Nuxx:E73eea4b-ec51-4e99-b246-bcc70f772d86@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Reporting near miss to police - any point? Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:05:19 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 33 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.150.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244995519 21742 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2009 16:05:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:05:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.150.242; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3234 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:709807

On Jun 14, 11:16=A0am, Brown Cat  wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:43:22 -0700, Frank Jones wrote: > > So, some t*sser tries to force me off the road on my commute home this > > evening (him in a car, me on a bike, in case that's not obvious). There > > are no witnesses and thankfully no damage done but I do have his > > registration. =A0Is there any point in me reporting this to the police?= Or > > more specifically, can I realistically expect them to take any action? > > I'd rather not invest the time and effort if it is going to be futile. > > The most you can do is mount a camera on your bike and put the incident > on YouTube with the vehicle reg and people who know him might Google it.

Yeah, you could be like Spindrift (also known as "Magnatom") and go round trying to cause incidents with motorists just so that you can try to get them into trouble by giving the video to police and uploading it to YouTube. After all, someone's got to go round punishing those motorists for driving...maybe if it happens enough times, they'll all stop driving, since they don't drive because they need to or anything (goodness me no), they just do it to be dangerous and irresponsible.

Unfortunately, and shamefully, driving itself is not yet illegal, but we're working on trying to make it illegal through the back door by making speed limits so low that anyone driving at a remotely reasonable speed is exceeding them. We're pretty much there already with some speed limits, but others are still far too high. Eventually, once the highest speed limit is 5mph, driving will be de facto illegal, and people like Spindrift/Magnatom will no longer need to go round causing trouble with motorists, as the police will be able to nick them simply for driving at all (and won't that be just wonderful? The cager scum have escaped punishment for far too long and it's high time they paid for their decades of selfishness.)