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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!feeder.news-service.com!postnews.google.com!e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40a636bd-c39c-4b96-867f-49fe4c3adc3c@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Road rage incident this morning - advice? Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:17:38 -0700 (PDT) References: <77cd082e-0c07-463a-a8cf-bc379d412437@j8g2000yql.googlegroups.com>   Lines: 16 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238534258 18977 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2009 21:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2024 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:692425

On Mar 31, 6:42=A0pm, JNugent  wrote: > mileburner wrote: > > I have seriously considered carrying a baseball bat for protection from > > these morons when they decide to set upon the silly cyclist in the midd= le of > > the road. The only thing that stops me is that I know I would use it. > > If anyone has a better suggestion I'd love to hear it. > > Here's a better suggestion: don't carry a baseball bat. > > Taxi-drivers carrying a baseball bat in their cabs have been prosecuted f= or > possession of an offensive weapon (even though it was carried for defence= ).

I guess they could get away with carrying a wheel brace instead though?