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Bike owner uses his van to rear-end thief in New York City.PNGVideo: Bike owner chases after thief in New York and uses van to ram him
A man in New York City has been charged with reckless endangerment after he chased a bike thief in his van and rammed him in an incident that also saw a pedestrian hospitalised.
The shocking incident, which happened in Midtown Manhattan's Hell’s Kitchen district, was caught on by a CCTV camera with a WABC-TV News journalist sharing the footage on Twitter.
Witnesses say a man stole a bicycle from a guy who then drove his van against traffic on 50th Street, hit him & a bystander at 9th Ave. pic.twitter.com/czquKVn4z9
— CeFaan Kim (@CeFaanKim) October 15, 2017
Local resident James Mansfield, 47, had been loading what the New York Daily News said police had described as “a high-end bike” into his van when the opportunistic thief grabbed it and rode it away, against the flow of traffic, on 50th Street.
Mansfield gave pursuit in his van, also heading in the wrong direction on the one-way street and crashed into the rear of the bike at the intersection with 9th Avenue.
A 31-year-old male pedestrian was also hurt in the collision and was treated in hospital for cuts on his head.
Mansfield jumped out of the van and according to eyewitnesses started punching the would-be thief, who managed to get free and fled the scene.
The New York Police Department said that Mansfield had been arrested for reckless endangerment following the incident yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, his bike was reported to have been totally destroyed when he crashed into it with his van.
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- brooksby 20 min 22 sec ago
It raises the question of why (or whether) the driver was even trying to park there; but for me, the scariest comment is by the taxi driver who...
- aramaerospace 2 hours 5 min ago
Increased drive friction and power loss:...
- Geoff H 4 hours 12 min ago
I was really enjoying the article until I came to the price!
- OldRidgeback 5 hours 5 min ago
I have a very old MTB (guess what make) that I'll happily leave locked at the train station or shops or whatever. The fairly new Trek MTB or...
- TheBillder 6 hours 40 min ago
Dualling that stretch of the A7 will allow hard-pressed motorists to travel very slightly faster between the rock that is the Sherriffhall...
- BikingBud 6 hours 48 min ago
I refer to being an engineer only to emphasise my consideration of the logical approach that should be applied in the justice system, rather than...
- jaymack 9 hours 37 min ago
We must be related!
- The_Ewan 11 hours 7 min ago
But why worry if a few people do? It's just not a big deal....
- Tom_77 12 hours 10 min ago
Tempted to get him a sweary birthday cake like in The Thick Of It....
- Bigtwin 12 hours 39 min ago
Didn't happen did it? They came into my shop a couple of years back and said it was "on the way", but never heard anything more.
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Should learn where to punch someone so they can't get up and run away.
You win pointless macho bragpost for this week.
there is a subtle difference between punching and fisting
Oh, chapeau! This comment will keep my simple mind happy for days
File under ‘Pyrrhic victories’
Looks like a Shimano support van....
Jaywalking, the ped was clearly in the middle of the road and deserved everything that was coming to them. If that was a police car mowing them down they'd be charged with aiding and abetting the cycle theif.
But hey, 'murica is the land of the free so you can do what you like.
"Jaywalking"? "middle of the road" , well yes, on a crossing. It's a one way street, but maybe he should have looked the other way , you know just in case some nutter in a van was chasing someone the wrong way up the road......
WHOOSH!
Well, that turned out well didn't it...