“I doubt he’d have tried it if a few of the lads were there!”
A video captured on a bike helmet camera shows a female motorcyclist being grabbed by an ‘inappropriate’ man in Manchester’s Northern Quarter as he climbed onto her bike.
Ellie, from Salford, was stationary at traffic lights on Oldham Street when a stranger ran into the road and, without her consent, jumped onto the back of her green Kawasaki ER-6F.
Startled by the man on her bike now grabbing her hips, the 32-year-old gave the intruder a ‘good whack,’ causing him to stumble away towards a group of men stood laughing.
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She can the be heard saying to her friend ‘oh my god, I’m actually shaking’, as she was asked ‘are you alright?’.
“I was so focused on not dropping the bike I genuinely didn’t even process how inappropriate the whole thing was until afterwards,” the shocked primary school worker wrote after the incident.
“Gave him a good whack though, so at least the survival instincts kicked in.”
Charlotte, a friend of Ellie’s who accompanied her during the incident, managed to record the man’s shameless act.
The footage amassed 430k likes online, with Ellie’s caption reading: “Someone come get their grandad. He’s out here touching women and bikes.
“Jokes aside, a man jumping onto a woman’s bike without consent is f***ing weird. I doubt he’d have tried it if a few of the lads were there!”
Many comments slammed the man’s behaviour, one viewer saying “It’s vile what men will do to women just to impress other men.”
Another user commented: “Getting assaulted in broad daylight. Unfortunately not an uncommon experience for us women.”
“This is disgusting oh my god, where do these men get the audacity?” another added.
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