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If you're on this cycle path
Whatever you do, don't break down. Apparently if you walk on it you
will be "robustly prosecuted". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html |
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If you're on this cycle path
iakobski wrote:
Whatever you do, don't break down. Apparently if you walk on it you will be "robustly prosecuted". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html I once suffered a faulty disc brake overheating and seizing full on on my motorcycle on the Forth Road Bridge. That made it impossible to move the motorcycle until the brake had cooled down. But you're not allowed to stop on the Forth Road Bridge. This caused baffled consternation and heated debate among sundry brain-damaged bridge officials for about ten minutes. After which time the brake had cooled down and solved the problem for them :-) It's very kind of the public services to offer employment to these poor people. -- Chris Malcolm +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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If you're on this cycle path
iakobski wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html There simply has to be more to that story. |
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If you're on this cycle path
On 17 Oct 2005 01:49:10 -0700 someone who may be "iakobski"
wrote this:- Whatever you do, don't break down. Apparently if you walk on it you will be "robustly prosecuted". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html That is the ****e so-called cycle path in Dundee, to use which one is supposed to have an "identity" card. -- David Hansen, Edinburgh | PGP email preferred-key number F566DA0E I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government prevents me by using the RIP Act 2000. |
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If you're on this cycle path
iakobski wrote:
Whatever you do, don't break down. Apparently if you walk on it you will be "robustly prosecuted". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html Would be interesting to scoot it with one foot on a pedal and see if they did you then quote Crank v Brookes as evidence you were not walking. -- Tony "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon |
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If you're on this cycle path
Tony Raven wrote:
iakobski wrote: Whatever you do, don't break down. Apparently if you walk on it you will be "robustly prosecuted". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html Would be interesting to scoot it with one foot on a pedal and see if they did you then quote Crank v Brookes as evidence you were not walking. Anyone brave/mischievous enough to tackle it with a push scooter? Skates? Pogo-stick? -- Dave... |
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If you're on this cycle path
iakobski wrote:
Would be interesting to scoot it with one foot on a pedal and see if they did you then quote Crank v Brookes as evidence you were not walking. prompting dkahn400 to wonder: Anyone brave/mischievous enough to tackle it with a push scooter? Skates? Pogo-stick? If I was up that way I'd be tempted to try it on a unicycle. David Stone, a regular unicycle commuter in New York, recently posted to rec.sport.unicycling about having been stopped by a policemen who seemed worried that he might be a terrorist. -- Danny Colyer (my reply address is valid but checked infrequently) URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/ "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine |
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If you're on this cycle path
Simon Bennett wrote:
There simply has to be more to that story. Mmmmm top of the head not taking sides etc. Supposed to have a card to use that "cycle path" - She wasn't cycling so no "card" would be valid She was told not to proceed - By the gateman, but she did She was told to turn back - By the harbour master, but she didn't. Fair enough the rules surrounding that "cycle path" are ludicrous but if two seperate(?) people tell you not to do something and legally you shouldn't be there in the first place ... the phrase "author of your own misfortune" comes to mind. That article says she is being "done" for trespassing on the cycle path but I very much doubt that she will be being "done" for that, rather I feel she is being "done" for trespassing in a dockyard. Have a hunch that if she had been on a bike that had "broken down" any "lawmen" involved would have shown a bit of common sense and not "lifted" her, wouldn't surprise me if they threw the bike in the back of the wagon and driven her to the gate at the far side. Lots of feel and think in that post as I am not familiar with the case but reading between the lines (V-dangerous on usenet). -- This post contains no hidden meanings, no implications and certainly no hidden agendas so it should be taken at face value. The wrong words may be used this is due to my limitations with the English language . |
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If you're on this cycle path
David Hansen wrote: On 17 Oct 2005 01:49:10 -0700 someone who may be "iakobski" wrote this:- Whatever you do, don't break down. Apparently if you walk on it you will be "robustly prosecuted". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...829289,00.html That is the ****e so-called cycle path in Dundee, to use which one is supposed to have an "identity" card. Well it if is then it is. The requirement may be stupid or not but obviously the woman was abismally stupid. If I read it correctly Signs Gatekeeper Harbour master ( with megaphone) What did she want, HM to tell her she was breaking the law? I think she got off lightly. John Kane, Kingston ON Canada |
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If you're on this cycle path
Danny Colyer wrote:
iakobski wrote: Would be interesting to scoot it with one foot on a pedal and see if they did you then quote Crank v Brookes as evidence you were not walking. prompting dkahn400 to wonder: Anyone brave/mischievous enough to tackle it with a push scooter? Skates? Pogo-stick? If I was up that way I'd be tempted to try it on a unicycle. There's no doubt in my mind that riding a unicycle would definitely be cycling, as long as you didn't upd too often. In the official mind, however, who knows? Space Hopper anyone? David Stone, a regular unicycle commuter in New York, recently posted to rec.sport.unicycling about having been stopped by a policemen who seemed worried that he might be a terrorist. Well of course, it is a well-known Al Quaeda ploy to use uni-cycles. There was the suspicious case of the man of Arab appearance who enrolled in a uni-cycle course and told the instructors he wasn't particularly bothered about mounting or dismounting. He just wanted to be able to ride towards tall buildings. -- Dave... |
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