To think this is actually really entitled parenting?

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Seen this post from several people this morning outraged at the walking couple

www.facebook.com/672995864/posts/10158029908925865/?d=n

Now I am in no way condoning the disgusting language of the man in question. But the dad showed such an entitled attitude. He didn't tell his DD to slow down even when she was on the heels of the couple. She could have hurt them if they'd been elderley or disabled, and you can't tell from behind. He didn't practice social distancing - even if the couple had moved they'd have been way less than 2m apart from them, unless they threw themselves into a bush. And when his DD fell off the bike, rather than comfort her he spent the time arguing with and blaming the couple while she cried on the floor.

I've taken my kids to paths like this during lockdown and have said if someone is walking ahead we have to walk behind them with the bikes until we can pass them safely or the paths get wider. This is while teaching them to cycle, and just because they have momentum it doesn't mean they shouldn't stop - surely that's part of learning to cycle, knowing when to judge the safety of themselves and others?

I suppose i also hate this trend of social media vigilantism whereby people want to share faces of those who've slighted them, usually with a huge amount of bias and very little context. And the general public seem to lap it up! I am hard of hearing and I hate cyclists coming up behind me when I walk as unless they bellow "excuse me" I simply will not hear them. I wouldn't be pleased if a child bashed into me and then I got yelled at by the parent for not having good hearing and eyes in the back of my head.

The young girl almost fell off before she got to the couple, and at the start you hear him say 'go on, off you go'... clearly seeing the couple right in front (who were also walking a dog), which would mean all three having to get of his entitled way. Quite where they were supposed to move aside to is beyond me...

I assumed the child had started to cry because rather than immediately reassure her, her dad chose to get into an argument with the man.

What kind of parent just continues filming their child crashing into pedestrians without trying to prevent it

What a nob. Let’s hope he doesn’t teach her how to drive when the time comes!

@Noti23 said this very early on in the thread why he wasn’t helping his little girl slow down, she obviously couldn’t figure out how to stop. Instead he just let her cycle into the couple and fall over! - sums it up for me, but interesting that on the mother's (I presume?) facebook page everyone is piling in saying "oh the poor little girl its all the fault of the horrible people in front!"

How about "oh poor little girl her dad is such an entitled dick and can't put her safety first". I reckon even if the couple had moved she might still have fallen at that point and then he'd be saying it was their fault for moving in the wrong way!!

He should have kept his child 2m back, or stopped her until the other couple got far ahead. Why on earth did he think she should be able to pass them? Is social distancing not a thing for this guy? Where were the couple meant to go? Jump into a bush?

Not the child's fault but a drama engineered by the parent. Proven even more so by videoing it and putting it onto Facebook. Imagine the poor sod picking up the police report for this. Lets clap for our poor key workers who have to deal with this utter moronic shit from Joe public and his GoPro.

Wtaf
The dad let her crash
He then left her on the floor so he could have and film an argument
The other guy was a dick too but he didn’t start it; the dad wound him up on purpose
That poor kid

If that had been my parents they wouldn't have heard them.

Bloody ridiculous that he didn't stop her cycling between them. Even if people don't get out of your way, you don't just barge past them.

Worse are all their cheerleaders telling them how right they are. I guess when you live in that kind of bubble, you do continue to think your behaviour is normal and not entitled, selfish and shitty. I guess anyone who just continues arguing for the camera whilst your child is crying for you, is the kind of person who decides they are more important than everyone.

Both the Dad and the couple are arseholes if you ask me. Any normal person would just move out they way of a 6 year old on a bike equally the Dad should have told her to stop when they didn’t. The correct course of action when faced with either of these rude behaviours is to tut loudly at the rudeness.

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It didn't much. Apparently entitled arsehole daddy thinks that saying "she's 6" is enough of an excuse.

But if you cycle on roads LemonPudding you get yelled at for not being on cycle paths. The path on this video could well be a designated cycle route. There are lots of cycle paths in my area that look similar particularly at the moment with hedge cutting and maintenance not taking place. Even those that are part of National Cycle Routes can be very narrow at points.
There is no reason why cyclists shouldn't be on cycle routes. What is actually required is for grown ups to behave like grown ups and everyone to show a bit of consideration for other people. Cyclists should warn people of their approach and slow down. Pedestrians should step to one side when they can do. Most people do seem to be able to manage it in my experience. Sadly the adults in this case seem to be exceptions to that.

But the very fact he was videoing at the time and then posted about it on facebook

put his phone down

I'm assuming it was one of those twattish helmet cams.

I've seen this and while the dad was absolutely entitled and common sense tells you to stop a child who isn't confident in riding yet if there are people walking ahead of you, the mans actions in the video are absolutely vile. NOTHING gives anyone the right to kick a small childs bike - that was disgusting behaviour. It was not the 6 year olds fault, and she was already clearly very distressed.

And whilst I don't like entitled people I do think that if I was walking and could hear a panicking child behind me on a bike I would at least try to move out of the way. That said, if it were my child I would have told her to stop which the dad in this video clearly wasn't doing. I dont think any of the adults in that situation acted particularly well.

I'm not sure as I really think you have a problem if get that angry about a 6 year old riding a bike. Whether it is entitled or not, it shows a complete lack of control that the man swore and kicked the bike. I would have been embarrassed if I was with him. Kicking 6 year old's bikes= not cool!

NOTHING gives anyone the right to kick a small childs bike - that was disgusting behaviour

Oh give over. If that's disgusting behaviour you really need to get out more.

"Jesus, the comments are all in support of the poster!! What planet are they on that they think it's okay for the child to barge between them on a bike!?"

I strongly suspect, on the parents fb page, they've have deleted any comments criticising them and kept up the ones criticising the other couple. Clearly the parents were in the wrong, they should have kept their kid under control and shouted for her to stop when getting close to the other couple. I don't blame the walker for getting angry, he's strolling along minding his own business, next thing he knows there is a kid crashing into the back of his legs on a bike and someone shoving a camera up in his face recording him. Any decent person, if they hadn't already stopped their kid from ramming a bike into someone, would have profusely apologised, not stuck a phone in someones face and gotten confrontational. What if one of the walkers had a disability, they could have been seriously hurt.

I'd have been so embarrassed to have put that video on social media.

Sorry but the dad was COMPLETELY in the wrong here.

Where were the walkers meant to go? Throw themselves into the bushes?

As someone who has minimal hearing in one ear I wouldn't have heard them.

Not once did the Dad tell his child to stop, just told her to keep cycling and then just watched her ride into them.

We are on SOCIAL DISTANCING you bell end.

But noooo... the walkers fault. And the parents have reported them to the Police.... what for? Walking and not getting out of a cyclists way and then getting upset because a men let his daughter cycle into them?!

Sorry, this makes me very cross as an ex-cyclist. You get off and walk until you are clear or the path widens.

The couple were rude they could of turned around I could hear her little bell so could they and he kicked her bike not a very nice man by all accounts shame she didn't take his knee cap off

Even if they had gone single file and weren't fussed about tbe 2 m thing that path is too narrow for a bike to go whizzing past. Surely they should have dismounted anyway.

And I agree he probably is the sort who cycles dangerously with his camera then picks fights with people for drama.

She'd have struggled to take his knee cap off from the back.

I worry that people think that it is acceptable to kick small children's bikes. I mean it's not the behaviour of a rationalist!

He shouldn't have kicked a little girls bike though. Bad form. The dad should have told her daughter to stop when she gets too close to people and wait, instead of filming it all! Feel sorry for the little girl.

The dad was totally in the wrong!

He only said excuse me TWICE! and from quite a distance- it seems like the couple didn't here rather than deliberately ignored, which you can tell by the way they jump unexpectedly when she crashes into them. At no point in that video did the father interact with his daughter, give her instructions, protect her from an accident or even comfort her afterwards. He was totally confrontational and passively aggressive towards the the couple walking, making no attempt to apologise to them.

If that was me I would have been saying "OMG I"m so sorry", which probably would have resulted in a completely different reaction from the man.

I could hear her little bell so could they

Are you one of the walkers?
Do you know the walking couple personally?

If the answer to these is both no, then how the heck do you know that they could hear the bell.

I don't think he was angry at the mere fact a 6 year old was riding a bike GoldenBear.

It was probably the part where she rode into him and his wife and instead of apologising, her dickhead parent started trying to blame them. Considering we are in the middle of a pandemic, where we are all supposed to be keeping 2m apart, and we have absolutely no idea if this couple could be vulnerable or elderly (until they turned round), I don't think they are unreasonable to be angry at that.