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Video: Fight between cyclist and car occupants filmed in Slough

Fisticuffs and walking sticks wielded in the street

A video has emerged of a brawl between a cyclist and several occupants of a car.

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The footage, shot by a member of the public in the middle of the road in Slough, shows a cyclist approaching a car, having left his bicycle by the side of the road.

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He leans into the car and begins punching the driver.

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The driver, another man and a passer-by begin to fight in the street, and one of the car occupants wields a walking stick at the cyclist.

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The footage was shot in Bath Road, Slough, at about 12:30pm on Thursday, and sent to the BBC by an anonymous contributor. It is not clear what prompted the fight.

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Thames Valley Police, which has been shown the video by the BBC, said the incident was not being investigated as it had not been reported.

 

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Mungecrundle | 6 years ago
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Well that of course is the beauty of such a story. It is effectively a blank canvas on which to superimpose any narrative in support your own agenda.

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HarrogateSpa | 6 years ago
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My guess would be an offensive/racist comment from the passenger as the car went past, which made the guy on the bike angry. But it is only a guess, of course.

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ChrisB200SX | 6 years ago
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Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough...

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Mungecrundle | 6 years ago
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The old guys have just discovered that what they thought was a nice juicy block of cannabis resin is actually liquorice.

True story...

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madcarew | 6 years ago
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Or the cyclist is as much of a cock as the twats who drive round in cars buzzing cyclists and throwing stuff out of the cars at them and just fancied a 'go' at an easy target. Or 'Grandad' might have been knobbing the cyclist's missus; Or the cyclist could have been a Trump supporter and thought that the passenger was Hilary Clinton; Or the cyclist could be Reince Prebus's son and the car occupants were The Mooch's sidekicks; Or MIB could be incognito and the pensioner with the stick was actually from Betelgeuse 3 and an abscondee from the intergalactic customs restraint area and this was an attempt by Will Smith's replacement to bring him into custody; Or it was a bounty hunter trying to bring in a bail runner.  We really have absolutely no fecking idea, to to try to frame this in the terms of reference of 'cyclist' and 'car driver' is inane at best.

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DrG82 | 6 years ago
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First question, what happened before this?
Next, was the car/driver foreign? if not why was the cyclist having a go at the passenger?

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brooksby replied to DrG82 | 6 years ago
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DrG82 wrote:

First question, what happened before this? Next, was the car/driver foreign? if not why was the cyclist having a go at the passenger?

Bottle/litter throwing? Spitting? Verbal abuse? Lots of reasons to have a go at the passenger. But we don't know what happened, do we?

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ChrisB200SX replied to brooksby | 6 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

DrG82 wrote:

First question, what happened before this? Next, was the car/driver foreign? if not why was the cyclist having a go at the passenger?

Bottle/litter throwing? Spitting? Verbal abuse? Lots of reasons to have a go at the passenger. But we don't know what happened, do we?

No.

However, I can say that everytime I've got angry and shouty when cycling, it's because someone in a motorised vehicle has just done something that made me feel very threatened and/or scared for my life... and I've personally never seen a cyclist randomly attack a passenger in a car.

 

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burtthebike replied to ChrisB200SX | 6 years ago
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ChrisB200SX wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Bottle/litter throwing? Spitting? Verbal abuse? Lots of reasons to have a go at the passenger. But we don't know what happened, do we?

No.

However, I can say that everytime I've got angry and shouty when cycling, it's because someone in a motorised vehicle has just done something that made me feel very threatened and/or scared for my life... and I've personally never seen a cyclist randomly attack a passenger in a car.

Quite right, and this could have been self defence.  He could have been preventing the threat of a violent death to other cyclists, by letting the occupants of this car know that their behaviour was dangerous and unnacceptable.  Whatever, he wouldn't have done that without extreme provocation.

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brooksby | 6 years ago
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I watched this yesterday and my first thought was "I wonder what had happened in the minutes leading up to the video starting"; if the car with the video camera was behind them all the way, it seems likely that they saw *something* but that doesn't appear. I just find it hard to believe that a cyclist would lay his bike down and go start a fight with a scary pensioner for no reason at all..

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don simon fbpe | 6 years ago
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England, eh?

'Nuff said.

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Canyon48 | 6 years ago
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Slough.

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Metaphor | 6 years ago
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Looks like Brexiters going about their daily business.

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Crampy replied to Metaphor | 6 years ago
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Ramuz wrote:

Looks like Brexiters going about their daily business.

Im willing to wager that your country's decision to leave the EU has got sod all to do with this.

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FluffyKittenofT... replied to Crampy | 6 years ago
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Crampy wrote:

Ramuz wrote:

Looks like Brexiters going about their daily business.

Im willing to wager that your country's decision to leave the EU has got sod all to do with this.

Didn't you get the memo? In every dispute over anything now people must identify as Brexiters or Remainers. These are the only two tribes, and every little Brit is born as one or the other.

All other divisions or categorisations (even 'bloody cyclists' and 'motons') are now inoperative.

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Yorkshire wallet replied to Metaphor | 6 years ago
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Ramuz wrote:

Looks like Brexiters going about their daily business.

Aggressive cycle protagonist or old men? I'd have slapped that twat's hat the right way round if I'd stopped to see him teeing off on granddad. 

 

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zanf replied to Yorkshire wallet | 6 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Ramuz wrote:

Looks like Brexiters going about their daily business

Aggressive cycle protagonist or old men? I'd have slapped that twat's hat the right way round if I'd stopped to see him teeing off on granddad.

So you can categorically confirm that the driver did have children, who themselves have had children? If not, lay off with the dumb stereotyping of people.

Also, you have no idea what lead up to this incident because the person who shared this footage, or the news outlet who published it, have failed to provide it so we have no contexct whatsoever.

If I were cynical, I would say thats deliberate, and if so, you fell for it.

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