“Get off the f***king road. You should be on the cyclepath.”

[ufkacbln]

why t-f is it even remotely considered a motoring offence !

If you stab someone with a kitchen knife it's not normally prosecuted under food hygiene regulations

Heathcote Williams Autogeddon is an interesting read

The Visitor follows up the court reports:

Hit someone over the head with a chrome fender and kill them―

Life.

Take the precaution of attaching the chrome fender to a car,

Hit someone over the head with it, and kill them―

Six months suspended. Licence briefly withheld.

 

[Brandane]

In reality, the guy will probably never get his licence back. That extended test is not easy to pass; I had one or two "naughty boys" going through it when I worked as a driving instructor a while back. It was unofficially accepted that no-one passed it first time (examiners know there is a reason why they are sitting an extended test!); so coupled with some driving lessons and at least two extended tests, there's another few hundred £££ onto his costs. At his age I doubt if he could ever pass the extended test anyway.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/n...oke_Dock_driver_knocked_cyclist_off_her_bike/



Makes you wonder if that was really the first time he'd done it. Truly horrible, using two tons of metal to hit people you disagree with.

Miss Davison-Hill is clearly too thin skinned, and her behaviour on the road before this incident probably brought it on herself. She should have dismounted and tugged her forelock after the first bit of swervery.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

This was a couple of miles from me. 'Assault with a deadly weapon' seems to cover it. Not a driving offence at all.

I've had "Get off the f***king road. You should be on the cyclepath" shouted at me by drivers around Neyland, Milford, Haverford, Pembroke, Pembroke Dock, Broad Haven, et cetera.

In fact, I really don't feel a visit to Big Sis is complete unless and until a nobber in a car has shouted at me.

 

[Mugshot]

Very close to home this one, I've ridden this road and shared path on hundreds of occasions, from end to end it's about 1.5mile.
The shared path is good in that it's wide, the surface is good and it's not very busy with peds. However, it is frequently strewn with glass, I would guess that over 50% of the punctures I've had have come from this one stretch of path.
The road is nightmare. It's busy and it's fast, although usually only one way at a time, and the lanes are not very wide. At peak times it will be pretty much queued from one end to the other either going into or out of Haverfordwest. It is very unusual to see a cyclist use the road, there are usually a fair number on the path. If you use it, which I do occasionally, you will get abused and you will get close passed, I have never used this section of road without at least one motorist telling me to "Get on the flipping cyclepath" or close passing me, usually both.
The man's a tit and the sentence is too lenient. I hope the cyclist has a speedy recovery and sues the arse off him.

 

[DaveReading]

"Miss Davidson-Hall suffered a broken hand and bruising as she crashed to the ground and her £1,500 cycle was a write-off."

"Butland was also ordered to pay Miss Davidson-Hall £1,000 in compensation"

Great.

 

[roadrash]

probably at £2 a week out of his pension , fekin nobber

 

[raleighnut]

probably at £2 a week out of his pension , fekin nobber

6 weeks to pay up, any longer and I'd assume he would be held to be 'in contempt of court' so off to chokey, where he should have been sent anyway IMO.

 

[Thomk]

I wonder what penalty he would have got if he had swung a samurai sword at her 3 times (as a "warning") while she was tightrope walking to force her to do as he wanted, cutting her in the process and making her fall off.

 

[glenn forger]

That's kind of what I'm getting at Thomk. Presumably there isn't a virus going round that turns harmless pensioners into Zombie Attack Ragers, so why were no questions asked about where this poisonous nonsense comes from?

 

[Hip Priest]

It seems it'll take huge change in mindset before those using cars as a weapon are treated the same as those who use anything else as a weapon.

 

[Profpointy]

It seems it'll take huge change in mindset before those using cars as a weapon are treated the same as those who use anything else as a weapon.

Quite, it's a huge difference between incompetently driving, even outright dangerous driving - and actually deliberately knocking someone off their bike

 

[glasgowcyclist]

That's kind of what I'm getting at Thomk. Presumably there isn't a virus going round that turns harmless pensioners into Zombie Attack Ragers, so why were no questions asked about where this poisonous nonsense comes from?

It would only elicit the widely accepted excuse of it being "a moment of madness".

GC

 

[Pale Rider]

6 weeks to pay up, any longer and I'd assume he would be held to be 'in contempt of court' so off to chokey, where he should have been sent anyway IMO.

The financial penalty would have been decided first, then the defendant is asked how long he requires to pay it.

Six weeks suggests he has all but immediate access to the £2K.

This in turn suggests he has a few quid, a suggestion supported by the recorder's observation that a civil claim for damages might also yield a decent sum.

You can't get blood out of a stone, but the overall impression from the case is this stone has some blood in it.

 

[Poacher]

£2360 in costs and compensation? Yet another example of a totally unfair tax on the law-abiding, hard-pressed motorist.

PS I initially spelt "and" as "abd", the acronym of the association of brutish drivers; I wonder what their take on this case is?

PPS just noticed another misspelling! I haven't touched a drop since about 20:00 yesterday, honest.