Love the drivers “enthusiasm”, but happy the see he didn’t have knock the thief off the bike. Could have taken a turn for the worse with it being on video. I have the admit, I probably would have accidentally knocked him off the bike. But wouldn’t want to hurt the bike.
As someone whose had his ebike stolen, I thoroughly enjoyed this large serving of karma. That's also one of the most painful looking scorpions I've ever seen on camera, I would be very surprised if he was able to walk that off.
Yeah this is some deranged American shit. Reminds me of a news story the other day of a woman here in Australia grabbing the hood of the car and the driver actually driving off, reaching high speed on a busy road.
I once had a similar accident (but with my own bike) and after emergency surgery I spent 3 weeks in intensive care and another 2 weeks in a normal ward.
yeah, the only time I've been in an ambulance was basically this, broke by glasses into my face, came to just covered in blood (someone opened their car door)
i fucking hate thieves. People always say "it's just an object you can replace it", no, it's not just an object, it's the time spent to get this object that is stolen, and you want me to just spend even more time to replace it. Your time is finite, you cannot get it back. You could enjoy a bike ride, but no, you gotta work to pay for another bike. Fuck thieves.
One year for Halloween we hung some plastic pumpkins in our tree out front with lights in them. Someone stole them. Yes, they are $2 plastic pumpkins but a couple of them had been used as trick or treat buckets when my kids were younger. They stole our memories and made me feel like my own neighborhood was unsafe. Still pisses me off to this day.
It's the only reason I like Xbox and PS these days. It fucking hurt when someone stole your games console with all your game saves on it and then you have to do all the work again to get those unlocks.
It's also the inability to leave other people's stuff alone. If it's not yours, don't take it. It's one of the first lessons you learn in life. Pisses me off beyond belief that people don't know or don't care about it. Tells me all about you as a human being.
When people say "it's just and object, you can replace it"... they mean it's not worth your life, Or catching a charge for it.
I'm glad the idiot fell on his own, because using a car to intentionally hit someone on a bike (even a thief) can be considered attempted murder. At best it would be assault with a deadly weapon.
Exactly this. Had my first adult Trek road bike taken from me. I know who took it but because its a different state. No local police wanted responsibility of following up. 1100 bucks that I scrapped together after my divorce to try to find a hobby that betters myself gone. It really hurt losing more trust in people.
This is why bikes should always be rigged to kill anyone who rides them except the owner. Only way to be safe. Could be electrocution, maybe an explosion? A spring loaded multi knife stabbing mechanism? Poison. Built in GPS that brings them to a drug dealer you already pre stole 6 kilos of coke from and says I have your coke bitch with the AI voice. Molecular destabilizer that breaks all the carbon bonds in your body. Built in snake. Not a venomous one but its just trained to yank the handles.
A renter stole an aluminum sailboat mast from my garage and the spare. He cut it into 3' sections cause the scrapper won't take long stuff . Probably got 10$ for it. Then it it was lie lie lie to the cops.
The greatest thieves are the 1% . I built an app for a guy once which made him personally 16 million after expenses. And he fired me when i asked for a raise. So for me .... my empathy is conditional. As in ... who and where and why.
Yep. I really could not possibly care less if big companies get robbed. But then you got people defending delivery people who take a pic of your stuff delivered and then picking it back up and taking it. Like nah you just stole from a person. I have literally been in arguments with people saying "bUt wHaT iF tHe dRiVeRs fAmIlY iS sTaRvInG?!" and I am like "What if the person inside is disabled and this is their only way to eat?" but they don't want to hear it. Don't rob your fellow man dammit.
I had a ladder stolen around 2 years ago. The wife totaled her car and I was going to pick her and the kids up. I was cleaning gutters out in the front yard and leaned it on the entrance when I went to get her. Caught them dead to rights on cameras and had to file my own arrest warrant. Finally got a restitution check for $370, but it wasn't worth my time or taxpayer funds when a 9mm is like a quarter, cheaper when you buy bulk.
Seems morally sound to me. All of the suffering they could have potentially wrought ends in an instant as they fade from existence. They contribute nothing to society and will not be missed. Home invasion or a drug overdose dead is dead.
It's entitled, aggressive behavior thinking you can just help yourself to someone's things. If they break into your home I would say violence every time. They made their choice and it's time for the finding out part.
The argument of "it's just an object, you can replace it" is specifically in response to "it's kind of fucked up how eager people are to have guns to 'stop a break-in'", not a general "it's okay to steal". Obviously, theft is wrong. But it is not worth killing someone over. Obviously, some things are more irreplaceable than others, but it says something about how often Americans put themselves into mental scenarios where they're "allowed" to kill someone.
The argument I hear about someone threatening lethal force over a robbery is "You value your property over a human life". I submit that the robber does.
Ya, this dude got very hurt, looks like, but because he was still running after being caught. Dude could have put the bike down and run away, or faced the ramifications of his actions. Instead he doubled down, repeatedly, and put others in danger as well, then hurt himself. Its not like the guys in the car were waiving guns hunting him down or something. They just wanted their bike back.
"It's just an object" often to refers to you as the victim trying to avoid being physically harmed when confronting a thief directly. It's "just an object" but your life and health are worth far more.
No its not. It is true that an unreasonable number of Americans think that petty theft (e.g., porch piracy, shoplifting, car break-ins, etc.) justifies lethal force, which is absurd. But home invasions are a violation of social contract that aren't even remotely comparable, and you're only hoping someone that far gone will be content just grabbing the TV and splitting. That's exacerbated by the fact that police response times in the US are fucking abysmal, even in the best of circumstances.
The question isn't whether something is worth killing over. The question is whether something is worth dying over. If you want to decide breaking into my home is worth dying over, that's on you. I'll respect your personal agency.
This. And a corollary is that some thieves will use it as a shield. Ie I can ultimately get away with doing all the nasty shit I want because it's "not worth" killing me.
Not many people steal for the fun of it. Typically desperate themselves. Not an excuse obviously but it's still important to look to the upstream causes.
Man, in my neighborhood there was near epidemic car thefts a couple of years ago when the "it's so easy to steal a hyundai" Tiktok came out. Kids 100% steal stuff for fun. Guess who had 2 hyundais and one got stolen and found a day later abandoned and messed up and one where we ran the kids off after they fucked up the door. That's right, me!
So when corporations steal my overtime, refuse to pay cost of living based wages and steal the difference for themselves, and deny comp, healthcare, PTO, and unemployment it's cuz they're desperate?
Nobody steals an electric bike out of necessity. Everyone can live without stealing from other individuals/families. If you're desperate steal some food/clothes from a store (preferably Walmart).
I don't wan to put words in his mouth, but he said desperate, not need. You can be both, but you can also just be desperate due to other factors. To reduce instances of theft, it is better to look at the root cause rather than just focus on punishment (not saying punishment isn't a part, but there should be more). If people have options, they are less likely to steal. This means options for housing, food, drug and mental health services...all of this reduces crime.
For sure, I just don't see the point of commenting to defend a criminal. Dude saw an expensive bike and stole it, it's okay to ridicule him and be glad he got caught. A LOT of petty theft is just a crime of opportunity, not desperation or need.
Also, owning a Maserati doesn't even enter into the little little tail of being super wealthy. The super wealthy could buy a Maserati every single day of the year and not even notice.
Well, manufacturers have for decades made two-door cars with four seats, so...
Anyway, I suppose you're trying to say that there's a car called Maserati Quattroporte, but without actually saying "quattroporte" is a car name, and just expecting me to know what a quattroporte is?
billymaditsdone
It would suck if they knocked him off and somehow died. The passengers could also probably be charged. Just saying. Turned out fine at least lol.
STONES1975
now thats justice!!!!
Irishtrailrunner
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NGZ1azc3ajBveDZjdnhyd2ZwNG1yMTBkMnJrMHZmamR3cTdjdWw1MiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/cO39srN2EUIRaVqaVq/200w.webp
ibuycrap
Love the drivers “enthusiasm”, but happy the see he didn’t have knock the thief off the bike. Could have taken a turn for the worse with it being on video.
I have the admit, I probably would have accidentally knocked him off the bike. But wouldn’t want to hurt the bike.
WillemHellfire
That was a face plant if I ever saw one. On large river rock, no less.
criggie
Also called a "scorpion" or described as "mud-sucking"
Euclid11010
Don't steal from people! Steal from corporations, like a gentleman!
Ghlargh
This. Though i will allow stealing from people who are majority stakeholders in corporations.
Euclid11010
So there's a fantastic loophole there. Those aren't actually people! :)
RemtonDulyak
Did he fucking die?
FlaminkoFactor
As someone whose had his ebike stolen, I thoroughly enjoyed this large serving of karma. That's also one of the most painful looking scorpions I've ever seen on camera, I would be very surprised if he was able to walk that off.
CorrectMostOfTheTime
Or ever again
endem1c
FormerGloriousGuyWhoCameBack
SIR! SIR! YOU CAN'T PARK THERE!
zHurk777
YOU CAN'T SLEEP THERE EITHER !!!
LauchMan
Be hurt somewhere else, sir!
ReallyOG
Damn that hurt to watch. Every time I watched it. Karma eh?
imgonnaralph
TsubakiTragic
The panel b4 this one where Beverley seizes "The Moment" would also apply.
LeifHietala
"Hang on, I'm just going to freak out for a sec."
ShinyRoomba
Happy
ChipWallace
Scorpion!
19marcurious57
Dive, dive!
gablestout
19marcurious57
*Damage report!* "We've scratched the hull, sir!"
BreakablePotato
Should have stolen a helmet.
RedSkizzers
Should have stole a helmet too
iguessihaveto
Wouldn't have helped. That was his mid spine.
chevymonster
Full Scorpion with Hip Twist - 9.6
tzahtman
The first time I saw this there was no context or sound and it seemed like the car was harassing the biker.
themuffulettaisalsoaverygoodsandwich
I hope that thief learned his lesson and also makes a full recovery. But I bet neither of those happens.
AbeHamTraveler
he went full scorpion.
SleepyHollowAppleTree
Thank you for supplying the ending of this gif.
GordonFreeman59
Pilot-induced oscillation
Grumptious
Will the bike be OK?
criggie
Its an e-moto. Unloved by cyclists and bikers alike.
Twinklepot
That hurt
mikasaur
Yeah don't hit someone with your car even if they deserve it.
Emjayen
Yeah this is some deranged American shit. Reminds me of a news story the other day of a woman here in Australia grabbing the hood of the car and the driver actually driving off, reaching high speed on a busy road.
The peanut gallery were cheering.
ButtscratchMcPherson
Yeah, while I fully understand the temptation to do it, that guy was recording himself planning to do multiple felonies.
mikasaur
He's lucky the guy biffed it and saved him some jai time
Blackfinity
They used to hang horse thieves...
wadatahmydamie
That’s because stealing someone’s horse was as good as condemning them to death in some areas
iusedtodream
Technically still legal in the US cuz we never remove laws from the books. Can't be bothered. Don't go rustlin' cattle now
wobblecopterrrr
Thorketil
I once had a similar accident (but with my own bike) and after emergency surgery I spent 3 weeks in intensive care and another 2 weeks in a normal ward.
wobblecopterrrr
yeah, the only time I've been in an ambulance was basically this, broke by glasses into my face, came to just covered in blood (someone opened their car door)
ironymus
In the slang of stunt men a fall like this is called Scorpion and is one of the most challenging fall-stunts to accomplish
Whitebeardthepirate
good
thebreadhatcat
Fuck you stupid idiot
NakedEggSalad
Shouldn't have stolen the bike
thebreadhatcat
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aGtzZzN5c25icnVkZ3loNGJ1ZXR6c2ZsaHY0YXRsZzRnbDE0d2t6bCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/AzoJCM5SiW83VsPFlY/200w.webp
hsalonen3000
I am a bad person, but I would just return the bike and let that guy lay there.
abtei
Yes,
law enforcment should also have a piece of that cake.
idiotsonfire
Sounds like the actions a decent person would do, tbh. Let him lie there and rot while the ambulance comes.
CorrectMostOfTheTime
Call an ambulance first but yea
Snooj
That is not a body type that is capable of shrugging off a scorpion.
MattDude
I, too, watched the Corridor stuntman video.
abtei
that makes at least 3 of us.
He should have used one arm to buffer the fall before full body contact with the cobblestone lane divider.
cousteau
TIL "a scorpion". I love it.
PaperinoVB
Ouch.
JoeT85
being an amateur chiropractor looks painful
Whitebeardthepirate
FAFO
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
Drive by breakdance
TyrannusEquus
Destination: Hospital. Then likely jail
Lowland
Are sure ? Or straight to the cementary
rbudrick
SCORPION WINS!
Noxious89123
Lol :D
UnicornsToxicRainbowFart
Did I just watch someone die?
iguessihaveto
Dying I think. I kinda wish I hadn't seen that.
LiamRobertsonjr
Possibly
colinstu
does that one buff out? I don't think so
Shoutrr
i fucking hate thieves. People always say "it's just an object you can replace it", no, it's not just an object, it's the time spent to get this object that is stolen, and you want me to just spend even more time to replace it. Your time is finite, you cannot get it back. You could enjoy a bike ride, but no, you gotta work to pay for another bike. Fuck thieves.
SomebodyalreadytookMyPants
do we know for a fact that this guy isn't just stealing his bike back?
Snooj
One year for Halloween we hung some plastic pumpkins in our tree out front with lights in them. Someone stole them. Yes, they are $2 plastic pumpkins but a couple of them had been used as trick or treat buckets when my kids were younger. They stole our memories and made me feel like my own neighborhood was unsafe. Still pisses me off to this day.
VagrantKoba
It's the only reason I like Xbox and PS these days. It fucking hurt when someone stole your games console with all your game saves on it and then you have to do all the work again to get those unlocks.
Tjitso
It's also the inability to leave other people's stuff alone. If it's not yours, don't take it. It's one of the first lessons you learn in life. Pisses me off beyond belief that people don't know or don't care about it. Tells me all about you as a human being.
therealikstemtegen
Plus the thief could also spend his time to earn it.
TheDildoOfConsequences
And theft destroys value. So you have a thousand bucks' worth of e-bike. Some junkie steals it. What do they get for it, $200?
SavageDrums
Steal from corporations, don't steal from people or small businesses.
Flareside
Same thing for people who break into homes and get shot and killed. They made the choice knowing the consequences
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
Stealing from people is wrong.. from corperations not so much.
datphone777365
Time stolen is a violation ones life, a threat to it. Threaten mine and i will act in kind, as in irrationally and to my benefit and your deficit.
activeracer28
I build my bikes. Its my hobby. Id be very mad
InablueMule
i have built a few bikes. That's why i don't fix up cars or motorcycles.
Lugh314159
When people say "it's just and object, you can replace it"... they mean it's not worth your life, Or catching a charge for it.
I'm glad the idiot fell on his own, because using a car to intentionally hit someone on a bike (even a thief) can be considered attempted murder. At best it would be assault with a deadly weapon.
MoxieMonster
Exactly this. Had my first adult Trek road bike taken from me. I know who took it but because its a different state. No local police wanted responsibility of following up. 1100 bucks that I scrapped together after my divorce to try to find a hobby that betters myself gone. It really hurt losing more trust in people.
KaptainObveeus
This is why bikes should always be rigged to kill anyone who rides them except the owner. Only way to be safe. Could be electrocution, maybe an explosion? A spring loaded multi knife stabbing mechanism? Poison. Built in GPS that brings them to a drug dealer you already pre stole 6 kilos of coke from and says I have your coke bitch with the AI voice. Molecular destabilizer that breaks all the carbon bonds in your body. Built in snake. Not a venomous one but its just trained to yank the handles.
EvilEmperorXurg
Rusty nail poking up through the seat
InablueMule
Someone stealing one of my bikes would be very personal.
FaeVikingPrincess
The phrase is meant more for saying don't risk your life over an object. Objects can be replaced, your life can't.
InablueMule
A renter stole an aluminum sailboat mast from my garage and the spare. He cut it into 3' sections cause the scrapper won't take long stuff . Probably got 10$ for it. Then it it was lie lie lie to the cops.
moisthole
Petty theft is class treason. You don’t steal from other poor people. The rich are the ones screwing us all over we shouldn’t do that to ourselves.
JohnSmithterms
The greatest thieves are the 1% . I built an app for a guy once which made him personally 16 million after expenses. And he fired me when i asked for a raise. So for me .... my empathy is conditional. As in ... who and where and why.
Neurisko
Always steal from big corporations. One day maybe we'll get rid of the oligarchs, but until then, steal from Walmart if you gotta steal.
KingKrabvoldIV
Then what happens when your local department store or grocery store closes due to losses? You get a nice food desert in a poor community.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Yep. I really could not possibly care less if big companies get robbed. But then you got people defending delivery people who take a pic of your stuff delivered and then picking it back up and taking it. Like nah you just stole from a person. I have literally been in arguments with people saying "bUt wHaT iF tHe dRiVeRs fAmIlY iS sTaRvInG?!" and I am like "What if the person inside is disabled and this is their only way to eat?" but they don't want to hear it. Don't rob your fellow man dammit.
iusedtodream
100%. Stealing from a person in your own community is sociopathic.
Gibleteousjack
I had a ladder stolen around 2 years ago. The wife totaled her car and I was going to pick her and the kids up. I was cleaning gutters out in the front yard and leaned it on the entrance when I went to get her. Caught them dead to rights on cameras and had to file my own arrest warrant. Finally got a restitution check for $370, but it wasn't worth my time or taxpayer funds when a 9mm is like a quarter, cheaper when you buy bulk.
Ggbambi
Property theft shouldn't be a moral reason to shoot someone (not dead) methinx
Gibleteousjack
Seems morally sound to me. All of the suffering they could have potentially wrought ends in an instant as they fade from existence. They contribute nothing to society and will not be missed. Home invasion or a drug overdose dead is dead.
Ggbambi
Well, its not. Nothing moral about citizens taking violence to non violent offenders. 🤙
Gibleteousjack
It's entitled, aggressive behavior thinking you can just help yourself to someone's things. If they break into your home I would say violence every time. They made their choice and it's time for the finding out part.
PrincessAris
The argument of "it's just an object, you can replace it" is specifically in response to "it's kind of fucked up how eager people are to have guns to 'stop a break-in'", not a general "it's okay to steal". Obviously, theft is wrong. But it is not worth killing someone over. Obviously, some things are more irreplaceable than others, but it says something about how often Americans put themselves into mental scenarios where they're "allowed" to kill someone.
dmrynaski1776
The argument I hear about someone threatening lethal force over a robbery is "You value your property over a human life".
I submit that the robber does.
datphone777365
The thief has no issue taking something your well being may depend on, they arent owed what they wont do for others.
Ginoawesomesauce
Ya, this dude got very hurt, looks like, but because he was still running after being caught. Dude could have put the bike down and run away, or faced the ramifications of his actions. Instead he doubled down, repeatedly, and put others in danger as well, then hurt himself. Its not like the guys in the car were waiving guns hunting him down or something. They just wanted their bike back.
NKato
That was easily the most glorious faceplant I've ever seen in years.
nclu
"It's just an object" often to refers to you as the victim trying to avoid being physically harmed when confronting a thief directly. It's "just an object" but your life and health are worth far more.
Einbrecher
No its not. It is true that an unreasonable number of Americans think that petty theft (e.g., porch piracy, shoplifting, car break-ins, etc.) justifies lethal force, which is absurd. But home invasions are a violation of social contract that aren't even remotely comparable, and you're only hoping someone that far gone will be content just grabbing the TV and splitting. That's exacerbated by the fact that police response times in the US are fucking abysmal, even in the best of circumstances.
causality
The question isn't whether something is worth killing over. The question is whether something is worth dying over. If you want to decide breaking into my home is worth dying over, that's on you. I'll respect your personal agency.
HairyChairstepper
This. And a corollary is that some thieves will use it as a shield. Ie I can ultimately get away with doing all the nasty shit I want because it's "not worth" killing me.
datphone777365
This. The thief set the tone. Tldr: fafo.
Arbitrarynamehere
Not many people steal for the fun of it. Typically desperate themselves. Not an excuse obviously but it's still important to look to the upstream causes.
datphone777365
Not my problem, hungry? Ask for food.
textilelover
Man, in my neighborhood there was near epidemic car thefts a couple of years ago when the "it's so easy to steal a hyundai" Tiktok came out. Kids 100% steal stuff for fun. Guess who had 2 hyundais and one got stolen and found a day later abandoned and messed up and one where we ran the kids off after they fucked up the door. That's right, me!
yourdesiredusernameisnotavailable
Oh yeah that guy looks undernourished and poorly dressed
iusedtodream
So when corporations steal my overtime, refuse to pay cost of living based wages and steal the difference for themselves, and deny comp, healthcare, PTO, and unemployment it's cuz they're desperate?
Arbitrarynamehere
Yeah that's 100% what I just said
SeanBeanJovi
Desperately greedy.
AawesomeAardvaark
Nobody steals an electric bike out of necessity. Everyone can live without stealing from other individuals/families. If you're desperate steal some food/clothes from a store (preferably Walmart).
MachaGrey
I don't wan to put words in his mouth, but he said desperate, not need. You can be both, but you can also just be desperate due to other factors. To reduce instances of theft, it is better to look at the root cause rather than just focus on punishment (not saying punishment isn't a part, but there should be more). If people have options, they are less likely to steal. This means options for housing, food, drug and mental health services...all of this reduces crime.
AawesomeAardvaark
For sure, I just don't see the point of commenting to defend a criminal. Dude saw an expensive bike and stole it, it's okay to ridicule him and be glad he got caught. A LOT of petty theft is just a crime of opportunity, not desperation or need.
MachaGrey
And I agree, on an individual level, f him. On a social level, I feel differently...does that even make sense?
Arbitrarynamehere
Could be a drug addict
datphone777365
And?
AawesomeAardvaark
Probably. That's not an excuse.
Arbitrarynamehere
As I already said
Exyr
Are they chasing him in a masserati?
MissingGravitas
No, just an ordinary BMW SUV.
thomn8r
It does 185
WiiShaker
He's not supposed to be driving. That's why he wanted the bike back so bad.
firlefranz
Nope, it‘s a Fairary! /s
randomuser69420
There is no greater arbiter of justice than a rich white person who personally witnessed a pretty crime being committed
They will go to the ends of the earth to right the injustice of shoplifting or pretty theft.
Just don't ask them to identify systemic racism or fascism or industry-wide conspiracies.
AdrianDunne
No fan of the super wealthy, but that doesn't mean they've done anything wrong by being outraged by a bike thief.
vraxoin
Also, owning a Maserati doesn't even enter into the little little tail of being super wealthy. The super wealthy could buy a Maserati every single day of the year and not even notice.
G081
pretend it’s your bike and you wish him well in all his criminal endeavors
Jandegrote
Don't need to be rich second hand Maserati is cheaper than my second hand Renault.
TripleDane
Oh. If just we had a word for when you assign a single person some personal attributes based on what unrelated category they are in.
The irony.
TI99Kitty
I thought Maseratis are two-seaters?
criggie
FYI, "quattroporte" is literally "four doors" in Italian.
yamsonyamsonyams
My controversial opinion is that is one of the best looking cars on the road
TI99Kitty
I think that's a different word than the one I used.
criggie
It is! Well spotted !
yamsonyamsonyams
Are you suggesting they might make a four door car that only has two seats
TI99Kitty
Well, manufacturers have for decades made two-door cars with four seats, so...
Anyway, I suppose you're trying to say that there's a car called Maserati Quattroporte, but without actually saying "quattroporte" is a car name, and just expecting me to know what a quattroporte is?