Epic WTF

Damn good video.

Victim-blaming cyclists who die because they "ride like twats"? With the top bantz "he must have punctured/died" (crever) at the end?

In the UK. Happy to help. Any other basic legal queries you have about UK law maybe start a new thread tho.

So not that country then....
There is no law or forcible punishment or statute or byelaw or even common courtesy tbqh to prevent a close pass in the UK. It just doesnt exist. Sorry.

Law > fantasy land
....

But in the wild West of the metropolitan pigs, you can get fined for it, if they see fit

You'd better tell the police mate:

Inspector King and his team are showcasing Op Close Pass, a visual aid
demonstrating to motorists the law on leaving a 1.5m safe overtaking
distance from cyclists.

https://twitter.com/KMinsterCops/status/1438828106404581382

Thousands of drivers have been issued FPNs, fined and given points for close-passing cyclists because it's against the law.

lol I’ve literally had people who have close passed me prosecuted, fined and given points. But sure, tell me how impossible it is.

How is a close pass defined colloquially? As a motorised vehicle overtaking a bicycle or motorcycle at a distance that causes a reasonable cyclist or motorcyclist to feel surprised or endangered by the manoeuvre? Surely the Highway Code has several sections against that.

https://youtu.be/qsAFwN7IFYw

Probably a repost

I think there's other threads for this too.

Watch yer selves in & around Stockport.

https://twitter.com/OneAdultSwim1/status/1465417978485293061

Fuck, will smash that off if I see it.

Ditto. More likely round your way. Apparently there's at least 2 more...

Fuck, will smash that off if I see it.

All of this. A tap with a D-lock should do it.

And accidently carry through to the window

Expanding foam in the keyholes

Would be terrible if it were parked and someone cycled into it, even very slowly, enough to cause a visible scratch on an arm, say. I’d expect such an accident would merit calling 999 for police and an ambulance due to shock, and then a lawyer to work out what reasonable civil reparations the cyclist would be entitled to, hopefully at least the cost of the car.

help them complete the look by putting nails in all their tyres too

in other WTF news.

one of the neighbours in my mums building lost their cat about 5 weeks ago when it jumped out of the first floor window where they live and had no way to get back in.

a few days ago all the signs were taken down as they'd given up on finding her.

my mum just took her car from brighton to worthing for its annual service (along a 70mph limit 3 lane carriageway) and shortly after leaving the car with them gets a call... there's a cat in your engine bay, we can't get it out.

she thinks oh fuck this is not going to be good...

so she goes back to the place, they still haven't got it out but the fucking thing is ALIVE, she calls me to tell the neighbours and see if they can come get it and they manage to get it out while we're on the phone. waiting on further updates now.

truly. w t f

Oh the irony if it fell off and caused them a puncture...

Jesus, could have been grizzly. back on t' farm, the feral cats and kittens would hide in the Land Rover engine bay for warmth. The smart ones bolted as soon as the doors opened. The not so smart ones got Darwin'd.

Not my farm I might add, my neighbour.

That’s a good PSA: check your car engines for cats in the winter, they often go there for the warmth.

That’s a good PSA

Couple bangs on the bonnet with your hand in the winter before getting in the car

No catalytic converter pun. What's happened to you?

those mechanics are getting nothing else done today if it's anything like when a cat got in the playground at school

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you lot don't deserve my puns