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Manchester attempted bike theft (via Facebook).JPGVideo: Manchester bike thief filmed punching bike owner
Footage shot in the centre of Manchester shows the moment a bike thief punched and kicked a cyclist who was trying to stop his bike from being stolen.
The video, shared on the UK Motorcycle Theft Protest Community page on Facebook, shows a man wearing a suit trying to intervene while other people watch the incident, which happened on Oxford Road.
After unsuccessfully trying to wrest the bike from its owner, the would-be thief, wearing a black hooded jacket, makes off with a friend on another bike, but not before shoving the woman filming who is trying to get a shot of his face.
It is not clear when the incident took place nor whether it has been reported to police.
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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But some of my best friends are... (insert suitable word here)
"Cunts"?
Certainly true in my case
I'll just leave this here for a moment...
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Wow this is still going, good effort guys. You've kept me amused.
The state of this comments section.
To be a racist is to be a cunt, but to not even have the balls to just say "I don't like brown people" but instead say "multiculturalism" or "diversity" means you're cowards as well. To summarise, ably assisted by don simon's prior surgical insights: thick cunt cowardly racist cowards. May you be sterile. Go in peace.
I've managed to find a picture of both Jamminatrix and wingmanrob and you can almost see their superior genetics.
It's often puzzled me why it's the most ridiculously stupid people that seem to think that THEY are the master race whilst demonstrating absolutely no features that an ordinary person would actually desire.
What a pair of inbred fuckwits.
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All I see is poor oppressed man who needed it more than the privileged owner.
Enjoy the diversity you dummies voted for.
I didn't vote for the rich/poor divide. Or are you talking about another diversity? Could you educate me on this? The other thickcuntracist couldn't.
There's an article not too far from here with footage of a cop chasing a white bike thief.
Perhaps you could you elaborate on your comical worldview on that thread, or is that fake news?
We had a Nu Labour / neo conservative government in the nineties, then a Conservative government since then (face it, the Lib Dems were just a beard). In what way is all that rightwingyness "voting for diversity"?
(PS - I didn't vote for any of them
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Diversity were voted winners of "Britain's got talent" in 2009.
I seemed to have missed the relevance of this fact though?
I think Jamminatrix never really got over the fact that Susan Boyle came second.
Came? Could you keep the sexual references out of the conversation, please?
I'm sorry, but she just has a certain affect on me.
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You, Don Simon, are the one who bought cunts into the "conversation".
Why, how observant of you! But you were the one who incorrectly accused me of misogyny, failed to respond to the earlier point that cunt has multiple uses, one of which is derogatory to women. You even claim that these alternative uses, even though they can be found in dictionaries, are imagined. Which seems extremely odd. The second thing that seems odd is that you seem more concerned about my use of the word cunt (you have failed to pick on others that use the same vocabulary) than you are about the racism expressed here. I can defend my use of the language in that it is suppposed to cause outrage and attract attention. But I would, if I were you, pay more attention to the racist content here than a few naughty words, unless, of course, you're happy for racists to ply their ignorance on these pages.
These scrots need teaching a f*cking good lesson.
What’s with calling them ‘non white’? Why not say ‘black’? I think you both misunderstand rascism.
A new low don simon ^
So you accept racists then? Good on you.
You don't need to say black, you don't need to say non-white. So I'd say that being a thick racist cunt is the low, not a little sweary word.
Don Simon, you don't need to insert your misogyny by imagining that "cunt" is a valid insult.
In what way is calling someone "unpleasant or stupid" misogynistic?
Cos not everyone who isn't white is black. Some are yellow and some are brown. Pretty simple that.
Don't really care about Lancashire tbh, West Yorkshire is bad enough.
Stereotypes are great because they do actually come from somewhere even though people looking not to cause offence cry about their use.
I went to Hull a little while back and remembered it to be full of deadbeats. As soon as we got off the main road in......first person I see is sat on the floor surrounded by beer cans and the town centre was like the Tour de Smack with seriously low body fat guys on bikes with 'the hunger' in their eyes. Couldn't wait to leave. What culture. Pretty much fit the stereotypes I was imagining.
Flame away.
sounds like confirmation bias to me. That's similar to drivers only ever noticing cyclists who jump red lights, and never noticing other drivers, including themselves, who do ditto.
Stereotypes come from across the border, whatever the border happens to be. The Other is always depicted the same way, and it's always the nearest Other. Look at the similarities internationally of jokes about the Irish, Belgians, Poles, Sikhs etc.
Mostly stereotypes come from a power imbalance. It's usually the less powerful group that gets made into a stereotype. There's exceptions, of course, and sometimes even some basis for the stereotype, but it still leads to lazy (or lack of) thinking.
I'm in! Where do I sign up?
I lived there for 9 years. It's a fair assesment,
To those wondering why more bystanders didn’t intervene, a little perspective.
I intervened in a similar situation in south Manchester in 1999, and was stabbed twice in the back. Cue two weeks in hospital, unimaginable distress for girlfriend/family, loss of work and long rehabilitation.
You never know if one of the feral scrotes is packing a knife until it’s too late.
Multicultralism working well as usual
You mean Yorkshire/Lancashire?
Yup - its as bad as Devon/Cornwall, except that they didn't fight a war over it.
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