Do you know who I am? How Hull’s Ronnie Pickering became an internet sensation

A VIDEO of a road rage incident in Hull has gone viral after it was posted to the internet at the weekend, posing the question among thousands of viewers: Who is Ronnie Pickering?

The video, strewn with four-letter words, shows a disagreement between a car driver and a man on a moped, who filmed the incident and posted it to YouTube.

A scene from the video on YouTubeplaceholder image
A scene from the video on YouTube

At one point, the driver shouts: “Do you know who I am? Ronnie f****** Pickering!” He then challenges the cyclist to a bareknuckle fight.

The eponymous Mr Pickering, according to his profiles on Facebook and other sites, is a 51-year-old from Hull, who has a Yorkshire terrier called Baxter.

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