Unlawful Detention

On 22/07/2011 12:17, Judith wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:33:05 +0100, Nuxx Bar wrote:

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You're entirely correct of course. Do you perchance have a Google
Groups link to the thread containing the "offending" Phil Knee post? I
know he X-No-Archives everything, but perhaps there's a reply or two
quoting it (since it's too barking to have been ignored!)

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From: Phil W Lee phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk
Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling
Subject: Traffic Light Detectors
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:45:24 +0000
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nobby considered Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:12:28 +0000 the
perfect time to write:

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:25:30 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:36:09 +0000, Phil W Lee
phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk said in
:

BTW, I've just thought of a method that works for any vehicle - call
the police on your cellphone, report the problem, and get clearance to
proceed.

Ha! I like that. And if it happens often enough they will be sure
to pressure the council to fix the problem :-)

Guy


Do you really think that the police will give you permission to
proceed?

If it doesn't, you can report it as "Unlawful detention"

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Thanks. Good old Phil Knee always comes up with the goods.

Pure Gold

Absolutely. Of course, with Mr Lee, the absurd things he says are only
part of what makes him so open to ****-taking; it's the fact that he
never retracts what he's said, even when he's clearly screwed up, which
makes him one of *the* targets (he could have saved some face by taking
back the "cabbie" remark for example, or at least passing it off as "a
joke" (albeit a very tasteless one)).

In that way, he's rather like Chapman (and other psycholists..."Never
retract or apologise as it makes you look weak"), although it does of
course go without saying that he's nowhere near as bad as The
Arch-Car-Hater overall. If I ever accuse anyone of that then I hereby
declare that I will apologise unreservedly and profusely to them. That
would be a truly horrible and unwarranted thing to say under any
circumstances.

On 22/07/2011 20:26, JNugent wrote:
On 22/07/2011 19:02, Dave - Cyclists VOR wrote:

On 21/07/2011 19:00, Nuxx Bar wrote:

Today, when cycling, I came to a vehicle-activated set of lights which
was on red. It didn't detect me on my bike and so stayed red, for a
good 3 minutes, until a car came up behind me and activated the lights
and they mercifully went green at last.

According to one of the more knowledgeable and respected posters in this
group, I was unlawfully detained by the council for that 3 minutes. How
do I go about reporting this very serious crime? Presumably the person
who falsely detained me can expect jail (a taste of his/her own
medicine), and I will be in line for compensation?

Did you have a compo cam?

When I think about what I could have done with that wasted 3 minutes of
my life, and what a changed man I was when I emerged from the dank,
hellish prison which was my adopted home for all that time, I firmly
believe that I will never be the same again after that horrific,
nightmarish and neverending experience (which I wouldn't wish upon my
worst enemy). Please, denizens of URC, help me, a poor, persecuted
cyclist, the likes of whom is regularly discussed and sympathised with
in this newsgroup, obtain adequate redress for the wicked and terrible
injustice which has been so callously inflicted upon me.

I'll be a witness, just tell me what to say.

That doesn't work unless he "finds" you on the internet and you can
suddenly remember being there and seeing it all happen but didn't think
it worth offering to be a witness at the time.

Sorry, wasn't thinking.


--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:29:37 +0100, Nuxx Bar wrote:


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Absolutely. Of course, with Mr Lee, the absurd things he says are only
part of what makes him so open to ****-taking; it's the fact that he
never retracts what he's said, even when he's clearly screwed up, which
makes him one of *the* targets (he could have saved some face by taking
back the "cabbie" remark for example, or at least passing it off as "a
joke" (albeit a very tasteless one)).

In that way, he's rather like Chapman (and other psycholists..."Never
retract or apologise as it makes you look weak"), although it does of
course go without saying that he's nowhere near as bad as The
Arch-Car-Hater overall. If I ever accuse anyone of that then I hereby
declare that I will apologise unreservedly and profusely to them. That
would be a truly horrible and unwarranted thing to say under any
circumstances.


Indeed - he once claimed that :

"The Office of Nation Statistics gives the
number of pedestrain deaths from trips & slips for 2007 (over 3,000)
as being higher than the number killed in all incidents involving
vehicles."


Which I said was pure ********. He never did apologise or give a link to the
Office of Nation sic Statistics to confirm his statement.

It is incredible that he actually thought that his statement was true and that
8 people were tripping up on a pavement and dying every day of the year.

"****wit" is too kind for him.

--
If the *******s won't do anything about the taxi driver risking
people's lives by dangerous driving, book him to take your kids on a
trip, then report him for kiddy-fiddling. He'll never drive a taxi
again.
Phil W Lee 6 February 2011