whatsinaname
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Many motorcyclists tend to wear a helmet cam by default because of all the shit they have to deal with on the road. (Many cyclists do too and some car drivers have taken to getting a dash cam).
Female Cyclist Gets Revenge on Cat-calling Van Drivers
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Many motorcyclists tend to wear a helmet cam by default because of all the shit they have to deal with on the road. (Many cyclists do too and some car drivers have taken to getting a dash cam).
I don't think taking offence to being verbally abused and physically assaulted while cycling is just a knock on her sense of pride. Catcalling is revolting in general never mind when it escalates to this. Being angry at something like this and lashing out isn't as dumb as you make it seem, especially with the frequency it happens to women.
Fuck those guys.
Running over a cyclist in your car is ill advised
AbortedWalrusFetus
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I had a cyclist do this to me, except in my case I did literally nothing wrong. He clipped my mirror while I was at a stop because a car was blocking the bike lane and he went between us. I had to stop to fix my mirror, and I saw him at the next stop and asked him to be more careful. Didn't even use foul language. Guy up and slammed my mirror off for no reason. I wasn't even blocking the lane or anything and I'm always super safe around cyclists, have never honked at them, etc. Really soured me on them in general. I stopped him and called the police and he just took off, so I caught him on foot after three blocks cause his chain came off! Got him to agree to pay for the damages, but he ended up only paying for about 70% of the cost. Asshole.
There was a good story on This American Life where a woman tried to explain to a guy how shitty he was being. It's dumbfounding.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/603/once-more-with-feeling
Yeah, kinda seems like he followed just to see if would escalate.
OG Shaka Zulu
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Looks fake but if not, good on her.
Now I'm curious about trying to rip a car mirror.
Now I'm curious about trying to rip a car mirror.
Catcalling a woman in your van when that woman isn't taking any shit is ill-advised as well, evidently
BlueTsunami
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Van mirrors seem more secure. You can definitely fuck up a car mirror very easily. Just elbow drop that shit.
BreezyLimbo
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I once got ran over and I rolled off the hood in a way that I broke off the mirror.
...I ended up taking the mirror and going home with it. That was an annoying night.
Haha, this isn't an ad, I have no idea about the channel or what's on there, I just didn't want to share the video from my FB so googled the title for the first Youtube link (the first one I posted had Arabic pop-ups on so edited to the second one).
Never really thought it looked fake or staged... apart from the motorbike going the same route and chiming in, which yeah, I suppose is a bit of a coincidence. What I can say is this type of aggressive cat-calling is very much commonplace in the UK. I work in Birmingham city center right next to an ongoing property development and the girls I work with get harassed and stopped quite frequently.
RipperGrim
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Those pieces of shit. That dude reaching out and touching her was a real scum bag.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
"You on your period?"
get fucked you cunt
get fucked you cunt
Brian Griffin
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I always thought car mirrors were meant to be breakaway so they just come off if you clip something and don't affect that rest of the vehicle.
Good for her. Those guys are fucks.
kingwingin
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2 wrongs dont make a right. Shame on both of them
Waddle Dee
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People are so quick to dismiss things as fake nowadays. I understand why, but I'd like to believe this is real and the girl ripped that mirror off like a badass. Good stuff!
andthebeatgoeson
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Nice arms. Not visually, too far to tell but results based.
4 is a cutie
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If someone catcalled and grabbed at you what would you do?
To me that's the classic thing you do when you're psyched up and emotional and you want to deliver a scolding comment... and you just end up sounding super corny!
Ace Harding
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He was touching her. Repeatedly. Gloves off at that point.
I mean, yes she could have and probably should have taken his plate number down, reported him, maybe she could have gotten the footage from scooter person, and gotten the guy fired/shamed etc. But I'm not going to blame her for raging and causing like, $300 worth of damage.
I mean, yes she could have and probably should have taken his plate number down, reported him, maybe she could have gotten the footage from scooter person, and gotten the guy fired/shamed etc. But I'm not going to blame her for raging and causing like, $300 worth of damage.
Says the Macadamia nuts thief ;-)
There's wrong and then there's wrong
DOWN
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They broke the law first
She's not in the wrong though. People are allowed to fight back.
PrivateWHudson
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Looked legit to me. She was fired up and almost wiped out when she caught up to the van. Was hoping she'd get to do more damage.
Biker sensed she would have some revenge bit after the cyclist herself followed the van?
lightskintwin
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She is in the wrong because they left and she chased after them.
aspiegamer
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My flags on fake are why the motorbike stayed behind the cyclist the entire time. There's no reason he wouldn't have gone off ahead like the van at a normal street speed. Also, blurring the license plate of the van is being waaaaaaay too polite to them.
Even if fake, I'd like to know who set this up and why. An odd thing to stage from essentially anonymous people.
Even if fake, I'd like to know who set this up and why. An odd thing to stage from essentially anonymous people.
Counterpoint: Fuck those guys.
John Kowalski
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She literally tore that shit off holy shit
Bobby Roberts
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Well, that's why it's getting shared. It's why a lot of fake shit gets shared: People like the narrative and don't wanna poke at it too hard. They value the message being spread more than that message's authenticity.
Watching gross men have their day ruined by a righteous woman standing up for herself is a nice shot of feel-good. But if it's a completely staged stunt, then it loses a little bit of shine.
People'd rather indulge in the "what if" fantasy and so they don't investigate too deeply. And so the argument goes, why should they? At the end of the day it's 90 seconds of a woman ripping a mirror off a van. It's not a big deal, right? It really doesn't matter if it's "real" or not.
Of course, if you spend a large part of your day consuming/regurgitating fake bullshit that makes you feel good, you lose your taste for identifying real shit, because what's important isn't the truth of the thing, it's the utility in providing you a platform to talk about how you feel, and what you'd do in that situation.
Rumblebones
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That wasn't cat calling, that was straight up sexual harassment.
kingwingin
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you are allowed to defend yourself, not chase after them and deal your own justice
Elfotografoalocado
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I'm under the impression he wanted to make sure those thugs didn't go back to her and try to attack her, since they were driving a multi-ton vehicule and she was pretty unprotected on that bike. Had they tried to run her over she wouldn't have stood a chance.
Sounds savior-esque but I think it's nice of him.
NullPointer
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That was Nazi-face-punch levels of satisfying.
And who do you imagine is going to prosecute this case?
You're so anti vigilante but you don't realize nothing is being done to curtail these fucks.
Sgt.Pepper
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lol
You sadly see this shit everywhere. Lots of men think women should let them fuck them whenever they want to.
Cat calling is sexual harassment.
But yes, being cat called and being grabbed are worse than just being cat called.
CadetMahoney
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Starts in Goodge Street, crossing Tottenham Court Road in London.
There used to be some loser arcade right near there 4 years back.
UK laws?
There used to be some loser arcade right near there 4 years back.
UK laws?
andythinkpad
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Yeah that biker's last line delivery was not very convincing.
MemoryHumanity
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Cat calling is sexual harassment, dude.
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