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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2c3db4$0$2531$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Cyclist attacked by four men. Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:43:48 +0100 References: <48297580-e030-4459-a86d-fe6293acb8c5@x10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Lines: 44 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <48297580-e030-4459-a86d-fe6293acb8c5@x10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: c7a0fdcb.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=U7KgjLL^F7816I<3@m2[j=nok4Z\ Safety in numbers as usual. > QUOTE: > > "Police in York are appealing for witnesses and information after a > man was robbed and pushed into a river from a bridge. > > The 18-year-old victim was cycling along Clifton Bridge in the > direction of Acomb, at about 1.05am on Saturday 23 July 2011, when > four unknown men stopped him in the road. > > They forcibly took him to the bridge railings and searched his > pockets, removing his wallet, mobile phone and passport. They then > pushed the victim back against the railings and he fell about 8 metres > into the River Ouse below. > > The man initially went under the water but was able to swim to safety > without any apparent injury. He found his stolen possessions on the > pavement over the bridge. A small amount of cash had been taken from > the wallet." > > http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/index.aspx?articleid=7141

Interesting...they hardly bothered taking anything. They just left most of it. That implies that this attack wasn't motivated by a desire to steal, it was something else. So the "four unknown men" just wanted to deck someone for the "fun" of it, or...they went for him because he was a cyclist.

Congratulations, car-hating psycholists who claim to speak for all cyclists, red light jumpers, pavement cyclists, and everyone else who gives all cyclists a bad name: the above is yet another (apparently) innocent cyclist victim whose suffering you may be partly responsible for!

Also, it seems that a lot of cyclists are having altercations with others these days: at this rate, will there be enough psycholists on the Internet willing to offer their "services" by being the cyclist's witness (because they were there, honest)? Good old psycholists, sticking together, helping each other out by perjuring themselves ("because even if my friend is lying about what happened, it doesn't matter, he's still a cyclist and that's what counts more than the truth or justice...even if my friend did actually start the fight with that motorist, the motorist still deserves to get in trouble because he shouldn't have been driving at all").