The rise of the vigilante cyclists targeting London's dangerous drivers
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00:00 I've been called a *****, *****, *****, *****, there's a whole list.
00:06 But it's all in friendship.
00:08 I've had a few people try and steal a camera, I've had the odd assaults.
00:11 All but one were relatively minor.
00:14 But yeah, it hasn't stopped me doing this.
00:16 So I'm Mike, known online as CyclingMikey.
00:20 And I generally just ride around doing my usual business, going to work, errands, etc.
00:26 And I catch drivers breaking the law and I report them to the police.
00:29 In the last five years I've reported something like 1700 drivers.
00:34 Less than one a day, so it's far less than that's hard.
00:37 I mean, I have a job and a life, I couldn't report 10 drivers a day, I feel bad.
00:43 Of those, the results I know, which is probably only about half, I think there's something like 2300 penalty points.
00:50 I don't know.
00:52 140,000 pounds of fine, something along those lines.
00:54 I don't know exactly because a lot of the results I'm not getting, they're made to a shorter resource and they don't tell us that they're used to it.
01:01 But with the thousands of other people out there also reporting, I think that's going to make a sea change in driving culture.
01:07 I know it's embarrassing, I know it's big.
01:10 But the size of it, actually, I think a lot of drivers see it and they think, maybe not, I won't tangle with that.
01:16 But this is a 360 camera made by Insta360, full price pay.
01:20 And it's a particularly specialized camera that enables you, and I know this will make me sound crazy, when I get home, if something's happened, I can see all the build-ups here.
01:30 There is a small minority of very, very dangerous drivers.
01:33 And in the end, I'm afraid I just decided that enforcement is the only thing that works.
01:37 I hope they're getting a bit safer because people are starting to realize that if they do bad things, they might get a ticket.
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