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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!s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <5d714e17-be5c-4d5b-8983-71d18850da10@s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Yesterday's ride 3:30 Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:29:57 -0700 (PDT) References: <8%FLl.8686$iK7.7569@newsfe08.ams2>   Lines: 40 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241972997 13994 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2009 16:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3044 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:700536

On May 9, 12:18=A0pm, Judith Smith  wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2009 23:21:48 -0700, "burtthebike" > > > >  wrote: > > >"burtthebike"  wrote in message > >news:8%FLl.8686$iK7.7569@newsfe08.ams2... > > >> I'll post about the outcome of the dangerous driving. > > >Update: =A0I've made a statement to the police, who have warned me that = a > >dangerous driving charge is unlikely to stick, but the CPS would go for > >inconsiderate driving. > > >However, received a phone call from the police station that the incident > >occured in, and the vehicle had false plates, so they can't trace the > >registered keeper. =A0No wonder they weren't worried about us getting th= e > >number. > > It's quite common that they tell you that - it's to stop you getting > them to waste their time - which you would have been doing. =A0What > would the point have been - your group's word against theirs.

Sounds highly likely. It's another case of the police assuming that a cyclist's complaint against a motorist is unlikely to be legitimate, thanks to a minority of car-haters having trashed the reputation of cyclists in general. That may not be a valid assumption to make in general, but in this case, luckily, it happens to be correct.

The likes of berktheshite and spindrift should have permanent markers against them on the PNC as "shit-stirring car-haters who make complaints about car drivers just for the sheer hell of it". Then the next time they make such a complaint, *they* should be investigated for wasting police time. Wouldn't that be great? The police are stretched enough as it is without the service being abused by fuckwits who have an idiotic axe to grind.