Shocking moment man cycles with child on his back merely gripping his neck - before biking the WRONG way through roundabout

Daily Mail​

7 days ago

This is the shocking moment a man in Northern Ireland was captured cycling on a road with a child strapped to his neck before riding the wrong way through a roundabout.
Footage shows the unknown adult male cycling on Springfield Road in west Belfast while a small child clings onto him.
The video also shows the pair going around a roundabout in the wrong direction, while a separate vehicle can be seen on the road driving close to them.
The shocking clip has been circulating on social media and has sparked outrage among viewers, who have condemned the man for riding on a bike with a child in an unsafe manner.
'A rally should be held against this idiot!!', one X user wrote.
Another called the man a 'headcase' for putting the child in danger.
'What a disgrace...child could have been killed,' a third wrote.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has said that they are aware of the footage and are investigating the incident.
'We are aware of a video circulating social media of an adult and a child cycling in an unsafe manner in the Springfield Road area of the city,' they said.
'If anyone has any information, or any further dashcam footage please contact us on 101 quoting serial number CC2025052901396'.
MailOnline has reached out to the PSNI for comment.
The clip comes a year after a father sparked outrage among doctors and social media users after a video appeared to show him swinging his infant around in the air.
The 35-second video seemingly showed the dad performing acrobatic-like stunts with his child, swinging the baby by the arms back and forth, over his head and between his legs.
Social media users were quick to criticise the stunt, noting not only the danger to his baby's joints but also the risk of brain injury.
It also could have resulted in dropping the baby, potentially killing him.
The video was captioned 'A bond between father and child', but thousands of viewers remarked that it appeared more like child abuse.
Physicians were also rattled by the video.
They said lifting a baby by the arms with no back support can result in a pulled elbow, in which the elbow joint dislocates the lower arm.
It can also lead to a traumatic brain injury, possibly from the brain shaking back and forth in the skull, and if the baby were to be dropped on its head.
Dr Stuart Fischer, an internal medicine doctor and former pediatrician in an emergency department, said: 'I would assume legally and morally that the infant should have a CAT scan or MRI.
'And that might not even show microscopic brain injury.'
The action of swinging your baby back and forth can lead to shaken baby syndrome, a severe head injury caused by the baby's brain rebounding back and forth in his skull.
It causes brain bruising and swelling, and possibly cerebral hemorrhage.
It's not clear how old the baby is, but his approximate age could be less than one year.
At that point, the baby's skull has not completely closed around the brain and hardened, protecting it from impact.
Between 1,000 and 3,000 babies suffer from shaken baby syndrome each year in the US, and one-fourth of them die.
Eighty percent of them suffer permanent damage to their brains.
Shaken baby syndrome can cause severe effects long-term, such as cerebral palsy, blindness, hearing loss, learning disabilities, seizures, paralysis, and death.
It can occur with just five seconds of shaking, and 35 seconds is likely to do far more damage.