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Finally I got a red light jumper bang to rights in a situation where I
would consider giving them more than just a stiff talking to I.E.:
blatant, dangerous and wasn't going to stop for the jolly old flashing
lights etc.. I get them pulled up and start the spiel about ID and
tickets and I have to shove everything back into their hand and rush off
to an urgent call at a rate of knots.

Blast 🙁

Shame!

I bet it would have been *particularly* irritating if you'd got the call
just as they were coming out with "You should be spending your time
catching the *real* crimi..."

--
Mark, UK
"How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come
to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow,
and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised
earlier judgments."

Sniper8052(L96A1) wrote on 28/10/2006 10:27 +0100:

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I have to shove everything back into their hand and rush off
to an urgent call at a rate of knots.

Don's stripper booking?

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

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Quoted message said:

Finally I got a red light jumper bang to rights in a situation where I
would consider giving them more than just a stiff talking to I.E.:
blatant, dangerous and wasn't going to stop for the jolly old flashing
lights etc.. I get them pulled up and start the spiel about ID and
tickets and I have to shove everything back into their hand and rush off
to an urgent call at a rate of knots.

Blast 🙁

Sniper8052

Aren't you allowed to just take a registration number, and go back to them
at a later date?

Just Visiting said:

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Quoted message said:

Finally I got a red light jumper bang to rights in a situation where I
would consider giving them more than just a stiff talking to I.E.:
blatant, dangerous and wasn't going to stop for the jolly old flashing
lights etc.. I get them pulled up and start the spiel about ID and
tickets and I have to shove everything back into their hand and rush off
to an urgent call at a rate of knots.

Blast 🙁

Sniper8052

Aren't you allowed to just take a registration number, and go back to them
at a later date?

You miss the point... bikes don't have registration numbers but I
normally delay the chap/ette for longer than the red light and inform
them about safety, law etc. This one was so blatant and dangerous they
really deserved to have the £30 ticket.

Do it in a car and I hand them out like confetti; no question.

Sniper 🙂

On 29/10/2006 17:35, Sniper8052(L96A1) said,

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Do it in a car and I hand them out like confetti; no question.

Can you come round my way then? Car drivers RLJing appears to be taken
as normal behaviour here, and then they have the nerve to [censored] off
cyclists for jumping lights!

Weston-super-Mare, in case you have any contacts :-)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

You miss the point... bikes don't have registration numbers but I
normally delay the chap/ette for longer than the red light and inform
them about safety, law etc. This one was so blatant and dangerous they
really deserved to have the £30 ticket.

I saw a police car driven on and then parked on the pavement
yesterday. I asked the driver what gave him the right to drive and
park on the pavement when it was illegal for an eight year old to
cycle on the pavement. He said there was an emergency in Woolworths.
Having just come from Woolworths myself I knew he was mistaken. There
was a drunk teenager who'd helped himself to, and eaten, a couple of
candy shrimps to wind up the security guard.

Did the policeman deserve a ticket? Who'd give him one, or was he
above the law?

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Just Visiting said:

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Quoted message said:

Finally I got a red light jumper bang to rights in a situation where I
would consider giving them more than just a stiff talking to I.E.:
blatant, dangerous and wasn't going to stop for the jolly old flashing
lights etc.. I get them pulled up and start the spiel about ID and
tickets and I have to shove everything back into their hand and rush off
to an urgent call at a rate of knots.

Blast 🙁

Sniper8052

Aren't you allowed to just take a registration number, and go back to

them

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

at a later date?

You miss the point... bikes don't have registration numbers but I
normally delay the chap/ette for longer than the red light and inform
them about safety, law etc. This one was so blatant and dangerous they
really deserved to have the £30 ticket.

Do it in a car and I hand them out like confetti; no question.

Sniper 🙂

Ah. I also missed the point that you were talking about 'finally' nailing a
cyclist.

Maybe get on with your job and prosecute the people driving those thngs that
kill people.

Bath, also, could use your help.

Just Visiting said:

Ah. I also missed the point that you were talking about 'finally' nailing a
cyclist.

Maybe get on with your job and prosecute the people driving those thngs that
kill people.

Sniper is a police officer. Nailing POBs who break the law is just as
much a part of his job as nailing cagers who do the same.

Quoted message said:

Bath, also, could use your help.

The Avon & Somerset Constabulary is funded by my council tax. I'd like
to think that they'd be out catching POB and cager RLJ's alike.

--
Danny Colyer <URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

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Just Visiting said:

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> Finally I got a red light jumper bang to rights in a situation
> where I would consider giving them more than just a stiff talking
> to I.E.: blatant, dangerous and wasn't going to stop for the jolly
> old flashing lights etc.. I get them pulled up and start the
> spiel about ID and tickets and I have to shove everything back
> into their hand and rush off to an urgent call at a rate of knots.
>
> Blast 🙁
>
> Sniper8052

Aren't you allowed to just take a registration number, and go back
to them at a later date?

You miss the point... bikes don't have registration numbers but I
normally delay the chap/ette for longer than the red light and inform
them about safety, law etc. This one was so blatant and dangerous
they really deserved to have the £30 ticket.

Do it in a car and I hand them out like confetti; no question.

Ah. I also missed the point that you were talking about 'finally'
nailing a cyclist.

Maybe get on with your job and prosecute the people driving those
thngs that kill people.

Oh, wait a second, he *is* prosecuting people (well, technically, he's
avoiding prosecuting people, but...) who drive cars through red lights.

I can safely say that I unreservedly support the ticketing of cyclists who
ride through red lights and consider it to be an important police objective.

A

Tom Crispin said:

Did the policeman deserve a ticket? Who'd give him one, or was he
above the law?

It's well attested that many think they are above the law.

Like the case a few months ago - bigwig police officer gets ticket on
range rover well being interviewer on radio 4. Spokesman says 'it's a
fair cop' (well, words to that effect) and confirms that the met had
paid the ticket. Apparently the officer's driver had forgotten to
display the special police permit when they parked on
the double-yellows.

Or to put it another way - bigwig, driver and spokesman all think it's
entirely reasonable to use your 'special police permit' for cases
such as not being arsed to walk all the way from the car park to the
front door. If you're a policeman you can park wherever you like -
emergency or not. Attending a pre-booked interview at the BBC? stick
it on the double yellows by the front door. No problem.

regards, Ian SMith
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Ian Smith wrote on 30/10/2006 07:32 +0100:

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It's well attested that many think they are above the law.

I have a lot of respect for the Chief Constable of Hampshire who, when
one of his police cars was clocked by a speed camera and they couldn't
identify the driver, prosecuted himself for failure to provide the
driver details. He duly turned up in Court, pleaded guilty and was
fined. He said he wanted it to be a signal to his officers that they
were not above the law.

--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Tom Crispin said:

I saw a police car driven on and then parked on the pavement
yesterday.

I watched two police cyclists jump a red light at the junction of
Knightsbridge and Sloane St on Saturday afternoon.

Given that they tackled the junction in approximately the same way on
their bikes as I would have done on skates (i.e. treat the lights as a
"give way" sign, proceeding with caution when it was obvious that
nothing was coming in the other direction) with the only difference
being that it's illegal for them and probably legal for me, I find it
hard to get too wound up about it.

Quoted message said:

He said there was an emergency in Woolworths.
Having just come from Woolworths myself I knew he was mistaken. There
was a drunk teenager who'd helped himself to, and eaten, a couple of
candy shrimps to wind up the security guard.

Eating the Pick & Mix might well constitute an emergency, though I'd
have thought it should be the Ambulance service responding rather than
the Police.

-dan

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Tom Crispin <[email hidden]> wrote:
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Quoted message said:

He said there was an emergency in Woolworths.
Having just come from Woolworths myself I knew he was mistaken. There
was a drunk teenager who'd helped himself to, and eaten, a couple of
candy shrimps to wind up the security guard.

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

On 30/10/2006 11:59, Rob Morley said,

Quoted message said:

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

Or he could have...

....eaten another candy shrimp!

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Paul Boyd said:

On 30/10/2006 11:59, Rob Morley said,

Quoted message said:

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

Or he could have...

...eaten another candy shrimp!

Given that the lad had already demonstrated himself to be rather
partial to candy shrimps, that would have been a highly likely further
escalation.

Tom Crispin said:

Paul Boyd said:

On 30/10/2006 11:59, Rob Morley said,

Quoted message said:

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

Or he could have...

...eaten another candy shrimp!

Given that the lad had already demonstrated himself to be rather
partial to candy shrimps, that would have been a highly likely further
escalation.

Tis sad but true, if only the poor policemen had been aware he was
dealing with a suicide candy shrimp bomber. These poor young souls are
indoctinatrated at a young age to enter Walmarks unobserved and eat
Candy Shrimps till they explode.

Tom Crispin said:

Paul Boyd said:

On 30/10/2006 11:59, Rob Morley said,

Quoted message said:

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

Or he could have...

...eaten another candy shrimp!

Given that the lad had already demonstrated himself to be rather
partial to candy shrimps, that would have been a highly likely further
escalation.

Nooooooooooo! Not the cola bottles!

Chris
--
Chris Eilbeck

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Paul Boyd said:

On 30/10/2006 11:59, Rob Morley said,

Quoted message said:

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

Or he could have...

...eaten another candy shrimp!

Or one of those rice-paper and sherbet things ... can you still get
them, were they called flying saucers? Google says yes, but I don't
think I've seen them anywhere for ages.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:32:29 -0000, Rob Morley <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>

Paul Boyd said:

On 30/10/2006 11:59, Rob Morley said,

Quoted message said:

That could have escalated into a violent confrontation, the lad might
have had a knife or infected needles in his pocket ...

Or he could have...

...eaten another candy shrimp!

Or one of those rice-paper and sherbet things ... can you still get
them, were they called flying saucers? Google says yes, but I don't
think I've seen them anywhere for ages.

£1.77 for 50.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/flying-saucers-p-122.html