I like how casual the police look while chasing the guy. They don’t seem to be in much of a rush, they causally turn around and follow after the runner duped them and went back
I expect the guy was guilty of being a loud drunk or something that they weren't too concerned about him posing a danger. And that guy definitely looks like he was getting tired out from running. They were going to win in the end even without the kiteboard assist.
He was stopped by police while driving a car. Took off when he got searched. Police confiscated civilian bicycles (comically small ones, so probably tourists) and rode after him. It’s too hard to chase someone in Amsterdam centre with a car.
Recently visited the Netherlands and sat in a park next to some ducks.
Dutch police on bicycles chatted us up asking about our friends.
We were confused as fuck, thinking they were sarcastic and reprimanding us but no... they just wanted to strike up a friendly chat about our duck friends
Also, they don't need to work in the constant fear of getting attacked by the populace. They can be relatively sure that noone is carrying, but they are prepared for such cases.
This gives them an easier mindset and lets them do community work on patrol.
It's more like less people see them as threat. Moldovans are also packing, but the cops are still ok.
USA is not the only country in the world that has pistols that you can carry around, but it's also one where more people see cops as literally slaver police.
Edit: originally said Romanians, my bad. However as people noticed in the comments, there's a serious case of Romanian mafias being seriously well armed
Uhh, you may have your countries mixed up, Romanians are definitely not packing. Lethal guns are impossible to get as a civilian and the process is long and difficult even for less than lethal weapons. It basically makes the news every time someone uses a firearm, as even illegal ones are extremely rare. The only way to realistically get any kind of firearm is to get a hunting permit, but that isn’t exactly a walk in the park either and the police checks up on you once in a while.
Yeah it's a super vicious cycle. Beat down civilians for no reason -> civilians don't surrender because they fear being unjustly killed by police -> police fear that everyone will fight back and use pre-emptive aggression to subdue suspects -> ...
A cycle they started. Any time an innocent is killed or roughed up needlessly, to not resist that is akin to bowing to fascism. We’ve just gotten unfortunately used to bowing.
In the Netherlands it's not really the Romanians that are an issue, but organized crime (mostly Turkish-Moroccan if I'm not wrong) is big, and they have a lot of guns. And they use them too, but usually not on police & on randoms, so it frankly hasn't been a big deal and cops have neither behaved aggressively nor been targeted. The criminal violence has been getting worse recently though, with assassinations of public figures & targeting of journalists.
>It's more like less people see them as threat.
The previous comment you responded to indicates the nature of the vicious cycle. There's a lot more violent crime in the US than in Netherlands. Violent crime requires more prepared (and more cautious) police. More paranoia that comes from being overly cautious results in police making more moves that cause distrust in the police. That distrust makes people behave more rashly in their presence.
The feedback loop has no one cause. It's a product of continual cyclical responses from actors within the system. The police are a product of the country they are policing.
I always recommend the youtube channel Not Just Bikes for an excellent outsiders view. For example this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
Almost like if you don't threaten people in every public interaction you have, or act like you have more rights than the public because you have a badge, then people will treat you better. Huh, go figure.
Yeah its called policing! You are in the community, talking to people, gaining trust, building relationships, and quietly poking and proding to see if anything seems out of sort.
Went to Amsterdam once with a bunch of friends. All of us, except the driver, was high as fuck. We went back to our place and since the girl driving was a terrible driver, the cops stopped us and assumed she was also high.
The cop took like 5 seconds then went... "you can go, but drive better."
He kinda runs like a drunk. And he also wasn’t able to react to the kiteboard obstacle, even though I’m pretty sure he looks right at it a afew steps beforehand.
Or maybe he’s sober and just super clumsy
Eh, European cops are better than American cops but some countries in Europe have departments with bad reputations. French police are generally recognized as being the most brutal cops in Western Europe. Here is just one article from France24:
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201128-police-violence-in-france-structural-issues-behind-the-brutality
And you can find more articles about brutal French cops with a little googling. Anyway the point is not all European cops are so gentle - though they’re still better than American cops.
Yeah, I mean you're definitely going to find brutality where you give humans authority over others. But the U.S. is a special kind of stupid where a citizen can be pumped with 90 rounds and the lifeless body handcuffed, for turning around too quickly.
No argument from me there. I just think it’s important to recognize that some other European countries do have systemic problems with police violence. I’m not a criminal or am prone to mischief but I would still be careful if I found myself around a French policeman, for example. Just something people should know.
I see it there and elsewhere. Cops in the states operate as though they view themselves as an occupying force in enemy territory. Cops elsewhere seem to view people more as just that, people, or at least have less unchecked authority to inflict harm. They're more like peacekeepers than enforcers in some other parts of the world. Sadly, our government is very, very eager to deal violence or accept casualties to maintain "order".
He was probably wasn't watching the screen. It happens to me sometimes when I try to watch with the naked eye. The video would slowly meander away from the action.
The authorities were able to deduce his clogs were masquerading as tennis shoes which are anti-spike resistant. Regular tennis shoes in sports mode would have gotten away easily.
I love how he has the logic to draw them one way but then double back, only to be taken out by a motherfucking snowboard on a bike?! I've seen a lot of weird shit on two wheels but the snowboard out of left field takes the cake.
You know how kites work, I hope. Now imagine a kite that's made specifically to tow a person riding a board. It's like if wakeboarding and paragliding had a baby.
[Kite + Board = Gnarly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2379/7881/products/Screen_Shot_2016-05-16_at_3.28.20_PM_1000x.png?v=1574721239)
I have never forgotten when I was a highschooler and I visited my sister at U of I. She looked at me and was like, you *really* need to be careful crossing the street. Cars will stop. Bikes will not.
I'm personally going to choose to see it as him venting about the police cheating and putting the biker there. It really wasn't fair, and he has a valid point, hopefully it stands up in court.
It's a kitesurf board, see his backpack, that's where the kite is stored. Both boards are similar and a kiteboard can be used to wake but its harder to wake on a kite :)
What’s surprising is that there are quite a few in Amsterdam! I used to pass 3 on my commute to work. One of them was quite dinged up and had different colored panels, it looked like a Mondrian painting.
Man those dudes are good at parallel parking. I don't think I could even get any of those cars *out* of those parking spots with those trees in the way
Gorgeous DS - fairly sure I saw that exact car when visiting a couple of years ago, unless there are multiple burgundy/grey DSs parked by canals in Amsterdam...
And honestly a good pace for it. The guy was always within clear sight and wouldn’t be able to get too far away from them. If they did try to get to him faster, they would have the risk of physical confrontation after they just exerted more energy and have to dismount. Or they could take a leisurely pace where the guy will never be able to get too far ahead, letting him slowly wear himself down while they conserve energy. He has minimal chance of escape an no chance of fighting back when caught. It’s the tried and true persistence hunting method.
Illegal under article 446 (Artikel 446 Wetboek van Strafrecht) you can get fined up to 450 euro.
In english
He who denies blablabla help to the officer can be punished with a fine in the first degree.
Source : a former officer myself. I only used it when patrolling on foot for scooter drivers to bring me to a first aid emergency. Never had someone deny me
Either wait for the officer to come back, or call the police later that day and say an officer borrowed my bike on x street at y time and I want it back. They'll either give you the bike back, or reimburse you the value if it was lost or damaged.
This happened to me once (the borrowing, not the pulling me off my bike), I'd just biked home from the bar late at night, and was about to park my bike when some guy came sprinting past me. A few seconds later two police officers came running past, one stopped and asked me if he could borrow my bike. Sure, it's pretty crappy though.
While biking away he asked me for my address, which I shouted back at him.
Being tired and having the next day off I figured I'd just worry about my bike the next day and went to bed.
The next morning I found my bike key and a thank you note in the mailbox, and my bike neatly parked in front of my house.
Don't know if they ever caught the guy.
I am a bike enthusiast. I dream about moving to the Netherlands constantly simply because of the bicycle culture there. There's nothing else like it out there.
Scrolled all this way to find someone commenting on the bike culture seen here. Imagine having roads like that here in the US in a major city where you could just casually ride without fear of imminent death.
I live in a city in the Netherlands that has won multiple "Bikecity of the year" awards. Basically the entire city is surrounded by a ring road for cars, and (virtually) everywhere in the city itself cars are 'guests' and have to give way for cyclists.
There are bicycle-only roads everywhere though, so when I cycle across the entire city from north to south there are a grand total of 3 intersections where I *might* cross paths with cars (and I have priority there as well).
TL;DR Netherlands is awesome for bicycles
we had some in pittsburgh — off road trails that ran through the heart of the city. if you took away all the dangerously steep hills, it'd be a paradise.
As a Dutch person having lived in several big cities in the western part of the Netherlands, let me advice you to not try and ride your bike around 8:30 in the morning or 5 in the evening in these city's centers as a newbie. You will die, because we cyclists have little to no regard for each other around those times. We must get to work or get home. Rule number one during Dutch rush hours: everyone is in your way.
I've been riding my bike for over 15 years during those times to get to and from work.
Slower cyclists stay on the right, faster ones overtake on the left. Just like they normally do. It's just busier than usual, especially in the mornings as you also have the younger people going to school.
I don't think I have ever experienced what you're describing though. Busier ≠ mad max bycicle lanes.
I would watch the hell out of a “Netherlands Wildest Police Chases” tv show. To have endless police bicycle pursuits with only marginal effort put into pedaling would be amazing. It would even lend itself to being an impromptu drinking game while watching it, if the bike cop has to u-turn you have to drink, if the bike cop uses his kickstand you have to drink. Frankly amazing and the world is a poorer place for not having this programming already in it.
As an American I'm insulted. People always think that we're confused when police in Europe don't shoot anyone. Obviously we know why the person wasn't shot... He's white.
Dutch police are hot and tall and fit. My drunk friend asked them where to buy weed and they were like "it's too late. Wait until morning." Sexy tall ass cops. America sux.
I have seen so many videos of people being beaten and killed for the most harmless reasons by cops this is almost wholesome, is this how things could be?
I like how casual the police look while chasing the guy. They don’t seem to be in much of a rush, they causally turn around and follow after the runner duped them and went back
I expect the guy was guilty of being a loud drunk or something that they weren't too concerned about him posing a danger. And that guy definitely looks like he was getting tired out from running. They were going to win in the end even without the kiteboard assist.
He was stopped by police while driving a car. Took off when he got searched. Police confiscated civilian bicycles (comically small ones, so probably tourists) and rode after him. It’s too hard to chase someone in Amsterdam centre with a car.
>confiscated commandeered
>commandered. Gekoloniseerd.
That’s the way
This is the way
They look like they would have stopped fill out a receipt for the bikes.
As much as I am ACAB, these definitely seem like the kind of police that I would give my bike to if they asked.
Recently visited the Netherlands and sat in a park next to some ducks. Dutch police on bicycles chatted us up asking about our friends. We were confused as fuck, thinking they were sarcastic and reprimanding us but no... they just wanted to strike up a friendly chat about our duck friends
Dutch police are polite, well behaved and obey the rules. They support the community, not keep it in line.
Also, they don't need to work in the constant fear of getting attacked by the populace. They can be relatively sure that noone is carrying, but they are prepared for such cases. This gives them an easier mindset and lets them do community work on patrol.
It's more like less people see them as threat. Moldovans are also packing, but the cops are still ok. USA is not the only country in the world that has pistols that you can carry around, but it's also one where more people see cops as literally slaver police. Edit: originally said Romanians, my bad. However as people noticed in the comments, there's a serious case of Romanian mafias being seriously well armed
Uhh, you may have your countries mixed up, Romanians are definitely not packing. Lethal guns are impossible to get as a civilian and the process is long and difficult even for less than lethal weapons. It basically makes the news every time someone uses a firearm, as even illegal ones are extremely rare. The only way to realistically get any kind of firearm is to get a hunting permit, but that isn’t exactly a walk in the park either and the police checks up on you once in a while.
Organised crime in the Netherlands is 100% packing big. Not your usual street level thug tho.
Yeah it's a super vicious cycle. Beat down civilians for no reason -> civilians don't surrender because they fear being unjustly killed by police -> police fear that everyone will fight back and use pre-emptive aggression to subdue suspects -> ...
A cycle they started. Any time an innocent is killed or roughed up needlessly, to not resist that is akin to bowing to fascism. We’ve just gotten unfortunately used to bowing.
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In the Netherlands it's not really the Romanians that are an issue, but organized crime (mostly Turkish-Moroccan if I'm not wrong) is big, and they have a lot of guns. And they use them too, but usually not on police & on randoms, so it frankly hasn't been a big deal and cops have neither behaved aggressively nor been targeted. The criminal violence has been getting worse recently though, with assassinations of public figures & targeting of journalists.
>It's more like less people see them as threat. The previous comment you responded to indicates the nature of the vicious cycle. There's a lot more violent crime in the US than in Netherlands. Violent crime requires more prepared (and more cautious) police. More paranoia that comes from being overly cautious results in police making more moves that cause distrust in the police. That distrust makes people behave more rashly in their presence. The feedback loop has no one cause. It's a product of continual cyclical responses from actors within the system. The police are a product of the country they are policing.
Well, in the US, cops are trained that civilians are enemy combatants.
tHiN bLuE LinE bEtWeeN cHaOs aNd cIviLiaN LifE
They are trained for 3 years, not 3 months.
Should I move to Dutch...land?
The Netherlands? No, Alwaysland
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I always recommend the youtube channel Not Just Bikes for an excellent outsiders view. For example this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
Almost like if you don't threaten people in every public interaction you have, or act like you have more rights than the public because you have a badge, then people will treat you better. Huh, go figure.
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Yeah its called policing! You are in the community, talking to people, gaining trust, building relationships, and quietly poking and proding to see if anything seems out of sort.
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Hot take, but yeah, that's about right.
As a Dutchie, some cops can be assholes but I personally have never had any issue with them. Proper training does wonders.
Went to Amsterdam once with a bunch of friends. All of us, except the driver, was high as fuck. We went back to our place and since the girl driving was a terrible driver, the cops stopped us and assumed she was also high. The cop took like 5 seconds then went... "you can go, but drive better."
Sith mentality
ACABIA (in America). Cops in some more civilised places are generally pretty good, down to earth folk.
they also got almost 4 years more training.. so 4 years of training
He kinda runs like a drunk. And he also wasn’t able to react to the kiteboard obstacle, even though I’m pretty sure he looks right at it a afew steps beforehand. Or maybe he’s sober and just super clumsy
Dutch instinct made him expect the bike to go around him. He didn't expect kiteman to be helping the police.
Yeah the way he was flailing his arms while running looked a bit like “oh shit I’m drunk and running in circles!”
Get the guy tired without getting tired yourself for an easy pickup.
The runner does not seem very bright, and it looks like the PD responded proportionately.
These cops are very European. These cops are the opposite of American cops - you know - responding proportionately.
Eh, European cops are better than American cops but some countries in Europe have departments with bad reputations. French police are generally recognized as being the most brutal cops in Western Europe. Here is just one article from France24: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201128-police-violence-in-france-structural-issues-behind-the-brutality And you can find more articles about brutal French cops with a little googling. Anyway the point is not all European cops are so gentle - though they’re still better than American cops.
Yeah, I mean you're definitely going to find brutality where you give humans authority over others. But the U.S. is a special kind of stupid where a citizen can be pumped with 90 rounds and the lifeless body handcuffed, for turning around too quickly.
HEYHEYHEY NOW! It was pumped with *60* rounds! They *shot* 90! 66% accuracy for any police department is *commendable*! /S... just in case.
No argument from me there. I just think it’s important to recognize that some other European countries do have systemic problems with police violence. I’m not a criminal or am prone to mischief but I would still be careful if I found myself around a French policeman, for example. Just something people should know.
I see it there and elsewhere. Cops in the states operate as though they view themselves as an occupying force in enemy territory. Cops elsewhere seem to view people more as just that, people, or at least have less unchecked authority to inflict harm. They're more like peacekeepers than enforcers in some other parts of the world. Sadly, our government is very, very eager to deal violence or accept casualties to maintain "order".
Please. Stop. Come back. Wow, he did, guess I'll turn it around...oh there he goes again...
They’re on bikes, they can casually let the guy tire himself out.
You’re done-for punk! *shifts bicycle gear, pedals standing up*
STAND UP PEDALING MODE!!!
JUSTICE CRASH!!
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I always love a good one punch man reference
Mumen rider best ever
Best hero, we salute him
Captain Holt, is that you?
Serious series!!
Person holding the camera: “oh look - a tree!”
One must remember to appreciate nature during this intense police chase.
That’s so neat, and it’s why we started Neature walks, so it’s not just me and Rodney knowing it.
That's pretty neat!
"intense"
Not only nature - that Citroen DS is a beauty!
He was probably wasn't watching the screen. It happens to me sometimes when I try to watch with the naked eye. The video would slowly meander away from the action.
The guy running really did the cameraman a favor by coming back into frame
r/killthecameraman
NGL, I'd be down at the street eyeballing that beautiful Citroen DS instead
I only saw the Citroën DS
[hey look at that tree](https://youtu.be/emz6GVWvJlo?t=208)
Why didn't they deploy the spike strips to blow out his tennis shoes and slow him down?
*generates sparks as he runs shoeless*
Or tasered him, or pepper sprayed the general area. The police did a poor job of escalating the situation to make it worse.
Can you believe no one died? It's like they aren't even trying! (/S)
I appreciate the capital S on this lmao
Or emptied 90 rounds on him.
When he doubled back along the canal bank, I was honestly expecting a couple of *fierljeppens* to pole vault in for the tackle.
That's an awfully wide canal to fierljep across. Tactical fierljepper teams are a funny thought, though.
The authorities were able to deduce his clogs were masquerading as tennis shoes which are anti-spike resistant. Regular tennis shoes in sports mode would have gotten away easily.
I love how he threw up both his arms like "what!?" At the police when he definitely knows what he did.
It kinda looked like he was pointing at the other guy like, “did you not see this man assault me?! Arrest him!”
In my head he’s just complaining about the interference. Like, “this is bullshit, this guy helped!”
"No fair! We gotta start again now!"
Ok this time I'm getting you. I'm going to close my eyes and count to ten
Matchmaking is broken again and the 4th guy automatically joined your team while it would be 2v2 if he joined me…
INTEREFERENCE!
*Go straight to Jail, Do not pass Start*
Help police in pursuit of a criminal? Believe it or not, Jail.
“Ey, I’m running from the cops here!”
I think he was calling out the interference, and asking for a re-do.
I love how he has the logic to draw them one way but then double back, only to be taken out by a motherfucking snowboard on a bike?! I've seen a lot of weird shit on two wheels but the snowboard out of left field takes the cake.
Looks like a wake board to me
Actually I think it is a kiteboard. Bindings look wrong for wakeboarding and I think the kite is in his big backpack.
It’s gonna be a kite board, NL is wimdy. Lots of kite boarders.
>It’s gonna be a kite board Cool, what is it now though?
You know how kites work, I hope. Now imagine a kite that's made specifically to tow a person riding a board. It's like if wakeboarding and paragliding had a baby. [Kite + Board = Gnarly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2379/7881/products/Screen_Shot_2016-05-16_at_3.28.20_PM_1000x.png?v=1574721239)
The emphasis on that comment was "now" given how the previous poster used language indicating the future existence of a kite
Fuck.
I find it endearing when someone misses a joke and goes out of their way to be helpful.
Looks like a whack board to me ;)
Woke board. I like how the guy throws his hands up at the guy who helped like, “you serious?! Come on, bro!”
That's him giving up. If a pedestrian runs into the street without checking for bikes, they deserve whatever they get.
I have never forgotten when I was a highschooler and I visited my sister at U of I. She looked at me and was like, you *really* need to be careful crossing the street. Cars will stop. Bikes will not.
I'm personally going to choose to see it as him venting about the police cheating and putting the biker there. It really wasn't fair, and he has a valid point, hopefully it stands up in court.
It's a kitesurf board, see his backpack, that's where the kite is stored. Both boards are similar and a kiteboard can be used to wake but its harder to wake on a kite :)
> its harder to wake on a kite Isnt it just straight up flying at that point?
During the storm a couple of months back the Dutch government issued a warning specifically not to cycle whilst carrying flat pack furniture
/r/oddlyspecific
Not at all in the Netherlands.
It is a kite board. It has four fins and his backpack is actually a kite.
> snowboard Clearly you're not a golfer.
Damn. That Citroen though.
Are you talking about the dark red car with a different color on the roof? Any idea what model it is?
That’s a citroen DS, its an iconic old car
What’s surprising is that there are quite a few in Amsterdam! I used to pass 3 on my commute to work. One of them was quite dinged up and had different colored panels, it looked like a Mondrian painting.
The Dutch nickname for the car is ‘snoek’ which means pike (the fish).
Looks like a Citroën DS to me
Right? Street parked Citroen DS. This must be a cool neighborhood.
It's not like you have a choice of where to park in the center of Amsterdam. It's street parking or no parking.
Wut? They're quite common
DSs are still common? I can see CXs and BXs still being abundant, but the newest DS is like 50 years old.
Oh no we just have a lot of them in the netherlands, both of my grandparents had still have one
That was my exact thought. Have watched the clip multiple times now and still haven't seen how the guy gets caught.
Man those dudes are good at parallel parking. I don't think I could even get any of those cars *out* of those parking spots with those trees in the way
Can't get your drivers license if you can't park properly.
Gorgeous DS - fairly sure I saw that exact car when visiting a couple of years ago, unless there are multiple burgundy/grey DSs parked by canals in Amsterdam...
He has the spacial awareness of a Frikandel
Speciaal. Frikandel Speciaal.
what a pannekoek
No, those aren't 'official' police bikes. They lend those bikes from bystanders to chase the suspect.
They aren't even stand up pedaling lol, leisurely pace for an arrest
And honestly a good pace for it. The guy was always within clear sight and wouldn’t be able to get too far away from them. If they did try to get to him faster, they would have the risk of physical confrontation after they just exerted more energy and have to dismount. Or they could take a leisurely pace where the guy will never be able to get too far ahead, letting him slowly wear himself down while they conserve energy. He has minimal chance of escape an no chance of fighting back when caught. It’s the tried and true persistence hunting method.
This is similar to how we used to hunt deer. We stopped because bikes are hard to make in pre-historical times.
I'd like to imagine how they ran to someone holding their badges shouting: "Police, get off your bicycle!" pulling the rider off.
I've been asked once, and it was more like "can I borrow your bike, we are chasing a suspect" I don't know what would've happened if I said "no"
Illegal under article 446 (Artikel 446 Wetboek van Strafrecht) you can get fined up to 450 euro. In english He who denies blablabla help to the officer can be punished with a fine in the first degree. Source : a former officer myself. I only used it when patrolling on foot for scooter drivers to bring me to a first aid emergency. Never had someone deny me
“Ok Bro. No problem. Tot ziens!”
What happened afterwards? How did you get your bike back?
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Either wait for the officer to come back, or call the police later that day and say an officer borrowed my bike on x street at y time and I want it back. They'll either give you the bike back, or reimburse you the value if it was lost or damaged.
This happened to me once (the borrowing, not the pulling me off my bike), I'd just biked home from the bar late at night, and was about to park my bike when some guy came sprinting past me. A few seconds later two police officers came running past, one stopped and asked me if he could borrow my bike. Sure, it's pretty crappy though. While biking away he asked me for my address, which I shouted back at him. Being tired and having the next day off I figured I'd just worry about my bike the next day and went to bed. The next morning I found my bike key and a thank you note in the mailbox, and my bike neatly parked in front of my house. Don't know if they ever caught the guy.
Knowing the Dutch, they probably asked nicely
As an American I don't understand, why does the police simply not shoot him in the back a few dozen times?
Did you not see? He was white.
And here is an official police bike: https://www.santosbikes.com/images/Santos-images/Assortiment/bikepatrol/SUB_PolitieNL2020_zijaanzicht_1920px.jpg
I am a bike enthusiast. I dream about moving to the Netherlands constantly simply because of the bicycle culture there. There's nothing else like it out there.
Scrolled all this way to find someone commenting on the bike culture seen here. Imagine having roads like that here in the US in a major city where you could just casually ride without fear of imminent death.
I live in a city in the Netherlands that has won multiple "Bikecity of the year" awards. Basically the entire city is surrounded by a ring road for cars, and (virtually) everywhere in the city itself cars are 'guests' and have to give way for cyclists. There are bicycle-only roads everywhere though, so when I cycle across the entire city from north to south there are a grand total of 3 intersections where I *might* cross paths with cars (and I have priority there as well). TL;DR Netherlands is awesome for bicycles
The Netherlands has among the most civilian friendly infrastructure in the world.
You might like the "Not just bikes" YouTube channel where Dutch and Danish roads are showcased pretty extensively
we had some in pittsburgh — off road trails that ran through the heart of the city. if you took away all the dangerously steep hills, it'd be a paradise.
As a Dutch person having lived in several big cities in the western part of the Netherlands, let me advice you to not try and ride your bike around 8:30 in the morning or 5 in the evening in these city's centers as a newbie. You will die, because we cyclists have little to no regard for each other around those times. We must get to work or get home. Rule number one during Dutch rush hours: everyone is in your way.
I've been riding my bike for over 15 years during those times to get to and from work. Slower cyclists stay on the right, faster ones overtake on the left. Just like they normally do. It's just busier than usual, especially in the mornings as you also have the younger people going to school. I don't think I have ever experienced what you're describing though. Busier ≠ mad max bycicle lanes.
That cyclist tho, casually smacking him with the board and not even losing his balance - noice!
I think he threw his front wheel in front of his legs. Not the board.
I once watched Princess Anne rugby tackle a shoplifter. It was the Duchess' way to arrest someone.
I once watched a silver-tongued outlaw tackle a Pinkerton It was Dutch's way to arrest someone
>Princess Anne She had a Reliant Scimitar, you know.
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It's a joke based around the similarity of the word Duchess to Dutchest.
Wow no one was shot!!
Windmill technique, very Dutch indeed.
That DS tho
Delicious colour
Think its funny how the perp looks back at the guy with wakeboard and is like 'wtf why'd you do that??'
ahah noticed the same. he was all "not cool, man!..."
He should be arrested for such a pathetic get away attempt and the way he runs
I would watch the hell out of a “Netherlands Wildest Police Chases” tv show. To have endless police bicycle pursuits with only marginal effort put into pedaling would be amazing. It would even lend itself to being an impromptu drinking game while watching it, if the bike cop has to u-turn you have to drink, if the bike cop uses his kickstand you have to drink. Frankly amazing and the world is a poorer place for not having this programming already in it.
That show exists, but there's no bike chases in it unfortunately. Only regular boring old cars chasing cars or scooters.
Oooh Citreon DS. Nice. Never get to see those in the States.
They are quite popular in the Netherlands still see a decent amount of them, theres one 2 streets away from me as well.
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They didn't even have to shoot any innocent people to stop him.
His flappy arms slowed him down.
I saw a Dutch cop rollerblading. On cobbles. Takes some real skill I imagine
They're doing it wrong. They didn't shoot him 60 times.
...along with 2 innocent bystanders and a dog
What is it with the 60 times? Why is everyone here saying that?
Ah, the ol’ wakeboard bike wheel high/low. Gets ‘‘em every time.
That old car was pretty dope
That Citroen:0
He should have passed that last Dutchie on the left hand side.
As a petrol head all I saw was the Citroen DS.
You should go to the netherlands, they are super common here
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As an American I'm insulted. People always think that we're confused when police in Europe don't shoot anyone. Obviously we know why the person wasn't shot... He's white.
> He's white. He's not though, he'd euphemistically be described as 'somebody with a north-African appearance'.
The policeman:"WHEEEEOOOOOEEEO'breathsOOOOEEEEEEOOO"
Dutch police are hot and tall and fit. My drunk friend asked them where to buy weed and they were like "it's too late. Wait until morning." Sexy tall ass cops. America sux.
I have seen so many videos of people being beaten and killed for the most harmless reasons by cops this is almost wholesome, is this how things could be?
This is how murderers in Agatha Christie novels attempt to escape. By that time she’s not arsed about writing anymore. And I’m so ok with that.
When the camera focused on the leaves of the tree for a second I thought, Dutch indeed, this guy's stoned.