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Cereal-eating driverVideo: Helmet-cam cyclist busts driver eating cereal at 30mph
Police are investigating after a helmet cam-equipped cyclist spotted a driver in Edinburgh eating a bowl of cereal, complete with milk, while driving at over 30mph.
YouTube user Raging Bike posted the footage after a ‘WTF’ moment as the driver passed him on a busy Edinburgh street. He caught up at the next lights and captured the driver on camera putting his cereal bowl aside.
Commenting on the clip, Raging Bike wrote: “I guess if you are hungry then why not eat a bowl of cereal as you drive.
“How did he do this? He must have planned to exit his house, climb into the car (no hands?) with a bowl of cereal and milk....who does that???”
A spokesman for the AA told Metro: “It’s pretty stupid. It’s unbelievable really.
“For some people their car, in a way becomes their home, and they behave in such a way that they would in their house.”
Police Scotland said an enquiry has been launched into the incident.
“We will review this footage and conduct an enquiry to identify the driver,” a spokesman said.
“Motorists are reminded to ensure they are in full control of their vehicle when driving and should not engage in any activities that can cause distraction or result in a loss of control.
“Anyone found driving inappropriately would be dealt with accordingly.”
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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Yes - you keep them in a box with an X on a map to mark the spot
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Bro needs to be in primary position.
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Cycling infrastructure does not force drivers to break the law, drivers are the reason they break the law, no one else.
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Ah but taking pictures of things to defy the man (avoid a fine) is righteous. Taking pictures of people to grass on them to the cops (perhaps...
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'Why am I not surprised to find people actually discussing what types of cars people drive are most likely to cause more trouble.
How about; I'm less likely to get a friendly nod from some cyclist in logo clad lycra because he's too pro to acknowledge lesser amateur cyclists. Also more likely to run red lights.'
Arguably driving a car whilst eating a bowl of cornflakes is a poorer reflection of the attitudes of some drivers to other road users than not waving to you when you go out for a ride is of some cyclists attitudes, which is also not the topic of the article which is another reason people are discussing bad driving and not people who don't smile at everyone else they meet on the road
Nice or not, its just human nature. Its also potentially important when dealing with people who have the power of life-or-death over you.
Though with regard to what type of driver is the worst, I've struggled to find any consistent pattern at all.
For example, I've had to conclude there are two different types of 'posh' driver. The arrogant 'out of my way, pleb!' ones and the ones who are in that faction of posh liberal types who actually cycle themselves (the type who eat organic muesli) and who hence treat cyclists courteously.
While the sports-car driving rich kids you see in certain parts of London are pretty much always in the first group, large 4x4s can be in either.
And I keep hearing cyclists complain about bus drivers yet I've personally always found them to be amongst the more competent drivers on the road and the most aware of cyclists.
I don't know about HGV drivers because I just stay the hell away from those things as much as I possibly can. Though it seems as if its the mid-sized-to-small ones that are the worst, possibly because of either the training or because the way they are paid means they are always in a desperate hurry.
I bought a BMW to try to drag them back down towards the norm.
Micras are definitely the worst. Driven by people who 'can't drive a big car', i.e. can't drive.
Wasn't me was it?
I had a dog half out of the rear passenger's window on the A2 at 25mph staring at me.
You're just stirring, aren't you?
Pet hate of mine (if you will excuse the pun) is dogs loose in cars. An accident waiting to happen.
A few years ago I kept hinting to my mate's missus that it was not good to have her lurcher sat on the front seat. She got the message eventually when it got over excited one day and crapped on her gear stick.
I drive a corsa?
+1 for sweeping generalisations on this post!!
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