An eight-year-old boy has been left with facial injuries after cycling into barbed wire fencing stretched across a road as part of a "prank", police said.
The schoolboy, from Totton, Southampton, suffered several cuts and scratches in the incident as he cycled to school on Friday morning.
Police said the wiring narrowly missed one of his eyes.
Pc Stuart Tribbec said: "This was a particularly nasty incident and could have resulted in serious injury."
He added that someone could have been "messing about" without realising the seriousness of the injuries it could cause.
I believe the idiot who did this knew exactly what he was doing.
Martin.
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An eight-year-old boy has been left with facial injuries after cycling into barbed wire fencing stretched across a road as part of a "prank", police said.
The schoolboy, from Totton, Southampton, suffered several cuts and scratches in the incident as he cycled to school on Friday morning.
Police said the wiring narrowly missed one of his eyes.
Pc Stuart Tribbec said: "This was a particularly nasty incident and could have resulted in serious injury."
He added that someone could have been "messing about" without realising the seriousness of the injuries it could cause.
I believe the idiot who did this knew exactly what he was doing.
Martin.
Very probably, likely to be targeting PITA moped riders though as they are causing mayhem around the area at the moment FWIT...Still no excuse though.
An eight-year-old boy has been left with facial injuries after cycling into barbed wire fencing stretched across a road as part of a "prank", police said.
The schoolboy, from Totton, Southampton, suffered several cuts and scratches in the incident as he cycled to school on Friday morning.
Police said the wiring narrowly missed one of his eyes.
Pc Stuart Tribbec said: "This was a particularly nasty incident and could have resulted in serious injury."
He added that someone could have been "messing about" without realising the seriousness of the injuries it could cause.
I believe the idiot who did this knew exactly what he was doing.
Martin.
Very probably, likely to be targeting PITA moped riders though as they are causing mayhem around the area at the moment FWIT...Still no excuse though.
We had something like that not too far from here; A wire strung across an abandoned railway line that people used for cycling, motorbikes and snowmobiles. The police, reportedly, were treating it as attempted murder. I never heard if they got anyone.
>An eight-year-old boy has been left with facial injuries after >cycling into barbed wire fencing stretched across a road as part >of a "prank", police said. > >The schoolboy, from Totton, Southampton, suffered several cuts >and scratches in the incident as he cycled to school on Friday morning. > >Police said the wiring narrowly missed one of his eyes. > >Pc Stuart Tribbec said: "This was a particularly nasty incident >and could have resulted in serious injury." > > >He added that someone could have been "messing about" without >realising the seriousness of the injuries it could cause.
I believe the idiot who did this knew exactly what he was doing.
Martin.
Very probably, likely to be targeting PITA moped riders though as they are causing mayhem around the area at the moment FWIT...Still no excuse though.
We had something like that not too far from here; A wire strung across an abandoned railway line that people used for cycling, motorbikes and snowmobiles. The police, reportedly, were treating it as attempted murder. I never heard if they got anyone.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
We can probably rely on Hampshire's finest to detain the cyclist under the prevention of terrorism act.
