Motorist vs. dirt biker battle turns violent in Adams Corner

Get wowed by the floor show.

Glad to see the zeitgeist of Creeping In New Dot and Old Dot in a less than two minute video.

Is there a mirror somewhere? Or an account of what happened?

…. as a lethal weapon. If he had been driving an SUV or Mega Truck, we would be looking at a murder scene.

And that's why we all need round the clock police details.

A video that is as good as any drama on streaming narrative story telling (i.e., television, movies and video games). Better in the one aspect that this is real. More real than reality tv. With each person who owns a phone a potential videographer, producer, director, etc. where will the uploads of real life take us?

Vietnam was fought inside the US on television. The riots of the late 60s came into the "safe and secure" middle class homes via television. Yet in both situations there were mediators: government mediators who tried to prevent media showing the results of war. Corporate mediators deciding what they believed was acceptable and sufficient as their news products (i.e., evening and late night news). Even newspapers were still mediated by editors and publishers and the advertisers who bought space on the page.

Is this kind of news distribution - like this video - part of a democratization of news?
Taking away from the traditional mediators what is sold or given as news?

The impact on newspapers is obvious. Devastation. But what about television news? And what about the overall impact when anyone can be a news reporter?

Prior to the creation of the New York Times newspapers were by nature partisan. The Time claim was to be non-partisan. A new thing for that moment. Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, IHeartRadio and the other conservative media corps took the profession of news as a commodity back to being overtly partisan.

Can a genuine democratization of news (as product), when delivered through local sites such as Universal Hub (which itself can get the news product from Reddit which gets the product from the average Jane and Joe) help to rebalance the heavy handed partisanship and propagandistic orientation of Fox News, etc.?

Exciting!?!

"threw", not "through"

the the brawl may have started when the dirtbikers through rocks at the car.

The article seems to be describing the scene in the video, when the bike riders threw rocks at the car after it had already crashed. There's nothing to indicate that rocks were being thrown prior to the crash.

The opening sentence is ambiguous, but there's nothing in the body of the article to indicate that rocks were thrown prior to the events on video:

One video posted to Twitter appears to show a group of men cutting through the McDonald’s parking lot toward what appear to be parked dirt bikes or mopeds, when a red vehicle cuts into the lot, hitting one of the men and crashing into a metal fence.

The group immediately begins picking up rocks and hurling them at the red car’s windows before yanking the front doors open and pulling out the driver and one passenger. The driver then runs into the street, where he exchanges blows with at least one of the men.

Dirt bikes in cities have been menacing drivers for a while now. This of course does not give a driver the right to run them over. I would guess that both parties are at fault here and can both be charged. The dirt bike riders, especially when in groups, have been known to taunt and intimidate drivers around them. They even beat up an elderly man recently here in Boston. There are also countless shootings involving shooters getting away on a dirt bike.

Simply creating a dirt bike track somewhere in the city will not solve this issue. Many of the riders are not looking to go ride around in the dirt amongst the trees. They are using them for getting around the city as a cheap, quick, and easy mode of transport that is also fun and builds relationships with other riders. Some unfortunately are bad actors and they turn into something more like a biker gang. These particular groups of riders are definitely a menace to society and should not be allowed to take over city streets with dangerous and instigating antics.

Another thing to do would be following the law and not allowing vehicles that are not street legal on the road. It is ridiculous that they can’t enforce this law. Our political leaders do not see this as a problem that exists in their reality.

Dirt bikes in cities have been menacing drivers for a while now. This of course does not give a driver the right to run them over. I would guess that both parties are at fault here and can both be charged. The dirt bike riders, especially when in groups, have been known to taunt and intimidate drivers around them. They even beat up an elderly man recently here in Boston. There are also countless shootings involving shooters getting away on a dirt bike.

Simply creating a dirt bike track somewhere in the city will not solve this issue. Many of the riders are not looking to go ride around in the dirt amongst the trees. They are using them for getting around the city as a cheap, quick, and easy mode of transport that is also fun and builds relationships with other riders. Some unfortunately are bad actors and they turn into something more like a biker gang. These particular groups of riders are definitely a menace to society and should not be allowed to take over city streets with dangerous and instigating antics.

Another thing to do would be following the law and not allowing vehicles that are not street legal on the road. It is ridiculous that they can’t enforce this law. Our political leaders do not see this as a problem that exists in their reality.