Watch this guy's channel and judge for yourself, but I find him truly insufferable. He gets convictions for drivers who are checking their phones whilst stationary in traffic - technically illegal, but nobody with any common sense would find this dangerous. He's the most self righteous, pious little prig imaginable. I'm a life long cyclist, including in London for five years, but I don't not want some muppet like this fighting for my rights.
You shouldn't operate a phone behind the wheel of a car, same as you shouldn't be behind the wheel drunk, tired, or on drugs. Its a distraction. The amount of times I've seen people beeped because the light turned green and they were staring at their lap is off the scale.
The mistakes of others doesn't give you the right to behave like an entitled ahole and to endanger others. You could wine as well about pedestrians crossing the where and when they shouldn't or little children running after a ball. You sound like an entitled little git that should bot come anywhere near a motor vehicle.
Ah yes, colonialists who... cycle around and call out car drivers for breaking the law? Cycling famously the preserve of the elite as bikes are more expensive than cars...
I don’t like this guy at all. He says he’s doing it because his dad was killed by a drunk driver but he rats on ppl checking their phones in traffic! Yes they’re breaking the law but why when they’re stationary? If they’re convicted that could have a massive impact on their lives. I get that if they’re driving and not paying attention to the road but most ppl are stationary
Stationary phone use is still illegal and still dangerous. It's like doing balloons - you drive off still distracted and impaired. You don't have any situational awareness, and most of all these drivers aren't just using their phones when stationary.
it's not about the drivers, they are wrong, we can all agree. The issue is, he's the equivalent of the person who gives to somebody homeless and snaps a selfie while doing it. It's all for social media clout. He could just send the footage to the police, but no, that wouldn't make content for the internet would it. Despite his age, he's no different to other shallow clout chasers akin to love island contestants (me me me).
@@hendrixinfinity3992 My point was that he doesn't just send videos to the police, he makes content and revels in it, he could just do the former. You say his videos are boring, but here he is doing interviews and obviously has a fanbase. I remember seeing one of his videos where he said to somebody "you know who I am right?" to somebody he caught. Again "me me me" clout chaser
@@darrentaylordigital There are people who watch people drive from place to place in real time. There's an audience for everything. Luckily this is an example of people getting called out for their BS which is satisfying to watch. People choose to watch it for that reason. Not because it is particularly entertaining. If it is bait, he's got you real hard. Living rent free in your head.
@@hendrixinfinity3992 people overuse that "rent free" phrase way too much. You're basing it on a passing comment. But it's ok, you've all but conceded that it is indeed rage bait for clicks, which 100% aligns with my point.
It's easy to get away with using your phone behind the wheel once. What about for a whole week? A month? I or another camera user only have to catch you just over once every three years, and you'll be disqualified. The idea that anyone anywhere could video you any time takes all the fun out of anti-social driving. The sense of paranoia really eats away at you. 150,000 video allegations made across England and Wales in the last year, most were prosecuted.
@ parking attendants do their job but people still hate them. They get paid to do their job. You do it because you enjoy it and you are quite literally affecting people’s life’s Just because it’s a law doesn’t make it right Someone on their phone in traffic doesn’t cause fatalities But you can’t make these judgments yourself you need the government to tell you what’s right and wrong
Covers it nicely at the end - in a just and safe society, it's incumbent on all citizens to uphold the law. A society of bystanders would not be a great place to live. The other factor is not only must justice be done, but it must be seen to be done. Mikey has done a great job of increasing awareness amongst drivers that prosecution for these offences is possible. I don't get the negativity that is sometimes directed towards Mikey, surely we all want drivers to act safely when operating their vehicles on the road?
Because we're not all wetwipes like you & Mikey? ”for safety" when he's jumping out from bushes to tell people to drive back? The guy, like you, I'd imagine is a bell end.
I have no respect for someone who says that they are trying to make the roads safer whilst also ignoring the majority of criminal activity that they film.
@@drummerjo571 Cyclists? I can't do anything about bad cycling, I don't have any power to do that. Most of all, you could make all cyclists perfect and road KSI stats would not measurably alter. It's drivers we need to focus on if you want to improve road safety.
I appreciate the work he puts in, but there's better ways of going about it. I personally agree a lot with Ashley Neal's content and his takes on Mikey and what he does. No hate, I'm just not fond of Mikey's methods.
its very difficult and time consuming and often feels fruitless to report dangerous driving as a cyclist so honestly having obsessives like him fills the gap he should visit the regions hell get some good content!
This is weird, this video leaves me without an opinion although I feel like there could /should be one😂 I don’t feel bothered by him . I don’t usually drive cause I use pub transport but when I drove I’ve used the phone too and it would obv annoy me if caught by him. I can’t say I find it wrong what he does nor right.
I like the points system - it lets us all learn from our mistakes on the roads, hopefully before consequences are catastrophic and you lose your licence.
One of my friends been driving with a concrete brick instead of a right foot all his life, to the point where insurance won't touch him on anything bigger than a 1.4 engine. I was once a passenger while he had yet another accident, despite me warning him several times before that if he kept doing that move at that place all the time, he would run out of luck and crash. His answer? ''Naaaaaaaaah won't happen'' - until it did - exact same with all those phone drivers, they do it because they believe they won't get caught - I see them every time I drive.
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Watch this guy's channel and judge for yourself, but I find him truly insufferable. He gets convictions for drivers who are checking their phones whilst stationary in traffic - technically illegal, but nobody with any common sense would find this dangerous. He's the most self righteous, pious little prig imaginable. I'm a life long cyclist, including in London for five years, but I don't not want some muppet like this fighting for my rights.
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You shouldn't operate a phone behind the wheel of a car, same as you shouldn't be behind the wheel drunk, tired, or on drugs. Its a distraction. The amount of times I've seen people beeped because the light turned green and they were staring at their lap is off the scale.
He isn't fighting for your rights but for everybody elses. You sound like a little entitled git.
Hero or vigilante? I've got a third option...
Which?
Third option is, don't use your phone while driving.
He is deliberately abrasive and rude. Can't stand him
I can't stand people who disobey the highway code. It's there for a reason.
@@darkstatehk
Better start by making cyclists accountable like drivers then
@@darkstatehkFunny how he doesn't report all road users who break the law isn't it?
I cannot find anything he said to be rude, actually he seems quite well pondered. What is abrasive here?
I'm just Dutch, which makes me direct and factual. Some people, particularly the English, wrongly interpret that as rude and abrasive.
But strangely never does it to the hundreds of cyclists that break the law every hour in London or confronts them. Strange that!
Cyclists don’t have number plates that identify them. How do you report a cyclist? Lol
@@louieee444 But does not stop him filming their illegal behaviour and highlighting it.
He does call out cyclists.
The mistakes of others doesn't give you the right to behave like an entitled ahole and to endanger others. You could wine as well about pedestrians crossing the where and when they shouldn't or little children running after a ball. You sound like an entitled little git that should bot come anywhere near a motor vehicle.
colin? colin robbinson?
His dad died on a motorbike - which is super dangerous, also in Africa about 30 years ago. Kmt
His Dad died at the hands of a drunk driver. Motorbikes are only dangerous in the hands of idiots or near idiots in cars.
Who'd have guessed from the way that he acts that he's from a family of rich, privileged colonialists? 🤣
Ah yes, colonialists who... cycle around and call out car drivers for breaking the law? Cycling famously the preserve of the elite as bikes are more expensive than cars...
I don’t like this guy at all. He says he’s doing it because his dad was killed by a drunk driver but he rats on ppl checking their phones in traffic! Yes they’re breaking the law but why when they’re stationary? If they’re convicted that could have a massive impact on their lives. I get that if they’re driving and not paying attention to the road but most ppl are stationary
Because it's dangerous.
And then he'll turn the camera away if a cyclist is going through a red light
Stationary phone use is still illegal and still dangerous. It's like doing balloons - you drive off still distracted and impaired. You don't have any situational awareness, and most of all these drivers aren't just using their phones when stationary.
"Yes they're breaking the law, but..."
don't be a clown.
"but...i was stationary when i broke the law..." 🤡
it's not about the drivers, they are wrong, we can all agree. The issue is, he's the equivalent of the person who gives to somebody homeless and snaps a selfie while doing it. It's all for social media clout.
He could just send the footage to the police, but no, that wouldn't make content for the internet would it. Despite his age, he's no different to other shallow clout chasers akin to love island contestants (me me me).
He does send the footage to the police. His videos are actually really boring, unengaging and clearly not designed to get views.
@@hendrixinfinity3992 My point was that he doesn't just send videos to the police, he makes content and revels in it, he could just do the former. You say his videos are boring, but here he is doing interviews and obviously has a fanbase. I remember seeing one of his videos where he said to somebody "you know who I am right?" to somebody he caught. Again "me me me" clout chaser
@@hendrixinfinity3992they are definetly designed for views, its all rage bait
@@darrentaylordigital There are people who watch people drive from place to place in real time. There's an audience for everything.
Luckily this is an example of people getting called out for their BS which is satisfying to watch. People choose to watch it for that reason. Not because it is particularly entertaining.
If it is bait, he's got you real hard. Living rent free in your head.
@@hendrixinfinity3992 people overuse that "rent free" phrase way too much. You're basing it on a passing comment. But it's ok, you've all but conceded that it is indeed rage bait for clicks, which 100% aligns with my point.
this the worst guy on twitter
It's easy to get away with using your phone behind the wheel once. What about for a whole week? A month? I or another camera user only have to catch you just over once every three years, and you'll be disqualified.
The idea that anyone anywhere could video you any time takes all the fun out of anti-social driving. The sense of paranoia really eats away at you.
150,000 video allegations made across England and Wales in the last year, most were prosecuted.
@ parking attendants do their job but people still hate them. They get paid to do their job. You do it because you enjoy it and you are quite literally affecting people’s life’s
Just because it’s a law doesn’t make it right
Someone on their phone in traffic doesn’t cause fatalities
But you can’t make these judgments yourself you need the government to tell you what’s right and wrong
@@KingMGv Stationary phone use is wrong and dangerous. The only people affecting their own lives are the lawbreaking risk taking drivers I catch.
@CyclingMikey Stationary phone use is a minor offence in reality but you pounce on it for content...
@@CyclingMikeywhy then? Who’s dying from stationary phone use?
Covers it nicely at the end - in a just and safe society, it's incumbent on all citizens to uphold the law. A society of bystanders would not be a great place to live.
The other factor is not only must justice be done, but it must be seen to be done. Mikey has done a great job of increasing awareness amongst drivers that prosecution for these offences is possible.
I don't get the negativity that is sometimes directed towards Mikey, surely we all want drivers to act safely when operating their vehicles on the road?
Cyclists need to get off the pavements, pavements are for pedestrians ffs
Because we're not all wetwipes like you & Mikey?
”for safety" when he's jumping out from bushes to tell people to drive back?
The guy, like you, I'd imagine is a bell end.
All citizens to uphold the law. Yet he doesn't report all law breaking road users. Hypocrite.
@ we don't live in a zero-tolerance society. A key tenet of UK policing is ‘discretion’.
@@shm5547 So the man is still a hypocrite.
I have no respect for someone who says that they are trying to make the roads safer whilst also ignoring the majority of criminal activity that they film.
What is it that I'm ignoring?
@CyclingMikey You're told far too often on your channel what it is that you ignore. You come back with pitiful excuses.
@@drummerjo571 Cyclists? I can't do anything about bad cycling, I don't have any power to do that. Most of all, you could make all cyclists perfect and road KSI stats would not measurably alter. It's drivers we need to focus on if you want to improve road safety.
@@CyclingMikey And there's the excuses appearing again. Always go back to the good old statistics as well. I'm sure they're never wrong/skewed.
@@drummerjo571 The facts are apparently different than your opinions, and this causes you mental pain.
Title is wrong - a vigilante takes the law in his own hands. Mikey gives video footage to the police, then the police decide on taking action or not.
Massive respect for this guy!
Thanks very much!
Crazy how people can hate on this guy.
No it isn't, guy antagonises the motorists that's he caught for views.
Can't wait until he gets chinned
Because he's a hypocrite.
@@drummerjo571 Is he? How so? Does he do all those things he reports drivers for when he drives? Show us some evidence or are you just blowing smoke?
I appreciate the work he puts in, but there's better ways of going about it. I personally agree a lot with Ashley Neal's content and his takes on Mikey and what he does. No hate, I'm just not fond of Mikey's methods.
Can’t stand this guy
its very difficult and time consuming and often feels fruitless to report dangerous driving as a cyclist so honestly having obsessives like him fills the gap he should visit the regions hell get some good content!
Sad bottom feeding no mark.
Keep up the good work Michael van Erp, Your saving lives.
Thank you kindly!
This is weird, this video leaves me without an opinion although I feel like there could /should be one😂 I don’t feel bothered by him . I don’t usually drive cause I use pub transport but when I drove I’ve used the phone too and it would obv annoy me if caught by him. I can’t say I find it wrong what he does nor right.
Points are there to fine us, simple. Points mean you pay more for insurance, 3-4 years later.
I like the points system - it lets us all learn from our mistakes on the roads, hopefully before consequences are catastrophic and you lose your licence.
One of my friends been driving with a concrete brick instead of a right foot all his life, to the point where insurance won't touch him on anything bigger than a 1.4 engine. I was once a passenger while he had yet another accident, despite me warning him several times before that if he kept doing that move at that place all the time, he would run out of luck and crash.
His answer? ''Naaaaaaaaah won't happen'' - until it did - exact same with all those phone drivers, they do it because they believe they won't get caught - I see them every time I drive.
Drop the music and ask the questions.
The life and times of Mental Mickey
Looking at the footing it seems the drivers are mentally unstable here.