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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!reader02.news.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e1b850e$0$2938$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Another attack on a cyclist. Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:19:41 +0100 References: <3dc014cb-a8cd-457d-9142-4dfbe0edd4c4@d1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <3uae171jj1gi6e4k1kr93281majh2p23oh@4ax.com> <63e366a6-a033-42cb-a4f8-947f00dd487c@q1g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>    <60d6ab2c-502c-40b7-98be-2d5616f79518@bl1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4e1aa14e$0$2492$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <69a4fcd7-f2ea-4f39-9324-ce5d55c7e05a@z14g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4e1b2f48$0$2482$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <84ca5acb-475d-43e8-91a0-aeabdefabc36@z14g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <84ca5acb-475d-43e8-91a0-aeabdefabc36@z14g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 79eb7a83.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC==7iVhW@1\Si1PHEoBToc[dYjZGX^207Pk` On Jul 11, 6:13 pm, Nuxx Bar  wrote: >> >> The driver, backed up by his girlfriend, tells his side of the story >> (i.e. the truth). The judge, having seen lying psycholists before, says >> that he is inclined to believe the driver, finds in his favour, and >> mandates that in all subsequent similar cases, the cyclist must show >> footage of at least a minute's length both before and after the incident >> to establish context and show that they're not a lying car-hating >> psycholist cnut. >> > > I would be very surprised at that highly unlikely scenario. > Cyclists are, by and large, out to enjoy themselves, or just getting > from A+B and not out looking for trouble. > If I may say so, your viewpoint is highly extreme and not connected > with the real world. > The "psycholists" you seem to have a problem with are, in the vast > majority, drivers themselves and have no "saving the planet" agenda at > all. They are just ordinary people getting along with others as best > they can.

Believe me, I truly wish you were right. Then I remember about Chapman, Ian Jackson, Spindrift, Doug....