"Stoking cyclist hate will get him more publicity": CyclingMikey hits back at Mr Loophole's latest attack on "snitch society" camera cyclists

Indeed - with Jimmy Mulville it was one of his staff defending, and he lost because the evidence was good. With Frank Lampard, my evidence simply wasn't good enough.

David9694 wrote:

without exception, the "snitch society" folk are the first to demand police action if anything happens to them.
Intrusive, fanatical, vigilante, amateur, only picks on women and my kids were in the car cammers instantly pivot to being vital in helping find the scumbags who stole my quadbike/ Rolex/ dented my Range Rover / stole my jet ski/ koi carp. 

Anyone who has had significant experience of the processes, conventions, practices and traditions throughout the British system of law knows that the prime purposes and directives of the police and the courts (and the prisons) is to protect the privileges of the upper end of a still class-ridden society; and to ensure that the hoi-polloi are kept in their place. 

So its nothing new, except that Toryspiv are now shrinking, demeaning and deconstructing the various law services involved (except for prisons) to a set that's even more oriented at the protection of their New Aristocracy and even less likely to provide justice of any kind to the common herd, other than draconian punishments to various scapegoats or those who might steal an aristo's rolex.

Part of this process to reduce or eliminate the rule of law requires pariahs. Cyclists are one handy group. along with protestors of various kinds, people with the "wrong" colour skin, the "undeserving" poor and various other easy targets lacking power to retaliate. Let's stick 'em all in a handy category of "the woke".

The Toyspiv kulcha wars are an attempt to define such pariah-groups then turn those fearing that they'll become "losers" in the Toryspiv ekonimikals of a war of all against all. This distracts from the Toryspiv machinations to rob everyone blind and reduce them from citizen to subject, from free agent to serf. Its a scenario in which big claws and a willingness to use them on the weak and vulnerable is the only virtue.

The Mikey bloke is a "freedom fighter" against more than he knows perhaps. The loopholer is just another potential "loser" acting like one of those hanger-on-er types that inhabit the fringes of the big bully gangs, hoping the bully keeps on beating up the softies rather than amusing himself at the expense of the craven hanger-on-er. Occasionally the hanger-on-er is useful in protecting the bully from an accusation oof evil doings by lying and cheating on his behalf.

Fignon's ghost wrote:

Mike. I really do wish you'd run for office. Never let the naysayers get you down. Many of us follow in your footsteps. The lawyer could very well be in need of some camera assistance one day. He may himself fall victim to a hit n run or pedestrianised incident. All this shit talking would soon stop. I can see it now. He's just been quadraspazzed in an rta, by a mobile phone driver. Yeah! I'm pretty sure the lawyer would agree that he has no intention tracking down the ac10 driver via all means necessary. Loathsome parasite. He's certainly no Bob Loblaw. More of a #CashCowCretin.

Mike becoming a politician would be interesting, but unprecedented - he's empathic, cares deeply for others and values truthfulness.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Mike becoming a politician would be interesting, but unprecedented - he's empathic, cares deeply for others and values truthfulness.

Many have entered elected office with those qualities. Most have those bashed out of them on first contact with their own whips.

I don't think Mike is corruptible. He is Eliot Ness!

Mikey for Mayor!

Well thank you all very much! I'm stuck in my room now because I can't get my swollen head through the door any  more. Really, I'm as much of an arse as the next bloke, I'm nothing special or out of the ordinary at all.

I'm nothing special or out of the ordinary at all

Maybe, but you're still doing a good job!

CyclingMikey wrote:

Well thank you all very much! I'm stuck in my room now because I can't get my swollen head through the door any  more. Really, I'm as much of an arse as the next bloke, I'm nothing special or out of the ordinary at all.

Yes, but you use your arsiness to catch out the bigger arses who endanger others for their own selfishness.

It's strange how media works and they've certainly picked on you to be the figurehead for all the rest of us that run cameras and catch dangerous driving. Though we may not be prolific, there's a lot of us and at some point even the worst police forces might get on board (paging WTJS and Lancs police).

there's a lot of us and at some point even the worst police forces might get on board (paging WTJS and Lancs police)

I can't see this happening with the really bad, anti-cyclist forces like Lancashire- not when they simply ignore offences like this one by the driver of Stagecoach 42 bus- which they have done

eburtthebike wrote:

"It's an industry now and in my view it's wrong."

Like the massive industry that is the legal system?  I wonder if he thinks that that is wrong too.

It's only an industry because offences are occurring on an industrial scale, if all drivers stopped using phones Mikey would be out of a job!

I know it seems like it's his job, confronting motorists about breaking traffic laws, but he's not actually employed to enforce traffic laws..

Mikey stopped on a double yellow after, which is prohibited, but Mikey can ride however he likes when going after lawbreakers, which is typical vigilante behaviour, acting like he's law enforcement.

grOg wrote:

Mikey stopped on a double yellow after, which is prohibited, but Mikey can ride however he likes when going after lawbreakers, which is typical vigilante behaviour, acting like he's law enforcement.

Every time I see one of your posts I think thank goodness, if your claim to have been a UK law enforcement officer is true, that you've moved to Australia, as you don't appear to know the road laws. There is no prohibition against cyclists stopping on double yellow lines (although some councils have introduced special prohibitions for non-standard bicycles such as cargo bikes).

Rendel Harris wrote:

grOg wrote:

Mikey stopped on a double yellow after, which is prohibited, but Mikey can ride however he likes when going after lawbreakers, which is typical vigilante behaviour, acting like he's law enforcement.

Every time I see one of your posts I think thank goodness, if your claim to have been a UK law enforcement officer is true, that you've moved to Australia, as you don't appear to know the road laws. There is no prohibition against cyclists stopping on double yellow lines (although some councils have introduced special prohibitions for non-standard bicycles such as cargo bikes).

HA ha - you fall for another grogism, stoking his groggering by sticking to the "point" he made. No need to refute grogbelch as it is, by definition, just the gas from 'is bile duct.

These threads are such fun, especially when grogtype caper, yelp and gurn.

Another individual who fails to understand the meaning of vigilantism. 

Pointed out to them many times.
Almost a badge for them now.

Hirsute wrote:

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTm2KTWW8yI&t=4s

One of the greatest and also saddest nights of my life. 

No gonna watch it now.

Jeez, why would anyone want to film a crash like that? It's gruesome and it's not something I would want on my phone to remind me.