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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a
very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ Mrcheerful |
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Oxford motorists immune from crackdowns.
On Nov 25, 8:05*am, "Mrcheerful" wrote:
In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. *The receipt was stamped by the police. *The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! *The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued.http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...ews/8672181.St... Pity the police do not conduct a similar campaign against faulty cars, probably because they are motorists themselves and therefore hate cyclists anyway, like the motorists who infest this cycling newsgroup -- . UK Radical Campaigns. http://www.zing.icom43.net A driving licence is a licence to kill. |
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Oxford motorists immune from crackdowns.
On Nov 25, 8:43*am, Doug wrote:
On Nov 25, 8:05*am, "Mrcheerful" wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. *The receipt was stamped by the police. *The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! *The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued.http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...ews/8672181.St... Pity the police do not conduct a similar campaign against faulty cars, probably because they are motorists themselves and therefore hate cyclists anyway, like the motorists who infest this cycling newsgroup But they do have such campaigns. The fact that they are so common means they are not reported. |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
"Mrcheerful" wrote:
In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ Mrcheerful Order them on-line and return them under the 7 day rule. Bypasses the local police and shops completely. I think Oxford students might be a tad less dim than you. -- Tony |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
Tony Raven wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ Mrcheerful Order them on-line and return them under the 7 day rule. Bypasses the local police and shops completely. I think Oxford students might be a tad less dim than you. aah, so you have to be clever to be a serial law breaking cyclist, glad I am not in that case. |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:05:50 -0000, "Mrcheerful"
wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ Mrcheerful Wicked "During a three-hour operation in High Street, Oxford, on Monday, November 1, 106 cycles were issued with £30 fines for riding without lights." I think this is quite unfair. The majority will have had working lights when they set off - but the batteries will have failed en-route. |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
On 25 Nov 2010 08:55:16 GMT, Tony Raven wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ Mrcheerful Order them on-line and return them under the 7 day rule. Bypasses the local police and shops completely. I think Oxford students might be a tad less dim than you. Good job you're not dim. Good point I will forward you letter to the police and suggest that they hang on to the receipts for at least seven days and the cyclists have to make a second journey to the police station after 7 days if they want them back. Thanks for grassing them up. -- Latest figures from DfT: KSI per billion passenger kilometres: Van: 5 people Bus/Coach: 9 people Car : 18 people Pedestrians: 358 people Oh : and of course cyclists: Cyclists: 541 people Of those four modes of transport - which is the most dangerous? (With thanks to Justin Lewis for asking me to find out the figures) |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
On 25/11/2010 10:01, JMS wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:05:50 -0000, "Mrcheerful" wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ Mrcheerful Wicked "During a three-hour operation in High Street, Oxford, on Monday, November 1, 106 cycles were issued with £30 fines for riding without lights." I think this is quite unfair. The majority will have had working lights when they set off - but the batteries will have failed en-route. More likely, is that when the cyclists set off, there was no power going to their brains. -- Bod |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
On Nov 25, 10:01*am, JMS wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:05:50 -0000, "Mrcheerful" wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. *The receipt was stamped by the police. *The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! *The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...ews/8672181.St... Mrcheerful Wicked "During a three-hour operation in High Street, Oxford, on Monday, November 1, 106 cycles were issued with 30 fines for riding without lights." I think this is quite unfair. The majority will have had working lights when they set off - but the batteries will have failed en-route. Police recently (well, now I come to think about it 2-3 years ago) did a similar thing with child seats. They turned up at schools, and *warned* the parents who were driving illegally (no FPNs - just verbally) what they needed to do. They then went back a month later, and issued almost as many FPNs as they had warnings. I.e. people had ignored them. It was quite an amusing radio piece, as this gobby "innit" chavvy women tried to go on about how the police was "persecuting" them, but couldn't answer the reporters (fair point) about why they chose to do nothing despite having had a months notice. |
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Oxford cyclists too dim to take the break that was offered
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:01:03 +0000, JMS
wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:05:50 -0000, "Mrcheerful" wrote: In the Oxford crackdown on unlit cycles which netted 106 unlit bikes in a very short time, the police issued 30pound FPNs, but agreed to waive that if a receipt for bike lights was produced in 7 days. The receipt was stamped by the police. The cyclists have then been returning the lights and asking for refunds!! The police have asked that any shop that refunds for the lights get and pass on names and addresses of the serial lawbreakers so that a 60 pound fpn can be issued. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/...g_light_fines/ As a matter of interest, are you still allowed to use dynamo lights on bikes? They were a really good idea from a practical point of view, even though they didn't produce much light (and none when the vehicle was stationary). Especially good were the 'dynohubs' as they didn't significantly increase the drag. No flat batteries, theft resistant. -- Max Demian |
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