Going viral on FB: video of a guy pushing cyclist off bike from a driving car
 

This excuse of a human being is calling for a challenge and already got 700K views.
The real scary part are the thousands of "likes" he got.
But even worse, Facebook apparently refuses to take it down because it does not violate their policies!

http://road.cc/content/news/158827-a...ng-pushed-bike

Isn't this assault?

Are you f!@#$ kidding me:mad:

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Going viral on FB: video of a guy pushing cyclist off bike from a driving car
 

If some how the cyclist could have grabbed an arm.. That guy would have fallen out on the road.. One could wish

You wonder what the response would have been if the guy in the truck had taken a baseball bat and hit the cyclist in the head? And how exactly would that differ from this?

Sometimes you just have to push a little...
 

No, not like the a$$hat in the video.

I got the video on Facebook and reported it and got the same response as noted earlier:

"Thank you for taking the time to report something that you feel may violate our Community Standards. Reports like yours are an important part of making Facebook a safe and welcoming environment. We reviewed the video you reported for containing graphic violence and found it doesn't violate our Community Standards."

That came in a stock email from Facebook, and I sent the following reply (it went to a "no reply" address but I couldn't find anywhere else to send it, so I sent it anyway and didn't expect to ever hear anything else about it):

"It SHOULD violate your community standards and any standards of decency. The little "prank" this guy pulled could very easily get an innocent bike rider killed or seriously injured. Maybe you didn't watch it all the way to the end, but it encourages knocking innocent bike riders off of the road. If that doesn't violate your community standards, it's not a community I want anything to do with!"

And, then much to my surprise, a few minutes later, I got this response:

"We revised our decision on your report of Eoin Maughan's video

We reviewed the video you reported for containing graphic violence. Since it violated our Community Standards, we removed it. Thanks for your report. We let Eoin Maughan know that his video has been removed, but not who reported it."

I'm guessing when they reviewed it the first time, they may have just seen the beginning of the idiot hanging out of the window and didn't follow it through to the act of knocking the guy over. Once I pushed a little (and I have to assume some other people may have also), they took it down.

One win for the good guys!

-Ray

Good job Ray. Thanks for helping make the Internet a little less stupid.

Kudos to you Ray!!

Thanks, Ray. I haven't watched the video, but I wonder if the police are investigating the incident. I started wearing a helmet in the 70's after something similar happened to me. It still makes me shudder to think about the incident.

Wow Ray - big thanks to you from the whole cycling community.

Great job.

A drop in the ocean, at best...

-Ray

that d-bag needs to be dropped in the ocean - with a bike chained to his ankle.

I just looked back at that original UK roadie site and a number of people report having done the same thing I did. And it sounds like we all got the message at the same time saying they'd reversed their decision. I can only imagine how many other people did out of the several hundred thousand views that post got...

So enough people complained to make them take a second look. I'm glad that triggered a response. It also makes me not necessarily believe all "no-reply" corporate email addresses are really "no-reply" - Facebook evidently puts that in the address to discourage a lot of follow up emails, but there's clearly someone there reviewing them. Particularly when they get a lot of 'em...

-Ray