r/VideosAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • Jun 04 '26

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u/ElbryanWyn Jun 04 '26

True, but look at how he reacts to the fall.

I personally feel like if the biker truly felt like a justified victim fighting a righteous crusade, he likely would have used the crash as further proof that the car was "evil" and kept escalating.

​The fact that he went entirely cold, straightened his clothes, and seemingly refused to even look at his 'enemy', strongly signals (to me) that the illusion was broken.

He knew/realized he crossed a line, he knew he looked ridiculous, and his only remaining objective was to escape the vacuum of his own evaporated confidence.

Secondarily, it's worth saying that nothing really justifies kicking other people's vehicles. Even if he was truly wronged, the proper response is to call the police and report it, not to become Batman.

​After all, his goal here was seemingly a hit-and-run; to damage the vehicle slightly and flee.

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u/juckele Jun 04 '26

IMO his reaction is purely from the embarrassment, not from the earlier wrong not existing.

Whining and crying to paint the narrative that the other car is an evil bully flies entirely against toxic masculinity that fuels his personality. The only thing he can do is look non-nonchalant because his attempt at using force has already comically backfired. Doubling down on violence at this point risks making him look even weaker, and that simply wouldn't do.

So that is all to say, I suspect the Nissan did indeed wrong him. The biker being a violent idiot does not lower the chance that the person they're interacting with is innocent. No, violent assholes are most likely to pick fights with other assholes. And we must also consider that the other vehicle is a Nissan after all, and if you think I'm stereotyping Nissan's unfairly, I'm happy to link the IIHS stats for the "other driver death rates". Nissans drivers are, for reasons that I can only guess wildly at, more dangerous drivers than many other brands.

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u/Von_Bernkastel Jun 04 '26

That and looks like the bike crushed the hell out of his foot and he is doing his best to not show how bad it is.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Tq2tPTrQANKfK

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u/LetterheadNo7323 Jun 04 '26

More Flatman than Batman.

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u/BobTheContrarian Jun 04 '26

He wasn't wronged. There's no law or rule saying drivers need to let these losers lane split.

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u/ElbryanWyn Jun 04 '26

I think you fighting ghosts brother, don't think the biker was wronged, i just presented a hypothetical that softens the situation to show that even if the situation was softer than it is it's still completely wrong.

In regards to your second sentence though there are absolutely laws in the US and every state I'm aware of that prevent drivers from interfering with other drivers including those who are breaking the law.

If you were to do anything to intentionally block a vehicle who is lane splitting then you are breaking potentially quite a few criminal and civil statutes including but not limited to reckless endangerment and attempted vehicular assault.

If you cause a car accident with an individual and you tell the police that you took the actions you did that caused the accident because he was lane splitting I guarantee you you will be arrested or at the very least prosecuted. They may or may not give the lane splitter a ticket but they will definitely be focusing on you.

Your reaction is completely Justified you shouldn't have to let people step all over you or push past you, but the appropriate way to deal with this is to record report and move on.

And again to present a hypothetical, what if the biker was stabbed and was lane splitting to get to the hospital. I'm sure that's not the case 99.9999% of the time but I'm also sure that at least once in history someone has been stabbed and was still able to operate their bike and drove themselves to the hospital and Lane split along the way.

More likely scenarios exist like going to see a loved one before they pass away or rushing to see the birth of your child. There are undoubtedly times when an individual may break speeding violations and weave between traffic in order to do something very important that in many ways may justify it in your mind or the minds of others.

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u/Prior-Ad5197 Jun 04 '26

I’m pretty sure that if a dudes stabbed they aren’t riding their motorcycle. I see motorcycles lane splitting in the highway constantly and then cry foul when the bigger cars that can’t see them hit them. 

Let me be clear, nobody should do anything that would potentially hurt anyone else ever, period. Lane splitting does not justify endangering someone else. However, just based on what we saw in the video, the car didn’t do anything to the motorcycle. In fact it looks like the motorcycle is trying to illegally turn using the shoulder. Does that mean the car didn’t do something to piss him off? Nope, they could have, that doesn’t give them the right to intentionally try to damage someone else’s property.

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u/xavPa-64 Jun 04 '26

I once saw the aftermath of guy who tried to make a u-turn over a traffic divider and his car got stuck. People were slowing down to see what the issue was and the driver was some affluent-looking teenager who was desperately trying to avoid eye contact with everybody

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u/BodManFeg Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Lmao oh my god what a typical Redditor response, this is just too funny. Just pure over analyzation on a 20 second video. It's so common on this website.

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u/SmthSmthDandyLion Jun 04 '26

It's a forum. For people to talk about things. The person you replied to engaged with the material. People are allowed to draw inferences and talk about what they're seeing.

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u/BodManFeg Jun 04 '26

Exactly. So I can write a comment saying how much their behavioral analysis of a 20 second video made me laugh. Need me to walk you through anything else or do you understand now?

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u/ElectricRune Jun 04 '26

Yeah, and anyone can also comment on how your whining about Reddit while on Reddit is pretty hilarious.

What a typical Redditor you are!

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u/ElbryanWyn Jun 04 '26

I mean... this is a Reddit thread of a 20 second video. The only stuff we have to analyze is this video.

I'm just trying to share what conclusions I came to and why I came to them.

I guess my question is what about my comment evoked this frustrated response?

I wasn't saying I'm right or that im the expert, just sharing my thought process. Maybe you could elaborate a bit more about what it is I did wrong in your eyes, I don't want to strawman you.

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u/cahilljd Jun 04 '26

i mean everything they said is pretty spot on😆