The obnoxious creep Cycling Mikey has had a setback in the courts.
The vigilante cyclist who today lost his case against a celebrity talent agent he accused of trying to bulldoze him with his Range Rover is a road safety warrior who has successfully shopped hundreds of drivers including Guy Ritchie and Chris Eubank.
Mike Van Erp, 50, better known by his YouTube name, CyclingMikey, rides around London with a GoPro to catch drivers using their phones – often in traffic jams or by red lights – before confronting them on video and noting down their number plate.
While he claims to have caught more than 2,000 offenders since first strapping on his ‘helmet-cam’ back in 2006, he suffered a rare setback today after a jury cleared 60-year-old Paul Lyon-Maris of charges of dangerous driving and common assault.
Mr Van Erp came across Mr Lyon-Maris on September 9 last year by a junction near London’s Regent’s Park – a familiar hunting ground. Noticing the driver had performed an illegal right turn; he confronted the agent by standing in front of his car only to end up on his bonnet for some 60ft.
The cycling campaigner can be heard on video yelling: ‘Why are you driving into me?’ Lyon-Maris then shouts back: ‘I’ve got an appointment at half past eight. Get out of the way!’ Following a short argument, Mr Van Erp says ‘Hey Siri, call 999’ before officers arrive at the scene.
On the face of it, Lyon-Maris is bang to rights, yet the jury – God bless ’em – found him not guilty. I would have done the same. I despise self-appointed arseholes like Van Erp and see no reason to enable them. So this looks like a classic case of jury nullification. Isn’t the jury system a jolly good idea, eh?
Meanwhile, Van Erp is not a safety campaigner, he is an attention seeking narcissist.
Its the lycra crushing the otherwise redundant nads wot makes ’em like this.
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That should have been a laughing emoji!
Why doesn’t he go around confronting the many misdemeanors carried out by cyclists?
I used to cycle a lot although not as much now. This kind of buffoon really pisses me off. Half the motorists out there hate cyclists already, sometimes with good reason. This idiot isn’t helping, he’s just making things worse.
If a motorist, with somewhere urgent to get to, such as hospital, pushed through the eco idiots who block roads, it would be worth taking it to a jury.
Would love to see someone get found not guilty for pushing those jackasses out of the way.
Well, if one or more get killed, look on the bright side … at least they are biodegradable. It’s what they would have wanted, eh?
Even better if they were squished. I’d love to be on that jury.
Mike Van Twerp more like it.
This creature totally epitomizes the infantilism uber alles zeitgeist that is the cause of pretty well all societal problems today.
It’s the sheer magnitude of puerile cuntishness that can be caused by one individual moron. If I hadn’t seen it I simply wouldn’t believe it was possible.
This degree of narcissism, pure arrogance, absolute lack of self awareness. I simply cannot get my head round it.
“Since 2006”? What self loathing hell must be inside his head!
Sad, sad SAD, VERY little man
Notice two things – he is divorced, so his wife presumably couldn’t live with him, and what fuckwit attends court wearing a mask? That image says it all.
I’d also add that what he does has nothing to do with road safety. He is targeting people for road traffic offences. Using a phone while stationary is not unsafe, likewise making a turn against a prohibition sign. He is not a road safety campaigner, he is a nasty little zealot and nothing more.
It’s not one. There’s hundreds of them!
Illegal left turn doesn’t seem something to campaign so much about.
However his phone campaign sounds great.
I was on the motorway once when the driver in front decided to stop every now and again. It was heavy traffic so I couldn’t change lanes – fortunately, I managed to not crash into him – and the driver behind me managed to slow down as well.
When with great relief I saw him leave the motorway – my wife said he was looking at his phone.
I cycle and that was the most scared I have ever been driving or cycling.
His campaign is entirely an exercise in attention-seeking behaviour. The man is a planet sized narcissist.
However his phone campaign sounds great.
Don’t have a problem with people reporting twats who use their phone in moving traffic: but reporting people using their phones at lights, or in a queue, or pulled up by the side of the road, means you’re the twat, not the driver.
You got there before me. While what they were doing was illegal, it was not a risk to others, so therefore, not reporting them is the appropriate course of inaction.