‘Enjoy your six points!’ Moment motorist hating, cycling vigilante ‘pseudo cop’ exposes driver checking Instagram at the wheel

This is the moment a controversial driver-hating bike vigilante turned “so-called police officer” and stopped a motorist who was checking Instagram at the wheel.

Helmet camera footage of Adrian Chapmanlaw shows him pedaling towards a stationary white car through gridlocked traffic.

He knocks on the driver’s side window ‘like a police officer’ and when she closes the window he asks her: ‘Was that Instagram what I just saw?’

When she refuses to check her phone, he tells her: ‘I clearly saw it was Instagram.’

When the woman asks him who he is, Mr Chapmanlaw replies: ‘I’m just a member of the public with a camera, but you’ll get six points.’

Mr Chapmanlaw, a Liberal Democrat local councilor for Bournemouth, Dorset, uploaded the images to the Dorset Safer Roads Facebook page.

In the second similar video, he is seen stopping his bike next to a stationary car stopped in traffic to tell the driver that he should not use his mobile phone.

When the driver asked him if he was a police officer, Mr Chapmanlaw replied that he was a citizen and told him: ‘Enjoy your six points.’

In the second similar video, Mr Chapmanlaw is seen stopping his bike next to a car stopped in traffic and telling the driver not to use his mobile phone.

Mr Chapmanlaw, a Liberal Democrat local councilor for Bournemouth, uploaded the images to the Dorset Safer Roads Facebook page.

Mr Chapmanlaw, of Poole, Dorset, said he had reported almost 70 drivers to police for phone use since 2023 through Operation Snap.

The UK-wide police initiative allows members of the public to provide video and photographic evidence of driving offences.

While many praised him for his work, others accused him of being a ‘snitch’ and ‘friend’.

One motoring campaigner accused Mr Chapmanlaw of being a fake cop and, emboldened by Operation Snap, challenged drivers for wrongdoing.

Steve Moody, chairman of the BCP and Dorset Motorists group, said: ‘We call it the fake cop. He’s not a police officer, but he thinks he is.

‘He can’t talk to people like he’s a cop. Like a traffic police officer, he stands in front of drivers’ windows and bangs on them to accuse them of doing something wrong.

‘He thinks he can tell people what to do, but he has no authority.

‘This has security implications for him in particular because it’s only a matter of time before he does this to the wrong person.

‘I’m sure Operation Snap has its place, but where it goes wrong is that it’s open to individuals abusing it.’

Mr Chapmanlaw’s last two videos sparked outrage among other motorists online.

Wayne Nash commented on his page: ‘Aren’t you grass? He stopped traffic, it’s unlikely he’ll have an accident. Unlike stopping to chat in a moving lane on a bike.’

John Wilding said: ‘Sure they’re a better way to spend your time than a sad man on a 2-wheeler moralizing others like a failed traffic warden.’

Jue Bee said: ‘Is this what you do for fun, running around and snitching! What a sad life.”

He responded to her comment: ‘I was cycling from the EU, it was like a fish in a barrel.

‘What’s wrong with snitching? Don’t you think people who risk the safety of others should pay the price?’

Mr Chapmanlaw added: ‘The Highway Code is clear. Drivers should not use a hand-held mobile phone or similar device while driving. The law applies even when stopped in traffic or waiting at traffic lights.

‘I see drivers’ phones almost every time I leave the house.

‘I can’t always get evidence for Operation Snap.

‘I reported that almost 70 drivers have used phones since October 2023.

‘Exposing the attitudes of these drivers is part of the goal.

‘A lot of people fail to see how little some people care about the rules.’

Other road users came to Major Chapmanlaw’s defense, praising him for his safety campaign.

Julien Seguin said: ‘Every week I see drivers using their phones while driving and most of them are not stable.

‘I stopped confronting them because even when I remained calm and polite I was systematically abused.

‘This is a plague. This and close passes are my biggest problem.’

The councilor has previously been accused of deliberately trying to provoke conflict with drivers by inciting them and making his YouTube videos more interesting.

He had angry and abusive arguments with many drivers and called drivers who parked in zig-zags outside schools ‘scumbags’.

Recent videos he has posted show him confronting drivers he believes are driving improperly.

Mr Chapmanlaw said he had reported almost 70 drivers to police for phone use since 2023

In another, he embarrassed a disabled woman who parked her car on the curb in front of her home during a medical emergency.

And last month he came face to face with an ‘advanced driver’ when the pair argued over who had to give way when they approached a junction from opposite directions at the same time.

He also posted video of an argument he had with an Icelandic delivery driver, for whom he honked his horn for getting too close to his bike.

The delivery driver accused Mr Chapmanlaw of riding his bike outside the bike lane.