I'd have stood in front of a vehicle being driven by a drunk and hoped they didn't decide to just gun the engine and expect me to get out of the way but fair play to you 🙂
Cool 🙂 although I've no idea how you managed to do the right hting without a prescribed moral code.. luck I guess 🙂
Would you have restrained him if required?
Cool although I've no idea how you managed to do the right hting without a prescribed moral code.. luck I guess
He did it out of instinct, for the good of mankind, rather than to satisfy a deity 😉
Would you have restrained him if required?
Yes.
Would you have restrained him if required?
Duh, he was on his bike, he had his Bombers...
Sadly no, I was on my road bike. I'd have to have just - you know - owned him. 😯
Owned him with carbon fibre road forks?
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Light, fast, nasty.
Well done BTW.
drunk driver who had just downed two motor-scooter riders
is a motor scooter ride some kind of cocktail?
I am du law!
Well done tho mate you could have saved something much worse off happening down the road, big pat ont back like.
where is cyclinggaz when you need him
Worryingly I had that thought the other day as some numtiness unravelled in front of me
Good work that man
Funny that cyclinggaz got a mention actually as I think I live near him....
Went for a ride yesterday lunchtime on my MTB and afterwards found that I was KOM on some stupid Strava segment in Croydon that goes from the road adjacent to my house and crosses a main road before continuing for a few hundred feet. Why someone has created a segment across a main road is beyond me. I basically got a clear run across the main road without unclipping.
Anyway, a few hours pass and I got the message "Gaz Williams has stolen your KOM". Big deal I think until the name rings a bell.
I think this is the same Gaz Williams that was on TV last year and makes a massive deal about people being wreckless on the road. Within a few hours of me accidently "stealing" his KOM, he's gone through the effort of detouring around the quiet back roads to blitz a segment across a main road at 19mph!
(Apologies cyclinggaz if it wasn't you but if it was, you're even more of an idiot than I thought after watching that BBC documentary last year).
dknwhy - I don't know if you have a privacy zone around your house on Strava but it's probably worth adding one if not.
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Definitely drunk? Not diabetic, or having a stroke?
Point.
Not diabetic, or having a stroke?
Giggity 😆
Well done.
Be good to find out if the people who were hit are o.k.
wwaswas - Memberdknwhy - I don't know if you have a privacy zone around your house on Strava but it's probably worth adding one if not.
I have [i]no[/i] idea at all what this is about! can someone please enlighten me, and tell me what KOM means. I thought Strava was just some way of logging ride data.
(Apologies cyclinggaz if it wasn't you but if it was, you're even more of an idiot than I thought after watching that BBC documentary last year).
CycleGaz is sound IMHO - does a lot of good - he was portrayed very badly in the BBC "documentary", as was cycling in general (including presenting old footage from underground courier races as examples of every day cycling!)
But no surprise he took your KOM. Watching his videos he is pretty nippy.
Why on earth would people be interested in that video?
Why did I watch it?
Be good to find out if the people who were hit are o.k.
Well, one of the scooterists had got to his feet and moved to help the other one who was locked rigid in a Dead Fly pose and in a lot of pain, although not enough to draw vocalisation and still alive, anyway.
Why on earth would people be interested in that video?
Sorry - there are probably better ones. Just demonstrating that he doesn't hang about - he's happily sitting at 35mph in that vid without too much obvious effort or hill assistance.
(the comments are amusing by the way: some twit saying they have reported the video to the police 😕 )
There's no doubt that he's quick, it's just for someone who's very quick to point out the faults of wreckless drivers, he's gone out of his way to race across a main road for some pointless badge.
Edit: watching that back, that road is near me too and it's a pretty quick downhill. He doesn't need to touch the brakes though... 😉
Well done woppit you're the dog's danglers 😀
