What would you do? Bikers vs SUV

[the_bob_delusion]

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/30/us/new-york-bikers-road-rage-video/

The New York City Police Department said a man driving a Range Rover with his wife and 2-year-old daughter inside Sunday struck a motorcyclist on Manhattan's West Side Highway, breaking his leg.

The SUV driver pulled over, and the bikers surrounded his vehicle, hitting it and spiking the tires, police said. The driver pulled away, hitting three more bikers in the process, police said.

Should the driver in the SUV be charged?

What do you think of bikers?

What would you have done if you were the driver in the SUV?

[just_me_karen]

Did you actually watch the video? It didn't happen that way.

[*pepe]

jimmeh was not there, he has no more knowledge of what happened than we do.

its plain what happened, the video shows it - and remember its the bikers who edited and posted the video, not the suv driver.

if the suv driver had done anything to provoke it other than to be on the road at that time then they would have shown it.

[the_hawk*]

Then that must be what actualy happend then

[freakiness]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

Its no different to a heap of football, soccer, cricket or any other spectators blocking a road after a match, it doesnt give people the right to run them down. 

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If they start slashing my tyres and attacking my vehicle I'm not going to hang around to see how bad it gets.

I doubt you would either.

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what other option did the driver have to remove himself and his family from that situation?   how would you have handled it if you were confronted with exactly what the driver was confronted with?

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I would hope you wouldnt deliberatly run someone down just because they got in your way which is what started the sequence of events according to Jimmeh and him being a local would have more info then what we have been fed.

And if you were driving down the road and saw a heap of foot ball fans blocking the road would you just attempt to drive through them because they shouldn't have been there?

Would you be surprised when they went nuts and attacked you?

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If you watch the entire video you can see the first bike pull in front of him and stop. It doesn't look like SUV had time to stop.

He is surrounded by bikes. The story is they started to attack although that is not clear on the footage I saw, he then took off and ran over a couple of bikes and they chased him for another 5 minutes before attacking him again.  They didn't seem to care too much about who else may have been on the road.

If a mob of footy fans surrounded and started to attack it's possible that I might drive through them too. It would depend on how threatening they were.

[the_hawk*]

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@freakiness wrote:

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If a mob of footy fans surrounded and started to attack it's possible that I might drive through them too. It would depend on how threatening they were.

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 I didnt say if they surrounded you and attacked you, I said if they spilled out onto the road and you felt they shouldnt be there and chose to drive through the crowd hitting people.

[just_me_karen]

Who did that?

[**meep**]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

Its no different to a heap of football, soccer, cricket or any other spectators blocking a road after a match, it doesnt give people the right to run them down. 

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If they start slashing my tyres and attacking my vehicle I'm not going to hang around to see how bad it gets.

I doubt you would either.

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what other option did the driver have to remove himself and his family from that situation?   how would you have handled it if you were confronted with exactly what the driver was confronted with?

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I would hope you wouldnt deliberatly run someone down just because they got in your way which is what started the sequence of events according to Jimmeh and him being a local would have more info then what we have been fed.

And if you were driving down the road and saw a heap of foot ball fans blocking the road would you just attempt to drive through them because they shouldn't have been there?

Would you be surprised when they went nuts and attacked you?

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What I meant was, what would you do if you were in the same situation as the driver when he decided to get away?

The scenario you're going by, is not what happened.

[the_hawk*]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@**meep** wrote:

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@freakiness wrote:

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@the_hawk* wrote:

Its no different to a heap of football, soccer, cricket or any other spectators blocking a road after a match, it doesnt give people the right to run them down. 

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If they start slashing my tyres and attacking my vehicle I'm not going to hang around to see how bad it gets.

I doubt you would either.

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what other option did the driver have to remove himself and his family from that situation?   how would you have handled it if you were confronted with exactly what the driver was confronted with?

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I would hope you wouldnt deliberatly run someone down just because they got in your way which is what started the sequence of events according to Jimmeh and him being a local would have more info then what we have been fed.

And if you were driving down the road and saw a heap of foot ball fans blocking the road would you just attempt to drive through them because they shouldn't have been there?

Would you be surprised when they went nuts and attacked you?

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What I meant was, what would you do if you were in the same situation as the driver when he decided to get away?

The scenario you're going by, is not what happened.

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I personally dont believe the SUV didnt hit the bike on purpose.

[**meep**]

Why?

[*elizabeths-mum*]

At worst I think the SUV driver underestimated how far it would be before he stopped. I don't believe he deliberately hit the biker.