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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!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: The Reverend Tom Crispinson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Blue light experiment. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:02:50 -0000 References:  <7llq86F3egke5U1@mid.individual.net>  Lines: 36 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.13 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 091107-0, 07/11/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: bd106038.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=@e`_cdO08>\QDmaGL9A^O]0g@SS;SF6nWR9OH0:RnENT[\Zo3\D9=, simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk says... > > "Mark McNeill"  wrote in message > news:7llq86F3egke5U1@mid.individual.net... > > > > >     (a)  a blue warning beacon or special warning lamp, or > > > > > >     (b)  a device which resembles a blue warning beacon or a special > >     warning lamp, whether the same is in working order or not. > > Presumably those boy racers who have blue leds all over their cars are > clamped down on then.

They're not flashing, so they're OK.

> The guy who has used them for 3 years has only been > stopped once by the police and that was to say what a good idea it was and > that they would far prefer not to have to scrape him off the road than to do > him for a technicality.

Right, so with cyclists, you're quite happy for petty technicalities to be ignored if it's for the greater good, but with motorists, "The law is the law" and technical infringements have to be prosecuted to the letter no matter what the overall consequences. And if the motorist then tries to "wriggle out of it on a technicality", that's bad as you're concerned.

Ergo, you're happy for technicalities to be ignored when common sense dictates it - unless that technicality can be used against a motorist. Like mileburner in other words. While I've never thought of you as also being a member of the URC Car-Haters' Club (Dishonorary President: Chapman), I must admit I'm struggling to find an explanation other than "He doesn't like motorists".