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From: Peter Grange on 26 Nov 2009 05:19 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:09:33 -0800 (PST), webreader <websitereader(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >Why do the police not do anything about the likes of these cyclists. >Yet again proof that cyclists get special consideration unlike >motorists. > > Why are you posting this on URC? I don't think you'll find a majority here who believe any lawbreakers should not be punished to the extent the law provides. Talk to your MP or Chief Constable. -- Pete
From: David Hansen on 26 Nov 2009 05:23 On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:15:48 +0000 someone who may be Peter Grange <peter(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote this:- >What's road tax please? Something that was abolished in the 1930s. Even when it did exist it only paid for up to half of the cost of improvements to roads of national importance and up to a quarter of the cost of improvements to other roads. The rest of the cost of improvements and all of the costs of maintenance, policing and so on came out of general taxation. However, I'm sure Mr Darling is grateful to those people who are making voluntary "road tax" donations to his piggybank. >Pretty much everyone in the uk pays tax, how do you recognise the >non-taxpayers please? Presumably, if the ranters are to be believed, they are those people who ride bikes. -- David Hansen, Edinburgh I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukpga_20000023_en_8#pt3-pb3-l1g54
From: Steve Firth on 26 Nov 2009 05:36 Peter Grange <peter(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I don't think you'll find a majority > here who believe any lawbreakers should not be punished to the extent > the law provides. So you all differ in your opinion to that of the CTC, which repeatedly states that cycliusts should not be punished to the extent that the law provides? Or are you being disingenuous and simply stating that since the majority of cyclists who kill pedestrians walk free after the event that the situation should continue? Or, is it that you think that the one cyclist, Darren Hall, who served prison time for killing a pedestrian received a just sentence of seven months of which he served less than half?
From: Peter Grange on 26 Nov 2009 05:48 On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:36:52 +0000, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >Peter Grange <peter(a)plgrange.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> I don't think you'll find a majority >> here who believe any lawbreakers should not be punished to the extent >> the law provides. > >So you all differ in your opinion to that of the CTC, which repeatedly >states that cycliusts should not be punished to the extent that the law >provides? Or are you being disingenuous and simply stating that since >the majority of cyclists who kill pedestrians walk free after the event >that the situation should continue? Or, is it that you think that the >one cyclist, Darren Hall, who served prison time for killing a >pedestrian received a just sentence of seven months of which he served >less than half? I mean what I said. Interesting comment about the CTC though, do you have a quote for that? I'm a member and although I don't read everything they publish, I can't recall seeing anything to that effect. -- Pete
From: FrengaX on 26 Nov 2009 06:07
On Nov 26, 7:14 am, Doug <jag...(a)riseup.net> wrote: > On 25 Nov, 23:09, webreader <websiterea...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> Why do the police not do anything about the likes of these cyclists. > > Yet again proof that cyclists get special consideration unlike > > motorists. > > >http://tiny.cc/iOoJY > > Probably because the more enlightened among the police realise that > cyclists only do it to escape the serious dangers posed by drivers on > our roads. There's only one thing LESS enlightened than the police, and that's Doug. |