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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!p9g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <993646dc-a255-4218-9d83-1997fc6bd416@p9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: 200 quid fine for cycling in 'Games Lanes' Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:17:24 -0700 (PDT) References: <2SEKp.7615$fQ4.2858@newsfe16.ams2> Lines: 39 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 1308367044 725 127.0.0.1 (18 Jun 2011 03:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p9g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3530 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:813377

On Jun 17, 10:10=A0am, "Mrcheerful"  wrote: > Cyclists just want everything their own way. > > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23961315-cyclists-usin...

Good, the car-hating psycholists will get a dose of their own medicine for once. I bet they were coming in their pants at the idea of Communist-style lanes heaping yet more restrictions on those terrible selfish motorists (and with an even bigger fine than normal)...until it transpired that cyclists will (for once) be (mis)treated the same way. Serves them bloody right.

I can't wait until the first psycholist complains on here that "I was using an empty lane on an empty road at 11:30pm, I wasn't getting in anyone's way, and now I've been landed with a =A3200 fine...it's just a money-making anti-cyclist ploy and there's no need to have a VIP lane there anyway...why can't they at least use some discretion?" I will then take great delight in smugly reminding them that "The law is the law", "You knew the risks of going in the lane so don't complain now you've been caught", and all the other sanctimonious cliches, while deliberately ignoring the points they've made. At long last they will know what it feels like to get stung for a ridiculous amount of money for a victimless technical infringement which is only being enforced 1) for financial gain, 2) to make some (most) road users feel like second class citizens for ideological reasons and 3) because it's easier than going after the real lawbreakers.

The only disappointment is that since cyclists don't have registration plates, the revenue-raising "enforcement" method of choice (cameras) won't work against them (unless they get some kind of facial recognition working in time for the Games...you never know your luck, and there are always plenty of technology firms looking for a slice of the lucrative traffic enforcement pie). But anyway, hopefully there'll be plenty of police officers pulling them over instead...after all it's very important to keep the lanes clear for corrupt FIFA bastards, friends of despotic leaders and all the other worthless scum who for some reason have more of a right to see the Olympics than those who have been in this country, and looking forward to the Olympics here, for their whole lives.