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Six year old cycled into couple

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Itwasntme1 · 12/05/2020 20:02

I wondered if anyone has seen the footage of the sox year old who cycled into the couple walking the dog.

Interested in views on it. I assume the child didn’t know how to stop, so she ploughed on through the couple.

None of the adults covered themselves in glory. The dad should have stoped her and then stopped filming to comfort her. The couple should have checked she was okay, and the man should absolutely not have kicked her bike.

Not in any way excusing the dreadful behaviour of the horrible man, but surely most parents would have caught up with her and told her to wait. He didn’t even know if the couple heard.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-kicks-terrified-six-year-22013795

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TinySleepThief · 12/05/2020 21:31

She rang her bell and dad.shouted.excuse.me

Which is great but they are merely requests and neither of those 2 things actually entitled them to be let past the couple.

Why do cyclists have this insane ideology that just because the ding a bell pedestrians should move out the way? What happened to patience?

Time40 · 12/05/2020 21:32

The father behaved very, very badly and should have been apologising to the walkers and looking after his daughter, not filming the episode

I agree. It looks as though the couple didn't hear her coming. I think their reaction was mild, considering they'd been crashed into.

The cyclists are terrifying round my way - quite often I don't hear them coming at all.

Fromthebirdsnest · 12/05/2020 21:33

I've watched the video and.the dad.shouted excuse.me.3 times the couple.acted.disgustingly! They.literally didnt.care.at.All that they.caused the.little.girl.to crash !.appalling.behaviour!

terrelontane · 12/05/2020 21:36

if my 6 year old accidentally cycled into someone my first words would have been "I'm so sorry" not "I said excuse me".

Exactly. But if your little princess is the very centre of the universe, common sense and good manners don't apply.

GabsAlot · 12/05/2020 21:36

the father ha sremoved the pos well as far as i can see dont know if thats because its gone viral or what

when i saw it earlier he claimed his daughter was traumatised

WhereDoesThisToiletGo · 12/05/2020 21:36

I notice the mother has removed it from Facebook (or made it private)

AwrightDoreenTakeAFuckinDayOff · 12/05/2020 21:36

Did they hear the shouts or acknowledge it though?

No.

..! Shite. Behaviour;:. If... the FathEr..!?@)

Flixsfoilball · 12/05/2020 21:37

Entirely the fathers fault, the kid should never have been allowed to get anywhere near the couple, she should have been told to stop well before she reached them. Crap entitled parenting at its finest

TinySleepThief · 12/05/2020 21:38

I've watched the video and.the dad.shouted excuse.me.3 times

So? Unless I missed a memo excuse me sais by a cyclist is still only a request. It's not an order and they didn't have to move out of the way just because he said excuse me.

SpaceCadet4000 · 12/05/2020 21:38

Kicking the bike was shitty, but I'd be really annoyed if a kid on a bike cycled into me. I'd expect a profuse apology from the parents, obviously providing the child was okay.

GrimmsFairytales · 12/05/2020 21:40

they.caused the.little.girl.to crash !.

That is some insane level of blame gymnastics.

The couple who wouldn't expect people to be within 2 meters of them, and by the looks of the video had no idea the girl was almost on top of them, caused her to crash.

Not the dad who encouraged her to keep going, and thought the area was appropriate for a novice bike rider.

Confused
WhereYouLeftIt · 12/05/2020 21:41

All this 'the father shouted 'excuse me' - I expect it sounds louder on his video (because the mike would have been inches from his mouth) than it did on the path. They didn't turn, so I really don't think they heard him.

I can't make out a word the other man says, can anyone lipread what he said?

And as for 'kicking' the bike - it looked to me that he flicked it out of his way with his foot to avoid tripping over the thing.

Meanwhile child is howling and if that video was from a hemet-cam, Daddy Dearest wasn't so much as looking in her direction, never mind comforting his daughter.

I really don't get why people are blaming the couple.

Clutterbugsmum · 12/05/2020 21:43

Entirely the dads fault. He purposely chose to let his daughter and encouraged her to ride at the walkers.

They had no where to go, the path narrowed to near enough a single track.

FliesandPies · 12/05/2020 21:43

when i saw it earlier he claimed his daughter was traumatised

If that's true it will be all his fault firstly for encouraging her to try to barge past and then to get into an unpleasant argument instead of looking after her. Idiot.

Isitweekendyet · 12/05/2020 21:43

Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Couple were ejits for purposely ignoring them and the bloke apparently kicked her bike? Wtf. They were purposely being facetious and not letting her pass.

Dad was just an entitled bellend. It's a little girl on a country path, not Bradley bloody Wiggins, and shouldn't be allowed to cycle so far ahead. She shouldn't be cycling so far ahead of him, she should be within grabbing distance at all times. Why in God's name he kept filming and berating the pair, I have no clue, he needs a wobble.

I just felt sory for the little girl.

Fromthebirdsnest · 12/05/2020 21:43

@dahliaday my full stops are from my tablet not working properly as my 4 year old dropped it and cracked the screen .a couple of days ago and now it just randomly adds punctuation 😂 .New one on the way ! In ordinary times the couple were out of order as she was clearly only little , but right now everyone should be 2 meters away from each other so the dad should have called her back .. If a child crashed into me then I'd make sure they were ok.!

Isitweekendyet · 12/05/2020 21:43

sorry*

xsquared · 12/05/2020 21:44

I have told dc that pedestrians always have priority over cyclists and when there are people in front they get off their bikes and walk round.

What if the path is wide enough for the pedestrian party to walk in single file if there is a faster walker, runner or bicycle behind them going downhill which can be very fast and dangerous to brake suddenly? Sometimes groups take up the width of a path and they don't need to.

I think people can be rude whether they are cyclists, pedestrians, runners or motorists but it seems MN really hate cyclists.

WaxOnFeckOff · 12/05/2020 21:45

Apart from kicking the bike (although i'd have been tempted myself) the dad ana d the kid are in the wrong. A six year old is perfectly old enough to know how to stop (or shouldn't have been out on a narrow path) and also old enough to know that you don't cycle into people and at the moment don't go that close to people. The dad is an absolute dick.

Doesn't look to me that the couple heard him at all or didn't assume that the "excuse me" was for them given it was from a bit back.

Given that the path was in itself not 2 meters wide, presumably he was expecting them to completely get off the path in order for his little princess to ride her bikey wikey? Wanker and then to publicise it looking for sympathy? double wanker.

PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock · 12/05/2020 21:45

If you listen carefully at 0:14 I think,after the first excuse me , the child wobbles and it looks like she's slowing down(dad is nearly on top of her). The dad tells her to keep going!
"Go on,keep going"

Completely his fault.

xsquared · 12/05/2020 21:46

fwiw, I don't think anyone comes out of this looking good. Father should have asked his dd to slow down or stop, and if that wasn't possible, he should have caught up with her.

A grown man kicking a child's bicycle was completely unecessary.

Lockheart · 12/05/2020 21:48

No need at all to kick the bike but if you look at the reaction when the girl tries to cycle between them it makes them both jump. They were clearly unaware she was there.

There wouldn't have been an incident at all if the father had kept his daughter under control and held her back until there was room to pass.

If you're the party travelling faster you hang back until it's safe to pass, not try to squeeze through a gap. Doesn't matter if you're a car trying to pass a cyclist or a cyclist trying to pass pedestrians. Ringing your bell or sounding your horn is to let someone know you're there, it's not a command to get out of the way. The little girl is too young to know that of course but the father should know better.

Canshopwillshop · 12/05/2020 21:48

@brakethree - I agree to a certain extent but she’s only 6 and therefore I think her parents are responsible for teaching her how to cycle/brake etc and making sure they are confident of her skills before taking her out cycling in public.

JudyCoolibar · 12/05/2020 21:49

The dad shouted excuse me at least twice.

That didn't absolve him of the duty to stop his daughter riding into them. He couldn't know whether they'd heard.

They shouldn't be walking astride like that and blocking the path

Why on earth not? It's perfectly normal for couples out walking to walk next to each other. It's not as if they're walking that slowly, so they're unlikely to block people behind them, and I'm sure they would go into single file or move out of the way if someone approached them.

I think it's the couple's fault.

Their fault that a child chose to barge in between them from behind, and her father didn't stop her? How

They certainly weren't staying alert were they?

How do you know they could hear?

WaxOnFeckOff · 12/05/2020 21:50

I think the problem is that most pedestrians and drivers all assume that there are times that they need to stop to give others priority. In the main, cyclists and runners don't. They want to keep up their pace and momentum and this is often to the detriment of others. This is why I have an issue, not sure about everyone else.