Running crystal meth, sure. Robbing rest stops, why not? But you know you've been watching too much Sons of Anarchy when it seems like a good idea to call up some of your biker cronies and terrorize an Asian family cruising along the Westside Highway on a lazy Sunday Afternoon. Apparently that's what motorcycle badasses do for fun these days, though. In a spectacularly frightening youtube video that I first confused as a sneak peak for the forthcoming "found footage" remake of Beyond Thunderdome, a pack of bikers surround a Range Rover, and force him to stop. Well, actually, it appears that one of the bikers brakes directly in front of the SUV and is clipped, which apparently gives the bikers even more of a reason to stir some shit up yo. What happens next is difficult to tell from the footage, but as the intimidating bikers converge on the SUV, the fearful driver guns it and runs over three bikes in an attempt to escape with his wife and two-year-old daughter.
The Range Rover gets caught in traffic several minutes into the ensuing chase, and the video ends with one biker yanking off his helmet and using it to smash the SUV window. What we don't see is the driver being dragged out of his vehicle in front of his wife and child and beaten on the street. Nor do we see one of the run-over bikers incurring some horrific injuries. While we haven't heard yet from the driver, who has been identified as Alexien Lien, we have heard from the seriously injured biker's family, who adamantly proclaimed him an innocent victim of the driver in this whole mess. They even have a "Justice for Jay Meeze" set up on facebook, which not only seeks donations for medical debt incurred by this "act of violence" but also calls for the driver to be charged with attempted manslaughter.
I do feel bad for the biker who may be paralyzed from the waist down, and I by no means implore a "He got what he deserved" philosophy that riddles the comments section of the youtube video. But referring to him as a victim is akin to calling a robber who breaks his back escaping from a third story church window as a martyr.
Video of the incident below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INfElroIKO0
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