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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e383e09$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: A bike becomes suddenly viable. Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:12:24 +0100 References:  <99qnpiFha9U2@mid.individual.net> Lines: 43 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99qnpiFha9U2@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: b3d00290.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=9O\h0U:dZ=`gGaNM=ULn>o0g@SS;SF6ngR9OH0:RnENdil^C9_LA;Zg`:ITG5aA:cg;V:Do\?dDTi X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2809 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:819969

On 02/08/2011 17:43, JNugent wrote: > On 02/08/2011 16:23, Simon Mason wrote: >> "A BOOZY Selston motorist has been ordered off the road after he >> failed to >> give a breath specimen to police. Christopher Smith, a foreman with an >> Alfreton engineering company, is now getting on his bike to work, >> Chesterfield magistrates heard. >> >> Smith was driving a van along Church Street West, Pinxton, at 12.45am >> on June >> 4 when he was pulled up by police. Officers smelled booze on his >> breath and >> asked if he had had a drink. He replied: "Too much" and was arrested, >> said >> Louise Winter, prosecuting. >> >> Smith was taken to Chesterfield police station where he failed to >> provide the >> two breath specimens required for analysis. >> >> Ms Bosworth added: "He has been cycling to and from work since the >> offence. >> He intends to sell the van and give the money to his partner to >> purchase a >> vehicle." >> >> Smith (33) of Alma Road, Selston, admitted failing to provide a breath >> specimen for analysis. He had no previous convictions. >> >> He was fined £415, with £85 costs, and banned from driving for 16 >> months. The >> disqualification will be cut to a year if he passes a drink-driving >> rehabilitation course." >> >> http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/local/drink_driver_banned_from_road_1_3638501 > > Is this story good or bad?

Depends whether or not you want everyone to be controlled by being forced out of their cars/vans and onto bikes, I suppose. Extraordinary though it may sound, I believe that there are some people who do want that, and I'm told that some of them even post to uk.rec.cycling. Can't think who they might be....