POLICE CLAMP DOWN ON DANGEROUS RED-LIGHT-JUMPING CYCLISTS IN HOLBORN – REAL CRIMINALS LAUGHING
Every day when I ride to work I see people step out onto the road without looking. I guess they have forgotten the advice of their parents and are not looking “right then left then right again”. And while ears might be useful for hearing cars and trucks they aren’t so useful for spotting cycles. This often results in the unobservant pedestrians getting a bing from a bell or a toot of a horn and usually a little scare.
Some of these sharp eared walkers have taken offence to cyclists binging them and the local police have been called into action to sort out the silly cyclists. A group of them now regularly patrol the intersection next to Holborn police station issuing tickets to any cyclist who stupidly runs a red light while they are there.
My point is that I don’t think that a lot of pedestrians are getting hurt. But London roads are putting at least four thousand cyclists in hospital each year.
Now if I were in charge of the police (and why not?) I might target my limited resources at minimising death and injury on the roads. Or I might be looking into why thousands of bikes are stolen in London each year. Quite possibly I might send an office down to Brick Lane where rumour has it you can choose from several cut price stolen bikes any day of the week.
That’s just me though. I have crazy ideas for common sense use of limited police resources.
May 30th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I do believe that after the same bike I brought off an Aussie friend got stolen twice due to the tiny chain I put around it and the Lead Drain Pipe outside my flat and leaving it unlocked in a secured area at my second flat. I decided that I would check out this “Shop” in brick lane to see if it was there. Apparently the theives had not stolen it again off the guy who had stolen it from me. Ther was however a nice shiny sliver one that was twice as nice as My old one, but olny half the price……
I feel guilty about buying a stolen bike, but I do think that I deserve a discount from my previous lose. Anyway if you lost a specialised 19″ sliver bike in 2004 you can find it at my mate gavins house….. Just tell him that you are the orginal owner of the bike and you have come to collect it….. However if you brought the bike orginally from Brick lane then I guess your not really entitled to the bike in the first place as you were also buying a stolen bike.
Moral of the Story: Always Buy a bike from a registered dealer(never an aussie), Buy a chain as thick as a porn stars dick, make sure you lock your bike up each night and for gods sake…….. alwasy Listen to the HUBBERS…!
July 11th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Sage moral guidance Bretto. Hope you are teaching those Aussies a thing or two about sportsmanship while you are down there.