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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!g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: May London Critical Mass. Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:28:10 -0700 (PDT) References: <31db5eb0-7741-40ca-a8dd-2494b36ed186@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>  <250b6d84-9f6b-43ce-8c91-01ecd2e25558@v2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <2b6f6fba-613d-4353-b6be-514c492b22a3@s21g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Lines: 37 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1243974490 20968 127.0.0.1 (2 Jun 2009 20:28:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.27; 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: 2936 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:706667

On May 31, 4:58=A0pm, Doug  wrote: > On 31 May, 15:14, francis  wrote: > > > On May 31, 11:32=A0am, Tom Crispin > > >  wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 May 2009 00:05:26 -0700 (PDT), Doug  > > > wrote: > > > > >Estimated over 1,000 riders. Interesting video, taken from Penny- > > > >farthing? > > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbXbMdPKKvuc > > > > Very nice video, showing Critical Mass at its best. > > > Interesting video. > > Did the police instruct them to go through red lights, block traffic & > > drive through pedestrians crossing on their phase of the traffic > > lights? > > Quote: > > "couple of cops hassled us, driving car through with siren then > stopping at front to tell us to keep moving. idiots. heard one cyclist > got punched in face and bicycle driven over by white van driver. > also saw a nasty incident with a trapped motorcyclist who basically > revved up and ploughed his way through several bikes, narrowly > avoiding seriously injuring anyone, but damaging several bikes in the > process - total nutter. people got pics and his number though. > otherwise great atmosphere."

I really cannot imagine how anyone (even a sanctimonious car-hater) can possibly think that they can take the moral high ground after deliberately provoking and delaying someone for *no reason whatsoever*. It shows what the minority of motorist-hating militant cyclists are all about very effectively.