[aditbelw]

A Lamborghini driver was allegedly cornered and beaten up by members of the public overrash and noisy driving on Sunday. Not many details are available about the incident, which occurred in northern Bengaluru's RT Nagar. Two residents are said to have filmed the attack on the Lamborghini driver. A woman who reportedly came to the driver's rescue was also assaulted. The attack was allegedly carried out by two workers of a political party. The residents who shot the video put it on Twitter, tagging Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao.

https://www.deccanherald.com/city/be...ar-850030.html

Read this news and wondering was this is the post Covid mental health of people or it's just jealousy. Anyone got more information about this incident?

[Nikhilb2008]

I heard through various WhatsApp groups that he was driving aggressively up and down the roads around that area. That is a residential area and people got furious.

I have no idea if they tried talking to him normally and requesting/warning him to stop this behaviour before assaulting him.

[Sree]

Nobody has the right to take justice onto their hands and decide on punishment.

Where would it end.

This is not how a mature society is supposed to behave.

Please note that I am not supporting the driver at all. I am not interested whether he did right or wrong

[BANDHAV]

I was wondering how there is not a video of this. Did a search on youtube and stumbled upon few videos. Apparently the Lambo driver dragged a Local (I am assuming) on the car.

http://youtu.be/CNMyrcSEb-M

[samaspire]

Here's what happened after the car stopped:

https://youtu.be/cFg1HbCYu3k

This is a post from the other guy in the car:

[momsonlydriver]

Originally Posted by samaspire

Here's what happened after the car stopped:

This is a post from the other guy in the car:

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The video was really painful and disgusting to watch. The sound cannot be the only reason for taking up this action.

There are many who enjoy exhaust notes of such beautiful cars creating history. There is always jealousy and hatred towards those who are blessed with a little more.

If I as a resident was affected by the sound of a car. A talk with the respected owner should have resolved the factor rather than following a cheap act. People here react very aggressively.

[v12]

This is indeed a very sad incident. Not sure what side we should believe in - but if you look at the start of the video, there are people with mobile phones recording a video even before the incident. The person hanging at the back could mean that the owner would have stopped and started a discussion. The person tried to drag him out of the car and the owner tried to flee with the person still hanging on to him. If the person was knocked down, he wouldn't have been hanging from the back of the car.

[SS80]

Honestly no one would dare to stop a big shot's car or any super expensive car just for the exhaust note alone. There must have been some other reason, which is not disclosed to public yet. Also note, the guys who manhandled the big shot will eventually face the heat. Anyone who owns a Lamborghini would definitely be some business man's son/daughter. Not a salaried class guy.

As a simple rule, never touch low class and high class, they don't let go things easily.

Road rage always feels like a right thing to do, but it's a immature act of violence.

[V.Narayan]

I cannot comment on this particular incident as all the facts are not known. But I'd like to share with our members how we addressed this exact problem in our apartment complex.

But before that, the fact that people were filming/ready to film before the car came into view indicates this problem has occurred before and the residents had got together to create evidence.

In our apartment complex we have several of these young drivers driving these L's and F's. Always young indicating they've been provided these cars by their parents. The complex has a 3 kms long boulevard with superb smooth tarmac. These drivers would often, in the early years run their cars at high speeds creating not only an unacceptable amount of noise but also endangering residents out for a walk or crossing the boulevard to get to the garden/facilities on the other side. No amount of requests, emails, personal visits had any effect on them. I hate to be prejudiced but in our case all the owners were nouveau riche and had a 'buzz off buster go do what you want' attitude expressed with impudence. We finally had to meet a top cop to put the fear of God into these folks. And we had to install speed breakers at over a dozen points inconveniencing all other drivers for all time.

Today when I see them crawling over those speedbreakers I chuckle to myself, 'you earned it mate'. My view here maybe prejudiced -- the objective of buying these cars is overwhelmingly to impress the neighbours and more importantly to impress the fairer sex. In my complex's case they certainly haven't impressed any neighbour.

[GTO]

Originally Posted by samaspire

Here's what happened after the car stopped

Especially if the residents took the law in their own hands and the Lamborghini had not hit anyone, then the Lamborghini driver should lodge a complaint with the police and initiate criminal proceedings. The video evidence is irrefutable. The courts are very strict about physical assault.

Of course, there is also the video of someone on the Lamborghini while the driver tries to get away. That could work against him. And if it was a hit-and-run, well, the fault is entirely with the Lamborghini driver then.

But if this was just over the exhaust noise, it's wrong. Very wrong. A supercar doing 50 kmph in 1st gear can make a lot of noise, giving the impression that it's doing 100 kmph when that's actually not the case.

[Raghav96]

Considering these ultra rich people have contacts at the right places(ranks), the residents will have a tough time if a case is lodged by the owner.

[Shreyans_Jain]

This is a very sad incident that reeks of loss of common sense and mob mentality. There is nothing that suggests overspeeding or any accident happening, while the crowd has ganged up on the Lamborghini in what looks like a premeditated attack. Assaulting a person just because you think the car is loud is the death of decency and civility. Such people deserve to be taken to task. I hope appropriate legal action is being taken against them.

[GrammarNazi]

The driver looks well in control when he didn't hit the cyclist who was carelessly & dangerously riding & criss-cross-ing the road at the turning, or even the person wandering onto the road. There isn't enough evidence to know what truly ensued before that, or of the driver having done anything wrong. Any-which-case, members of the public had no authority assaulting him or his vehicle.

Originally Posted by Raghav96

Considering these ultra rich people have contacts at the right places(ranks), the residents will have a tough time if a case is lodged by the owner.

Not everyone wants to use their 'reach' for scuffles & end up seeming to generally be a trouble-maker. I would guess that call would only happen if the driver believes he might be targeted again. This assessment is probably why the cops said (in the news article) that they hadn't formally received a complaint from the driver.

OTOH in general the driving skills of people seem to have become abit crude due to the extended lockdown. Generally the public is used to seeing these cars & the usual culture is rather liberal. Maybe more facts & proof might emerge (possibly from other CCTV cameras nearby), to give a fair idea.

[KMT]

Just searched on the web for this news.

It appears the police have booked a case in the owner for reckless driving.

The owner has not filed a complaint about the assault so no issues for the assaulters so far.

The assaulters supposedly are workers of a 'political party'.

The cops are on the lookout for the Lambo owner.

[Axe77]

Originally Posted by GTO

Especially if the residents took the law in their own hands and the Lamborghini had not hit anyone, then the Lamborghini driver should lodge a complaint with the police and initiate criminal proceedings. The video evidence is irrefutable. The courts are very strict about physical assault.

Of course, there is also the video of someone on the Lamborghini while the driver tries to get away. That could work against him. And if it was a hit-and-run, well, the fault is entirely with the Lamborghini driver then.

But if this was just over the exhaust noise, it's wrong. Very wrong. A supercar doing 50 kmph in 1st gear can make a lot of noise, giving the impression that it's doing 100 kmph when that's actually not the case.

I agree with this. Even on Marine Drive, very often big bikes and cars make a lot of noise but they're not necessarily going crazy fast but just in a low gear.

Also, it seems like the vigilante has jumped on to the car on his own volition -
any resultant risk he has clearly brought upon himself so the driver can still bring a case of assault on him. I think the driver has the right to defend himself first in such a situation.

Unless there is video evidence of rash driving harsh steps should be taken against the vigilantes. Even if he was rash driving they could have left it at taking the video and submitting the proof to the cops and following up on action taken.