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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone02.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe25.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.legal,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cyclists going through red traffic lights Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:06:01 +0000 References: <72h0pkFpshmdU1@mid.individual.net> <81da1a72-951c-4473-99db-d16f48840e19@s20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <0f387294-b4a6-4979-bb79-4414a0cd300e@13g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0f387294-b4a6-4979-bb79-4414a0cd300e@13g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.12.82.202 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe25.ams2 1237597586 86.12.82.202 (Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:06:26 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:06:26 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3013 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:690382

Nuxx Bar wrote: > On Mar 20, 8:20 am, Doug  wrote: >> On 20 Mar, 08:00, "Iain"  wrote:> I have just walked back from the shops. >> >>> As I was going, I came to the traffic lights just by Willesden bus garage. >>> Two sets were red. From each of these sets, a cyclist went straight through >>> them. >>> As I was returning, past the same set of lights, I saw I cyclist waiting for >>> the lights to turn green. I felt like giving him one of my oranges! >>> Can the cycling community not do something to dissuade these people from >>> jumping the lights? It certainly causes frustration from drivers who have >>> to so frequently watch this deliberate flaunting of the law, and continues >>> to give cyclists such a poor name - certainly within London. >> In London cars can frequently be observed going through red lights too >> and they are much more dangerous than cycles. So, your point? > > You KNOW that cyclists jump red lights far more often than motorists. > Why do you always sweep such facts under the carpet? Oh yeah, because > you hate motorists, and you hate motorists simply because you can't be > one anymore. > > "If I can't have something, no-one can." That's the pathologically > spiteful way that Duhg the Holocaust Denier views the world. > > Like Glug, his sole saving grace is that he admits to hating > motorists. That's one more saving grace than the liar Chapman and the > mentalist Spindrift, who both *still* keep up their farcical "I don't > have a problem with motorists" nonsense. I'm still trying to work out > just who they think they're fooling.

You give him far too much credit. Glug has _no_ saving graces at all, save for the one when he gets SMIDSY'd and we all laugh like drains.