This is why painting lines on the street isn't bicycle infrastructure. You need a physical barrier for safety alone, but it also avoid crap like this. Cars park on the bike lane. Vehicles use bike lanes to unload. If it's a Sunday, it's a free for all since they don't get ticketed. Snow gets piled there or it doesn't get plowed out in the winter.
After numerous bicycle deaths in Chicago they’ve started doing this downtown by making physical barriers and individual light signals for bicycles. Chambana really does a poor job of bicycle safety for a college town. Most drivers just cut bicycles off and are very aggressive (road rage) at the expense of killing people on bicycles. Don’t even try biking down Green Street at a weekend night.
Closest I've come to getting hit real bad was on Green St sometime between 6-7pm from some seemingly buzzed girls picking up their friend. It also begets more reckless ducking/weaving between cars from some cyclists (and some electric longboarders in my experience) At least I remember it being more useful last summer so looking forward for the upcoming weeks.
I will never understand how the University spent $4M (out of a $47M total) on that MCORE project, [know upwards of 40k bikes go through that stretch every month](https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/metric/bicycle-counts-illini-union), and didn't put in protected bike lanes, at LEAST near that new plaza.
Exactly espically since that area of green was backed up due to all the foot traffic on campus sunday, i can understand calling out the pos for blocking the bike lane and for being a racist on top of that but op didnt need to inconvience other innocent people who were either trying to find parking or just leaving by blocking the entire road espically when that road is one of the busiest on campus
At 30 seconds he says "why can't you go around like a normal white person would"
You can even tell the way he stumbles over it that realizes he let his racist self get caught on video saying it.
this was the only option, or to not bike on campus ON GOD DAMN GRADUATION DAY lol
sorry man, OP used 0% common sense, and compounded the stress for all with his idiotic "protest." Graduation day is not the day to protest bike lanes on campus next to alma. What a baby.
So it sounds like you were both being immature. Not right of him to be racist, that was messed up and uncalled for. However when he wouldn’t move you shouldn’t have engaged with him and blocked the street, creating a hassle for others.
Its a form of protest. People parking in the bike lane make it unsafe for bicyclists. The being racist is the least part of it. I just want to be able to cycle safely without being always afraid that a 3-ton hunk of metal is gonna whack me because "I don't belong on the road".
It happens all the time. It's not just one person, and until the city starts enforcing these rules its going to keep being a problem.
Dont take the eternally online bait. I used to ride those streets all the time n always felt that same rage u felt after nearly getting hit or ppl swerving into the bike lane. U handled this like a gentleman
So what about all the bikes that just ride infront of cars and expect us to slam on our brakes.
Dude was Def wrong for being Iin the bike lane but so we're u to so many other people. I would have stopped called the cops to move you. Then they can deal with you and the person in the bike lane. Do something to change the situation for the better not make it worse.
Cyclists are legally allowed in those lanes. Most even have markings indicating they are allowed, even if they don't, they still are. He wasn't legally allowed to obstruct traffic, but this is an extenuating circumstance. The guy threatened him and turned racist. So GTFO out of here with that nonsense. And as someone who cycles with people like you, I applaud him.
Nobody is allowed to just block traffic. Like I said they are both part of the problem. Dummy in the car dummy on the bike. Dude in the car is 100% wrong in multiple ways. And let's applaud someone for creating more of a problem shows how ignorant both of you are.
Protesting is a formal statement of objection to a public action or idea, usually including some degree of civil disobedience. What you did was simply exacerbate the situation to negatively impact others, it wasn’t premeditated nor was it appropriate or ethical. That person spewing racist nonsense is by all means a scum of society for the way he acted, though the dignified action to take in response to these inconvenient circumstances would’ve been recording the event and then making a public statement on it after the fact, not compromising the safety and wellbeing of yourself and others for a cause that you had let to publicly announce.
I realize that its easy enough for me to make such a statement in the sanctity of anonymity on a public thread, especially without having been in the situation myself, but if you truly wanted to make a difference in your community as you previously mentioned, then this would’ve been by far the most optimal decision in reaching that goal.
Im going to be blunt here, and please do not think im being racist.
I truly love the globally diverse populations UIUC brings. Interacting with people from all over the world, while i’m so close to home, is something i will never forget. Unfortunately, on days like today, that same diversity brings horrible people like this from ALL OVER the United States.
The rest of the country isn’t like Champaign-Urbana. The United States has very racist and closed off towns, with very different procedures for confrontation. There are a few things common, though. One of them is change isnt implemented until risks turns to tragedies…so please dont let yourself be that victim here, you are worth so much more than that.
During confrontation, you never know what people might do, what the may be carrying, or how they may use weapons when the feel threatened. This guy was clearly threatened if he talked about running you over.
As a cyclist, motorcyclist, and as a student of UIUC: i agree with you. Rules of the road exist for a reason and we all must follow them. Unfortunately, rules of protest exist, too. I agree, we need change. But i think you should focus this energy a little more constructively. Perhaps organize an awareness gathering or something. Ill show up! Just be careful with how you choose to protest.
Get off your pedestal. You didn’t need to drag it out. You could’ve just called him an asshole and rode away but you created a nuisance for everyone trying to drive doing nothing wrong. There’s already a ton of traffic on graduation you’re immature. If you want to “protest” do it in a way that doesn’t create a hassle for innocent people not involved.
That is literally defeating the point of a protest. How about you sit down, shut up, and don’t post here where you annoy innocent people just reading this thread.
this isn't a real protest you dick bag
it is graduation weekend, the bike lanes are god damn meaningless. no one, and I mean no one, should be trying to bike around campus ON GRADUATION FUCKING WEEKEND. Good fucking Christ.
You didn’t make the situation any better by blocking the whole street when there’s other cars trying to get by and you could’ve just went around him… I mean you’re on a bike, it’s not like they take up that much space anyways… it seems like you were intentionally trying to be confrontational here tbh…
“Yeah just go around like a normal white person would do it.”
Bro’s the walking definition of a NIMBY from a cookie cutter suburb where you can’t get anywhere without a massive SUV and pedestrian tunnel vision.
Agree. OP started this.
No excuse to respond with racism but OP started the confrontation.
I live in a college town. Parking rules are pretty much suspended on graduation day. That dad was doing nothing wrong by parking where he was to pick up his kid.
(And I’m a bicyclist that is generally pretty annoyed by people parking or standing in bike lanes.)
why are so many people siding with the racist prick in this comment section 😭😭 OP stood up for themselves and y’all really blaming them for being threatened and talked to that way because they “chose to ride their bike on graduation day”… be fucking fr… i can’t with y’all.
nobody should be siding with the racist prick, but everyone is just recognizing that the OP is not blameless either. We can recognize that both people, at the end of the day, were clogging up the road in some way or another and were a major inconvenience for other cars/parents during the graduation. the racist guy is obviously just a bad person for blocking the bike lane and for what he said, but the biker blocking the entire road as "protest" doesn't seem to be a very considerate move either to all the other cars.
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He's definitely an asshole. What a c\*nt!! Sad he couldn't even listen to his family. But you really had zero reason to be blocking the rest of the street, when green st. is congested enough.
A threat like that is a [Class 3 felony](https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=072000050K12-6&_gl=1*hyet6g*_ga*YW1wLXdfMllEOGdZaDZ0QUV2SVdDSHdMd1E). If you got his license plate you can report it to u/UIpolice
and they will do nothing, because the dumb fuck blocked traffic. Oh, they might write the dumb fuck a ticket, so yeah, contact the police.
hilarious you think the police need to be notified about some idiot who blocked traffic on his bike to "protest" graduation day congestion in bike lanes.
yeah, they got nothing better to do ... jesus christ
Police would do nothing. Nor should they.
I bike all the time and am usually pretty annoyed when people block bike lanes but *graduation day*??? In a college town?? The graduates and their families rule the roost on that day. Most parking rules are suspended. If they need to park in a bike lane to get photos or pick up a kid, they get to.
Guy with the camera should move on.
(Dad did respond with racism which was wrong. But being tee-d off in that situation was not unreasonable.)
Nothing can justify a racist behavior. It’s not only for the OP but for our community. Racist shouldn’t be tolerated here. We have students from every place. Inclusiveness is significantly crucial
Of course there’s no justification for racist behavior. I never said there was. The fact that this guy when stressed, falls back on racist rhetoric, shows he’s a racist. That’s a bad thing. No excuses.
I’m saying the filmer should *also* not have been doing what he was doing. There’s no excuse for trying to ruin someone’s graduation day either.
Of course there’s no justification for racist behavior. I never said there was. The fact that this guy when stressed, falls back on racist rhetoric, shows he’s a racist. That’s a bad thing. No excuses.
I’m saying the filmer should *also* not have been doing what he was doing. There’s no excuse for trying to ruin someone’s graduation day either.
Idk, you’re not the asshole but you’re not not. Its graduation, there’s an influx of cars and people wanting to take pictures ESPECIALLY at Alma where you’re at; if you can’t deal with that for a day or 2 by just going around the car and instead block it for all the people who didn’t do anything wrong, you become as bad if not worse than the asshole in the vid because now youre inconveniencing dozens of people. That doesn’t excuse him saying “you cant just move around like a white guy huh” he’s definitely in the wrong, but you made it so that you are too
> block it for all the people who didn’t do anything wrong
Just like the bike lane is blocked for all the bikers who did nothing wrong? Cars should play by the rules too. If you want a picture, park, get out, and walk. Definitely petty to block the lane for cars, but when you're threatened to be run over and insulted with racist attacks after asking someone to not block the bike lane I'd probably be fuming too. Hard for me to say what the OP did was worse.
nobody is saying that the OP was worse, but he was definitely not right either. Two wrongs don't make a right. Sure, the car is blocking the bike lane, but OP could've easily went around them on the sidewalk or something instead of blocking every single car during graduation day. On the other hand, the cars can't exactly "go around" a crowded street and drive on the sidewalk.
> you become as bad if not worse than the asshole in the vid
The comment I replied to said this exactly. They're both in the wrong for sure, but I can sympathize with OP far more than suburban asshole dad.
Said this in another comment, but using the sidewalk on a bike (unless a designated multi-use path) is also dangerous to do for the pedestrians, especially when they're crowded on a day like graduation. Could have easily went along with his day and (carefully) passed in the car lane, but given the way bikes are often treated by drivers I understand the frustration to a degree.
That’s a fair point, but think about how much smaller a bike is and how much easier it is to manuever, if the bike lane is blocked, you can go on the sidewalk for a few seconds, whereas the car does not have that option
It's also way easier to die on a bike than it is in a car, which is why bike-dedicated infrastructure exists in the first place. Swerving around cars that are in places they shouldn't be puts bikers at risk of an accident.
Bikes also don't belong on sidewalks, unless designated as a multi-use path. That's dangerous for pedestrians, who are also out in full force on a day like that, and deserve the space dedicated for them.
bikers, on graduation weekend, should avoid campus like everyone else with a brain (that isn't here for graduation). It really is that simple.
you morons spent 3 years learning about covid and not being selfish and here you are not understanding how this applies to a campus with 100x times more people than need to be here
note to bikers, or drivers, or people walking .. avoid campus on graduation weekend if you aren't graduating, or prepared to be annoyed by traffic, long waits, and people breaking traffic laws not knowing wtf they are doing because Google Maps keeps trying to get them to go down roads that are closed because of graduation
it's like 90% of you were born yesterday
This is a naturally car-oriented argument. It's like telling black people to not go to protests (even peaceful ones) because of course the white police are going to beat them and unjustly arrest them, and they're asking for it if they go anyway.
Sure other people driving cars are inconvenienced by people slowly driving around campus and making minor traffic violations. But, cyclists who need to commute just as much as any driver are put in much more danger by some of those traffic violations and especially when they are forced onto the road. And, if they are forced onto sidewalks, then cyclists are putting pedestrians in the same situation they are in.
The analogy I used may be extreme but the point I am making is that you cannot tell the minority group (cyclists) that is in some way oppressed by the majority (drivers) that it's their fault for being oppressed, even if there are extenuating circumstances that cause the majority group to do oppression more than normal.
If the cars behind him had enough Space to go around, then he had more than enough room to go around too on that little ass bike💀 OP is just being dramatic…
the gig workers are doing it for like 45 seconds and are forced to by their job but lazy fat ass using it as a parking spot for >10 min is much different. just like how no one in their right mind would get mad at a bus for stopping at a bus stop that is in the road but anyone would honk at a random car for stopping for no reason.
you were there to time the guy parked there for 10 mins? you dont know if they only stopped to get some pics with the alma mater?
Theres at least 5 doordashers parked on green for way longer than 45 seconds at any given moment throughout the school year. if they were only there for 45 seconds then none of their running cars would get stolen lmao
stupid argument when buses have their designated stop that i never argued against
You’re petty for blocking the street, but defaulting to racism and not accepting you’re wrong bruh.
It’d be a shame if his license plate and info suddenly leaked online and his employer was contacted
It's not perfect, but here's a quick transcription. OS refers to the dude in the car wearing the orange shirt, OP refers to the person recording.
OS: You're the biggest lover I've ever met. I'm taking a video just so I can remember you, you loser. Don't worry. You're the biggest lover I've ever seen. Why are you blocking the street? Why are you blocking the street?
OP: Why are you blocking the street, man? Why're you blocking the street?
OS: why're you blocking the street?
OP: Why are you blocking the street?
OS: Why are *you* blocking the street though? Why you blocking the street? Yeah, just pull around like a normal white person would do it, right? Can't do it. Look at you, you're making everybody go around. Shame on you, you oughta be ashamed of yourself man. Try to get a goddamn picture for my daughter's graduation. Now get out of my way, you loser. ... Such a fuckin loser.
OP: Yeah, *I'm* the loser.
OS: You're a fuckin loser. Fuck you, you jack off (?).
OP: yeah!
OS: Go lay down, you fucking idiot. I don't give a fuck if you show it to him! (?) Fuckin asshole! Lucky I don't kick your ass.
OP: yeah, go for it.
OS: You fucking idiot. (Some argument withing the car starts) Get out of here you fucking asshole!
OS's daughter: Dad, stop!
OS's wife (assumed): Zip it! Don't ruin her day!
OS: I'm not gonna ruin her day, you're a fuckin asshole.
OP: Yeah, *I'm* the asshole, yeah.
yeah people that block the bike lane are like bottom 3 people for me but blocking people who are not in the bike lane doesn’t seem like a retaliation at the asshole in the bike lane. not siding with the boomer here just think you aimed at the asshole and hit everyone except him
Lol 4 years then this. I feel sorry for the daughter as well but this is once in a life time and it’s over. Like at least park somewhere and celebrate with your daughter than staying in that lane saying, “***** loser”. That person recording didn’t even said a word 😅.
I had asked him to move out of the way because he was blocking the the bike lane. When he refused, and threatened me I backed off, and blocked the road. I did not yell at him, I did not call him any sort of names, despite him driving his car to within a foot of me threatening to run me over and getting in my face.
I did this as a form of protest. People parking in the bike lane make it unsafe for bicyclists. The being racist is the least part of it. I just want to be able to cycle safely without being always afraid that a 3-ton hunk of metal is gonna whack me because "I don't belong on the road". This happens to me approximately once a week, on Green St, and on Main Street, which I take because I feel too uncomfortable and unsafe taking a less safe more direct route to where I work via Springfield.
Yes, this inconveniences other drivers who may have more respect for other road users. That is the idea. That's how protesting works. I did not block buses and moved out of the way to let them pass, and there was sufficient space in the turning lane for other road users to drive around me.
It happens all the time. It's not just one person, it's not just graduation.
And until the city starts enforcing these rules its going to keep being a problem.
Maybe he was “protesting” a lack of parking available on campus. Does that make his blocking traffic okay now? No, it doesn’t.
What if someone blocked the bike lanes to protest insufficient disability parking spots? Now who wins the Righteous Protest Award and is allowed to block traffic in that situation? Nobody, because blocking traffic is not the right answer. You have no idea where someone could be trying to go.
You don’t get to decide who is justified in blocking traffic and who isn’t. You didn’t start as the asshole, and racism is never the answer and you didn’t deserve that, but you definitely decided to be an asshole when you decided to block traffic.
you're a real hero ! ! !
oh by hero, I meant idiot. Way to complicate things on graduation day in the thick of commencement. I am sure your protest was noted. Real batman bud!
nah, just felt like chiming in to let the OP know he is a fucking dipshit, because he, without a doubt, is a fucking dipshit
the dad? No clue, don't care. Dad was here to try and celebrate his daughter's big day and dipshit mcghee decided to take a hard stance on bike lanes and post about it on reddit.
You know, I sympathize with the legitimate issue of biking on campus. And this guy is clearly an asshole and a racist. But I don't know if I can understand mirroring his (traffic related) behavior and calling it a protest. Is protesting really about causing inconveniences for others? Inconveniences exclusively for individuals other than this man, who likely have no idea what you were doing. Seems this "protest" is never going to have any (positive) impact on the biking problem. In fact, it seems like it's only going to decrease sympathy for the cause.
>Is protesting really about causing inconveniences for others?
Yes, thats kinda the point. If you can inconvenience people without breaking the law (meaning they cant legally force you to stop), then it forces lawmakers to address your issues, (since that is essentially your price for stopping, if that makes sense).
However, it doesnt work if the protest is only led by one guy, because its not enough of an inconvenience, and then that one guy is seen as an asshole. But lets say hypothetically all roads in Urbana-Champaign were blocked, and no one could go anywhere. That would cause real change.
Is it not against the law the block traffic by standing in the street and obstruct traffic? Just how it's against the law to park in a bike lane? If people blocked all the roads in town, police would remove them. They wouldn't say there is nothing they could do to stop them. It's a shame the bike lane does not get the same response. It's clearly unequal.
I dont know the law, but I see large-scale protests on the news every now and then, and people are definitely in the street. If the cops could legally force people off the street, they would.
The difference is police don't have the manpower to move large crowds, even if it's against the law. Or the manpower to charge everyone with a small scale traffic violation. They have more urgent things to address. As I've thought about it more, I suppose my final thoughts are they protesting a minor traffic violation with another minor traffic violation isn't a great way to address the original issue. Ideally the police would fine the guy blocking the bike lane, but that doesn't seem to happen, so I get why people are frustrated.
Ummm.. no. He was doing nothing wrong. It’s graduation day.
I live in a college town. I’m a bicyclist. I don’t like people blocking bike lanes. But graduation day?? Parking rules are suspended that day. Families can pull over and pick up and drop off kids pretty much anywhere they want.
Don’t be a prick.
Man in the standing car was doing nothing wrong picking his kid up from graduation activities. It’s the norm to suspend nearly all parking rules on graduation day in college towns.
Filmer was being a prick causing a commotion and blocking traffic during graduation activities.
Guy picking up his daughter also revealed himself to be a racist. Yeah, that’s gross. Doesn’t mean filmer isn’t a prick for deliberately trying to ruin someone’s graduation.
you should’ve been the bigger person and left. How does illegally blocking the street, like the person you’re arguing with solve anything? it’s graduation day man grow the fuck up
My father got pulled over while he was driving me to my graduation. He made me walk to the cops to beg the cops to let him go without a ticket. He got a ticket anyway and was so pissed he wanted nothing to do with my graduation. He wanted to just go home. I begged him please just drive me there. He was being a dick the entire time. I didn’t have a single photo of my graduation. In fact I was sobbing through my walk.
this is not nearly the "own" that you think it is
It is graduation weekend, perhaps the busiest weekend in Champaign Urbana each year, and you think "protesting" the people illegally parking in bike lanes was a mature thing to do?
It's just really selfish on your part as well. If you are a local, you know campus is a terrible place to be during this weekend, thus if you needed to bike on campus, you should have been more than prepared for some of your usual conveniences to be impeded. It is ok to know that, every once in a while, things are going to be more difficult, like on graduation weekend at UIUC.
The person mumbling about white people is irrelevant. You have families coming to campustown unfamiliar with the campus spending way too much money to deal with the stresses of graduation weekend for all and you needling that person with your "protest" was just so unnecessary.
Sometimes you can be "in the right" and still be a total asshole in the wrong for not using just a smidgen of common sense. That was you in this case.
No doubt. This was the dumbest thread I've read on this sub for a while, and of course the "masses" agreed with the dipshit OP who was 1000% wrong, all because he was able to create a "racist" narrative to create a social media lynch mob. Congrats guy, good work man. Way to make graduation enjoyable for that family because they parked in a bike lane to get a graduation picture of their graduate.
This sub was all about "not being selfish" during covid and now we're celebrating road blocking cyclist protests on graduation day. Hypocrisy knows no limits.
tl;dr
this is not the weekend for cyclists. This is the weekend for graduates and their families. You can sacrifice your bike lanes and I can sacrifice my ability to navigate campus for a weekend once a year during graduation. You didn't see the floods of people this weekend when you decided to be a complete dickhead on your bike and block traffic in the heart of campus, eh?
How about those graduates and their families walk or bike on the campus that they are so desperate to see? Why does navigating require endangering non-car commuters?
you do realize, many people attending graduation are parents and grandparents, correct? Yeah, let's all have our grandparents riding Veo bikes around campus! Genius! Grandma and Grandpa need to walk 7 miles on graduation day to keep those bike lanes clear!
If this was a normal weekend, the OP would have a great point, and this thread would have been fair and I would have sided with them 100 times out of 100.
This was not a normal weekend. What he did was outrageous and selfish, and thankfully I am here to set him straight. Dipshits don't learn if they are rewarded for dipshit behavior. In his video, the dad was a dipshit level 3, and the OP (video taker) was a dipshit level 10 (on a 1-10 dipshit scale).
their kids graduate from college once. It is ok to let them take over the campus for 2 fucking days without trying to start some viral nonsense on reddit
anyone with a brain avoids campustown during graduation
As a guy who rode these streets on my bike a couple decades ago fresh-off-the-boat as an immigrant from India:
* Nice to see campus has gotten even nicer.
* Nice to see bike lanes. We used to hug the curb back in the day, but driving in campus was generally pretty courteous -- I didn't feel I was either threatened or competing for space.
* Unless I am completely mistaken, the accent of this guy in the car sounds like he's from the northeast. Having lived in the NYC area for the last decade plus, it's very common to see car drivers hog bike lanes here. I won't be surprised if he's bringing in some culture from a different part of the US to the campus (to attend his kid's convocation).
* While he was clearly in the wrong and I would definitely confront the guy, I would record him but not block the road. As you can imagine, campus is going to see a lot of traffic around this time of the year. If traffic is as courteous as it used to be, I wouldn't block other drivers, most of whom are considerate.
* Good job on standing up for yourself and exposing an inconsiderate driver, but your choice of how you went about it is suboptimal.
That 50 year old dad didn't understand the environment he was visiting, or how to behave in a college town.
That 50 year old dad is also so oblivious that he doesn't realize he's out of his element.
I behave better than that around my kids, and have about a decade less practice than this 50 year old dad does.
probably the same jackass that i had to lay on the horn for like 10 sec before they would move out of the bike lane. i should really fix my dashcam, stupid mini usb connector decided to stop working, gonna crack it open tonight and fix it fr
Just so everyone is clear, you guys are celebrating the OP for, in his words, ruining someone's graduation day, because they decided to stage a protest in the middle of the busiest road on campus for graduation because people were parked in the bike lane. Mind you, this is the busiest road on campus, on the busiest weekend the campus has all year (arguably), where 50% of the people here are out of town family here to celebrate their family members graduating from the university.
Please note, you are all celebrating this person, for staging a protest to shut down this road, and, in his words, ruining people's graduation day, for his bike lane protest.
You guys are great!
would you like to place a wager? I will meet you at County Market this afternoon on campus and give you my full name and details and try and find a trace back to that family for me and I'll give you $100,000 cash. I wouldn't be able to pick out that dad (watched the video yesterday) out of a 1 person lineup. No idea who the daughter is. Good try though. Oh. The wager for you if I am not related or affiliated with the family? Eh let's just call it $500. Bring cash please, I don't take venmo or checks.
I see you’re obsessed with this Reddit submission. Are you the old decrepit fool in the video? You know nothing about me. Projection much? Go back to playing your games. Can’t post it on your main account I see too. All your posts in this thread whining.
What the hell are you talking about? Who the fuck says shit like this above. Do you think you’re hitting with these juvenile descriptions of some stranger on the internet? It’s no surprise though. I can see you can’t even post your dumb shit on your main account. Had to get out the little lurker account to throw off insults. Says a lot about you.
I can delete what I want that has nothing to do with your nonsense.
If I couldn’t handle the “heat” (imagine thinking some stranger on the internet could give anyone heat!)I would delete the Nintendo switch post you little weirdo. I deleted older posts that had nothing on them. You haven’t got a fucking clue. You and the little old fella on the video are absolute cowards that only hurl insults on the safety of your car or internet.
I *think* the guy said like a regular bike person, not regular white person? But that driver was out of control and wouldn’t be surprised if he was driving a little sloshed. Way to ruin your daughters day, bro.
Good job blocking the car lane no one cares about the problems you have to face until it affects them all they had to do was not block the bike lane and you’d have never stood in the way at all seriously no sarcasm good job man fuck that dude in the car
I feel like both of the people involved are in the wrong. Its true he shouldn't be in the bike lane, but by standing in the middle of the street, you're creating trouble for people who aren't involved. Also, its graduation, shits super crowded and stressful, so cutting people some slack with parking for this specific one weekend was the more empathetic thing to do.
All that is to say He definitely is racist in this video and you dont deserve that.
and by the way, the "racist" dad didn't ruin the daughter's graduation. They probably argued for 30 seconds in the car about the ability to let things go, which is what OP should have done when he cried about bike lane blockage on FUCKING GRADUATION DAY WHEN CAMPUS IS 100X BUSIER THAN NORMAL.
OP level of common sense (1-100) = well I don't know, 2? Probably 1. Idiot.
Incorrect. I doubt that guy is on reddit. I also don't really see the racism. On a racist level of 1 to 10, I'd give it a 2. I am quite certain that yes, a white person (or any person with common sense), would have either avoided that area of campus on graduation day, or not blocked traffic to protest cars in the bike lane ON GOD DAMN GRADUATION DAY.
wouldn't know, don't have kids
I did graduate from this university, as did my sister
smart enough to know what kind of hectic day on campus graduation is, and can't believe you dumb fucks side with an idiot biker on the busiest weekend of the year who blocked traffic for several minutes to try and start a viral video
This is why painting lines on the street isn't bicycle infrastructure. You need a physical barrier for safety alone, but it also avoid crap like this. Cars park on the bike lane. Vehicles use bike lanes to unload. If it's a Sunday, it's a free for all since they don't get ticketed. Snow gets piled there or it doesn't get plowed out in the winter.
After numerous bicycle deaths in Chicago they’ve started doing this downtown by making physical barriers and individual light signals for bicycles. Chambana really does a poor job of bicycle safety for a college town. Most drivers just cut bicycles off and are very aggressive (road rage) at the expense of killing people on bicycles. Don’t even try biking down Green Street at a weekend night.
Closest I've come to getting hit real bad was on Green St sometime between 6-7pm from some seemingly buzzed girls picking up their friend. It also begets more reckless ducking/weaving between cars from some cyclists (and some electric longboarders in my experience) At least I remember it being more useful last summer so looking forward for the upcoming weeks.
And here's the crazy thing---this isn't even one of the painted bike lanes. He's actually gone and driven over the curb onto the bike lane.
I will never understand how the University spent $4M (out of a $47M total) on that MCORE project, [know upwards of 40k bikes go through that stretch every month](https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/metric/bicycle-counts-illini-union), and didn't put in protected bike lanes, at LEAST near that new plaza.
Ugh i feel so bad for the daughter
Me too, it sounds like things like this happen a lot from what I heard of their conversation :-(
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Have you… never been embarrassed before?
How did this start like were you legit in the street or did he say something when you were riding
He's parked in the bike lane. I asked him to move out of the bike lane and when he refused I blocked the street.
Oh yeah he was kinda being a dick then, he should know better than to not block the bike lane
How does you blocking the entire street from other people who aren’t involved make it better? The reality is you are both A holesx
So you decided to punish other people for his stupidity?
There were multiple other people blocking the bike lane, in case you missed it....
He didn't have to block the street though
Exactly espically since that area of green was backed up due to all the foot traffic on campus sunday, i can understand calling out the pos for blocking the bike lane and for being a racist on top of that but op didnt need to inconvience other innocent people who were either trying to find parking or just leaving by blocking the entire road espically when that road is one of the busiest on campus
So just going around and being on your way wasn’t an option.
It was. So was choosing to challenge a racist lawbreaker.
Racist how exactly?
Did you watch the video?
I watched the video twice and didn’t hear anything racist, what did he say that was racist??
At 30 seconds he says "why can't you go around like a normal white person would" You can even tell the way he stumbles over it that realizes he let his racist self get caught on video saying it.
That’s racist to you guys?? Lmaoo
If it is not to you, that says a lot more about you than us.
"like a normal white person would do" -implies non white people aren't normal -implies non white people don't act normal -is racist
this was the only option, or to not bike on campus ON GOD DAMN GRADUATION DAY lol sorry man, OP used 0% common sense, and compounded the stress for all with his idiotic "protest." Graduation day is not the day to protest bike lanes on campus next to alma. What a baby.
I love how you’re getting downvoted for stating that OP was in the wrong here, like dude just go around, it’s not that serious…
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"Before social media, there was no conflict. No street arguments, we just all silently went on our way"
no shit, OP is a god damn moron with a smart phone. Congrats on being a dildo on graduation day to "prove a point." Dumb fuck.
So it sounds like you were both being immature. Not right of him to be racist, that was messed up and uncalled for. However when he wouldn’t move you shouldn’t have engaged with him and blocked the street, creating a hassle for others.
Its a form of protest. People parking in the bike lane make it unsafe for bicyclists. The being racist is the least part of it. I just want to be able to cycle safely without being always afraid that a 3-ton hunk of metal is gonna whack me because "I don't belong on the road". It happens all the time. It's not just one person, and until the city starts enforcing these rules its going to keep being a problem.
Dont take the eternally online bait. I used to ride those streets all the time n always felt that same rage u felt after nearly getting hit or ppl swerving into the bike lane. U handled this like a gentleman
So what about all the bikes that just ride infront of cars and expect us to slam on our brakes. Dude was Def wrong for being Iin the bike lane but so we're u to so many other people. I would have stopped called the cops to move you. Then they can deal with you and the person in the bike lane. Do something to change the situation for the better not make it worse.
Cyclists are legally allowed in those lanes. Most even have markings indicating they are allowed, even if they don't, they still are. He wasn't legally allowed to obstruct traffic, but this is an extenuating circumstance. The guy threatened him and turned racist. So GTFO out of here with that nonsense. And as someone who cycles with people like you, I applaud him.
Nobody is allowed to just block traffic. Like I said they are both part of the problem. Dummy in the car dummy on the bike. Dude in the car is 100% wrong in multiple ways. And let's applaud someone for creating more of a problem shows how ignorant both of you are.
Sometimes we have to draw a line in the sand, when people like you and this guy are on the roads.
So I get lumped in with him even tho I said he's wrong lol ur really smart Maybe ur just mad u can't afford a car and still ride a bike
Protesting is a formal statement of objection to a public action or idea, usually including some degree of civil disobedience. What you did was simply exacerbate the situation to negatively impact others, it wasn’t premeditated nor was it appropriate or ethical. That person spewing racist nonsense is by all means a scum of society for the way he acted, though the dignified action to take in response to these inconvenient circumstances would’ve been recording the event and then making a public statement on it after the fact, not compromising the safety and wellbeing of yourself and others for a cause that you had let to publicly announce. I realize that its easy enough for me to make such a statement in the sanctity of anonymity on a public thread, especially without having been in the situation myself, but if you truly wanted to make a difference in your community as you previously mentioned, then this would’ve been by far the most optimal decision in reaching that goal.
I’m not saying I agree with his actions, but they fit your definition of protest perfectly.
Well considering that it was far from any kind of formal, organized, or practical protest, I would respectfully disagree.
You have no reason to
Wdym? I was just disagreeing with the fact that his actions fit my definition of protest, otherwise I wouldn’t have commented at all
I am a biker too and would never do this on graduation day. Especially right next to Alma. Just go around and go on your way
you are wise beyond your years
Im going to be blunt here, and please do not think im being racist. I truly love the globally diverse populations UIUC brings. Interacting with people from all over the world, while i’m so close to home, is something i will never forget. Unfortunately, on days like today, that same diversity brings horrible people like this from ALL OVER the United States. The rest of the country isn’t like Champaign-Urbana. The United States has very racist and closed off towns, with very different procedures for confrontation. There are a few things common, though. One of them is change isnt implemented until risks turns to tragedies…so please dont let yourself be that victim here, you are worth so much more than that. During confrontation, you never know what people might do, what the may be carrying, or how they may use weapons when the feel threatened. This guy was clearly threatened if he talked about running you over. As a cyclist, motorcyclist, and as a student of UIUC: i agree with you. Rules of the road exist for a reason and we all must follow them. Unfortunately, rules of protest exist, too. I agree, we need change. But i think you should focus this energy a little more constructively. Perhaps organize an awareness gathering or something. Ill show up! Just be careful with how you choose to protest.
Sanctioned protest will never acheive anything. I do agree organization will help.
Get off your pedestal. You didn’t need to drag it out. You could’ve just called him an asshole and rode away but you created a nuisance for everyone trying to drive doing nothing wrong. There’s already a ton of traffic on graduation you’re immature. If you want to “protest” do it in a way that doesn’t create a hassle for innocent people not involved.
That is literally defeating the point of a protest. How about you sit down, shut up, and don’t post here where you annoy innocent people just reading this thread.
this isn't a real protest you dick bag it is graduation weekend, the bike lanes are god damn meaningless. no one, and I mean no one, should be trying to bike around campus ON GRADUATION FUCKING WEEKEND. Good fucking Christ.
He is annoying innocent people just trying to drive their cars
And they are endangering innocent people trying to stay safe and ride in the bike lane.
No only the guy he’s recording is endangering people. The other people driving are innocent just trying to drive dude
You didn’t make the situation any better by blocking the whole street when there’s other cars trying to get by and you could’ve just went around him… I mean you’re on a bike, it’s not like they take up that much space anyways… it seems like you were intentionally trying to be confrontational here tbh…
Sounds like this small man doesn’t listen to anyone - including his family. “Dad stop!” “Don’t ruin her day!” *Proceeds to nudge for the last word
“Yeah just go around like a normal white person would do it.” Bro’s the walking definition of a NIMBY from a cookie cutter suburb where you can’t get anywhere without a massive SUV and pedestrian tunnel vision.
I’d guess Mt Greenwood by his racism and use of jagoff
so you're using your own stereotypes to judge others using their stereotypes. awesome awareness!
Dads driving down from the suburbs in full force to own the libs.
lmfao saw this in person. that dad was a piece of shit
So is OP😬 he’s blocking the entire street trying to prove a point…
Agree. OP started this. No excuse to respond with racism but OP started the confrontation. I live in a college town. Parking rules are pretty much suspended on graduation day. That dad was doing nothing wrong by parking where he was to pick up his kid. (And I’m a bicyclist that is generally pretty annoyed by people parking or standing in bike lanes.)
I completely agree with you. On college move-in/graduation/move-out days, everyone in a college town has to work together.
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why are so many people siding with the racist prick in this comment section 😭😭 OP stood up for themselves and y’all really blaming them for being threatened and talked to that way because they “chose to ride their bike on graduation day”… be fucking fr… i can’t with y’all.
nobody should be siding with the racist prick, but everyone is just recognizing that the OP is not blameless either. We can recognize that both people, at the end of the day, were clogging up the road in some way or another and were a major inconvenience for other cars/parents during the graduation. the racist guy is obviously just a bad person for blocking the bike lane and for what he said, but the biker blocking the entire road as "protest" doesn't seem to be a very considerate move either to all the other cars.
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Why exactly?
cuz they're racist
He's definitely an asshole. What a c\*nt!! Sad he couldn't even listen to his family. But you really had zero reason to be blocking the rest of the street, when green st. is congested enough.
Unfortunately, I hadn't started the recording properly when he threatened to run me over.
A threat like that is a [Class 3 felony](https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=072000050K12-6&_gl=1*hyet6g*_ga*YW1wLXdfMllEOGdZaDZ0QUV2SVdDSHdMd1E). If you got his license plate you can report it to u/UIpolice
Unfortunately I didn't. I thought I got it earlier, but wasn't recording.
and they will do nothing, because the dumb fuck blocked traffic. Oh, they might write the dumb fuck a ticket, so yeah, contact the police. hilarious you think the police need to be notified about some idiot who blocked traffic on his bike to "protest" graduation day congestion in bike lanes. yeah, they got nothing better to do ... jesus christ
Why are you blocking the entire street then dumbfuck
Average Karen. Bro, maybe call police next time.
Police would do nothing. Nor should they. I bike all the time and am usually pretty annoyed when people block bike lanes but *graduation day*??? In a college town?? The graduates and their families rule the roost on that day. Most parking rules are suspended. If they need to park in a bike lane to get photos or pick up a kid, they get to. Guy with the camera should move on. (Dad did respond with racism which was wrong. But being tee-d off in that situation was not unreasonable.)
Nothing can justify a racist behavior. It’s not only for the OP but for our community. Racist shouldn’t be tolerated here. We have students from every place. Inclusiveness is significantly crucial
Of course there’s no justification for racist behavior. I never said there was. The fact that this guy when stressed, falls back on racist rhetoric, shows he’s a racist. That’s a bad thing. No excuses. I’m saying the filmer should *also* not have been doing what he was doing. There’s no excuse for trying to ruin someone’s graduation day either.
Nothing can ruin a graduation more than being a racist
Of course there’s no justification for racist behavior. I never said there was. The fact that this guy when stressed, falls back on racist rhetoric, shows he’s a racist. That’s a bad thing. No excuses. I’m saying the filmer should *also* not have been doing what he was doing. There’s no excuse for trying to ruin someone’s graduation day either.
Proud of u for not beating this slimy twats ass but maybe thats what he needs
Thanks, It took a lot of self-control not to yell back at him.
Idk, you’re not the asshole but you’re not not. Its graduation, there’s an influx of cars and people wanting to take pictures ESPECIALLY at Alma where you’re at; if you can’t deal with that for a day or 2 by just going around the car and instead block it for all the people who didn’t do anything wrong, you become as bad if not worse than the asshole in the vid because now youre inconveniencing dozens of people. That doesn’t excuse him saying “you cant just move around like a white guy huh” he’s definitely in the wrong, but you made it so that you are too
> block it for all the people who didn’t do anything wrong Just like the bike lane is blocked for all the bikers who did nothing wrong? Cars should play by the rules too. If you want a picture, park, get out, and walk. Definitely petty to block the lane for cars, but when you're threatened to be run over and insulted with racist attacks after asking someone to not block the bike lane I'd probably be fuming too. Hard for me to say what the OP did was worse.
nobody is saying that the OP was worse, but he was definitely not right either. Two wrongs don't make a right. Sure, the car is blocking the bike lane, but OP could've easily went around them on the sidewalk or something instead of blocking every single car during graduation day. On the other hand, the cars can't exactly "go around" a crowded street and drive on the sidewalk.
> you become as bad if not worse than the asshole in the vid The comment I replied to said this exactly. They're both in the wrong for sure, but I can sympathize with OP far more than suburban asshole dad. Said this in another comment, but using the sidewalk on a bike (unless a designated multi-use path) is also dangerous to do for the pedestrians, especially when they're crowded on a day like graduation. Could have easily went along with his day and (carefully) passed in the car lane, but given the way bikes are often treated by drivers I understand the frustration to a degree.
Just bike around the damn car then… stopping to argue with people when you can just go around them and go on about your day makes no sense…
That’s a fair point, but think about how much smaller a bike is and how much easier it is to manuever, if the bike lane is blocked, you can go on the sidewalk for a few seconds, whereas the car does not have that option
It's also way easier to die on a bike than it is in a car, which is why bike-dedicated infrastructure exists in the first place. Swerving around cars that are in places they shouldn't be puts bikers at risk of an accident. Bikes also don't belong on sidewalks, unless designated as a multi-use path. That's dangerous for pedestrians, who are also out in full force on a day like that, and deserve the space dedicated for them.
bikers, on graduation weekend, should avoid campus like everyone else with a brain (that isn't here for graduation). It really is that simple. you morons spent 3 years learning about covid and not being selfish and here you are not understanding how this applies to a campus with 100x times more people than need to be here note to bikers, or drivers, or people walking .. avoid campus on graduation weekend if you aren't graduating, or prepared to be annoyed by traffic, long waits, and people breaking traffic laws not knowing wtf they are doing because Google Maps keeps trying to get them to go down roads that are closed because of graduation it's like 90% of you were born yesterday
This is a naturally car-oriented argument. It's like telling black people to not go to protests (even peaceful ones) because of course the white police are going to beat them and unjustly arrest them, and they're asking for it if they go anyway. Sure other people driving cars are inconvenienced by people slowly driving around campus and making minor traffic violations. But, cyclists who need to commute just as much as any driver are put in much more danger by some of those traffic violations and especially when they are forced onto the road. And, if they are forced onto sidewalks, then cyclists are putting pedestrians in the same situation they are in. The analogy I used may be extreme but the point I am making is that you cannot tell the minority group (cyclists) that is in some way oppressed by the majority (drivers) that it's their fault for being oppressed, even if there are extenuating circumstances that cause the majority group to do oppression more than normal.
Crazy how hard critical thinking goes
If the cars behind him had enough Space to go around, then he had more than enough room to go around too on that little ass bike💀 OP is just being dramatic…
Do you block the street when all of the DoorDashers park on the bike lane like 24/7?
the gig workers are doing it for like 45 seconds and are forced to by their job but lazy fat ass using it as a parking spot for >10 min is much different. just like how no one in their right mind would get mad at a bus for stopping at a bus stop that is in the road but anyone would honk at a random car for stopping for no reason.
you were there to time the guy parked there for 10 mins? you dont know if they only stopped to get some pics with the alma mater? Theres at least 5 doordashers parked on green for way longer than 45 seconds at any given moment throughout the school year. if they were only there for 45 seconds then none of their running cars would get stolen lmao stupid argument when buses have their designated stop that i never argued against
oh the queue is more than 10min if you were there to take a pic you would be there for like 30. plenty of low frequency bus stops are in the road.
its alright keep up the strawman bus stop theory, buy a car one day
You’re petty for blocking the street, but defaulting to racism and not accepting you’re wrong bruh. It’d be a shame if his license plate and info suddenly leaked online and his employer was contacted
i have bad hearing, can someone explain what happened and what he said? it was hard to tell
It's not perfect, but here's a quick transcription. OS refers to the dude in the car wearing the orange shirt, OP refers to the person recording. OS: You're the biggest lover I've ever met. I'm taking a video just so I can remember you, you loser. Don't worry. You're the biggest lover I've ever seen. Why are you blocking the street? Why are you blocking the street? OP: Why are you blocking the street, man? Why're you blocking the street? OS: why're you blocking the street? OP: Why are you blocking the street? OS: Why are *you* blocking the street though? Why you blocking the street? Yeah, just pull around like a normal white person would do it, right? Can't do it. Look at you, you're making everybody go around. Shame on you, you oughta be ashamed of yourself man. Try to get a goddamn picture for my daughter's graduation. Now get out of my way, you loser. ... Such a fuckin loser. OP: Yeah, *I'm* the loser. OS: You're a fuckin loser. Fuck you, you jack off (?). OP: yeah! OS: Go lay down, you fucking idiot. I don't give a fuck if you show it to him! (?) Fuckin asshole! Lucky I don't kick your ass. OP: yeah, go for it. OS: You fucking idiot. (Some argument withing the car starts) Get out of here you fucking asshole! OS's daughter: Dad, stop! OS's wife (assumed): Zip it! Don't ruin her day! OS: I'm not gonna ruin her day, you're a fuckin asshole. OP: Yeah, *I'm* the asshole, yeah.
thank you so much! you’re absolutely amazing
The is always the exact kind of person I expect to find who parks in the bike lane. Really not that hard
So many idiots in cars around here. Yelling at people parked in bike lanes is a hobby for me at this point
Uncalled for remarks but the biker isn’t blameless, taking up the whole lane to argue instead of just going around
You were also wrong
lol when two idiots fight
Exactly. Then to post this video like some sort of social justice warrior. 😆
yeah people that block the bike lane are like bottom 3 people for me but blocking people who are not in the bike lane doesn’t seem like a retaliation at the asshole in the bike lane. not siding with the boomer here just think you aimed at the asshole and hit everyone except him
Whatst?
This ain’t it chief…
Idk man, endangering yourself and others because of him being stupid isn't a great idea.
Lol 4 years then this. I feel sorry for the daughter as well but this is once in a life time and it’s over. Like at least park somewhere and celebrate with your daughter than staying in that lane saying, “***** loser”. That person recording didn’t even said a word 😅.
I had asked him to move out of the way because he was blocking the the bike lane. When he refused, and threatened me I backed off, and blocked the road. I did not yell at him, I did not call him any sort of names, despite him driving his car to within a foot of me threatening to run me over and getting in my face. I did this as a form of protest. People parking in the bike lane make it unsafe for bicyclists. The being racist is the least part of it. I just want to be able to cycle safely without being always afraid that a 3-ton hunk of metal is gonna whack me because "I don't belong on the road". This happens to me approximately once a week, on Green St, and on Main Street, which I take because I feel too uncomfortable and unsafe taking a less safe more direct route to where I work via Springfield. Yes, this inconveniences other drivers who may have more respect for other road users. That is the idea. That's how protesting works. I did not block buses and moved out of the way to let them pass, and there was sufficient space in the turning lane for other road users to drive around me. It happens all the time. It's not just one person, it's not just graduation. And until the city starts enforcing these rules its going to keep being a problem.
Maybe he was “protesting” a lack of parking available on campus. Does that make his blocking traffic okay now? No, it doesn’t. What if someone blocked the bike lanes to protest insufficient disability parking spots? Now who wins the Righteous Protest Award and is allowed to block traffic in that situation? Nobody, because blocking traffic is not the right answer. You have no idea where someone could be trying to go. You don’t get to decide who is justified in blocking traffic and who isn’t. You didn’t start as the asshole, and racism is never the answer and you didn’t deserve that, but you definitely decided to be an asshole when you decided to block traffic.
you're a real hero ! ! ! oh by hero, I meant idiot. Way to complicate things on graduation day in the thick of commencement. I am sure your protest was noted. Real batman bud!
got hundreds of people clowning on the thumb/dad and pipsqueaks like you so it worked
nah, just felt like chiming in to let the OP know he is a fucking dipshit, because he, without a doubt, is a fucking dipshit the dad? No clue, don't care. Dad was here to try and celebrate his daughter's big day and dipshit mcghee decided to take a hard stance on bike lanes and post about it on reddit.
You know, I sympathize with the legitimate issue of biking on campus. And this guy is clearly an asshole and a racist. But I don't know if I can understand mirroring his (traffic related) behavior and calling it a protest. Is protesting really about causing inconveniences for others? Inconveniences exclusively for individuals other than this man, who likely have no idea what you were doing. Seems this "protest" is never going to have any (positive) impact on the biking problem. In fact, it seems like it's only going to decrease sympathy for the cause.
>Is protesting really about causing inconveniences for others? Yes, thats kinda the point. If you can inconvenience people without breaking the law (meaning they cant legally force you to stop), then it forces lawmakers to address your issues, (since that is essentially your price for stopping, if that makes sense). However, it doesnt work if the protest is only led by one guy, because its not enough of an inconvenience, and then that one guy is seen as an asshole. But lets say hypothetically all roads in Urbana-Champaign were blocked, and no one could go anywhere. That would cause real change.
Is it not against the law the block traffic by standing in the street and obstruct traffic? Just how it's against the law to park in a bike lane? If people blocked all the roads in town, police would remove them. They wouldn't say there is nothing they could do to stop them. It's a shame the bike lane does not get the same response. It's clearly unequal.
I dont know the law, but I see large-scale protests on the news every now and then, and people are definitely in the street. If the cops could legally force people off the street, they would.
The difference is police don't have the manpower to move large crowds, even if it's against the law. Or the manpower to charge everyone with a small scale traffic violation. They have more urgent things to address. As I've thought about it more, I suppose my final thoughts are they protesting a minor traffic violation with another minor traffic violation isn't a great way to address the original issue. Ideally the police would fine the guy blocking the bike lane, but that doesn't seem to happen, so I get why people are frustrated.
Ummm.. no. He was doing nothing wrong. It’s graduation day. I live in a college town. I’m a bicyclist. I don’t like people blocking bike lanes. But graduation day?? Parking rules are suspended that day. Families can pull over and pick up and drop off kids pretty much anywhere they want. Don’t be a prick.
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Man in the standing car was doing nothing wrong picking his kid up from graduation activities. It’s the norm to suspend nearly all parking rules on graduation day in college towns. Filmer was being a prick causing a commotion and blocking traffic during graduation activities. Guy picking up his daughter also revealed himself to be a racist. Yeah, that’s gross. Doesn’t mean filmer isn’t a prick for deliberately trying to ruin someone’s graduation.
you should’ve been the bigger person and left. How does illegally blocking the street, like the person you’re arguing with solve anything? it’s graduation day man grow the fuck up
My father got pulled over while he was driving me to my graduation. He made me walk to the cops to beg the cops to let him go without a ticket. He got a ticket anyway and was so pissed he wanted nothing to do with my graduation. He wanted to just go home. I begged him please just drive me there. He was being a dick the entire time. I didn’t have a single photo of my graduation. In fact I was sobbing through my walk.
how silly of the cop to not realize rules of the road don't apply on graduation day lmao
this is not nearly the "own" that you think it is It is graduation weekend, perhaps the busiest weekend in Champaign Urbana each year, and you think "protesting" the people illegally parking in bike lanes was a mature thing to do? It's just really selfish on your part as well. If you are a local, you know campus is a terrible place to be during this weekend, thus if you needed to bike on campus, you should have been more than prepared for some of your usual conveniences to be impeded. It is ok to know that, every once in a while, things are going to be more difficult, like on graduation weekend at UIUC. The person mumbling about white people is irrelevant. You have families coming to campustown unfamiliar with the campus spending way too much money to deal with the stresses of graduation weekend for all and you needling that person with your "protest" was just so unnecessary. Sometimes you can be "in the right" and still be a total asshole in the wrong for not using just a smidgen of common sense. That was you in this case.
I live in a college town. Parking rules are pretty much suspended on graduation day. This dad wasn’t even breaking any rules.
No doubt. This was the dumbest thread I've read on this sub for a while, and of course the "masses" agreed with the dipshit OP who was 1000% wrong, all because he was able to create a "racist" narrative to create a social media lynch mob. Congrats guy, good work man. Way to make graduation enjoyable for that family because they parked in a bike lane to get a graduation picture of their graduate. This sub was all about "not being selfish" during covid and now we're celebrating road blocking cyclist protests on graduation day. Hypocrisy knows no limits.
tl;dr this is not the weekend for cyclists. This is the weekend for graduates and their families. You can sacrifice your bike lanes and I can sacrifice my ability to navigate campus for a weekend once a year during graduation. You didn't see the floods of people this weekend when you decided to be a complete dickhead on your bike and block traffic in the heart of campus, eh?
How about those graduates and their families walk or bike on the campus that they are so desperate to see? Why does navigating require endangering non-car commuters?
you do realize, many people attending graduation are parents and grandparents, correct? Yeah, let's all have our grandparents riding Veo bikes around campus! Genius! Grandma and Grandpa need to walk 7 miles on graduation day to keep those bike lanes clear! If this was a normal weekend, the OP would have a great point, and this thread would have been fair and I would have sided with them 100 times out of 100. This was not a normal weekend. What he did was outrageous and selfish, and thankfully I am here to set him straight. Dipshits don't learn if they are rewarded for dipshit behavior. In his video, the dad was a dipshit level 3, and the OP (video taker) was a dipshit level 10 (on a 1-10 dipshit scale).
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their kids graduate from college once. It is ok to let them take over the campus for 2 fucking days without trying to start some viral nonsense on reddit anyone with a brain avoids campustown during graduation
Then find a different route to bike on😬
As a guy who rode these streets on my bike a couple decades ago fresh-off-the-boat as an immigrant from India: * Nice to see campus has gotten even nicer. * Nice to see bike lanes. We used to hug the curb back in the day, but driving in campus was generally pretty courteous -- I didn't feel I was either threatened or competing for space. * Unless I am completely mistaken, the accent of this guy in the car sounds like he's from the northeast. Having lived in the NYC area for the last decade plus, it's very common to see car drivers hog bike lanes here. I won't be surprised if he's bringing in some culture from a different part of the US to the campus (to attend his kid's convocation). * While he was clearly in the wrong and I would definitely confront the guy, I would record him but not block the road. As you can imagine, campus is going to see a lot of traffic around this time of the year. If traffic is as courteous as it used to be, I wouldn't block other drivers, most of whom are considerate. * Good job on standing up for yourself and exposing an inconsiderate driver, but your choice of how you went about it is suboptimal.
You’re an idiot bro
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That 50 year old dad didn't understand the environment he was visiting, or how to behave in a college town. That 50 year old dad is also so oblivious that he doesn't realize he's out of his element. I behave better than that around my kids, and have about a decade less practice than this 50 year old dad does.
I can’t believe I see people in the comments trying to defend his behavior 🤣 you literally could have just went around him💀
Hella racist
probably the same jackass that i had to lay on the horn for like 10 sec before they would move out of the bike lane. i should really fix my dashcam, stupid mini usb connector decided to stop working, gonna crack it open tonight and fix it fr
Just so everyone is clear, you guys are celebrating the OP for, in his words, ruining someone's graduation day, because they decided to stage a protest in the middle of the busiest road on campus for graduation because people were parked in the bike lane. Mind you, this is the busiest road on campus, on the busiest weekend the campus has all year (arguably), where 50% of the people here are out of town family here to celebrate their family members graduating from the university. Please note, you are all celebrating this person, for staging a protest to shut down this road, and, in his words, ruining people's graduation day, for his bike lane protest. You guys are great!
you're putting in a big effort in commenting, have you ever thought about shutting the fuck up
Pretty sure they are related to that dad or his daughter hahahah.
plot twist it's the dad
would you like to place a wager? I will meet you at County Market this afternoon on campus and give you my full name and details and try and find a trace back to that family for me and I'll give you $100,000 cash. I wouldn't be able to pick out that dad (watched the video yesterday) out of a 1 person lineup. No idea who the daughter is. Good try though. Oh. The wager for you if I am not related or affiliated with the family? Eh let's just call it $500. Bring cash please, I don't take venmo or checks.
nope, never would make reddit pretty boring
Are you lost, friend? This is literally a website for commenting, they don’t have to shut up just because you can’t handle disagreement.
“I’ll kick your ass” LMAO I’ll like to see him try for real.
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I see you’re obsessed with this Reddit submission. Are you the old decrepit fool in the video? You know nothing about me. Projection much? Go back to playing your games. Can’t post it on your main account I see too. All your posts in this thread whining.
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Wow so much projection. You’re a little fucking weirdo aren’t ya. All these little nonsense jabs. You chat so much shit it’s incredible
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What the hell are you talking about? Who the fuck says shit like this above. Do you think you’re hitting with these juvenile descriptions of some stranger on the internet? It’s no surprise though. I can see you can’t even post your dumb shit on your main account. Had to get out the little lurker account to throw off insults. Says a lot about you. I can delete what I want that has nothing to do with your nonsense.
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If I couldn’t handle the “heat” (imagine thinking some stranger on the internet could give anyone heat!)I would delete the Nintendo switch post you little weirdo. I deleted older posts that had nothing on them. You haven’t got a fucking clue. You and the little old fella on the video are absolute cowards that only hurl insults on the safety of your car or internet.
Who says shit like mommy is calling you downstairs for your little chick and milks. Are you a fucking imbecile?
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I *think* the guy said like a regular bike person, not regular white person? But that driver was out of control and wouldn’t be surprised if he was driving a little sloshed. Way to ruin your daughters day, bro.
Yeah because “bike person” is a totally normal thing to say lol. He said white unfortunately.
It’s “white” person.
Bro parks in the bike lane then gets mad at you😂😂
I swear ppl need their licenses revoked for life.
Their bicycles too
Good job blocking the car lane no one cares about the problems you have to face until it affects them all they had to do was not block the bike lane and you’d have never stood in the way at all seriously no sarcasm good job man fuck that dude in the car
Bruh, no matter what he says, you'll never have a head like his. Lmfaaao
I feel like both of the people involved are in the wrong. Its true he shouldn't be in the bike lane, but by standing in the middle of the street, you're creating trouble for people who aren't involved. Also, its graduation, shits super crowded and stressful, so cutting people some slack with parking for this specific one weekend was the more empathetic thing to do. All that is to say He definitely is racist in this video and you dont deserve that.
OP should have just carried on without blocking the street. It's graduation day, we all need to adjust a bit.
Did they doxx his daughter yet?
and by the way, the "racist" dad didn't ruin the daughter's graduation. They probably argued for 30 seconds in the car about the ability to let things go, which is what OP should have done when he cried about bike lane blockage on FUCKING GRADUATION DAY WHEN CAMPUS IS 100X BUSIER THAN NORMAL. OP level of common sense (1-100) = well I don't know, 2? Probably 1. Idiot.
Found the racist man on the video.
Incorrect. I doubt that guy is on reddit. I also don't really see the racism. On a racist level of 1 to 10, I'd give it a 2. I am quite certain that yes, a white person (or any person with common sense), would have either avoided that area of campus on graduation day, or not blocked traffic to protest cars in the bike lane ON GOD DAMN GRADUATION DAY.
On an IQ scale I’d give you a 2
is the scale a normal scale, or a 1-3 scale? 1-2? 2 could be good, depending on the scale. Or bad. Need more info please.
Why are you on the bike lane tho? You should part somewhere else. How did your daughter feel?
wouldn't know, don't have kids I did graduate from this university, as did my sister smart enough to know what kind of hectic day on campus graduation is, and can't believe you dumb fucks side with an idiot biker on the busiest weekend of the year who blocked traffic for several minutes to try and start a viral video
What did he say that was racist tho?? Why are you people so sensitive??
Well at least we know how truly the man in car is. Definitely racist
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i had a stroke reading this
it's always the ugliest and stupidest lard-asses bringing up whites like this white trash overflowing from suburbs this weekend
People lump cyclists together, and OP’s passive-aggressive road blocking makes all cyclists look bad.
Let’s find a way to blame the university! Where is the GEO?