Lunatic runs over bike protestors in Brazil...

Jimmy the Wheel

<Mod: Be careful watching this... graphic enough>

At one of those Critical Mass protests...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XL3g4vPK30

tallaghtmick

i know i hate cyclists on the road but jeeeeeeaysus thats mad

Queen-Mise

That is horrific footage, its not for the faint hearted. Incident happens quite early in the video.

Wolfe Tone

holy sh!t

HardyBuckFan

and i thought things were screwed up here!

NoQuarter

I know theres a youtube thread but this is more news than anything else!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XL3g4vPK30

Not for the feint hearted! FF to 0:45.

KTRIC

OH JESUS CHRIST !!! :eek:

My name is URL

Wow.. that's unreal.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Jesus christ!!
Got a story with this?

rebel10

That was one of the most shocking things I have seen.:eek:
Where and when did this happen? Where the hell were the emergency services? Unbelievable!

Jimmy the Wheel

Logan Crooked Checkers wrote: »

Jesus christ!!
Got a story with this?

(translated) report...

Police seeking driver who ran over Gaucho 16 cyclists

PORTO ALEGRE
The Civil Police try to identify the driver responsible for the collision of 16 people who participated in a bike ride last night in Porto Alegre.

The car involved, a black Golf, was located overnight by military police at about 4 km from the site of the collision. The vehicle is defective, was abandoned, police said, and will be submitted to the skill.

Video shows cyclists after being hit in Porto Alegre; see

At about 19h of yesterday, about 130 members of a group called Critical Mass, which holds a monthly ride to promote bicycle use for transportation, pedaled down the street José do Patrocinio, in Lower Town (central region) . In the group there were children.

Trampling

The driver of the black Golf urged passage through the middle of the bike, which was denied for lack of space on the street, according to a report of cyclists.

The victims say the suspect sped up and honked for three blocks and the car got to play one of the bikes that were in the rear of the group.

In the third quarter, on the corner of Rua Luiz Afonso, according to reports gathered by the Leaf, the driver of the Golf hoped that the group moves away a few meters, accelerated and plowed into the group of cyclists.

INJURED AND BICYCLE Twisting

Reports are that flew bikes, cyclists have collided with each other and many people fell to the ground injured. The driver fled the scene.

"A lot of people, including parents with children in car seats. Trampling was intentional because he was several blocks behind, speeding, cursing, honking. After he passed, it became a scene of war, twisted bicycles and lots of people bleeding on the floor" , told the Folha Guidoux businessman Marcelo Kalil, 31, who belonged to the group.

Three ambulances were on site. Sixteen people were injured in the counting group. Part of them was answered on the spot and eight others were taken to hospital with injuries ranging from cuts to fractures.

SEARCH FOR SUSPECT

Police did not confirm the exact number of victims. The car owner has been identified, but he has not yet been heard, according to the officer Marcio de Abreu Moreno.

The sheriff says he'll wait for the conclusion of the testimony of victims and witnesses to decide how the case will be treated under criminal law.

If police confirm allegations that the trampling was intentional, the driver can account for aggravated assault (intentional) or even attempted murder.

"It's a case that attracted attention mainly because it was a group that was manifested by the use of bicycles as an alternative in traffic," the delegate said.

PROTEST

After the accident, others who participated in the walk remained in place and protested against insecurity cyclists.

The newspaper "Zero Hora" reported that the director of EPTC (Corporation for Public Transportation and Circulation), Vanderlei Cappellari, said the agency was not warned about the bike ride - you may become irregular.

The sheet can not find Cappellari. Members of the "Critical Mass" responded that the activity is monthly - held on the last Friday of the month - and that cyclists have a right to move together through the streets.

Celly Smunt

Logan Crooked Checkers wrote: »

Jesus christ!!
Got a story with this?

loada cycling people got milled with a car

Cheap Thrills!

wtf ??!

NoQuarter

Apparently nobody died anyway! Somehow!

Logan Crooked Checkers

Logan Crooked Checkers wrote: »

Jesus christ!!
Got a story with this?

http://www.billythefish.com/mediac/400_0/media/Christ~on~a~bike.jpg

martyboy48

green party activists being sent a clear message.....

Cathaoirleach

A repeat of the same a few yeas ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7uY9ydMYc

martyboy48

That's just nuts.

martyboy48 wrote: »

green party activists being sent a clear message.....

Cyclists != Green Party.

WindSock

Haven't we all felt like doing that at some point...?

Cheap Thrills!

WindSock wrote: »

Haven't we all felt like doing that at some point...?

sssshhhhhhhhh!!

.............you said that out loud.......:cool:

Mr. Manager

How the hell did no one die!? :eek:

maglite

:O


Also != Way over the head of a lot of AH posters. pmcmahon appears to demonstrate this point

unknownlegend

Hope he gets caught and has the book thrown at him (or her??).
Some time languishing in a cell might introduce the concept of patience.

WindSock

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

sssshhhhhhhhh!!

.............you said that out loud.......:cool:

Ooops, I did type it out loud. Ehh...nevermind what I said. I'll just go back quietly to my violent rage fantasies from behind the wheel :pac:

Cheap Thrills!

WindSock wrote: »

Ooops, I did type it out loud. Ehh...nevermind what I said. I'll just go back quietly to my violent rage fantasies from behind the wheel :pac:

Yes, We'll never speak of this again. :cool:

*furtively flips the bird under dashboard*

TPD

pmcmahon wrote: »

That's just nuts.


Cyclists != people who should have been aborted

Agreed, cyclists are not people who should have been aborted.

Monty Burnz

Ali Babba wrote: »

Well in fairness they were blocking the whole fcuking road........

They are traffic. You don't ram cars out of the road either when the traffic is slow.

amacca

Monty Burnz wrote: »

They are traffic. You don't ram cars out of the road either when the traffic is slow.

No...but I do fantasize about it occasionally

particularly people who take a long time to turn

you know the kind....they started slowing down for the turn sometime in the previous decade, they then swing way out into the opposite spiral arm of our galaxy, which would be a good move if they were trying to take the corner quickly but ..... they are not, they are intent it seems on doing a tortuously slow lazy turn in just waiting to slow me down from my nice save cruising speed to an infuriating crawl

oh yes I wish I had a battering ram welded to my bumper at times.

i do not find cyclists infuriating at all they seem like nice people for the most part but if there is some sort of connection between cyclists and the green party (as its constituted in Ireland) then I may have to reform my once mostly indifferent opinion

Ali Babba

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

A repeat of the same a few yeas ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7uY9ydMYc

I was expecting to see carnage there OP, hardly worth posting tbh.........

Jamiekelly

"Grand Theft Auto 5 graphic's look insane! Rockstar have really out done themselves this time!"
I know I shouldn't have laughed but when I seen that comment on the video I actually spit coke all over my screen

Jimmy the Wheel

Ali Babba wrote: »

I was expecting to see carnage there OP, hardly worth posting tbh.........

Try the first post, maybe.

I'm surprised nobody has called it the Critical Massacre yet.

Mrmoe

I felt sick watching that, I felt bad for even watching it, those snuff videos are too irresistable.:mad:

Super-Rush

Well done people you covered yourself in glory tonight.

Several posts removed.

If you want to laugh at people being run over then do it elsewhere.

monument

WindSock wrote: »

Haven't we all felt like doing that at some point...?

WindSock wrote: »

Ooops, I did type it out loud. Ehh...nevermind what I said. I'll just go back quietly to my violent rage fantasies from behind the wheel :pac:

How nice. A driver rams down a load of people including children and you feel the need to post your homicidal fantasies.

Ali Babba wrote: »

Well in fairness they were blocking the whole fcuking road........

I disagree with critical mass and along with other things, that does not give me the right to kill or injure those who do them.

Outkast_IRE

that is sick , thats the sort of thing that makes you lose faith in humanity

galwayrush

Disturbing.:(

squod

Bloke in the orange T-shirt is heroically defending the rest of the group from the car.

strobe

Awful thing to do. Hope the people were ok.

Would it be horribly insensitive if I use this as a lyric for a song? "After he passed, it became a scene of war, twisted bicycles and lots of people bleeding on the floor"

Tar.Aldarion

Driver of a VW Golf plows into the middle of over 100 cyclists:

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/critical-mass-brasil-2011.html

Driver dumped the car and ran!

Fremen

Some people are tossers. End of, really.

zeds alive

Every time im stuck behind a group of 10+ middle aged men dressed in spandex hogging the road I feel like doing the same

Tar.Aldarion

whoops missed thread there

karma_

Read today they got the bastard.

Cathaoirleach

Man Who Plowed Into A Group Of Bikers Is A Brazilian Central Banker, And He's Charged With Attempted Murder

More news has come out about the man who plowed his car into a group of bikers last Friday in Porto Alegre.

It turns out that the driver, 47-year old Richard Neis, works at the Brazilian central bank, and he's since been placed under psychiactric care.

According to Zero Hora, the police found Neis' car abandoned near downtown Porto Alegre early Saturday morning.

In his defense, Neis' lawyer says the bikers had been harassing the banker and his 15-year old son, but a biker witness says that he heard Neis say, "But I'm in a hurry," to someone in the group of about 100 bikers who were blocking the road in a "Critical Mass" demonstration just moments before hitting the gas and running over 8 cyclists.

The bikers were later hospitalized and then released.

Neis is charged with attempted murder, according to Zero Hora.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-neis-brazilian-central-bank-bikers-car-plow-2011-3#ixzz1FeJqVFXh

Eric Cartman

ordinary cyclists do not deserve this, those nutjobs however did , they were hitting the car, if you were being attacked on your car surrounded by scumbags youd drive off too

Eric Cartman

Eric Cartman wrote: »

ordinary cyclists do not deserve this, those nutjobs however did , they were hitting the car, if you were being attacked on your car surrounded by scumbags youd drive off too

Where is the evidence that they did any damage to his car at all (other than when he tried to kill them), that's right there is none. I hope you're trolling because if you're not your post has to be one of the stupidest I've ever read anywhere.

Run_to_da_hills

The cyclists were deliberately breaking the law, they are only supposed to cycle two abrest and not take up the whole fcuking road.

A few years ago a New York cop lashed out against a cyclist in a similar motive.

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18662&page=1

Run_to_da_hills

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The cyclists were deliberately breaking the law, they are only supposed to cycle two abrest and not take up the whole fcuking road.

A few years ago a New York cop lashed out against a cyclist in a similar motive.

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18662&page=1

That cop was subsequently fired.

Perhaps they were breaking the law (I'm not that fmiliar with Brazilian road traffic legislation), but it's hardly justification for attempted murder. If capital punishment was the norm for transgressions of the rules of the road most Irish motorists would've been killed a long time ago.

Cybertron85

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The cyclists were deliberately breaking the law, they are only supposed to cycle two abrest and not take up the whole fcuking road.

A few years ago a New York cop lashed out against a cyclist in a similar motive.

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18662&page=1

Exactly, yesterday I saw some guy throwing his chewing gum on the street so I hit him in the head with a brick.

monument

Eric Cartman wrote: »

ordinary cyclists do not deserve this, those nutjobs however did , they were hitting the car, if you were being attacked on your car surrounded by scumbags youd drive off too

What nut jobs? Who was hitting his car? Have you looked at the video? It clearly shows the mass of people he hit just casually cycling along harming nobody.

You'd drive over 40 or more cyclists because others are knocking on your windows?

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The cyclists were deliberately breaking the law, they are only supposed to cycle two abrest and not take up the whole fcuking road.

I'm afraid I have to spell this out: You can't knock somebody over just because they get in your way!

nomh

clearly he'd stayed up three consecutive nights playing grand theft auto and was hallucinating from lack of sleep