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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!o30g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling,uk.legal Subject: Re: Police bias in favour of motorists. Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 08:13:28 -0700 (PDT) References: <774ulmF1fnn6nU12@mid.individual.net> <5KWdnYc76L062pDXnZ2dnUVZ8vednZ2d@pipex.net>    <7754kjF1fnn6nU17@mid.individual.net>  <7755r6F1fnn6nU20@mid.individual.net>    <775o3pF1fpoejU2@mid.individual.net>   <7776k0F1g4fi4U2@mid.individual.net> <-MmdncKGssML5JPXnZ2dnUVZ8vCdnZ2d@bt.com>    Lines: 47 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242486808 10909 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2009 15:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o30g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; 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: 4085 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701898

On May 16, 12:29=A0pm, "Brimstone"  wrote: > mileburner wrote: > > "Brimstone"  wrote in message > >news:CKmdnUs9_qvl5pPXnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com... > >> Keith T wrote: > >>> Adrian wrote: > > >>>> So - in your "real" world, kids should be free to play wherever and > >>>> whenever they want? > > >>>> Supermarket aisles? > >>>> Railway platforms? > >>>> Electricity substations? > > >>> When I were a lad we didn't have many supermarkets. > >>> You forgot - tree climbing, railway yards, dumped cars, any > >>> available building site, derelict houses, lighting fires, smashing > >>> bottles, seeing if you could go down steep hill with no hands on > >>> the bars, rope swings that have a 50 foot drop under them. > >>> Oh, and cycling in to central London (on the roads) from the age of > >>> 11. > >>> I had such a cossetted childhood, kept away from danger, never > >>> learning to make my own decisions, never learning about risk taking, > >>> always indoors with my stamp collection. Not. > > >>> Far, far better to have them indoors on the Playstation - keeps 'em > >>> safe and out of harm's way. Ffs, kid survived, maybe even learned a > >>> bit. > > >> Learned a lot more than most young people (i.e. up to early mid > >> twenties) seem to have done these days. > > > I see Adrian has taken you back to his imaginary world and is again > > using ludicrous comparisons to somehow prove his point. Certainly in > > terms of behaviour, my own children have been clearly taught where > > they can run around and play and where they should not. It is also > > drummed into them the dangers of darting across the road, especially > > between parked cars. But Adrian likes to believe that the punishment > > should be death if any child is to be unfortunate enough to have > > parents who are not 100% in control of children 100% of the time. I > > guess he is rather dominated by his Mummy - even now. > > What a pillock you are.

For once I agree. Of course car-haters who say "I don't hate cars" usually are pillocks.