A London man who was filmed delivering a foul-mouthed tirade at a cyclist and threatened to run him over has been convicted of assault and public order offences.
Scott Leaver was sentenced to a three-month curfew from 8am-8pm in May at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court as a result of the incident, which happened close to East Putney Underground Station in August 2016.
He was also ordered to pay £85 in costs and was sentenced to a community order after pleading guilty to the charges.
The cyclist, called Mike, uploaded footage of the incident to YouTube last week.
He was preparing to overtake a bus that had pulled into a stop when he realised that Leaver was about to overtake, too.
He moved to the left, but when he rode by Leaver’s vehicle moments later was subjected to a torrent of abuse, with Leaver getting out of his car and threatening to run him over.
“You’re in the f*cking way of me,” he told him.
“You see your camera? Stick that up your f*cking arse. Right?
“Don’t f*cking mess about with me, c*nt.
“You was in my f*cking way,” he added. “Get in front of me again I’ll f*cking run you straight over c*nt.”
45 thoughts on “Video: Curfew for driver filmed unleashing expletive-filled rant at cyclist”
Look, kids, a sweary
Look, kids, a sweary blancmange.
Only a matter of time before heart disease does the world a favour with that one.
Potty mouth!
Potty mouth!
Broken Britain and a walking
Broken Britain and a walking heart attack.
Delayed for about 1 second but wants to rant about it for 5 minutes.
The cartoon-decorated , child
The cartoon-decorated , child-car is the first sign that something is wrong.
Can’t they put him down or something? I’m not talking about a blow to the back of the neck or anything cruel like that, just an injection.
Sadly, I suspect that this is too low a penalty. If anything he’s got to show what a hard man he is for a mere 85 quid.
What happens if a gun-owner threatens to kill people with it?
Ush wrote:
Exactly. Gun license would be revoked and quite possibly refused in any future applications. So why was his drivers license not revoked or suspended or just simply banned indefinitely, considering our driving licenses are a privilege and not a given right. He obviously doesn’t deserve to have said privilege.
Would rather have seen him
Would rather have seen him given a suspended sentence for threatening behaviour and be banned from driving for 3 months.
Fat boy 100% in the wrong,
Fat boy 100% in the wrong, but, and I know this is tough, please try and just ride on by everyone. Every time anyone (cyclist, fellow driver, pedestrian) criticises a motorist, no matter how politely, you are effectively saying “You’re a prick.” The outcome is never good and one day it’ll be really bad.
Take the moral high ground. Some people cannot be educated. Probably most motorists. Probably many cyclists. Definitely everyone who drives like him.
Oh, and of course I have failed in adhering to this numerous times, but I’m getting much better.
Beecho wrote:
Because appeasement always works out so well?
Most bullies, like this gentleman, are all bark and no bite.
What a hunk!
What a hunk!
A not untypical 4×4 driver,
A not untypical 4×4 driver, ugly, stupid, entitled. The problem is that next time he probably will run over the cyclist and be acquited by a jury of his peers. Shouldn’t be too hard to find peers for someone as low on the evolutionary scale as that.
burtthebike wrote:
Tuts…
burtthebike wrote:
A typical UK jury, yesterday:
burtthebike wrote:
Whilst i realise 4×4/SUVs are still a minority of type I don’t have any worse interaction with such numerically, I can honestly say the most likely vehicle type to cause me grief is a bog standard motor, had several today including a learner driver instrcuter (sans learner) coming too close and not bothering to indicate he was overtaking.
As for being told by others to just cycle on by, you can only bite your tongue for so long and then it builds up, day by day until you lash out big time. this is reflected in life in many differing circumstances – partner being abused at home and stabbing them is one extreme example.
I’d rather chuck out a gesture and a passing curse or exchange of words at the time than let it fester, each of us have our breaking points but the mental aspect of not reacting at all to constant, often mulitple times a day attacks on oneself is massively underestimated.
There have being times when I really thought I’d want to smash my bike through the windscreen or give the driver a good hard slap the next criminal that made me feel fear of harm , but I haven’t. I’ve smashed my fist into a bonnet when rear ended and the driver subsequently tried to drive away by driving right at me, i’ve smacked a re-enforced perspex panel on a bus (hard enough to badly bruise my hand) when the silly cunt driver tried to off me and then claimed not to have seen me and I’ve called drivers plenty of words but I haven’t twatted anyone in 30+ years as a serious road rider, well done to me frankly.
This fat fuck oxygen waster is a gobshite, all mouth and no trousers, typical Ronnie Pickering wannabe, one can only hope he drops dead and do everyone a favour.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
You should probably look at seeking some help for your anger issues.
Rapha Nadal wrote:
You should probably look at seeking some help for your anger issues.
— BehindTheBikesheds
Cool story bro, how are you getting on setting your brake pads up, still having problems?
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Case in point. I’d imagine you just got laughed off the road after responding like this:
“But c’mon big man, if you want to get it on sowe can discuss the niceites of you calling me a liar, i’ll fucking crush you like a grape loud mothed twat!
I’m on the CUK forum, you can message me there and let’s get this sorted, any time, any place. But you won’t because you’re loud mothed cowardly cunt troll who accuses people of lying without a scrap of evidence then gets all keyboard warrior when outed as talking shite.
I’ll be waiting for you twat!”
Rapha Nadal wrote:
Yeah, you got me there, oh wait …
Still waiting for you to apologise after calling me a liar, anyways for a cuntface gobshite like you I’ll forgo my lovely forgiviing nature and cave your head in for the fun of it FOC, which would you prefer a sledgehammer or a d-lock, happy now bro?
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
You should really start touring with this stuff as it’s hilarous! At least you’re good at something. And as for apologising for calling out utter BS? Good luck with that. The stories in your original post are bigger work of fiction than The Bible. you mighty, mighty keyboard warrior.
Rapha Nadal wrote:
Getting angry at the selfish, unreasonabe behaviour of others who threaten your life seems quite reasonable to me, but then, I react similarly, and I’d imagine 99% of people would. Getting angry when someone threatens your life seems perfectly natural to me.
What isn’t natural is to threaten someone’s life just because you have the power to do so and you’re feeling callous, that’s why we have laws to deal with that sort of thing. The only problem is that those laws don’t seem to apply to drivers.
Convicted of assault and
Convicted of assault and public order offences? He clearly threatened the cyclist with death, which is a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act, 1861 “A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out, to kill that other or a third person shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years”
I know that goes back a long way, but so does furious driving.
And exactly what is the point of giving him a curfew? Is it going to stop him doing it again, if so, how?
The country has a
The country has a preponderance of this type of mouth-breathing, unpleasant prick. Fat, unhealthy, uneducated and angry at everyone who’s not. Ride on by and smile to yourself as he seethes at your progress, safe in the knowledge that your life is far better than this sad twat’s – and, judging by the size of his tits, will last longer too (unless he fuckin’ runs you over first, cunt).
I’m just waiting for one of road.cc’s resident ex-SAS men to come along and say that the rider should have caved his head in with a D-lock, like they would have.
srchar wrote:
IF and it’s of course a bif if, the fat fuck would have gone to strike me I’d use reasonable force to defend myself, for some that would be a D-lock to protect themselves from harm. Or are you suggesting that allowing someone to beat you up after they’ve already assulted you with their vehicle as has been seen plenty of times against people on bikes should be met with meek roll into a ball/stand there and take it response possibly ending with life threatening injuries because you did nothing?
Stoving his head in might be a bit extreme in this instance but in extreme circumstances were one fears serious harm, one sometimes reacts with extreme counter-measures.
Standing up to bullies might actually make them think twice the next time.
srchar wrote:
I’d have cut his head off with the rotor blades of my chopper and fed it to my batman between two slices of rat.
video is hilarious – the way
video is hilarious – the way they both start off trying to reason it out before the immediate escalation
Judging by his fb page, he
Judging by his fb page, he isn’t all that repentent and still denies that he drove badly:
[Scott Leaver]
Scott Leaver Fucking idiot cyclist
Yesterday at 3:14pm
[Lindsey Simmons Stewart]
Lindsey Simmons Stewart He totally was he had no right to stay in the middle like that. And they wonder why they get hurt.
· Yesterday at 3:15pm
[Scott Leaver]
Scott Leaver I no Lindsey Simmons Stewart prick he is
1
· Yesterday at 3:16pm
[Mike Bennett]
Mike Bennett Scott Leaver was sentenced in May at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court to three months curfew at his home from 8am – 8pm and had to pay £85 court fines. I think that proves who was in the wrong….and he’s still a WANKER
· Reply · Yesterday at 4:52pm
[Scott Leaver]
Scott Leaver Mike Bennett go fuck your self you shit bag·
· Yesterday at 5:32pm
[Mike Bennett]
Mike Bennett Scott Leaver gay boy
Yesterday at 5:33pm
Manage
[Scott Leaver]
Scott Leaver You dick head go run to the police prick
· 18 hrs
[Gina Pace]
Gina Pace Mike there are cyclists. Lanes for a reason that’s why so many cyclists. Die every day. Why would. You be cycling. In the middle. Of the road Scott was not in the wrong for what he said he was only in the wrong. For the actions. He done and I think you was one lucky guy it was him that was behind. The wheel. And not one of these. Youngsters because. They would. Off just run you over for taking. The piss so you shouldn’t act hard on social media calling him gay and a wanker when you didn’t. Have a come back to. His face on the day it happened.
burtthebike wrote:
Angry overweight bald man gets support from the barely literate Gina Pace. Hopefully they’ll bring a toaster to their next bath night.
Barraob1 wrote:
Easy now. He’s at least morbidly obese.
Is Gina Pace one of those AI
Is Gina Pace one of those AI bots that are trying to learn English? They’ve some way to go, haven’t they?
davel wrote:
Or speech to text, and her staccato diction is due to puffing on a fag/dyspnoea?
This is classic from one of
This is classic from one of Mr Leaver’s friends and supporters.
“Lindsey Simmons Stewart Kids shouldn’t be riding on a main road. I wouldn’t let mine do that it’s far to dangerous.”
And:
“Lindsey Simmons Stewart Bob Moore well I believe all cyclist should ride on a pavement because I feel road s are dangerous. Plus a lot of cyclist don’t use the cycle lanes. But at the end of the day you and the other guy seem to have it in for one person here and clearly waiting for him to bite.”
She’s and absolute thick as pigshit diamond.
Skiathos: loudest moths I’ve
Skiathos: loudest moths I’ve ever heard. The size of sparrows… Sound like a freewheeling DT Swiss hub as they divebomb your dinner.
Have to admit I thought I was
Have to admit I thought I was watching the wrong video to start with : cyclist starts to move, pulls back, SUV goes past and about a hundred years later the cyclist decides to share his thoughts with the driver. Maybe I’m a wimp, but I really would have just forgotten about it by then…
All that said, I’m glad *something* happened to the driver after his complete and spectacular overreaction. I’d suggest that the SUV driver might need anger management, but he seems like a typical example of a driver who cannot take any criticism.
I didn’t have to wait very
I didn’t have to wait very long. That escalated quickly.
Just checked out the voluptuous sweary man’s Facebook page. Full of dickheads writing about what “could of”, “would of”, or “should of” happened. Always a reliable indicator that the author is a fucking retard.
Oh dear, poor old uncle
Oh dear, poor old uncle fester having a bad day in his 4×4, not able to get anywhere quickly because of the size of his car. See the speed he was doing when he overtook the bus, far too fast for the situation. Too many people in a hurry to get somewhere fast for no reason.
We’re missing the obvious
We’re missing the obvious here. Arrogant driver is annoyed that there’s a box at the lights for cycles to go into. The cyclist goes into the box when he thinks he’s at the front of the queue and he acts like a dick from there. License should be revoked.
Scott Leaver’s facebook page
Scott Leaver’s facebook page is an eye-opener. His chums are not the sort of people you’d want to be around for long. I didn’t comment on his profile, unlike some others. He had seem to have a lot of pent up anger and he doesn’t sound very sorry for his recent offence.
I also note that he’s had his hip operation put back for 3 years. That might give him time to lose some weight.
I just see a pretty unhappy
I just see a pretty unhappy fella, sad really.
Times like that are when I
Times like that are when I wish we were allowed to carry stuff like tasers and mace.
Looks like he’s not wearing a
Looks like he’s not wearing a seatbelt, either. Did he get done for that, too?
It’d be funnier if it wasn’t
It’d be funnier if it wasn’t such a common occurence. And the ridiculous sentencing for things like this is beyond a joke. Maybe people caught for driving offences should be made to push their vehicle around a driving course, including trying to slow it down to help make them realise what 2 tonnes of metal is really like.
It’d be funnier if it wasn’t
It’d be funnier if it wasn’t such a common occurence. And the ridiculous sentencing for things like this is beyond a joke. Maybe people caught for driving offences should be made to push their vehicle around a driving course, including trying to slow it down to help make them realise what 2 tonnes of metal is really like.
I expect now we have a whole
I expect now we have a whole police department devoted to online abuse he and his coterie can all be nicked for that and our wonderful justice system will dish out some proper punishment for being potty mouthed. Much worse than driving at people in a 4×4 of course.
He’s ignoring me, I’m
He’s ignoring me, I’m obviously not a twat.
I’ve prepared a polite
I’ve prepared a polite response for all confrontations on the road, or internet – feel free to make use of it all you want…
“Your well-reasoned argument has convinced me of the folly of my previously erroneous and somewhat blinkered perspective on the matter. Thusly I prostrate myself to your superior intellect and am eternally grateful for you taking the time to patiently show me the error of my ways, you twat!”
The Leaver family seem to
The Leaver family seem to have some serious criminality going on. This guy has a couple of mini-me Scott Leavers on his FB profile – one at least has been in pretty big trouble (just Google the name).