London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

,assaulted, by a black cab driver today at s/side of lambeth bridge. knocks me off my bike then gets out and grabs me by the throat and starts taking swings none connected but hopefully lots of witnesses. called police but he ran off. didnt get his rego damn. burgundy coloured cab old style. in his mid fifteies 5 11 frameless glasses 3/4 length coat and patterned scarf draped around his neck in autumnal colours coat similar colours. stocky build. thinning hair that had just been cut white colour. male caucasian.

holy fuck, sounds harsh!

hope you're ok ( at least ish ) and that there's witnesses enough to nail him

what happened?

OOh nasty, hope you're ok, may I ask how you ascertained that he'd just had a haircut?

coming from albert embankment heading straight east he tried to turn across me as i got onto the roundabout as i get up i noticed him stop in the middle of the road Lambeth bridge and get out so i moved towards him and he grabbed me with both hands around my throat squeezing and telling me that i had damaged his cab he went round to have a look at the non existent damage and then i reminded him that he had assaulted me and he tried to get out of it by saying that i had seen him indicate i had but i was already in front of him. as i retrieve my bike from the centre of the road he drives off. i give police a full description. was about 1pm. i hope he loses his badge. alot of things have happened to me on the road but i have never assaulted someone ever. . the haircut thing was it was neat and tidy and he had very thin hair and it was very neat and tidy like a fresh cut. no idea why i remembered that but when a nearly bald guy has his hands around your throat you notice the weirdest things

cctv?

hope the Police get him..... far too many nutters around..... did you get his badge no?

Glad you are ok - I have similar incidents at the same spot almost daily - either Millbank or Albert Embankment sides - v dangerous area - be extra careful

stephen fry ?

That's so fucking bad. Sounds like you gave a pretty good description to police though. Fingers crossed you can track the prick down and he has to face some consequences for his behavior.

Jesus! WAC!

just glad you're ok. some peeps really push some funny moods around.
real cabbies do that job for years and years and should have learned to deal with the hectic ldn traffic by now ... one would guess, but hey, seems everyone has a braking point, when things mount up.

...maybe next time you avoid riding infront of cabbies with a fresh haircut. could well be, that the barber used some hot/itchy after shave on him and he suffered to no measure.

...or the quick, friendly london coffee girl screwed the pooch and gave him double espresso instead his decaf, who knows. glad you're fine and the old bill finds the fnarcer.

Always try to get their registration plates or if it's a cab their cabbie code number whatsit.
Reading it out to people (before shit hits the fan) is a good way of letting them know they're gonna be accountable for any shit they try.

Christ, what a dikk-ed.

Hope you're okay mate. Hope he get's what he deserves. What a farking twat.

You should of D-locked him to the railings if you could hehe. That would be most awesome.

Go get the CCTV footage right now, the police won't bother, you need to do it.

Police won't give a shit, you'll need to go back to the spot, check the CCTV locations and then call the relevant council to view it. Cheeky cunts'll charge you for it though

...then when you get the plate, hunt him down and put a pen in his eye when he gets out the door

Or stick your cock in his ear [/sytex - reproman thread]

Jeebus. Sounds horrible.

sorry to read about this

there have been a few fuckers who have wanted to do me harm but i have generally got out of the way, i may be antagonistic (ok i am antagonistic) but really dont want a physical interaction...

i do agree with the shouting someones rego at them, it often makes them think twice

cheers for this tip, i haven't had any trouble yet (except for the usual fuckwits thinking that cyclists must ride in bus lanes even if there are cars parked there, or you are turning right, or just generally think that cyclists shouldn't exist) but i imagine this would make someone think twice about getting into a ruck. not that i am big or strong anywayz.

Man up and learn to fight

Autumnal colours coat and scarf combo!.. what an utter cunt. fucking jive talking, rear ending pringle advert of a cunt

rip out his fucking eyeballs and strangle the prick with his fucking optic nerves!

Having been on the receiving end of a very similar situation recently it's really horrible! Try and get the number plate from CCTV and follow it up with the police, I rang 999 on the spot and if anything like that happens to you I encourage people to ring 999 straight away.

could he see you as he turned in front or did you make yourself seen or were you riding in the blind spot?
something doesn't make sense.

don't listen to DJ, dude i swear you look for trouble!

I heard it costs police £1500 just to look at CCTV footage in councils, which is what the council make them pay, which is why out of 10,000 (maybe 1,000) 1 crimes commited is solved. Ridiculous.

Ridiculous?

More like utter bollocks...

Have you tried?

Follow up as many witnesses as you possibly can and get all their details to the police, as in the end if he his caught, it will come down witness evidence if there is no CCTV.

When some cunt smashed up my car with CCTV 50yrds away, plod couldn't give a fuck. I had to pay the council £50 to ask them to view CCTV. Unsurprisingly the CCTV 'wasn't working' on the day it happened. They told me this after I'd paid them.

Good for fuck all Lambeth Council cunts!

Train a chimp to rip his face and hands off

Unless the law's changed, this simply isn't true. CCTV footage, for the purposes of the Data Protection Act, is the same as any other personal information a public or private body holds about individuals - just like the details they might keep about you on a database. Under the provisions of the act, you have the right to view this data and they cannot refuse (except in exceptional circumstances). You have to write to the data manager requesting the footage from a particular camera at a particular time on a particular day and they have to provide it, subject to a "reasonable" administrative charge (probably the £50 Lambeth fleeced Pisti for). This is how it's supposed to work, at least. Of course most companies/bodies don't keep the data for very long, which is why you need to request it quickly.

I've a well trained squirrel.
I hypnotized it to mistake eyeballs for acorns.
Fits in a saddlebag, and can be pushed through the smallest of car window openings.

Breaks my heart watching him dig up his stash of "acorns" each winter though :(

I can assure you Lambeth's CCTV works fine, especially when I barely put 2 wheels into the last 10 feet or so of a bus lane to get past a queue of traffic turning right. Bastards!

That kind of CCTV always works fine.

Well the description of this chap and his taxi (which isn't black, so that's a good start) are quite good so maybe we could all keep an eye out and pass on hackney carriage numbers of likely suspects krk?

Do you remember if this maroon cab had a vinyl/black roof or was it maroon all over?

Yeah I know! Happened to me TWICE too....

Slow learner ;^)

the word you are after is Mark

You seem to have got everything but his registration. At least you must have some idea where he shops.

Grow up and get a life

As in...."The term "mental retardation" is a diagnostic term denoting the group of disconnected categories of mental functioning such as "idiot", "imbecile", and "moron" derived from early IQ tests."

So G's a bit of a mental then? Who knew? ;^)

Oi! One was in the bus lane at Brockwell Park, the other was when I pulled up to pick up the Mrs outside Herne Hill Stn, my engine was still running, I'd stopped for 15secs yet my rear tyres were in a bus stop. Cunts!