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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 'Anyone who uses a vehicle as a weapon goes to prison'. Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:11:12 -0700 (PDT) References:      Lines: 83 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.154.122.73 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1240269072 8206 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2009 23:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.154.122.73; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3923 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:696921

On Apr 20, 5:59=A0pm, Tom Crispin  wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:20:32 +0100, "pk"  wrote: > >"burtthebike"  wrote in message > >news:j71Hl.39642$W21.12954@newsfe07.ams2... > > >> "Brimstone"  wrote in message > >>news:i6ydndA0ypKHHHHUnZ2dnUVZ8vSdnZ2d@bt.com... > >>> spindrift wrote: > >>>>http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/content/essex/recorder/news/story.as= ... > > >>>> A VIOLENT thug who used his car as a weapon to mow down a cyclist in= a > >>>> road rage attack is facing jail. > > >>> Serves the bastard right. Let him rot. > > >> So, he's got previous, he deliberately used a lethal weapon to attack > >> someone who suffered serious injury who posed no threat to him. =A0If = it was > >> anyone other than a cyclist, he'd go down for ten years, but since it = was > >> only a cyclist, I guess he'll get two, so out in less than one. > > >What bollocks you do write! > >" anyone other than a cyclist, he'd go down for ten years" !!! > > >GBH sentencing guidelines > >http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/assault-against-the%20pe... > > >Particularly grave injury or > >disfigurement results from a > >pre-meditated assault where a > >weapon has been used > > >3 years custody 2 - 4 years custody > >Pre-meditated assault where a > >weapon has been used > > >OR > > >Other assault where > >particularly grave injury results > >or a weapon has been used > > >18 months custody 12 months - 3 years > >custody > > >OR > > >Pre-meditated assault where > >no weapon has been used > > >36 weeks custody 24 weeks - 18 months > >custody > > >or > > >Other assault where no > >weapon has been used > > >24 weeks custody Community Order (High) - > >36 weeks custody > > OK - How about a uk.rec.cycling sweepstake... > > We all stake a virtual =A35 and the person closest to the actual > sentence gets to pretend that they can buy a bike, of their choice, > not exceeding the total value won. =A0They have to post their choice > here for us all to critisise and debate over alternate choices. > > Post your guess below: > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > burtthebike... 2 years. > Tom Crispin... =A018 months.

3 years 6 months.

(I don't particularly care, and I may well be completely wrong, but wouldn't the trolls just hate it if I won, or even beat most of them?)