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In reply to the discussion: Update on the bikers who terrorized a New York City Family. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Between the time that he bumped that jackass's back tire that purposely swerved in front of him and slammed on the brakes and when he took off at speed and plowed through and over some of the bikers you couldn't even see the SUV at all much less what they were doing to it. I only saw one person get off their bike and walk back toward where the big group stopped in the road around the SUV. Everyone else appeared to be on their bikes just not moving, but since you can't see the SUV at all until it accelerated and plowed through and over other bikers I can't see how anyone could tell from the video what was happening at that point. I have no problem believing that they were pounding on the SUV and he was terrified, but you just can't see that in the video.
I have seen other videos of these assholes riding around on the wrong side of the road, cutting people off, surrounding other cars and yes, pounding on other cars for no reason, so I have no problem believing they did the same thing to this guy, but you just can't see them doing that in this video when he was pulled over and they all stopped in the road. The video also conveniently doesn't show how else they might have been harassing this vehicle before as they were all going down the highway... I have a very hard time believing that one single guy got it into his head all by himself to suddenly swerve in front of the SUV, hit the brakes and allow the SUV to bump his back tire especially since it just so happened that the dude with the helmet camera had his head turned toward and was close to that particular asshole for that whole scene, which seems to me that he knew what that dude was going to do.
Still, it seems like the guy in the SUV needn't have plowed through the bikers and run them over at a high rate of speed though I can also chalk that up to panic and already having been harassed by these thugs on two wheels. I just would have been happier that he tried to leave a lot slower giving them a chance to get out of the way. But, like I said, I can understand that he was totally panicked and utterly terrorized, so I also can't hold it against him how he got away from them either.