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Cereal-eating driverVideo: Helmet-cam cyclist busts driver eating cereal at 30mph
Police are investigating after a helmet cam-equipped cyclist spotted a driver in Edinburgh eating a bowl of cereal, complete with milk, while driving at over 30mph.
YouTube user Raging Bike posted the footage after a ‘WTF’ moment as the driver passed him on a busy Edinburgh street. He caught up at the next lights and captured the driver on camera putting his cereal bowl aside.
Commenting on the clip, Raging Bike wrote: “I guess if you are hungry then why not eat a bowl of cereal as you drive.
“How did he do this? He must have planned to exit his house, climb into the car (no hands?) with a bowl of cereal and milk....who does that???”
A spokesman for the AA told Metro: “It’s pretty stupid. It’s unbelievable really.
“For some people their car, in a way becomes their home, and they behave in such a way that they would in their house.”
Police Scotland said an enquiry has been launched into the incident.
“We will review this footage and conduct an enquiry to identify the driver,” a spokesman said.
“Motorists are reminded to ensure they are in full control of their vehicle when driving and should not engage in any activities that can cause distraction or result in a loss of control.
“Anyone found driving inappropriately would be dealt with accordingly.”
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He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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Pet hate of mine (if you will excuse the pun) is dogs loose in cars. An accident waiting to happen.
A few years ago I kept hinting to my mate's missus that it was not good to have her lurcher sat on the front seat. She got the message eventually when it got over excited one day and crapped on her gear stick.
I bought a BMW to try to drag them back down towards the norm.
Micras are definitely the worst. Driven by people who 'can't drive a big car', i.e. can't drive.
'Why am I not surprised to find people actually discussing what types of cars people drive are most likely to cause more trouble.
How about; I'm less likely to get a friendly nod from some cyclist in logo clad lycra because he's too pro to acknowledge lesser amateur cyclists. Also more likely to run red lights.'
Arguably driving a car whilst eating a bowl of cornflakes is a poorer reflection of the attitudes of some drivers to other road users than not waving to you when you go out for a ride is of some cyclists attitudes, which is also not the topic of the article which is another reason people are discussing bad driving and not people who don't smile at everyone else they meet on the road
A ban for life should be the case, the reality will be they will get a telling off and thats it.
driving is a right not a privilege these days.
once watched a driver, at a junction, talking on her mobile while her excited dog jumped from her knee onto the passenger seat and back again.
Wasn't me was it?
I had a dog half out of the rear passenger's window on the A2 at 25mph staring at me.
Why am I not surprised to find people actually discussing what types of cars people drive are most likely to cause more trouble.
How about; I'm less likely to get a friendly nod from some cyclist in logo clad lycra because he's too pro to acknowledge lesser amateur cyclists. Also more likely to run red lights.
Not nice is it.
Nice or not, its just human nature. Its also potentially important when dealing with people who have the power of life-or-death over you.
Though with regard to what type of driver is the worst, I've struggled to find any consistent pattern at all.
For example, I've had to conclude there are two different types of 'posh' driver. The arrogant 'out of my way, pleb!' ones and the ones who are in that faction of posh liberal types who actually cycle themselves (the type who eat organic muesli) and who hence treat cyclists courteously.
While the sports-car driving rich kids you see in certain parts of London are pretty much always in the first group, large 4x4s can be in either.
And I keep hearing cyclists complain about bus drivers yet I've personally always found them to be amongst the more competent drivers on the road and the most aware of cyclists.
I don't know about HGV drivers because I just stay the hell away from those things as much as I possibly can. Though it seems as if its the mid-sized-to-small ones that are the worst, possibly because of either the training or because the way they are paid means they are always in a desperate hurry.
Nosy cyclist. Fascinating world we live in.
On the positive side it looks like the driver is giving the cyclists plenty of room by keeping well to the right.
Time for SARTRE road trains to hit the roads....
Google "Volvo Sartre" for the film if the link gets blocked
BTW... This IS my day job.
Time for this to hit the roads....
BTW... This IS my day job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jQ1U9KZfWg&sns=em
Perhaps he thought it would help with his driving, you know, in case he needed to break fast.....
I'll get my coat.
Bet he'll get a Frostie reception form the Police, then he'll be doing some Porridge for the offence. "I should Cocoa".
Sorry!
This video is almost a carbon copy of one I made earlier in the year. I reckon he was easting Shreddies, though I can't be sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UZ1GRjESE
Meals on wheels????
I find middle aged Citroen drivers the worst. Its like they have given up on life and feel they have to end mine. Then Audi A4's and Corsas.
German cars are the worst on the roads.
Worst offending Vauxhall Corsa - either driven by the very old or very young usually in the same erratic manner.
The person who was driving the car deserves to be doing porridge
You're just stirring, aren't you?
I drive a corsa?
+1 for sweeping generalisations on this post!!
Not sure which is better, "relaxed driver", as I wish many aggressive and impatient drivers should be, or alert but indifferent.
I cycled past a tipper truck today, parked by the side of the road, with the unmistakeable smell of cannabis wafting out of the windows.
Fine, except that relaxed driver is now going to be in charge of 10 tonnes of metal.
Sigh.
35mph? Both breaking the speed limit then! I find the worst offenders of stupid driving are normally in Nissan Micra's or Honda Jazz's. Does anyone else have a 'favourite' repeat offending car?!!
Incorrect.
Audi, by far the worst.
Those, new shape Minis, and Ford Focusses. (Foci?)
Ditto. Audi's are the BMW's of the 21st century in terms of impatient arrogance. My pet theory is it's to do with the subliminal signals the interior design give you. Even the cheapest models are all black fascia with chrome boy racer gear stick. It's a performance cockpit for cocks.
Black Ford Galaxy. Vinyl company logo in the back window. Looks a bit like an A-L.
It's not possible for a cyclist to break the speed limit, because speed limits only apply to mechanically propelled vehicles (that is, one with an engine or motor, excluding e-bikes)
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