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Subscribe to RSSPolice are asking witnesses to come forward and help identify the two people in this YouTube video seen in an apparent road-rage incident. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
LONDON - Police in Britain released video footage of an apparent road-rage incident between an angry woman and a man on a bicycle on a country lane, ITV News reported Monday.
The clip shows a man wearing Wellington boots and flat-cap cycling along the narrow road when he is approached by a woman on foot, who appears to throw punches and kicks.
Police have issued the video, which was shot by someone in a car following the pair and posted on YouTube, as part of an appeal for witnesses of the January 28 incident in the western England county of Gloucestershire.
Some reports on Monday suggested there could be more to the altercation than meets the eye.
ITV News said longer versions of the clip include allegations that the cyclist was deliberately blocking traffic because he was a supporter of fox-hunting and wanted to stop anti-hunt campaigners reaching their destination.
Fox-hunting – a British country pursuit which involves tracking, chasing and killing foxes - was outlawed in 2005. But hunting by a smell or trail is still lawful and monitored by anti-hunt campaigners, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Police have appealed for the pair captured on the film to come forward.
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Did anyone proof read this article?
"Fox-hunting – an British country pursuit that which involves tracking..."
You mean proofread?
Darn, I hate that.
Couple of observations,
1.) Damn, I do like the woman's attire ... she can rough me up any time, the naughty little thing.
2.) I deplore violence and would never condone this, but sometimes bikers need to use more common sense. I live in a major city, and I used to bike everywhere. But I also understood that I was on a tiny bike and those big things whizzing by could probably hurt me if I was struck by them. Why do jackasses feel they can just putz around in the middle of the street? I see it all the time in my city, and we even have bike lanes! But it never fails, you have morons weaving in and out of lanes everywhere acting like cars can just stop on a dime.
chad, did you read the article? It suggests the cyclist was deliberately blocking cars on their way to protest a hunt. Apparently he wasn't just putzing down the road. (Not sure why the woman would care if she wasn't driving.)
As for tracking a scent across the countryside on horseback, I think it sounds like fun. I'm guessing the person who lays the scent probably does it on horseback, too.
(And if you want to hunt real foxes, then that woman apparently will rough you up!)
AG,
That's my whole point, did you read my entire comment? He was just putzing down the road ... and he was intentionally doing so. My comments are about cyclists in general, yes you have the same rights as the motorists who share the road ... but that's a damn car behind you ... it can kill you.
There's nothing wrong with pointing out @!$%#s when you see them.
chad, that's not how your comment came across. You sounded like you thought this guy was obliviously meandering around, not deliberately obstructing traffic. Of course bikers should pay attention to traffic if they don't want to get run over, but this guy had another purpose in mind (or he may not have as the article was just speculating).
Wow, the PETA freaks are getting violent? A good right cross to the jaw would slow the freak down a bit, doncha think?
I hope the old man owned her after the camera went by. Clearly a first rate b***h with a grand sense of entitlement who uses being a pretty woman as a reason to justify treating others like garbage.
She is totally sexy. I'd love to have her harrass me on the bike. I agree with Chad.
Forget proofreading, how about the MSNBC reporter in the video learns how to pronounce Gloustershire.
The article said the longer version of the tape shows that the man was deliberately blocking traffic to intentionally stop the people in their cars from getting where they were trying to go. Cars in England have the driver on the right. The woman comes from the left. I think she may have been a passenger who jumped out to give the guy a beat down, rather than just run him over like they do here. Too bad she wasn't a bit stronger...he deserved to be knocked over on his head. I applaud this woman.
Beware a rush to judgement based soley on this video clip! Don't recreate the Trayvon situation!
I don't care what happened prior, she deserved to get her ass beaten. Woman, or not, if you try to push me over on a bike, I would push back.
I don't know about an ass beating, she really didn't cause any harm to the guy. She barely even made all that much contact. She was wiggling her arms at him and then kicked his bike. I would have taken her shoes. LOL
For all that exercise this jogging woman appears to do, she still looks weak as a kitten.
At least as far as we see, it's nice to see this man show restraint.
What is wrong with that woman anyway? She looks quite thin. Maybe she's really hungry...LOL
Blake..She kicked his knee.. LOL?
Why would you dress like catwoman to protest hunting? Who wears gloves with the fingers cut off (only protecting your knuckles) unless they are looking to start a fight?
Here's a woman that puts on her skin tights, and if someone even gives her the eye, she goes off wanting to know what their looking at. Same thing if they don't look. No win either way. I would have maced her. lol. Not really. Hate to see her on tequilla or whiskey.
My wife puts a better beat down on me for not taking the trash out ... or as a prelude to sex
Well isn't she's foxy!
...and fox hunting we shall go
Yep... would not mind chasing after that fox with a loaded gun... (wink wink)
eww
Thats road rage in Britain. Wow even when they are angry the British are sedate. Don't know what the woman's issue is but something tells me there was an altercation before this altercation.
At least a mob didn't come out and beat the man like they would here. No guns, no knives, and no brutal blows. The difference between our society and theirs.
If it was in the US, she would have run behind him and blown his head off with her concealed hand gun.
Why would the people in the car have video rolling before she is in the picture, or before there was an altercation ? Probably the second altercation and this time they were ready so we could see a fragment of the video, assume what we want and then comment about what happened as if it actually happened - only we have no real clue. But it's fun. and she is a good looking fox.
Another non-story, courtesy of msnbc.
Thats pretty much MSNBC or pro Oblamo stories.
There is no rush to judgment. This has nothing to do with Trayvon Martin. There is no Gun involved and no on is lying dead on the ground. This woman ran up and tried to push this man off his bike and he is holding up his had to defend himself. She then punches and kicks him. If this were another less friendly guy this woman would have probably been knocked the f**k out! Why in the World do we continue to teach women that they are the weaker sex and should get men to defend them while they are free to do whatever they want to anyone in life. As if they can show total and complete disrespect to anyone at any time. And if you dare say or do anything to them, well, you will go to jail. How dare you raise your hand to any woman that smacks, kicks, or attack you. Well, you are just being a bully and fighting a helpless female.
Mothers, please teach your daughters the same way we teach our sons that RESPECT is something you earn. You do not get if automatically just because you have breasts!!!!
She can road-rage me anytime....
Uhh.. why is this guy riding his bike down the middle of the road with cars behind him? Deserves to get the snot kicked out of him for that alone.
Did you read the (very short) article?
She looks like Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow wannabe (for those who watched "The Avengers"). But without fighting skills.
What a Bitch! She had no right to hit the man! SHE RAN to CLOSE and knocked him so that he lost control of the bike and had he had no choice but to turn into her or go flying!
You're right, the car should have just pushed him aside? :\
Isn't that Princess Kate??
Why was the Trayvon Martin case even brought up into this discussion? 2 totally different situations, 2 totally different outcomes.
That being said it seems to me to be more to this story.
Yup... Not related at all. Me, I'm thinking Secret Service, failure to pay your tab.... That sort of thing.
It's Emma Bloody Peele gone mad!
He should have stepped off his bike and beaten her to a pulp, then put that pretty face into his wheel and peddled. Screw this sugar and spice, boys don't hit girls noncense. Girl comes at you, take her out same as any other combatant.
Slow news day?
What was that, Police Bike Handle-bar Cam? What was the person taking the video doing during this????
Taking video.
Driving his car and trying to get past the idiot blocking the road with his bicycle.
Are we sure she's not a Hooker just trying to chase down another Secret Service Agent who didn't pay his $50?????? Just saying.............
As for the young woman, nice bum, where ya from? That Mrs Emma Peel costume is the cat's meow!
Ultimate byotch boxing!
The chick looks pretty hot.
She reminds me more than a bit of Diana Rigg, of "the Avengers" fame. Now Mrs. Emma Peel was a fox I'd've gladly hunted in my youth!
Ah.... edited down to accent the sensationalist bits. Obviously there is more to this than meets the eye.
Love that YouTube is becoming a source for news content.
All I can say He's a diiikkkk if he was blocking cars so he can cruise in the middle of the road. But as for her. It's her fault for running into him.
She .."What are you doing?"
He .."Hunting foxes."
She (in sultry voice) "Well, dearie, you've found one."
He .."And still hunting."
And that's when the s#1! hit the fan -- or foot hit the knee, if you will.
Somebody over there needs to teach that crazy bitch a lesson she will never forget.