Pickup driver tries to kill motorcyclist.

[oldsmoboat]

Wow, just wow.

Pickup driver tries to kill motorcyclist.

[ZG]

    
 
Wow indeed, what an @sshole, look out for cagers brutha's...
 

[MAN OF BLUES]

sure would have liked to see the outcome of the police report.....likely the riders got sited for speed, the lead rider got sited for illegal pass on double yellow, and bubba got an atta-boy for trying to  kill someone.....disgusting.

[Scaffolder]

What a JERK!!!!!!

[throb]

No kidding.  The a-hole was certainly hellbent on killing someone the way he was driving.

[Two Skies]

Here's one we've been discussing locally.  Not sure if it has been posted here elsewhere yet...

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110513/NEWS03/110519957

Also, I think this is related to the story posted on this thread.  I'm bandwidth limited, so I haven't viewed the video.  If the incident above involved a red pickup...

Posted by blind io:
I just found out the fate of the driver of the red pickup. In another forum i found this:
Quote:
The pickup driver was arrested for reckless driving, DUI and the DA is using the video to consider reckless endangerment and possibly attempted murder charges. If convicted of all charges the pickup driver could get up to 24 years in jail. That's unlikely but he will likely see a felony conviction and jail time for his life threatening antics.

[booger]

At first I thought the title would be a little overstated.

But I think killing the motorcyclist was exactly what this SOB was attempting to do.

[oldsmoboat]

From the rider filming:
http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?p=3554243#post3554243

[oldsmoboat]

Here's one we've been discussing locally.  Not sure if it has been posted here elsewhere yet...

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110513/NEWS03/110519957

Also, I think this is related to the story posted on this thread.  I'm bandwidth limited, so I haven't viewed the video.  If the incident above involved a red pickup...

Posted by blind io:
I just found out the fate of the driver of the red pickup. In another forum i found this:
Quote:
The pickup driver was arrested for reckless driving, DUI and the DA is using the video to consider reckless endangerment and possibly attempted murder charges. If convicted of all charges the pickup driver could get up to 24 years in jail. That's unlikely but he will likely see a felony conviction and jail time for his life threatening antics.


Link to the quoted statement?

[Mal]

sure would have liked to see the outcome of the police report.....likely the riders got sited for speed, the lead rider got sited for illegal pass on double yellow, and bubba got an atta-boy for trying to  kill someone.....disgusting.

More like all three got busted... and they all should. While the truck driver was wrong, so were the squids flying past farmhouses at a high rate of speed...

"#5 We were not speeding in excess.55mph limit.Pace was maybe 50-65 from highest to lowest speeds."

Riiiight...

[Two Skies]

Posted by blind io:
I just found out the fate of the driver of the red pickup. In another forum i found this:
Quote:
The pickup driver was arrested for reckless driving, DUI and the DA is using the video to consider reckless endangerment and possibly attempted murder charges. If convicted of all charges the pickup driver could get up to 24 years in jail. That's unlikely but he will likely see a felony conviction and jail time for his life threatening antics.


Link to the quoted statement?

I'll ask.  No idea where blind io found it.  He just said he found it on one of the other forums he frequents.

[MAN OF BLUES]

Here's one we've been discussing locally.  Not sure if it has been posted here elsewhere yet...

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110513/NEWS03/110519957

Also, I think this is related to the story posted on this thread.  I'm bandwidth limited, so I haven't viewed the video.  If the incident above involved a red pickup...

totally different but similar incident...sad.

[MAN OF BLUES]

More like all three got busted... and they all should. While the truck driver was wrong, so were the squids flying past farmhouses at a high rate of speed...

"#5 We were not speeding in excess.55mph limit.Pace was maybe 50-65 from highest to lowest speeds."

Riiiight...

please ... don't roll your eyes, and condone attempted murder because of a person wanting to ride faster than some guy in a truck....who has no regard for life

[Furbo]

Times & circumstances change. Rednecks are universal.

Had a similar incident in rural arkansas years ago. I got really mad, and my older/wiser companion calmed me down saying:

" look dumbass, that rednecks brother in law is likely the sheriff and his grandaddy's the judge.  This is his county - and you're some city punk dressed in a leather suit - where do you think that's gonna go, huh?....Squeal boy, squeal lika pig..."

So, I pulled out a bottle and drank a nice big swig of "Shut the @#$@#$ Up"....and went on about my business.

[Two Skies]

One of our local guys posted up this quote by no less a writer than Hunter S Thompson, who wrote:

For a lot of reasons that are often contradictory, the sight and sound of a man on a motorcycle has an unpleasant effect on the vast majority of Americans who drive cars. At one point... a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune did a long article on the motorcycle scene and decided in the course of his research that "there is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder."

Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail and lawsuits ... which are much less likely if they can find a motorcycle to challenge, instead of another two-thousand-pound car or a concrete abutment. A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him. A few of them are, and many of those who aren't are just as dangerous, because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat of punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle to threaten any man in a car. A bike is totally vulnerable; its only defense is maneuverability, and every accident situation is potentially fatal, especially on a freeway, where there is no room to fall without being run over almost instantly. _______________

[cmoore]

Very scary to watch that guy try and take two motorcyclists out. The video shows clear intent to do harm and kill. I would really like to know what the outcome was.

[jim_de_hunter]

" look dumbass, that rednecks brother in law is likely the sheriff and his grandaddy's the judge.  This is his county - and you're some city punk dressed in a leather suit - where do you think that's gonna go, huh?....Squeal boy, squeal lika pig..."

Considering the fact that I teach children of Bracken County's finest, this is probably very, very true.

Shut up and get out of the neighborhood, you don't know who he knows.

[Outback_Jon]

An update I found on another site, from yet another site:

http://www.kentucky-sportbikes.com/showthread.php?t=4049&p=49485#post49485

[Pfloydgad]

All we can do here is: Try to stay or get as far away as we can from this kind of person. I condone a real good asskicking, but all the wounds would heal, but an attempted murder or veh. homicide charge will last a lifetime.
I would gladly pay the fine for a double yellow pass, or even speeding, but I would also expect the locals would follow up with the above charges for our breeding redneck.
I would also like to bring out my point at intervention in the breeding population of some counties and states. Oh well, another thread.
Just try to be as safe as possible, and remember, we are all invisible when we are out on our toys. And stay away from some humans.
Ride safe all.
Greg

[Pokey]

I more than likely would've brandished my sidearm in that situation.