You may have seen this on the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bEttAF8P2MA#t=22
Pretty frightening stuff, all the way around. What would you do if surrounded by 30+ angry bikers?
As the reporter points out at the end of the clip, we don't know what happened before the video started. The media refers to a "fender bender" and that- evidently- is when the idiot stops short in front of the SUV. Why the heck did he do that?
The fender bender doesn't happen if the guy on the bike doesn't stop short in front of the SUV whose driver is probably quite concerned about all the other bikers surrounding him, his wife and baby.
The guy on the bike is an idiot. There is no good reason for what he did. I don't recommend you cut someone off like that even if you are driving a tank- a literal tank, not just a big ol' SUV. Depending upon strangers, particularly strangers who you intend to (at the very least) intimidate, to stop just because you are in their way, is just stupid.
There will be some he said/she said when this goes to trial but, clearly something happened before this to cause the biker gang to swarm on this family. Maybe he cut one of them off or looked at them cross-eyed or something. It wasn't just him deciding to stop short on the free directly in front of a moving, two-ton vehicle. Evidently his stopping like that was "to help the driver", like his wife said. You just don't stop folks on the freeway to help them.
I say "biker gang". Argue that they are a "club" if you like but, the "Hollywood Stuntz" as they call themselves have a history of intimidating other drivers like this. In fact, there were some two hundred reports about them this particular day. There thing seems to be the public streets are their playground to perform their stunts. Driving just isn't interesting enough without some idiot doing wheelies at 80 mph.
Running someone over is a pretty harsh thing to do. I would do it and so would nearly all the people I've seen commenting on the internet about this- even people who ride motorcycles. Very few had sympathy for the biker. You're under no obligation to pull over for anyone on the road except for the police, and House republicans are probably easier to deal with than 30 angry bikers. Maybe. Maybe not.
They didn't give this guy much choice. Apparently they knifed at least one tire and the pounding on the vehicle surely didn't bode well for him and his family. So much for helping him.
Well, they did catch up to the driver and were able to beat him as they had set out to do. He survived and the wife and baby were not harmed. The biker that was run over will likely be a paraplegic for his teachable moment. It wasn't what he had intended, I'm sure. So much for mob rule. I guess that this, along with the shutdown, might give us pause to consider that maybe we still need a little decorum after all because, left to our own devices, we still make dumb decisions.
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There are many differing views about Obamacare which I can understand. Shutting down the government over it is just plain wrong as a tactic to bring force the other side to negotiate. This mob rule employed by the Republicans is just plain WRONG just as the motorcycle gang justice was for the drivers. The biker pulled an absolutely stupid maneuver and it was his own fault he got hit.
You don't negotiate laws after they've been 'negotiated' in the usual legislative manner. It'd be like a guy taking hostages in a robbery and wanting to re-negotiate the laws about armed robbery. Absurd but,so is what the GOP is doing. In the robbery/hostage scenario, is it right to say: "Just give him the money and the car and no one gets hurt!"?
Anyway, these moroncycle nutz are doing this all over the country. I saw a video out of Texas where a cop was chasing X number of bikes and one kept slowing him down, pretty much daring the cop to run him over, so his cohorts could get away. Most of these bikes can reach speeds of 150 mph! Unless they wreck, how can you catch them? Spike strips would be fun as would 'pit' maneuvers but, sadly, illegal.
Sorry. Can't reply to you on own blog.
Anyway, been busy, so didn't see your post. Looks like we think alike.
I also feel bad for everyone involved in Capital shooting.
Great minds usually think alike!
I hope you can get that commenting issue straightened out. That's frustrating for all.
byline: Deer Whisperer/Luke
Did you know?:
There were 3-5 off-duty cops in this biker bunch. The one getting most mention in news is an under-cover cop (again "off-duty"). He did notify his superiors that he was in the group, but didn't want to blow his cover. Then he lawyered up and didn't co-operate with the investigation. Today's news is that he has been arrested.
Also it's been reported that all of cops in this bunch may be arrested for obstruction of justice.
Video also show some riders up on sidewalks, and has shown that the whole group were going opposite traffic on a one-way street.
If any license plate can be traced to any of them, the cops should be arrested for the moving violations as well. And obviously, if any of them bashed on the SUV, or the SUV driver...
hell, the cops that were with this bunch should be fired anyway.
I knew about the undercover cop and sympathized with him at first because of whatever he was working. BUT, he either could have not participated in the chase at all or, if he was there, tried to be the cool head keeping his gang buddies out of jail by not hurting the guy "too bad". The man could have been killed! This morning I read that he took part at least in the damaging of the vehicle. It's just wrong.
Whatever other cops were riding with those idiots have no excuses. For many, there's a fine line between cop and criminal. If they are riding the streets like Mad Max for fun, they can't be good cops. They could have stepped up and done their job, having no UC work to protect. The whole reason to ride for these dickheads is to frighten and offend. A cop should only be on the ticket and or cuffing end of that.
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