>
A frustrated driver has stopped and lectured two cyclists in South Australia about “logical thinking” in a bizarre roadside freakout.
The cyclists claim they were going through a roundabout on a suburban main road in north Adelaide when the driver in a red sedan shot past them.
Video footage captured the moment the driver, a concrete worker, stopped and rushed back to confront the cyclists to explain his interpretation of the traffic rules.
The driver thought he should have been given right of way because the cyclists were not allowed to ride more than ’20 kilometers’ below the speed limit.
“You couldn’t go around the roundabout fast enough, so it makes sense…” the nervous driver began, before explaining that they shouldn’t drive so slowly around a roundabout.
One of the patient cyclists responded, “Okay, okay. So what you’re saying is we have to stop in the middle of the roundabout so you don’t have to give way to the right, which is the law?’
Scroll down for video.
An upset tradie (above) ranted at two cyclists for using a roundabout on a main road in Adelaide
‘No, what I’m saying is you are not able (sic) to enforce the (sic) traffic rules like everyone else, pull over until it’s safe. It’s like crossing a road,’ argued the tradie.
One of the cyclists replied: ‘There is no minimum speed for a bicycle’.
‘Look, that’s bullshit,’ the tradie retorted, ‘Look, you have to use your brain for that and be a human part of society…’
“Maybe you should work on your comprehension and learn to write and contact your local MP if you have a problem with this, mate,” interrupted the cyclist behind the camera.
The mad motorist then showed particular disdain for the bicyclist who filmed the confrontation, calling him a “pleb” and shooting him daggers while the front bicyclist explained how giving right of way to the right works.
“I want you to think and think logically (sic) like a human being,” the tradie said, before embarking on a failed analogy.
When the cameraman interrupted to clarify that the tradie had admitted that the cyclist had right of way, the motorist turned and asked him to “shut up”.
‘You’re a nobody, you’ve been quiet, you’re scared. Shut up. At least he (the front cyclist) can talk to me like a man. You make a small dick. Shut up,’ said the driver, gesturing wildly.
After more swear words and a look down, the driver ran out of things to say.
‘Anyway, look,’ said the front cyclist, taking the pressure off, ‘you probably have a nice meal ready for you at home, me too, well I’ve yet to make mine’.
But the tirade of the tradie continued.
‘See what I mean, he can’t be a man and let me speak, but I’ll let you speak, that’s what I mean. I don’t want to talk to a little boy,” the tradie snapped back when she was interrupted.
The rebellious concrete worker passionately appealed to one of the cyclists to ‘shut up’ (above)
The men discussed with the tradie how the incident had happened and suggested that he had done the right thing by not riding over the two cyclists.
The cameraman asked why the concrete maker didn’t ‘drive on and get on with (his) life’.
“Because I want to speak,” protested the concrete maker, explaining that he only wanted to speak to the front driver.
‘You don’t have to talk,’ said the tradie, ‘you don’t have to give your little child ‘nibbles’, be an adult, if you can talk, you talk’.
“Because you’re showing your maturity here the way you behave?” asked the cyclist behind the camera.
“Bro,” the driver said.
The tradie clarified that he just wanted to know why the cyclists thought they should use a roundabout so that he would “don’t get upset again and understand” (above)
“The way you stopped and had a little tantrum because you had to slow down and lost two seconds on your journey on the way home,” the cyclist continued.
‘No,’ said the tradie, ‘because I’m trying to stop so I can’t get upset and know your reasoning’.
The cyclist then tried to explain the incident in clear terms one more time.
“We have a legal right to drive on the road like we did,” he said.
‘I was approaching the roundabout. I have indicated my direction of travel with my right arm because I am legally obliged to do so.
“When I entered the roundabout there were no other vehicles. I had right of way, I came into the roundabout, as I turned around the roundabout, you came to the roundabout -over.”
The tradie interrupted with gritted teeth to add, ‘that’s what the hell I’m trying to say, use your brain, f*** the law’.
When he pressed the apparent change of heart, the tradie told the cyclists that they would be hit slowly at the roundabout.
“Do you know how many crack heads live around here?” he asked the couple.
“Unlike very rational people like you?” asked the cyclist behind the camera.
“Did I hit you?” replied the concrete maker.
The young tradie rode on, while the cyclist in front called the police.
He had one last attempt at making his case, but when the phone rang and he couldn’t find a suitable explanation, he rushed back to his car.
‘Goodbye in (inaudible),’ said the tradie halfway through his car.
“I really hope not, but you never know we’re lucky,” the front cyclist joked.
The young man (above) finally gave up his rant and stormed back to his vehicle
The incident happened when the cyclists were stopped along a bike path on one of the city’s main suburban roads.
“As I was driving home recently, a motorist stopped and got out, beating myself and another cyclist for nearly 10 minutes because we were driving (legally) on the road and being slower than cars. This was after we illegally overtook at a roundabout at an unsafe speed and distance,” claimed the cyclists who posted the video to Reddit.
Commentators were quick to mock the motorist in the comment section.
Many pointed to his frequent use of the word “logic,” some argued that his arguments seemed to evade it.
“The people who use this expression too much normally don’t make sense,” one wrote.
“I think logically and I think that yellow shirt is the first living brain donor,” said another.
A sarcastic commentator poked fun at his attempt at bravado after asking the cyclist to be “a man” several times.
“He totally destroyed that vegan, lib, p***y cyclist with his manly facts and logic!” They wrote.
“It’s like arguing with a toddler. One line for me, the other for you and don’t call me ***,” another commented.