Scooter Pilot c**t

Roastie

F****, I was so pissed off today - I pretty much lost it.

So, I'm heading along Embankment making good progress. So, Scooter and I take off from the lights together - I filter down the middle, he goes down the right. Then gets boxed in so tries to move across traffic to the centre lane. He starts moving into the centre lane without looking and so nearly collects me as I come past him.

I shouted "WOAH!" and then "F***!" but TBH I was happy to get it go. Lapse of judgement, we all do it.

But at the next lights, Scooter Pilot has words. Tells me to "f*** off!", etc. Caught up with him at Big Ben. Asked him what is problem was - same from him again. I told him that clearly he was in the wrong as I wasn't breaking any laws, his reponse "You cyclists, you always ride like a*seholes".

I went mental. I was so close to decking the dude. I'm not proud but I think I used my full arsenal of expletives. Then he says "I will kill you". F**kwit!

So he blasts off to PS (in the ASL I should add). I pick him up on this - f**ker is on about how "cyclists" ride dangerously and I shouldn't have been going so fast (nevermind that he gave it stick filtering up the right to get ahead of me). I try to explain that I have not broken a single rule, but that he is a) in the ASL and b) jumped a red to keep up with me after the altercation (I assume so he could give me the bird).

W**ker. Perhaps I should have just decked him. F**k. Frankly with all the personal sh*t I am going through, i really don't care. Next f**king scooter pilot that tries it on will get a D-lock on his poncy helmet. No fu**king jokes.

Judge me if you will. And I'll be the first to say that I was too f**king aggressive and that I do our cause absolutely no good whatsoever - but to be nearly taken out by another f**king scooter, and then to get abuse from the w**ker. F**k.

Ah, good to get that sh*t off my chest.

cjcp

Doubt my language would have been any different.

jonginge

...and breathe.

Sounds a right knob. He knows he was in the wrong and went on the offensive as a result.

Roastie

But what is it about Scooter Pilots (or should that be Pillocks). In my adventures today I was also rear ended by a motorcyclist, but the dude was cool about it and it was all good. It just seem that every altercation I have (apart from Addison Lee) is with Scooter Pilots. W**kers.

cjcp

"And Angry from Manchester writes to complain about the repeats on TV..." (Del Amitri)

Aidy

Woah.

And yeah, number of muppets on scooters is insane.
One played the same game on me a while ago, swerved across three lanes of traffic without looking and nearly took me out.

All so he could squeeze through a gap and stop in the cycle box.

Told me I was going "too fast" and it was my fault when I reprimanded him.

Gussio

Am I right in thinking that you need to do a bunch of serious proficiency lessons to ride a motorbike on the road, but that anyone can take a 50cc scooter off the forecourt with nothing more than a CBT certificate...?

Aidy

Gussio wrote:

Am I right in thinking that you need to do a bunch of serious proficiency lessons to ride a motorbike on the road, but that anyone can take a 50cc scooter off the forecourt with nothing more than a CBT certificate...?

No, you can ride a motorbike on L plates with just a CBT too.

lost_in_thought

Roastie, have an e-hug.

And relaaaaaaaaaaax.

gordon861

One of the reasons these idiots are attracted to scooters is that all you need to do is twist'n'go, even a monkey could do it. Most bikes have complications like clutches that they don't want to mess with. Also these scooters with small wheels and a very low center of gravity are very easy to throw around.

nyanza

I caught a bloke p!ssing in my front garden the other day. On banging on the window he turned to look across my garden to me to tell me to f**k off. I'd say scooter man's reaction was the same, because he knew full well he was in the wrong and hence the reactive and defensive abuse.

I know how you feel. If people give you grief when you screwed up then fair enough. Take it. But when you do nothing wrong, or worse - the right thing - and they still give grief then there's not much more annoying than that.

Last week I had bloke stood in a cycle lane, so slowed down. I then got a mouthful over going too fast and heard the "bloody cyclists" cliche rant. On pointing out that I've slowed to 2mph and done nothing wrong in a polite way he proceeds to hand over his small child to some random in the street and chases me down the road, and it's not even 9am at this point...

Some people are just idiots. Just accept it and avoid them next time.

dilemna

You should have just taken his keys out the scooter's ignition, dropped them down a drain and ridden off

prj45

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sent ... s_to_kill/

Threats to kill

Threatening to kill someone is a criminal offence. The other person must genuinely fear it will be carried out. Throwaway comments not said seriously muttered between friends and associates will not therefore be an offence. Where the victim fears for their life and safety however an offence will have been committed. Proving a threat to kill is difficult and more often than not it is simply a case of one person’s word against another’s.

There is a defence to this charge – that there is a lawful excuse for making the threat. If the threat was made in a self-defence situation then this may be a lawful excuse. A person may make such a threat to prevent crime and defend themselves or another.

The maximum sentence for making a threat to kill is 10 years in jail.

A threat aimed at a particular person of violence in general rather than specifically to kill is a much lesser offence and represents an alternative charge. Other alternatives are affray or using threatening words or behaviour. Lazy prosecution can sometimes mean people are charged inappropriately. We can investigate the circumstances and in some situations we can negotiate for alternative charges which are more suitable, such as public order offences.

http://www.marymonson.co.uk/blackmail.php

FrankM

Aidy wrote:

Gussio wrote:

Am I right in thinking that you need to do a bunch of serious proficiency lessons to ride a motorbike on the road, but that anyone can take a 50cc scooter off the forecourt with nothing more than a CBT certificate...?

No, you can ride a motorbike on L plates with just a CBT too.

If you obtained a UK car driving licence before January 2001 (could be 2002), you can ride a scooter with less than 50cc (and restricted to 30mph) without L plates and without doing the CBT.

To be fair, scooters are also probably more popular than motobikes because they're a hell of a lot cheaper.

I ride a bike and have a scooter and feel just as exposed - if not more so - when I'm on my scooter.

il_principe

dilemna wrote:

You should have just taken his keys out the scooter's ignition, dropped them down a drain and ridden off

Oh how I long to do this.

Nice rant Roastie, He was probably narked because his poxy little scooter kept getting done by a cyclist.

Roastie

dilemna wrote:

You should have just taken his keys out the scooter's ignition, dropped them down a drain and ridden off

Now why didn't I think of that!

rjsterry

That's the trouble with losing it, you don't think of what you should have done until you're stewing over it several hours later.

Hope you're feeling a bit better about it today.

greg66_tri_v2.0

May I remind those assembled of my first point?

georgee

I am thinking of keeping a cheap lock on me so for RLJ'ing idiots and fckwits on hairdryers can have it quickly added to their rear wheels, if they're wearing a helmet looking forward they don't have a clue what you're doing behind them!

Also, you could have asked if the reason he was on a scooter was because he niether the self respect or the money to afford a motorbike, or both?

Clever Pun

We all make mistakes and a simple sorry mate or a wave calms things most of the time but when some tool doesn't realise they're in the wrong and give you shit like the goon Roastie dealt with... there's just a part of self realisation missing from their brain...tossers

Sirius631

georgee wrote:

I am thinking of keeping a cheap lock on me so for RLJ'ing idiots and fckwits on hairdryers can have it quickly added to their rear wheels, if they're wearing a helmet looking forward they don't have a clue what you're doing behind them!

Also, you could have asked if the reason he was on a scooter was because he niether the self respect or the money to afford a motorbike, or both?

or the self respect and ability to ride a bicycle.

Clever Pun

georgee wrote:

Also, you could have asked if the reason he was on a scooter was because he niether the self respect or the money to afford a motorbike, or both?

Or just a scooter is a really handy commuting tool.... kinda akin to a winter hack

Porgy

Roastie wrote:

Next f**king scooter pilot that tries it on will get a D-lock on his poncy helmet.

I'll deck one on your behalf on the way home tonight if you like?


F**ing Ars3holes!!

nwallace

You've probably got more power and better brakes than him, should have cut him up, involving a shoulder barge.

milan_ns

I was wondering...

What would happen if I actually "bumped" (intentionally, but carefully - if traffic is static and the other party is wearing the gear) into someone who has aggressively cut in front of me, clearly ignoring your existence and causing me to suddenly break & change direction, like the above mentioned scooter dude ?

As far as law is concerned, would it be their fault?

Would that work as a lawful revenge ?

Clever Pun

milan_ns wrote:

I was wondering...

What would happen if I actually "bumped" (intentionally, but carefully - if traffic is static and the other party is wearing the gear) into someone who has aggressively cut in front of me, clearly ignoring your existence and causing me to suddenly break & change direction, like the above mentioned scooter dude ?

As far as law is concerned, would it be their fault?

Would that work as a lawful revenge ?

you bump into someone on your bike you'll need to get your wheel trued

intentionally it's wilful you'll get done essentially