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So basically, I was just driving, and minding my own business, and nothing was happening, when suddenly this cyclist came up to my car for no reason and started banging on my window and shouting "You fucking wanker, you could have killed me". Then he keyed the side of my car. I was really scared but managed to turn my camera on just as he started doing it.

Obviously I will be showing the footage to the police. But I'm interested in what people here think. Sometimes cyclists posts videos which suddenly start in the middle of things, and there are those here who believe what they say (about when they turned the camera on, what happened before, etc) without question, and encourage them to report the incident to the police. So presumably those same people will also believe me and encourage me to tell the police?

Otherwise, it rather looks like they are biased towards cyclists and against motorists with this sort of thing (and generally). Why would they believe a cyclist when they made such claims, but not a motorist? Or do they truly believe such cyclists? Perhaps they know perfectly well that they have discarded the prior footage but they don't mind such dishonesty, as long as it's a cyclist perpetrating it? Is this all part of the "anything goes when it comes to making life easier for cyclists and harder for everyone else, and it doesn't matter about honesty, safety, the law, or anything else" mentality?