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Video: Curfew for driver filmed unleashing expletive-filled rant at cyclist
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."
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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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!"
He's ignoring me, I'm obviously not a twat.
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 4x4 of course.
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 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.
Looks like he's not wearing a seatbelt, either. Did he get done for that, too?
Times like that are when I wish we were allowed to carry stuff like tasers and mace.
I just see a pretty unhappy fella, sad really.
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.
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.
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).
Oh dear, poor old uncle fester having a bad day in his 4x4, 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.
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.
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.
Skiathos: loudest moths I've ever heard. The size of sparrows... Sound like a freewheeling DT Swiss hub as they divebomb your dinner.
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.
Is Gina Pace one of those AI bots that are trying to learn English? They've some way to go, haven't they?
Or speech to text, and her staccato diction is due to puffing on a fag/dyspnoea?
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
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· 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.
Angry overweight bald man gets support from the barely literate Gina Pace. Hopefully they'll bring a toaster to their next bath night.
Easy now. He's at least morbidly obese.
video is hilarious - the way they both start off trying to reason it out before the immediate escalation
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 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.
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.
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.
A not untypical 4x4 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.
Tuts...
A typical UK jury, yesterday:
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Whilst i realise 4x4/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.
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