Watch: Viral video of cyclist taking revenge on catcalling driver turns out to be fake

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A video that has gone viral on Youtube shows cyclist being verbally harassed by two men in a car. The cyclist is seen receiving a barrage of inappropriate and abusive comments from the men in the car at a red light in London. When the light turns green the white van drives away and the young women continues as well. A block later the white van pulls over and the cyclist, as she rides by, stops and rips the right side mirror off the van before riding away. The whole encounter was filmed by a motorcyclist with a GoPro camera on their helmet. As of Friday morning, the video has 3,692,572 views on Youtube.

The video was released by viral content firm Jungle Creations but a witness has told The Sun that they had seen what appeared to be actors receiving instructions before the video was filmed.

The company released a statement that said, “It has come to our attention that a video distributed on our Facebook channel Viral Thread on 21st February 2017 may be factually incorrect. We rigorously vet all content received from third parties to ascertain its credibility, but unfortunately our usual high standards were not met on this video.”

It continued, “We are committed to ensuring and protecting the integrity of content on our channels and we take matters of this nature extremely seriously. We’ve since started an internal investigation to make sure it doesn’t happen again. The video has now been removed from all Jungle Creations social media channels and we wholeheartedly apologise for confusion caused.”

According to a construction worker having a break across the street from where the crew was preparing to film who spoke to The Sun, the actors prepared by practicing the scene two or three times and supposedly the car mirror was also loose to make it easier for the women to pull it off. The bystander said he was very surprised when he say the video online.