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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!a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <6895505a-3045-4050-8107-c4ea2ebbe096@a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Police community support officers riding bikes on the pavement. Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:52:06 -0700 (PDT) References: <7bjruaF22ufafU1@mid.individual.net>  <1sl955l7cb7gudjonmee68n68048n63qfa@4ax.com> Lines: 21 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247125926 2013 127.0.0.1 (9 Jul 2009 07:52:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2218 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:715981

On Jul 8, 6:31=A0pm, Judith M Smith  wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:45:31 -0700 (PDT), spindrift > >  wrote: > >On 8 July, 16:22, Bod  wrote: > >> Noticed two of these casually riding inbetween pedestrians at our loca= l > >> shops yesterday.This didn't seem a good example to cyclists,simply > >> because they could have quite easily have walked with their bikes. > >> The pavement was quite crowded and a few peeps gave them funny looks. > >> Are they allowed to do this if there is no need? > > >> Bod > > >No harm done. > > IS it OK to break a law - if in your opinion "no harm is done"?

As long as the lawbreaker isn't a motorist. (If they are a motorist, they should receive a disproportionately heavy punishment, to remind them that they shouldn't be "driving a ton of metal at speed" at all.)