Perhaps throwing a cyclists’ yellow card on cars obstructing the bicycle lane would’ve been a less aggressive way to go about his complaint, but then we wouldn’t get to see this cyclist, Casey Neistat, make such a fool of himself.
As the video intro explains, he received a $US50 fine for not cycling in the bike lane. As Manhattan-dwellers know, there’s been a debate brewing for some time now over the cycle lanes, and the police who ticket cyclists, so Neistat’s video set out to show the world just how difficult it can be sticking to the rules.
I say “rules” instead of “laws”, because contrary to the policeman filmed by Neistat, it’s not actually illegal to cycle outside of the lanes. [Gothamist]
bri_cheese
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 9:46 AMVery, very nice work Casey.
Terry
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 4:38 PMI’d have moved over to the building side of the sidewalk and made mr donut get out of his patrol car.
Love the crash into the cop car.
Mr Neistat, I hate cyclist generaly, but you sir are a bloody legend!
Ride on my bruised and battered friend.
Nath
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 12:00 PMProps to the man for having the balls to crash into a cop car (not to mention some of those other crashes – some of those were brutal).