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Florian Dagobert rides a Velib' on the Metro YouTube stillVideo: Parisian prankster drafts Metro train – on a Vélib’ hire bike
This probably isn't the first video shot on the Paris Metro you've seen in the past couple of weeks – but there isn’t a Chelsea fan in sight as a train pulls out of a station to reveal French prankster Florian Dagobert pedalling along the tracks behind it on one of the city’s Vélib’ hire bikes.
The clip was uploaded to YouTube at the start of February, but received wider attention this week when Dagobert confessed his escapade to police following a complaint from the city’s transport authority, the RATP, reports the Huffington Post.
He had two accomplices in the making of the clip, one filming, the other standing close to the emergency cut-off for the Metro power supply at the station at Rue St-Maur, just in case.
Dagobert has received a caution and will have to attend awareness training – awareness of what is unclear, but some might say his own foolhardiness would be a good place to start.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Mmm, the general opinion of this stunt is most unfavourable but I'm not so sure. There comes a point, you see, where stupidity reaches such stupendous heights as to become creditable and this episode must be near that level.
So, on reflection I'll give him a solid eight and invite him back for the semi-finals, where he must survive a week in a small room with Richard Hammond.
Read the article & comments before watching the video & have decided that this fool is not even worth the 45 seconds of my life that it would entail
The Metro uses 750V DC. What exactly would the other idiot next to the cut-off achieve? Crispy Critter is Crispy Critter no matter how long it's roasted for.
This gormless twat's selfish and irresponsible actions are completely beyond the pale.
This story about an idiot on a bike is not a bike story it is a story about an idiot. Please let the next comment be from RoadCC retracting this entry.
The worst 'article' I have read on RoadCC in some time
His video asks you to subscribe to his feed. I don't think he will live long enough to make many posts!
So that's drafting is it then? All I see is an idiot riding slowly on train tracks - how is this at all newsworthy?
Also why does prankster seem to be a euphemism for twat in headline writers minds?
'Third-rail awareness for attention-seeking imbeciles' would be my guess.