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Land Rover Vs Motorbikes in NYC

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Where were the police? When I was in NYC 18 months ago the place had a cop on nearly every corner. Anyways these bikers were being assholes and got one of themselves nearly killed. That is called thinning the herd.

Depends where you are. Tourist areas are crawling with NYPDs. Money and Government areas are crawling with FBI, DIA, NYPD, Federal Reserve soldiers, DHS officers, Federal Marshals, NYC Sheriffs, Port Authorty, Secret Service, and other types of police.
 
I've always wanted a sportsbike, namely the CBR600RR. But, knowing my need for speed, I would kill myself eventually.
 
Late to the thread...but here goes...

Watching the youtube video, it was clearly a case of the bikers being jackasses. After the driver got scared and bolted. If it was me, you can bet while we were speeding down the highway and they're tailing me, I would 1) Hit the breaks so the fucker goes flying and 2) ram him if he tries to go to the side of my vehicle. At that point I'm there to protect my wife and kids. I don't give a shit about anything else.

Stupid ass biker Jay Mieses is going to be paralyzed for life. I'm not the least bit sympathetic. Those jackasses were there to intentionally cause trouble. I hope more of them get run over.

At the end of the youtube video when they were smashing in his car, he should have backed up his car and keep going back and forth and not stop. He needs to protect himself and his family. You want to come close, have fun underneath my tires which have no air because you assholes slashed it.

I'm against automatic (rapid fire) rifles and other heavy firearms because I don't believe they server a use other than to kill but I'm fully in agreement with being able to carry a licensed firearm and firing it in self defense. Once you start bashing in the window of my car and I got my family in there, I'm opening fire.

Riding in groups is a lot of fun and definitely isn't a problem if done responsibly. These guys are lunatics though, I have no idea why you think it is a cool idea to brake check anyone, especially when you are a motorcycle. Getting rear ended by a car is just about as bad as it gets when riding a motorcycle.

When watching the video, I missed the beginning and just saw the guy plow through a bunch of mysteriously stopped bikes. As a motorcycle rider myself I found myself rooting for the bikers until I understood what was happening.

Also I really have to get a GoPro.

I have a lot of friends who ride bikes. Most of them are there to have a good time. Yes they speed. But they don't do crazy shit like what is shown by these scumbags who were clearly there to cause trouble. A lot of motorcyclists do speed but every time I see one, even in small packs, they are very respectful of other vehicles and are careful not to get hit. These guys were pure scumbags.

its unfortunate this was some e-geek graduate from columbia that had no clue what to do there. most of us would be ramming, reversing and sideswiping through these bunch of fucking douches.

:thumbsup:

I hate the SUV driver and think he should be locked up. He had a perfect excuse to run over at least 100 lowlife pieces of shit and he allowed them to live. What's the point of having a vehicle that can run over a scooter like it's a speed bump if you don't run over scooters like they're speed bumps?

I think what you're referring to is called trimming the Gene Pool.

Last Friday, I placed an order for a new Cayenne Diesel. After watching this video, I am thinking of cancelling the order and getting myself a Range Rover.

Married With Children. Young Zeke: Dodge is a damn fine car. Ran over my wife with a Dodge.

Replace Dodge with Range Rover and wife with moron.
 
Why are dickholes like you celebrating his injury? Guilt by association or did he do something wrong?
It's only too bad he survived. None of them had good intentions stepping up to that vehicle. You don't stand in front of a running vehicle thinking your standing there is enough to stop it from moving as demonstrated. It's like standing in front of the muzzle of a gun thinking your crowding around the operator of said gun is going to protect you from being shot.

@Dari get the CBR. I am more of a Yamaha fan but I can't fit on any of them being 6'9". The most comfy sport bike I've ridden is my SV650 which I've put thousands of miles on.
 
Why are dickholes like you celebrating his injury? Guilt by association or did he do something wrong?

Yes, he did. He laid his bike down in front of the SUV so his loser thug punk friends could beat the shit out of the driver.

He's also a useless thug himself, who has never had a motorcycle license, and no drivers license in almost 15 years, plus numerous other arrests.

Even with that, I'm sorry anyone got hurt like that, but not THAT sorry. It's not a bad thing that this loser is off the street for good now.
 
I'm not sorry at all that he got hurt and paralyzed for life. I'm even going to go as far as to say that he deserved what he got. He was a stupid punk thug idiot that got what he deserved and I only hope all the bikers that laid a hand on the Range Rover guy goes to jail.
 
This might be a repost but it shows that the bikers started the whole mess.

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Yes, he did. He laid his bike down in front of the SUV so his loser thug punk friends could beat the shit out of the driver.

I'm definitely not here to defend anyone in that mob, but he didn't lay his bike down in front of the SUV. He parked his bike about 15 feet in front of the SUV, then walked back and was standing near the bumper on the front passengers-side when the SUV started to drive away. You can see the SUV knock him over when it starts to pull forwards, and his body is the only one left on the road.
 
Yes, he did. He laid his bike down in front of the SUV so his loser thug punk friends could beat the shit out of the driver.

He's also a useless thug himself, who has never had a motorcycle license, and no drivers license in almost 15 years, plus numerous other arrests.

Even with that, I'm sorry anyone got hurt like that, but not THAT sorry. It's not a bad thing that this loser is off the street for good now.

Liar.
 
Poisoning a pregnant woman is ok, but you white knight for a guy who attacks a man trying to protect his wife and child.

Don't know where you read that I poisoned anyone...

As for this guy who ran over the biker, I can understand why he would hightail out of there, but it's not as if they were trying to get into his vehicle. He could've slowly driven away instead of stepping on the gas considering all the people that were around him. He certainly over-reacted, IMHO. IMHO, I think he was more concerned about what they were doing to his Range Rover than fearing for his life.
 
bwhahahah

coming from YOU? a sack of shit that wanted to poison a friends PREGNANT GF? bwhahah of course you think that way lol

You're the sack of shit. Don't make this thread about me and I never wrote anything about wanting to poison anyone. If you can read go and re-read that thread, please. Otherwise, stay on topic.
 
Don't know where you read that I poisoned anyone...

As for this guy who ran over the biker, I can understand why he would hightail out of there, but it's not as if they were trying to get into his vehicle. He could've slowly driven away instead of stepping on the gas considering all the people that were around him. He certainly over-reacted, IMHO. IMHO, I think he was more concerned about what they were doing to his Range Rover than fearing for his life.





You're a fucking idiot. You prove that with your defense of comfort women. I feel sorry for your wife. That's probably why your wife keeps trying to pick up men on the way home from work.
 
Don't know where you read that I poisoned anyone...

As for this guy who ran over the biker, I can understand why he would hightail out of there, but it's not as if they were trying to get into his vehicle. He could've slowly driven away instead of stepping on the gas considering all the people that were around him. He certainly over-reacted, IMHO. IMHO, I think he was more concerned about what they were doing to his Range Rover than fearing for his life.

They surrounded him, FORCED HIM TO STOP and hit his car. I'm not familiar with NY's defense laws, but in my state that is enough for me to use lethal force to escape.
 
interesting

An off-duty, NYPD undercover officer was among the pack of motorcyclists who chased a Financial District family up the West Side Highway — and he stood by as the dad was hauled from his car and beaten, The Post has learned.
The unidentified narcotics officer only came forward Wednesday night, four days after the caught-on-video biker predation, and is described as a motorcycle hobbyist who rides with Front Line Soldiers, a New Rochelle-based group that also counts several other cops among its members, a source said.
Internal Affairs is investigating whether those cops, too, were among the bikers, and whether any of them are also witnesses to the beating that left Internet exec Alexian Lien bleeding on the pavement as his wife and toddler daughter cowered inside their black Range Rover.
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“It is does not appear that he got involved at the scene,” one law enforcement source said of the undercover.
“He didn’t want to blow his cover,” said a source — though he was not investigating those riders.
The undercover has now lawyered up, the source added.
Meanwhile, sources said that cops have developed new photographic evidence showing Lien was physically attacked by as many as five bikers.
None of those bikers are under arrest six days after the incident and only one has been identified by name, one source said.
There is as yet no evidence that suspect biker Reginald Chance, 38, of Brooklyn — depicted in video using his chrome-colored helmet to bash in Lien’s driver’s side window — was among those who beat or slashed Lien, a source said.
Chance, who has also lawyered up, still faces possible charges of gang assault, a source said.
The investigation into the incident is amping up Friday, with prosecutors set to re-interview the couple this afternoon.
Police are also taking a closer look at the black Range Rover that became a rolling prison for the family as it was pursued from 125th Street up to 178th Street.
The battered vehicle was moved via NYPD flatbed this afternoon from a police lot to the 33rd Precinct, where the police investigation is based.
The Rover’s smashed windows are a record of the vehemence with which the berserk bikers tried to get at Lien, whose window was busted clean out. Wife Rosalyn Ng’s passenger side window was fully spider-webbed, and the rear window above the tailgate was also broken out completely.
Still, the length of time it’s taken to start throwing thug bikers in handcuffs has irritated some investigators, who fault prosecutors for what they characterize as the DA’s methodical, wait-for-felony-evidence approach.
“You should slap them with the charges that you can prove whether they’re lesser or more serious charges,” complained one cop. “Later on, you can always upgrade or downgrade the charges,” he said.
“What’s the difference? The DA’s Office might be playing this too cautiously. They [the bikers] were coming at this family from all angles.
“At the minimum, they have the perps on reckless endangerment because they smashed the windows. Flying glass could have injured the family — especially the child.”
As of Friday morning, only one biker had been arrested despite the amount of video and still evidence and the number of non-biker witnesses to the broad daylight mayhem.
Christopher Cruz, 28, of Passaic, NJ, faces misdemeanor charges of reckless driving and imprisonment for suddenly slowing his bike in front of the Range Rover, causing the fender-bender blamed for sparking the chase and violence.

http://nypost.com/2013/10/04/undercover-cop-stood-by-as-bikers-beat-dad/
 
They surrounded him, FORCED HIM TO STOP and hit his car. I'm not familiar with NY's defense laws, but in my state that is enough for me to use lethal force to escape.

Right, but he's also in a 5K pound vehicle. A virtual tank. I drive a BMW X5 with runflats. Unless they break the glass, no one is getting inside. That thing's a tank. Puncture the tires? It's good for another 50 miles. These bikers come out every now and then (usually for parades or other ethnic events). It's best to just let them do their thing if you're in a tank of a car. Otherwise, people will get hurt.

From the video, I did not see anyone try to break his glass until after he ran over some of them and their bikes. Those were motorcycles, he could've gotten out of there slowly. Him speeding off is what lead to this guy being in the hospital. He over-reacted.

If he rolled down his window and told one of them that his family was in the car I am sure they would've let him go. Did he have to do that? Of course not but sometimes it's just better to diffuse a situation than escalate it. These bikers may appear dangerous but all it takes is some communication to lower the tension instead of treating it like a siege...
 
Right, but he's also in a 5K pound vehicle. A virtual tank. I drive a BMW X5 with runflats. Unless they break the glass, no one is getting inside. That thing's a tank. Puncture the tires? It's good for another 50 miles. These bikers come out every now and then (usually for parades or other ethnic events). It's best to just let them do their thing if you're in a tank of a car. Otherwise, people will get hurt.

From the video, I did not see anyone try to break his glass until after he ran over some of them and their bikes. Those were motorcycles, he could've gotten out of there slowly. Him speeding off is what lead to this guy being in the hospital. He over-reacted.

If he rolled down his window and told one of them that his family was in the car I am sure they would've let him go. Did he have to do that? Of course not but sometimes it's just better to diffuse a situation than escalate it. These bikers may appear dangerous but all it takes is some communication to lower the tension instead of treating it like a siege...

Might just be the most ignorant post I have read on any forum...
 
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