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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4542c1b8-32de-45a3-ae8b-d4444728cd0c@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Potholed road with immaculate speed bumps Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:15:48 -0700 (PDT) References:    <98qc44p3248v87ht8kga7h07evsk96bs3j@4ax.com>  Lines: 33 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.217.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212646548 11468 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2008 06:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.217.66; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3135 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:651983

On Jun 4, 3:31=A0pm, POHB  wrote: > On 4 Jun, 11:08, Mark  wrote: > > > I don't share your enthusiasm about speed bumps and would fight any > > attempt to put them outside my home. =A0(A local man took a JCB to a > > speedbump outside his home because he could not sleep due to the extra > > noise and vibration.) > > I fought (OK I corresponded with the council) to get them reinstated > outside my house after they were removed for road resurfacing. > Without them the rat-runners and idiot kids were driving way too fast, > despite the 20MPH speed limit, and there were several collisions each > week. =A0The sound of crunching metal and glass was very disturbing to > my sleep.

Bloody "rat-runners", using your personal private road which has been a legal right of way for cars since they were invented (or the road was built). Some might argue that you should have bought a house on a cul-de-sac if you didn't want motorists going past your house, but that's clearly nonsense.

Anyone who doesn't want to give themselves away as a motorist-hater would do well to avoid such vile anti-motorist terms as "rat-runner". Alternatively, you could make sure that when driving you always stick to A and B roads everywhere that you possibly can, no matter how much congestion there is, to avoid being a complete and utter hypocrite (not to mention a "rat").

And this habit that NIMBYs like you have of saying that motorists on your road are driving "too fast", when you actually just object to their presence full stop, is dishonest. It also distorts road safety priorities, which results in lives being lost. Congratulations. Blood on hands.