Family in SUV issues statement in NYC biker road rage incide

[cinnamoncox]

Oct 3, 2013 11:57:11 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

""It is an unfortunate situation on both sides," said Lexie Filpo, who said she was one of the bikers. "I knew that car seemed reckless from the beginning. From when he first jumped on the highway. When things happened people were telling him to stop, to slow down, and he never did."

This quote is seriously pissing me off.

Yeah, I'm with you here.
Is she trying to say "so we figured we would teach him a thing or two"?
From that video they were on him like white on rice from jump street
That asshole cut right in front of him and it's clear as can be that he is looking back repeatedly and intentionally positioning himself to bump with his back tire.
The video I saw leaves no question whatsoever as to who is to blame

Also how fuckin dumb must one be to video record what they were doing omg
Mama DID raise a fool

[cinnamoncox]

WOT?*
Thanks for info
I'm so sad for them

[weelass24]

cinnamoncox

The NYPD response was under a little heat, but I think they did what they could. The had about 200 calls to 911 about the group that day, but were advised to stand down due to the high risk of pedestian injury (bikes jumping sidewalks, etc).

The incident with the SUV happened on the West Side Highway in Harlem. You can only get on every 30-40 blocks or so, plus once the SUV took off, they were a moving target for the police. That is the Highway patrol juristiction, so dispatch was likely trying get a highway unit there when they took off. Then you complicate the matter by crossing over into the Bronx. Even though it is NYPD, it is a different county and they are on the side streets, so you are looking for the local pct cops to respond.

The whole incident would have been difficult for the dispatcher to relay, based on a terrified caller and the amount of traveling they did between precincts and boroughs.

[weelass24]

Oct 3, 2013 11:57:11 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

""It is an unfortunate situation on both sides," said Lexie Filpo, who said she was one of the bikers. "I knew that car seemed reckless from the beginning. From when he first jumped on the highway. When things happened people were telling him to stop, to slow down, and he never did."

This quote is seriously pissing me off.

They held a GD RALLY outside of the hospital for the guy that is in the hospital. 

RAGE

[Alyssa]

My family was once pursued by just one angry driver and he purposely rammed our car on the hwy. When we got out, he threw his hands up in the air and wanted to fight. It was terrifying.

I can't even begin to imagine the fear that this family faced while being surrounded by tens, if not hundreds of bikers. I am 100% for the SUV, those bikers went beyond and should be held accountable.

[tulip]

I'm on the side of the family in the SUV. I was wondering how guys on Harley's flipped out but it was morons on Crotch Rockets so now it makes sense.

I hope the family sues them, a freaking 2 year old was in the car. Assholes.

[Bananaparte]

Oct 3, 2013 10:57:13 GMT -5 leeann said:

The bikers now claiming that stuff happened prior to that footage is ridiculous to me. I can't fathom what they are going to assert the SUV driver did to warrant them surrounding him and threatening his family. I am firmly on the SUV family's side here.

This is crazy to me. So what, you weren't filming that? You have a friggen helmet cam, and you weren't filming that?! And then all of a sudden your friends get heated and you start to act like idiots, and you turn the cam on?! And you expect no repercussions?! Seriously? They had enough wherewithal to capture that.

[cinnamoncox]

Thanks @weelass

I figured there was certainly a reasonable explanation.
Wow, 200 calls, good. My faith in humanity is *slightly* restored.

Here (Boston) we've got bike and motorcycle cops so I assumed (I know, I know) that NYC would too
Even just patrolling, it seems some would come across that and be like ummm, no.

Thx again

[cinnamoncox]

Oct 3, 2013 12:14:46 GMT -5 weelass24 said:

Oct 3, 2013 11:57:11 GMT -5 muffin0 said:

""It is an unfortunate situation on both sides," said Lexie Filpo, who said she was one of the bikers. "I knew that car seemed reckless from the beginning. From when he first jumped on the highway. When things happened people were telling him to stop, to slow down, and he never did."

This quote is seriously pissing me off.

They held a GD RALLY outside of the hospital for the guy that is in the hospital. 

RAGE

I know!!! I saw the rally and was like w the actual f???

The wife was all crying, well what did he tell u he was going out to do that day?
No way someone is a straight and narrow person always (or mostly, you know, a half way decent person) and then one day become a vicious thug. No way no how.

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Oct 3, 2013 8:55:45 GMT -5 puddleofgrace said:

I can't get over how terrified that little girl must have been. I hate people so much.

This. So this.

[cinnamoncox]

Oct 3, 2013 12:46:54 GMT -5 tulip said:

I'm on the side of the family in the SUV. I was wondering how guys on Harley's flipped out but it was morons on Crotch Rockets so now it makes sense.

I hope the family sues them, a freaking 2 year old was in the car. Assholes.

See, tulip I thought the same thing re:Harley's
Crotch rocket is good
I think I called them little dick motorcycles but crotch rocket may be my new term for them

[Deleted]

Oct 3, 2013 10:57:13 GMT -5 leeann said:

The bikers now claiming that stuff happened prior to that footage is ridiculous to me. I can't fathom what they are going to assert the SUV driver did to warrant them surrounding him and threatening his family. I am firmly on the SUV family's side here.

I don't believe this because they didn't post video footage of it.  If it had happened they would have video (like everything else) and posted it. 

But even IF it were true, i still don't have sympathy for the bikers.  Because you don't go and force someone to rear end you just because they did something. 

[WOT?*]

And just great and totally surprising, some conservative internet sites are spreading the word (based on one "article" on a site called WND) that it's not just a regular biker gang but a black biker gang that beat up this family and it's not being reported that it was a black mob on motorcycles but hey, we'll spread the word because RACISM and BLACK-ON-WHITE CRIME and LIBERAL PROTECTIONISM and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY and GUNS!!! :rage

So it wasn't just douchebags on crotchrockets. It was BLACK douchebags on crotchrockets but the media isn't telling you that.

Yeah, and this is the editor's note about the guy who wrote the WND "article."

Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims

Just thought I'd bring a little Far Right Christian Conservativism Teabagging media into it here on day 3 of our government shutdown by these nutters.

[Deleted]

Oct 3, 2013 8:57:42 GMT -5 tacocat said:

I've seen the wife of the hurt biker defending the whole group and another biker on CNN said the SUV driver was acting crazy. I can't believe they are actually publicly defending what happened.

I've watched the entire video a couple of times and I don't blame the SUV driver at all. My thought is if you were such an upstanding citizens you wouldn't have been with a bunch of a$$holes purposely getting another vehicle to rear end you and then chasing him down so you could beat the crap out of him. They all should have charges brought against them.

[vampsterdam]

Oct 3, 2013 14:04:49 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

And just great and totally surprising, some conservative internet sites are spreading the word (based on one "article" on a site called WND) that it's not just a regular biker gang but a black biker gang that beat up this family and it's not being reported that it was a black mob on motorcycles but hey, we'll spread the word because RACISM and BLACK-ON-WHITE CRIME and LIBERAL PROTECTIONISM and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY and GUNS!!! :rage

So it wasn't just douchebags on crotchrockets. It was BLACK douchebags on crotchrockets but the media isn't telling you that.

Yeah, and this is the editor's note about the guy who wrote the WND "article."

Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims

Just thought I'd bring a little Far Right Christian Conservativism Teabagging media into it here on day 3 of our government shutdown by these nutters.

Oh God. Annoying

But, also? A big "LOL" because the victim wasn't white. This isn't the time to push your racist agenda. Blah.

[tulip]

Oct 3, 2013 13:43:34 GMT -5 cinnamoncox said:

Oct 3, 2013 12:46:54 GMT -5 tulip said:

I'm on the side of the family in the SUV. I was wondering how guys on Harley's flipped out but it was morons on Crotch Rockets so now it makes sense.

I hope the family sues them, a freaking 2 year old was in the car. Assholes.

See, tulip I thought the same thing re:Harley's
Crotch rocket is good
I think I called them little dick motorcycles but crotch rocket may be my new term for them

My Dad always calls them that.

[cleo29]

I have to tell you, at two, if C had witnessed her father being hauled out of the car and beaten, never mind being surrounded and the car being beaten on, she would have been traumatized and terrified.