I keep a tab on an awful lot of youtube videos relating to cycling, especially cycle "cammers" (people like myself who ride regularly with a camera attached to the bike or body). These camera systems have been a wonderful tool in documenting everything from the benefit of a bike in heavy traffic, the oddities of daily life, they have even been used to target bad road users and make a difference (as Cycling Mikey documents in his extensive playlist).
Something I have noted within the scope of these commuting videos is how many drivers when caught doing something naughty (in fact criminal) or dangerous in turn claim "you broke my mirror!" I also note how many cabbies seem to be involved in making these false claims. It is something Peter Walker found himself on the receiving end of today:
As I so often say - if a cyclist feels the need to say something that often means the driving has been substandard. Its not a threat, often its not even angry, and it is certainly not the rider emasculating the driver in any manner. The balance of power is very much in the drivers hands.
As the video above shows - when these false claims are made the driver in question has no idea that a camera is rolling. The more they do and say, the deeper the hole they dig themselves, and in reality does any other driver really want to share the road with this kind of arrogant and selfish person, let alone a cyclist?