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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!a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <8d81eb46-7bcc-4b4a-920d-d8ac9ef08de5@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Helmet cams no good if they refuse to prosecute. Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:17:54 -0800 (PST) References: <1cbcfa6c-4017-40a1-ba7c-2aa2959a23d4@s28g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Lines: 30 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1296843474 29994 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2011 18:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2941 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:798297

On Feb 3, 5:31=A0pm, Doug  wrote: > Reported in the current LCC mag and the Evening Standard last > November, a motorist was filmed with a headcam threatening to kill a > cyclist but the motorist dominated CPS refused to prosecute.

Good. Clear message sent out: you won't achieve anything (except possible injury or worse) by going out with a helmet cam and deliberately antagonising drivers. It's a message which obviously needs to be sent, since some rather sad people hate motorists so much that they try to goad them into committing offences which they then expect the already stretched public purse to pay for prosecuting them for. All part of the "two fingers to the establishment" image that the more extreme cyclists seem to be proud of.

If people want to exercise their legal entitlement to drive then that's up to them, however some irrational cyclists might hate it. If they don't like it then they should get the law changed rather than perpetrate these silly and spiteful vigilante attempts at direct action which don't work anyway. Also it does seem rather telling that those who go on the most about how dangerous cars supposedly are to cyclists are usually the "helmet cam warriors" or their supporters. Good examples are Ian Jackson and Magnatom/Spindrift.

And the "motorist-dominated CPS" have no problem with using the most disgusting tactics in order to bludgeon people into guilty pleas for speeding "offences", often when it's far from clear that they've committed any offence at all. The zeal with which they pursue speeding charges outstrips any other type of infringement from what I've seen. Certainly, charges against hardcore scumbags are dropped far too often for my liking.