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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: US driver jailed for 5 years for assaulting cyclists Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:29:12 -0000 References:  Lines: 18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100111-0, 11/01/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 39a9106d.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=kI0OW05D1SDSRhWa=_nPTM0g@SS;SF6nGR9OH0:RnEND\C, simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk says... > > If only we had such sentences meted out in the UK, there may be fewer cases > of cyclists being abused and bullied on our roads. > > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/cyclist-sentenced.html

Of course, the telling thing is that many of the so-called "cycling advocates" who were watching that case were secretly hoping that the sentence would be low, so they had yet another excuse to whinge, step up their campaign against motorists and insinuate that all motorists are homicidal maniacs who are constantly looking for opportunities to run cyclists over.

It's unbelievable how twisted and perverse car-haters can be (and how much damage they do to the real cause of cycling as a result).