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ED E · 05-10-2018 05:08PM

Reading between the lines of the article:

Felix dives left to drop passenger
Cycle then passes on the right - presumably - cut off, whacks mirror in frustration
Felix begins his charge of the light brigade

papu · 05-10-2018 05:17PM

ED E wrote: »

Reading between the lines of the article:

Felix dives left to drop passenger
Cycle then passes on the right - presumably - cut off, whacks mirror in frustration
Felix begins his charge of the light brigade

In the video, the driver mirror looks fine,
(actually looks pushed forward)

and the passenger side one looks bent towards the car....
(or maybe that's it's normal position)

in the photo in the paper is the driver side mirror cover missing

RobertFoster · 05-10-2018 05:28PM

papu wrote: »

In the video, the driver mirror looks fine

It looks pushed forward to me, though we can't see if the housing is missing/damaged.

rubadub · 05-10-2018 06:15PM

ED E wrote: »

Reading between the lines of the article:

Felix dives left to drop passenger
Cycle then passes on the right - presumably - cut off, whacks mirror in frustration
Felix begins his charge of the light brigade

my guess is possibly pushed mirror forward to annoy driver, I doubt it would be that easy to tear a cover off with your bare hands while perched on a bike and the driver right there.

Driver goes mental, cops on the gardai are going to be onto him as he is easily identifiable. Goes home and breaks the mirror off thinking its a reasonable excuse.

Other witnesses would have seen it. Wonder if he will put a claim in for it, could be up for insurance fraud too!

CramCycle · 05-10-2018 06:43PM

I know brands are different but the two times I have replaced those covers, they were not easy to pop off and required a bit of squeezing and tugging (on a Saab and a Toyota). I imagine you would have bent the mirror back/forward before popping it off if it was a random angry strike. Not sure of his taxi but some are made only to bend one way, towards the driver, that would have been believable that they bent it the wrong way and damaged the hanger but while not impossible, I find it hard to believe what is seen there is what damage was done. This said the damage I am describing is more costly to repair than the damage the driver is showing but less dramatic to look at.

05-10-2018 06:47PM

This ^

Took me some effort to get one off a Golf once. So I'd imagine what ever knock allegedly did that would have done a bit more than just damage the cover.

Seth Brundle · 05-10-2018 07:39PM

I think the driver was completely overreacting: It's not as if any taxi driver actually uses their mirrors!

Rechuchote · 05-10-2018 08:07PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

I think the driver was completely overreacting: It's not as if any taxi driver actually uses their mirrors!

Wasn't there a video clip a few months back showing an enraged woman hopping off her bike and smashing the mirror of a driver - which later turned out to have been made by a TV crew and to be totally fake, after cyclists demonstrated that she'd have needed to be Bionic Woman to do this with her bare hands?

Chiparus · 05-10-2018 09:00PM

Interesting it is reported that the incident happened in July- I wonder when Mr Taxi man said it happened?

RacoonQueen · 05-10-2018 09:31PM

Chiparus wrote: »

Interesting it is reported that the incident happened in July- I wonder when Mr Taxi man said it happened?

I think the timestamp on the dashcam is just incorrect. The post on reddit states it happened on Wednesday.

Hurrache · 05-10-2018 10:04PM

It looked very quiet for a Wednesday at this time of year.

ED E · 06-10-2018 09:29AM

Article reports Wednesday afternoon.

abcabc123123 · 06-10-2018 10:49AM

Had my handlebars clipped by the wing mirror of a passing car on Church street on Wednesday night. I was in the cycle lane but Church street is one of those brilliant ones where it alternates between being 2 lanes and 1.5ish lanes, and I guess the driver was in a hurry to be somewhere. I wasn't wearing a helmet (was on a Dublin bike... don't hate me) but fortunately it was only a slight clip so it didn't knock me off. Unsettling though.

Rechuchote · 06-10-2018 10:52AM

It's our culture, boss.

Gotta get there, gotta get there fast,
Gotta get there, gotta get there fast,
The journey doesn't matter,
The destination's vital
Gotta get there, gotta get there fast,
Gotta get there, gotta get there fast.

Wishbone Ash · 06-10-2018 04:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's the junction of Belvedere Place and the NCR. To get onto BP and be facing that direction, you must come from Mountjoy Square Nth. If you were leaving town and heading that direction, there is a split in the traffic for those heading left down BP and right, down Fitzgibbon St.

I've often been on the bike in between two lines of traffic heading in both directions, plenty of driver's side mirrors accessible....

The taxi driver has claimed it happened on Talbot Street when he was dropping off a fare and the cyclist was passing.

Wishbone Ash · 06-10-2018 05:10PM

Weepsie wrote: »

He chased him a long way then....

Yes, as he said....

“I was really infuriated. I was willing to go any length to get him,” he said.

rubadub · 06-10-2018 06:11PM

https://www.buzz.ie/news/taxi-driver-centre-viral-video-claims-cyclist-smashed-wing-mirror-302007

“I was at a taxi rank in Stephens Green. I was coming to Talbot Street. So I came to Talbot Street, pulled on the side to drop off the girl and then a cyclist that was passing, stretched out his hand, and smashed my side mirror,” claimed Mr Ukachukwu, who lives in Clonee, west Dublin.

Conor McGregor would love to have fist of steel like that.

“I dropped the girl and followed him. He didn’t stop,” he said.

“So I followed him, I tried to get his attention and there was no police. So he went through a red light, (and so did I) hoping that the police would see me and say what’s going on here.

Mr Ukachukwu showed The Star the damage to his wing mirror — which he claims was caused in a collision with the cyclist.

He says he chased after the cyclist, even dangerously crossing the other side of the road, in a desperate attempt to apprehend him.

“I was really infuriated. I was willing to go any length to get him,” he said.

“When I passed him on the North Circular Road I got him on the next street and he said ‘you think you can catch me, you can’t catch me.’

And when asked what he would have done had he actually caught the cyclist, Mr Ukachukwu said: “I would have called the police.”

He claims the cyclist swerved around him on purpose in an attempt to taunt him — with the footage showing him manovering around his taxi as he drives at him and continuing to cycle off.

“If that cyclist didn’t do anything wrong, when I was stopping him, he would have stopped and challenged me,” Mr Ukachukwu alleged.

“You saw how the cyclist was maneuvering around me. If you’re a cyclist and a taxi man comes to you and blocks you in the road you would stop and say sorry.

“But you wouldn’t say ‘you think you could stop me’. No.”

The Garda Press Office stated that it was aware of the incident from media enquiries but the matter had not been reported to officers.

It stated that if the matter was reported it would then possibly be the subject of an investigation.

Mr Ukachukwu said he wants to contact gardai and hopes that maybe CCTV will exonerate his actions.

It would not be out of place on some surreal comedy sketch.

Seth Brundle · 06-10-2018 06:36PM

Mr Ukachukwu said he wants to contact gardai and hopes that maybe CCTV will exonerate his actions.

What's stopped him contacting the gardai before now?

Fighting Tao · 06-10-2018 06:38PM

Seth Brundle wrote: »

What's stopped him contacting the gardai before now?

Knowing that he could possibly be done for attempted murder.

MojoMaker · 06-10-2018 08:07PM

Isn't it accepted by now that the taxi driver made up the mirror story in an attempt to defect scrutiny when approached by authorities and journalists?

I mean...come the fcuk on people please....

buffalo · 06-10-2018 08:30PM

rubadub wrote: »

“ So he went through a red light, (and so did I) hoping that the police would see me and say what’s going on here.

Love this. "I only broke the light to attract the attention of the police." Reminds me of the guy last week who broke stop signs, mounted a footpath and drove down the wrong side of the road... to try to catch up with the postman to tell him he had delivered a big package of drugs to him incorrectly. Nothing to do with the Gardaí chasing him.

rubadub wrote: »

“If that cyclist didn’t do anything wrong, when I was stopping him, he would have stopped and challenged me,” Mr Ukachukwu alleged.

“You saw how the cyclist was maneuvering around me. If you’re a cyclist and a taxi man comes to you and blocks you in the road you would stop and say sorry.

That's certainly what I do when someone drives their car at me. I stop and say 'excuse me please, would you mind awfully not doing that?'

Duckjob · 06-10-2018 09:55PM

I hope the prosecuting barrister has a copy of that newspaper handy when the defense spews out the inevitable line of horsesh*t to the judge about how it was all in the heat of the moment and the defendant has been racked with remorse since the incident.

Going whining to a tabloid afterwards pointing to a broken mirror proves nothing. It does however, paint a rather interesting picture of a man who, on "mature reflection", STILL thinks he was totally justified in driving 2 tonnes of metal up the wrong side of a street and up onto a footpath, endangering many peoples lives all because of a car mirror.

RacoonQueen · 06-10-2018 10:12PM

Talbot Street to Dorset Street, where the 'chase' ended. Is a long way to chase a cyclist. Who is this super fast cyclist, who managed to evade this madman for over a kilometre?
Strange that there doesn't seem to have been anything from the cyclist or other witnesses to backup the Taxi drivers story. Sure the cyclist did 'something' to provoke that reaction, but probably not what the taxi driver said he did.

Wishbone Ash · 06-10-2018 10:30PM

Duckjob wrote: »

....Going whining to a tabloid afterwards......

I'd imagine he was 'door stepped' by the tabloid rather than going to them. (Not that that justifies anything).

06-10-2018 11:41PM

I'd imagine the guy on the bike hasn't come forward for similar reasons and doesn't want the spotlight on him.

Rechuchote · 07-10-2018 01:04AM

What part of Talbot Street? Isn't most of it pedestrianised?

rubadub · 07-10-2018 01:16AM

Rechuchote wrote: »

What part of Talbot Street? Isn't most of it pedestrianised?

a c'mon, a minor issue like that is hardly going to stop our Felix, now is it!

beauf · 07-10-2018 04:07AM

Looking at these incidents what's most disturbing for me is...

They don't seem shocked by their behaviour or reactions. Its like it's become normal to drive at people, and threaten and even attack people.

This is a result of lack of enforcement. People have learnt there is unlikely to be any repercussions. The complete lack of interest from the Garda suggests they are right about that.

ED E · 07-10-2018 04:11AM

beauf wrote: »

Looking at these incidents what's most disturbing for me is...

They don't seem shocked by their behaviour or reactions. Its like it's become normal to drive at people, and threaten and even attack people.

This is a result of lack of enforcement. People have learnt there is unlikely to be any repercussions. The complete lack of interest from the Garda suggests they are right about that.

Sure you can drug deal from your cab, be convicted, then keep your taxi licence.

Pinch Flat · 07-10-2018 12:28PM

Two this morning.

Motorist strayed onto my side of the road in clonee, narrow road, quick correction when he saw me. Definite glow of a phone in his hand - probably whatapping the lads about the mcgregor fight.

Second one was a motorist overtaking at fairy house - over a continuous white line, straight at me. Had to stay extreme left - almost in the ditch — to let him past. Car he was Overtaking slowed right down when he saw me to give overtaking tool more space. Bright strobe on the front of my bike obviously meant nothing.

That was at 8.20am

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