Cycling Mikey doesn't deserve the hate he's getting

I have no idea what you just said. Have you had a stroke?

The problem is that, from what I have seen, it's not just "selfish twats" - it's often people who have made one misjudgment, sometimes because of bad signage. The fact that he chooses to put himself where he knows people regularly do something wrong does tend to indicate that a sign would avert a significant proportion of the problems, but it doesn't seem to occur to him to lobby the authorities to put one up. But it does mean that he gets to bully people for what is, quite often, an understandable mistake. Can he really claim that he's never made a mistake in his life?

It's just a trauma response, his father was killed by a drunk driver, so now, instead of dealing with it, he's channeled his grief into this pretend police officer persona.

He is a private care worker for a family, so not even involved in the legal profession.

He does some "useful" interventions, stopping drivers cutting through junctions , but the mobile phone thing is just stupid.

I have fuck off big screen in my Tesla, and I can sit in traffic all day long tapping away like a teenager on Ritalin, that's fine! But if I so much as glance at another screen in my hand, suddenly I'm Mikey's worst enemy.

If he wants to be a Police Officer he should apply and see if he has what it takes to pass recruitment, but a grown man, pretending to be one, is mildly pathetic.

Its a helmet camera like many cyclists use. Its no different to a dash camera. He isn't sticking a camera anywhere

He must find that hair shirt very itchy in this warm weather. Obviously all the zealots who are worshipping at his feet will believe him when he says he only broke the law once, other more discriminating people might think Really???
Does Superman take snaps of all the cars causing chaos outside schools so that the little dears don't have to walk 100m?

Who elected him to be a policeman? As far as I would judge it he was sticking a weapon in my face and I would react accordingly, the old saying 'two wrongs don't make a right' applies here. Before anyone else makes a stupid comment I don't break the law in my car eg use my phone, nor do I allow myself to be distracted by screaming children in the rear as so many women seem to be and I don't drive a car that's too big for me to handle, again in this area something often seen.

You think that someone that has been wound up is going to drive safely?
I can tell you now that they won't and that is the main reason why he shouldn't do it.

If this had nothing to do with stroking his ego, he could film the plates of the car, the driving infringement and just send it to the police.

Anything else is just him getting his rocks off.

If his only purpose was holding people to account he wouldn't purposely escalate for engagement.

For the record he's almost always in the right but that's not enough for him, he needs to be in the right and start a fight, otherwise he'd report and move on.

His last video he the his bike at a moving car which is increasing the risk of an accident which shows his priority.

Well said. Sorry to hear about your drug dealing twat locals. Could you ask your police neighbourhood team to consider installing CCTV, even if it’s a decoy? My DS got this done in her street!

I have a Ring doorbell and PCSOs were doing door to door enquiries a few weeks ago as a young lad had been chased out the nearby ginnal earlier by 2 other men. I wasn’t sure what the outcome was but it was enough to do door to doors. I caught the whole thing on my Ring doorbell and sent it to the police via a link they sent me. I suppose I am a slimey dobber according to @Mikkymik

In my local neighbourhood we have recently had a problem with a bunch of older teens / early 20s hanging round the shops selling drugs and being aggressive. The police do not give a single shiny shit when they are called, but are willing to take action later if you film it and send them the evidence. Members of the local residents association have taken it in turns to hang out at the bus stop to film drug deals and aggressive behaviour and send it to the police, who have asked them to keep doing it as it is valuable evidence either for the simple offences or as part of a wider pattern. (I am not a member of the residents association and I don't have the time, before anyone asks)

None of the kids in question have ever seriously hurt anyone and AFAIK they only deal weed - so while what they are doing is illegal, I'm sure that some of those on this thread would say that they are not being dangerous while dealing drugs, spitting at old ladies and threatening to shank people who tut at them.

Are the residents association concerned citizens assisting a radically underfunded and under-resourced police force, or are they slimey dobbers? And what is so different about middle class phone addicts in cars breaking the law?

So if someone was attacking me am I a twat for filming them?

I love him. Like others have said, if people didn’t constantly break the law whilst driving he wouldn’t have got under so many people’s skin. May he long continue!

If you think there’s sock puppet ting going on then report it. But troll hunting isn’t allowed.

I do find it very amusing when people can’t comprehend that someone has views that don’t align with theirs do they must be bots/trolls/one person. Like how arrogant to think that if they don’t agree with you something must be wrong.

You'd get done for destruction of someone else's personal property. And he only looks through the window anyway

He would only be "pushing it into your vehicle" if you were breaking the law.

A few hurty words after catching bad and dangerous driving is perfectly fine. We all say hurty words on MN. Some revell on saying such syyff

I don't have an issue with him addressing dangerous drivers.

He can be antagonistic, and frequently puts himself in dangerous positions. He likes to be right. Sometimes being "dead right" is not a great aspiration.

For good practice on the roads, I favour Ashley Neal who trains driving instructors and also has cycling content.

So should he be super polite and lovely to law breakers? People putting others’ lives at risk?

Maybe, just maybe, they deserve having their arse handed to them?

Push a camera into my vehicle and kiss it goodbye.

Purposely ignoring a one way sign and driving the wrong way in traffic is reckless and super dangerous.

I really don’t think k the OP is CM.

Why so it entitled to stop people behaving dangerously? Do you know what entitled means??

Invention 🤣

Yes I’m sure the link provided was total invention and YOU are right.

I love it when people flounce because they’re simply wrong

You need to check your facts.. the car driver was going down a one way section of road the wrong way, after going through a No Entry sign, before driving through a junction without stopping, all after leaving the scene of an accident.

He wasn't an innocent party.

But apparently anyone who dislikes dangeroudrivers is an AI Bot...

They teach you to drive just under for. .... Safety