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On Mar 23, 2:12=A0pm, Ian Smith  wrote: > The police basically couldn't care.

Do you not think that if cyclists didn't have a reputation as car- hating wankers who deliberately picked fights with motorists, then the police would take them more seriously when they complained about incidents with drivers? Yes, it's only a few bad apples who give the other cyclists that reputation. But as ever, the sensible cyclists don't do enough to distance themselves from the car-hating fuckwits. And it's the same on this group: all cyclists have to suffer because they don't have the guts to tell the Spindrifts of this world to fuck off, and make it clear to everyone else that they do *not* represent normal cyclists.

At the moment, how are the police supposed to tell the difference between a cyclist who has genuinely been bullied by a motorist, and a Spindrift-esque wanker who has gone out with the express aim of engineering conflict with drivers just because he hates them? *How* are they supposed to tell the difference? If you were a police officer who knew that car-hating, conflict-seeking cyclists existed, wouldn't you wonder whether every cyclist was one of them? How can anyone possibly deny that the car-hating twats make genuine complaints from cyclists seem less plausible?

One day, the penny will finally drop.