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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <5ef58e5d-8467-4aa3-b7f1-127ebe6a6ea2@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cyclist gets one year for killing pedestrian. Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:22:20 -0700 (PDT) References:  <9b952b29-8ba2-40e4-aaf9-13b65a17e15d@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 25 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.145.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217290941 6087 127.0.0.1 (29 Jul 2008 00:22:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.145.93; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2487 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:659430

On Jul 27, 11:29=A0am, judith  wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:57:49 -0700 (PDT), spindrift > >  wrote: > >"in the other recent story the cyclist did call out. > >(Although he did shout something very stupid). " > > >No, he did not, that was made up by the prosecution. > > were you there? =A0Did the defence object and disagree with it?

No, Spindrift wasn't there, but as we know, when there's been an incident between a cyclist and another type of road user (particularly a motorist), Spindrift *always* sides with the cyclist, even when he hasn't got anything like enough information to be able to make such a decision.

In doing things like that, Spindrift and his ilk encourage division between different modes of transport, by attaching more importance to a person's mode of transport than what the person actually does. The cyclist is always right, no matter what; the motorist is always wrong. Such bitter prejudice is never a good thing, but when Spindrift and Crapman knowingly attempt to distort road safety data as a direct result of such prejudice, it potentially results in lives being lost. It's very sad.