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I just watched the Tour of Britain go by! An entertaining spectacle indeed; I've never seen a Tour pass by before. If I'd followed the route for long enough then I probably would have encountered Crapman, together with a golden opportunity to rid the world of his malicious motorist-hating ass for good, simply by "accidentally" pushing him into the path of one of the many support vehicles passing. Oh well, he'll keep.

It got me thinking though. There I was, on the pavement of a road with a 30mph limit, yet in advance of the race, many vehicles were passing well in excess of the speed limit. Strangely, I felt perfectly safe, and amazingly enough (get this), *no accidents* were caused by those vehicles going above 30mph. Can you believe it? How is this possible, when even one vehicle (let alone over a hundred) exceeding the Magic Arbitrary Number is normally labelled unacceptably dangerous by the trolls? And what of the trolls who were also standing watching the Tour today? How could they possibly have thought themselves safe with all the exceeding of the speed limit that was going on?

Could it be that (shock horror) the trolls don't really believe that speeding is dangerous at all, and only pretend to think otherwise when they think it gives them an opportunity to turn the screw yet further on the beleaguered motorist? Surely if they believed that speeding was that dangerous, you wouldn't see them for dust when they knew that so many vehicles were going to be passing within inches of them doing just that. And surely they would be incredibly surprised each and every time a Tour happened, complete with speeding vehicles, yet no accidents occurred as a result of those vehicles speeding. But they're never surprised in the slightest, because they know perfectly well how dangerous speeding *really* is, along with the rest of us.