Nuxx:A28f28c6-025b-4a46-a397-a6c72efd1adb@k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Child Death In Redditch Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:31:41 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 21 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.129.172 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217964701 25681 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2008 19:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.129.172; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2405 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:660972

On Aug 5, 12:35=A0pm, Paul Boyd  wrote: > Nuxx Bar said the following on 05/08/2008 06:13: > > > An interesting message from elsewhere. =A0A 10-year-old boy on his bike > > was killed on a heavily traffic calmed, bus-only road. =A0Hardly a > > surprise, then, that there has been no mention of it here on > > uk.rec.anti-motorist, since no motorist can be blamed, and no anti- > > motorist measures can be called for as a result of the tragedy. > > What has this to do with cycling? =A0On average, something like 8 or 9 > people per day are killed by motor vehicles on UK roads. =A0Why did you > pick just one death on one day in a twisted attempt to slag off > cyclists? =A0How do you think this boy's family will feel about you using > his death to promote your own self-interest?

I didn't "slag off cyclists". I like cyclists, except for the few who are also motorist-haters and/or arseholes towards other road users. The only people who I slagged off were the anti-motorist idiots who are so quick to blame car drivers for collisions, but are much less enthusiastic about blaming bus drivers (this incident being a case in point).