Take on the SUV Biker Battle

all anybody seems to be talking about is the dude, Alexian Lien, who got encircled by the angry group of bikers this weekend, which ended with the guy in the SUV getting ripped out of his car and beaten in front of his wife and two year old kid, after a long chase down the West Side Highway.    The entire event  started with a minor finder bender, which lead to the biker crew starting to bang against the guys door to intimidate them, which lead to him literally driving over a bunch of them to get away from them and then finally the guy getting beat down after the 10 mile chase..   

Having never been in exactly this situation, it's hard to know what you'd do, but I've been on the road when these bikers are on the road and it's friggin frightening.   I'm not sure if it's the ridiculously loud exhausts, the fact that they are speeding at 200 miles per hour or the fact that there are usually 10,000 of them.  These guys are completely intimidating, whether they intend to be or now..

But what really gets me is that when the chase begins, why Lien didn't just stay on the highway, maybe cross the bridge but instead this guy gets off on 175th street and gets stuck in traffic which was about as predictable as knowing what would happened next.   This is when the video cuts out but apparently the mob breaks his window, pulls him out of the car and beats the hell out of him..

anyway, the most memorable image is the video of the Lien driving off originally and runs over one of those dudes..  It looks like a great Land Rover commercial