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On Feb 3, 11:27=A0pm, Phil W Lee  wrote: > Which is why the barrister concerned gave the criminal an opportunity > to either retract or repeat the threat.

I didn't realise people were "criminals" now before they'd even been charged, let alone convicted. I know the last Labour government did a lot to take away our fundamental centuries-old rights, but I didn't think they'd gone that far (yet). I trust that if the CPS refused to prosecute a cyclist for threatening someone, you'd call them a criminal as well?

BTW have you ever threatened anyone when cycling? I'm quite sure you've got a short fuse at the best of times, especially when you're on a bike and therefore fizzing with machismo-proving testosterone. Tell me I'm wrong.

I think that could be the problem with belligerent cyclists in general: too much testosterone. Compulsory oestrogen injections for all cyclists should sort it. (I should really point out now that I'm joking, since I wouldn't put it past some here to think otherwise.)

> Unfortunately, it seems that law enforcement is as rare in the CPS as > it is on the roads.

Well I agree with you there: there should certainly be more (proper) police officers enforcing *all* the necessary-to-enforce rules of the road. You know scameras are responsible for the decline in same? "Why pay for someone to enforce road safety law if a magic accident- reducing machine can do it instead?"

And for the second time, have you ever posted as Phil Lee? I wonder why you won't answer the question?