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

[ByDandyTurtle]

He's not putting fumes in people's lungs from his car and sees people doing illegal activities that kill others or make our premiums go up.

Oh dear. You started going on about a reasonable expectation of privacy. That is the threshold condition for misuse of private information.

Because that's what the law says, that you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public road.

You won't answer but I'll ask again. Can you explain why given Cycling Mikey has sent hundreds of those videos to police and the police have got many convictions as a result of Mikey's footage, why the police haven't told him what he is doing is illegal? Why do they use his footage as proof?

And completely ignores my hypothetical about if someone films through a house window person A stab person B to death.

That’s a lovely cut and paste.

But it’s wrong. If you film into a car in a way that isn’t visible to passers by - like peering in to see what a driver is doing in their lap in stationary traffic - then it would be intruding into a private space.

And - yet again - what does Vigilante Mikey do with this sort of footage that doesn’t show phone use?

I didn’t think it was worth answering. However…

…if you see a murder (or what looks like one) in public or private you should act on it.

But do you think people should go about filming into people’s houses just in case the occupier might be going to commit a fatal knife attack?

Having lost two friends to separate preventable incidents on the roads, and seen other friends hospitalised, I am 100% in favour of people behaving safely and following the rules, but the problem with Cycling Mikey is that in his fervour to get people to follow the rules, he frequently behaves in ways which are unsafe. And the whole purpose of the rules is to keep people safe.
He doesn't just film the drivers; he admitted while giving evidence in someone else's trial that he is in the habit of stepping out in front of people to stop them breaking the rules. Not only does this put him in danger, but if someone that he has been distracting swerves to avoid hitting him, they might hit another road user who they hadn't seen, because he was distracting them, and even if they do get past him safely, they are now wound up and unlikely to be driving at their most calm and focused.
He would do much more good if he put his energy into educating people to want to drive better every day, because it's the right thing to do, not because they're worried he's going to leap out from behind a bush.

You're saying Mickey is doing unauthorised surveillance. This would be a criminal offence. But he's not, he is filming in a public place, which is not a crime, or a civil wrong.

I do wonder how he can be such a safe cyclist whilst spending so much time looking in to peoples cars.
Could it be that the reason he doesn't have accidents is because all those other drivers are aware of him and make allowances for his poor vehicle use?

It does though - someone sat in traffic using their phone may well look up and see that the traffic ahead has moved on without them, panic and move off without looking............straight into a cyclist or pedestrian.

He's not baiting me

He sees phone use (or what looks like it) and then he acts, films it, catches the offense and sends the evidence to the police.

Well i guess if there was evidence from the outside to suggest a crime was taking place...

Filming an apparent offence and sending it to the police is perfectly legal. The police even want him to do this since we have operation snap.

If footage shows no offense the sensible thing is to delete the clip. Filming in public is lawful. Can you see in through a car window. Can't you see into a pub toilet stall can you?

You keep using your phone whilst queuing then. Relay your Things can be dangerous but not illegal and also be illegal but not dangerous. That's physically possible and anyone with a brain cell knows that to the magistrate and let us know how that works out for you. It’s the distraction that leads to complacency resulting in a collision at some point, maybe not this time. You’re in crawling traffic head up and down looking at your phone, edging forward every now and again, not really concentrating on the road chances are if someone was crossing between your car and the one in front you could miss them or there might not be anyone crossing but the lack of attention results in a bump into the car in front. Not the crime of the century but completely avoidable. It’s the thin end of the wedge, it starts with you don’t look at your phone when you’re actually moving but the traffic is going again and the reply pings from the message you sent whilst crawling, do you resist the temptation or do you just quickly pick up your phone to have a look at the notification? If your phone is on the seat beside you or on your lap, for some the temptation is too great, and there are some who will think, I’ll just send back a thumbs up, it’s a straight road, it’s only one emoji.. I’d like to know what message is that important that it can’t wait until the destination is reached or there’s an opportunity to pull over. Can you think of a message that when the police read it after someone has been struck by a vehicle that would justify picking up the phone? Even if it’s the best or worst news someone is ever likely to receive, you’re in a queue of traffic, nothing can be done. It’s not difficult, just leave your phone alone if you’re in charge of a vehicle, crawling, stopped at lights or driving around.