Wire strung across "cycle route"

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this article yet
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...et/3127389.stm), about a
13 year old riding into a piece of wire strung across a cycle route at neck
height. The police are treating it as a serious attempt "to maim a rider",
it seems.

Colin

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Colin wrote:
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this article yet
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...et/3127389.stm), about a
13 year old riding into a piece of wire strung across a cycle route at neck
height. The police are treating it as a serious attempt "to maim a rider",
it seems.


quote:
Police believe it was strung at cyclist's neck height - three feet above
the ground - in an attempt to seriously hurt someone.
endquote.

3 feet?
That's a metre right?
Neck height for who?

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On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:38:21 +0100, Doesnotcompute
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3 feet?
That's a metre right?
Neck height for who?

A recumbenteer!
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Richard Bates wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 20:38:21 +0100, Doesnotcompute
in
wrote:


3 feet?
That's a metre right?
Neck height for who?


A recumbenteer!


ah yes of course. silly me.

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In article , one of infinite monkeys
at the keyboard of Richard Bates wrote:
A few nights ago I was caught out by two teenage lads *pretending* to
unwind some thread across the road. I slowed down until they laughed
at me. After I had passed them I felt like doing a U-turn and doing a
"cycle-by-shooting" of the nasal kind.

But I refrained: Afterall they may use some *real* nylon thread next
time.

As an early-teenager, I was on my granny's bike when I was felled by a
twine across the road. Some kiddies were playing tennis or something
across it! I gave them a good ticking off: took my cue from the bike's
ownership to say *I* was OK, but just think if it had been some little
old lady!

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"doobrie" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this article yet
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...et/3127389.stm), about
a
13 year old riding into a piece of wire strung across a cycle route at
neck
height. The police are treating it as a serious attempt "to maim a
rider",
it seems.

Colin

thats sickening isnt it ... forget maiming, could easily have been
decapitation

Absolutely....attempted murder by any other name!!
'course, it's appeared in the local rag tonight, with record distribution
figures for local rags, so guess what the little darlings round these 'ere
parts are going to be doing for the remainder of the school hols ;-)
Dave (wearing a neck brace for the next 3.5 weeks, just in case.)

"Doesnotcompute" wrote in message
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quote:
Police believe it was strung at cyclist's neck height - three feet above
the ground - in an attempt to seriously hurt someone.
endquote.

3 feet?
That's a metre right?
Neck height for who?

Another danger of riding on the dark side?

Some of the local oiks did this with the hazard tape we had placed across
the entrances to the Hetton-Lyons circuit during a BHPC race a few years
ago. Fortunately it's very stretchy, as I discovered when it tried to
remove my head, and they did it at the top of the hill so I wasn't going
very fast.

We don't go there any more.

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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"Tony Raven" wrote in message
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Equally bad is http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/3129249.stm

Ouch. Why is such reckless criminal behaviour treated so softly?

Gonzalez wrote in message . ..
Tony Raven wrote:

Equally bad is http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/3129249.stm

I don't believe it. Kill someone and you don't even go to gaol.

That's because cyclists don't count as real people. There does seem to
be a get-out-jail-free card hidden inside every car which shows just
how blind justice isn't.

LN