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He needs to work on how to not stop for da police. |
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M.C wrote: | So police can't pursue youths on peds but it's ok to go after a cyclist? I had this happen to me, I filtered round the wrong side of a traffic island (as a bus was blocking the road) and had two police motorcycles chase me down. £2500 sounds like a lot, regardless of if he's rich or not. |
Yes, we indeed live in a sick and corrupt society, in which police waste their time going after a reckless cyclist who's a menace to himself and others, when clearly there are worse crimes to prosecute...
With this kind of reasoning, no one would ever be prosecuted.
Did you read the story? If it is true (which is a big if, since it's the daily mail) that guy was absolutely mental.
Tell me, is there a threshold beyond which you may approve of going after a cyclist? Or is going after cyclists always wrong, no matter what the cyclist did?
£2,500 is not a lot for what he did. He should be thankful he can still cycle and ride; had he done anything even remotely similar on a motor vehicle, he would have been disqualified for I don't know how many years, and rightly so. |
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Less than a weeks wages probably. I'm sure he won't even notice the expense. Drop fines like that
on normal piss taking cyclists and you may see some modification of behaviour. Until then, nothing much will change. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Londoner2015 wrote: |
Yes, we indeed live in a sick and corrupt society, in which police waste their time going after a reckless cyclist who's a menace to himself and others, when clearly there are worse crimes to prosecute...
With this kind of reasoning, no one would ever be prosecuted.
Did you read the story? If it is true (which is a big if, since it's the daily mail) that guy was absolutely mental.
Tell me, is there a threshold beyond which you may approve of going after a cyclist? Or is going after cyclists always wrong, no matter what the cyclist did?
£2,500 is not a lot for what he did. He should be thankful he can still cycle and ride; had he done anything even remotely similar on a motor vehicle, he would have been disqualified for I don't know how many years, and rightly so. |
As G said, people on peds remove their helmet and the police automatically stop pursuing them for their own safety. I don't see pursuing a cyclist for a minor offence as justifiable. The guy was obviously an idiot in trying to get away, but I've known people who were caught driving uninsured and fined a lot less.
Londoner2015 wrote: | M.C wrote: | I filtered round the wrong side of a traffic island (as a bus was blocking the road) and had two police motorcycles chase me down. . |
How dare they? Shame on them! Don't they know that cyclists are exempt from all the laws of this island?
Motorcyclists, car and truck drivers: they are evil, not cyclists! |
That was after one of them forced me out of a right hand turn lane, which I took exception to. I didn't fancy sitting alongside them after that. Anyway the point was a cyclist with no helmet can be pursued, someone who's just stolen a ped', robbed someone can't? |
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Cycle through some bollards / down an alleyway or narrow path. Win Cuntstubble Mc redshoutyface won't want to waddle out of the panda car after you. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 123 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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