Posted on 07/17/2015 10:57:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
A driver man is facing several criminal charges, after an attack on a motorcyclist in Yuma, Arizona, that was captured on the victim's helmet camera.
The video has garnered widespread attention and has been viewed over 7million times on YouTube.
The footage shows driver Lee Schismenos getting out of his car, punching motorcyclist Cody Munoz and shoving Luisa Loy, 21, who was a passenger.
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“driver man”
Rider man beats driver man.
Man, them English shor do got a way with words, huh?
Had a couple of punks in the back of a pickup yell crap at me on my bicycle as I labored up PCH through Ecinitas. They got stopped at a light and I caught up.
Asked them if they had something they wanted to discuss and they got real silent.
I had a similar road rage incident a few weeks ago, over getting cut off in a 5mph parking lot. The weird thing about it was, the driver who got out of the truck was a 5 foot tall woman. She pounded on my car, pounded on my chest, and then took a swipe at me at the face & my glasses flew.
At that point it was felony assault, I quickly wrestled her to the ground (been watching too many UFC bouts lately) and promptly said, “You’re under arrest, for assault”. I started to quote her rights, “you have the right to remain silent, you have the right...”
She interrupted and asked if I was a police man. Nope, this is a citizen’s arrest. That was where I made my first mistake. I should have just kept telling her the rights.
Then I realized she’d be lying about the whole episode, so I pulled out my cell phone and tried to work the camera. I couldn’t get it to work.
A man came up from behind and said, “we should handle this like adults”. I said, “I AM handling this like an adult, I’m placing her under arrest.” Then he came around to my front and said that if I follow through with this, there would be trouble.
It didn’t make sense that a small woman would be so rage filled, so I figured he was her second, and their plan was to have her engage me while he smashed me from behind. I probably spooked him with my reaction. I figured the best course of action was to just let her go. So I did.
She got into her truck & left. To my surprise, Mr. Number 2 did not get into the truck with her. He was just a guy who came upon a man sitting on top of a woman in the middle of a parking lot at night.
After she left, I tried to find my glasses. Another man approached me from between 2 cars saying that he’d seen the whole thing and my first thought was, “great, there was 3 of them ready to jump me.” But he said that everything I did was the right thing.
My response was, “but those were my glasses! Where are they?” Just then, a car drove over my glasses.
That incident cost me $240 for glasses, plus a smart phone to upgrade my crappy old camera that didn’t do what I thought it would do. And the first thing I looked at with the smart phone was the ease of use of the camera and how long will it record? Smart phones these days are a Personal Urban Survival Utility.
True or not, this is an interesting story.
You are a FANTASTIC writer.
Do ten or twenty more of these stories and you’ve got a book. This was super short for a short story but all the elements of a great story are there. I love brevity.
This was really good. I’m a short story lover, and this is right up there.
Hey, thanks. It really did happen that way. When I tell the story, I have time to include more details. But that’s the gist of the story. Limited to how much I can stand typing.
For 3 days after that incident, my adrenaline was running. Cops must go through some rough times.
Let’s see... I have a true story about my encounter with a serial killer (apparently I lived to tell about it), and a few about living down the street from one who became among the greatest baseball players in history when we were kids.
I will take your advice into consideration.
The cager was a fortunate man.
He could have pulled that crap on a less polite biker.
I have a cam on my bike.
Comes in really handy, sometimes.
Used to go to Encinitas and stay for a week every year. LOVED it. Had family that lived there by the “moonlight beach”.
I would like to see the whole videos from the time they pissed passed the guy. I wonder what stupid thing the girl friend did.
I hear Kramer on sienfeld is looming for some new stories.
Welcome to FRee Republic. You may have found a home.
“Pins him to the FLOOR?”
What’s wrong with writers nowadays?
Yep. I'd probably have dribbled his head off the pavement a few times, just to calm him down...
The rider showed commendable self-restraint, imho.
If you ever write them out and need a reader, I'm in.
Buy a cheap smart phone so you can videograph while on your main phone. I have a Nokia 520 as my spare. It has no sim card.
Ol’ boy looks like Gollum.
Update 11/05/2015: After several months justice has finally been served. The man who attacked my girlfriend and I back in July finally went to court. He signed a plea agreement to plead “no contest” to disorderly conduct and DUI.
His sentence is as follows:
-Serve 10 days in jail
-Pay a fine of $2800
-Be forced to take an alcohol counseling class
-Unsupervised probation for the next 3 years, during that time he is not allowed to consume or possess alcohol.
-Have an ignition interlock device installed on his car.
-If he violates his probation he will do 6 months in jail.
If you ask me, he got off easy...but at least something was done. I do not feel bad about exposing him as I hope this video will help warn new and old riders of how quickly a bit of road rage can get out of hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZueHaDP4hU
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