and finally...

[Jake]

Policeman refuses to pose on bike


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8035581.stm

 

[killiekosmos]

Policeman refuses to be photographed on a Halfords bike!

 

[John the Monkey]

Can't blame him really.

If he'd got on it, story would be "Policeman Rides Bike IN DEFIANCE OF FORCE RULES! BAN THIS SICK FILTH" (etc)

 

[yenrod]

CSO's dont give the best advertisement for cyclist and simply use the uniform to 'muscle about' the roads

 

[Amanda P]

I think the shocker is that Lancashire Police are too tight to buy bikes themselves, so a charity has to do it. And even then, they'll only spring for Halfords' bike-shaped objects.

I wouldn't pose on one of them either.

 

[Keith Oates]

Rules are rules and he was just obeying those he'd been given!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jake]

I wish people on the roads followed the riles too grrrrrrrrr

 

[marinyork]

Seems very daft paying such revererence to cycling proficiency and at the same time saying we're tight and won't buy you any bikes.

 

[Arch]

Rules are rules and he was just obeying those he'd been given!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I reckon it's a load of rubbish. He was being asked to pose on it. He needn't even have ridden the thing, just posed for a pic.

I bet loads of pics get taken with kids posing in the driving seat of sports cars and so on.

 

[gavintc]

Well a PCSO (Polce Constable Shaped Object) would not get on a BSO (Bike Shaped Oject). Seems strange, thought it would a natural marriage.

 

[col]

Im thinking that he couldnt be associated with the cycle if it involves being trained for insurance purposes, then the outcry would be "What he wasnt insured/trained to use a cycle, whats he doing being pictured with one then?" They cant do right for doing wrong can they?

 

[Wigsie]

Im thinking that he couldnt be associated with the cycle if it involves being trained for insurance purposes, then the outcry would be "What he wasnt insured/trained to use a cycle, whats he doing being pictured with one then?" They cant do right for doing wrong can they?

+1

If he had got on it, smiled for the camera and caught his 'pepper spray' on the saddle as he was getting off, fallen sideways and headbutted a schoolchild there would have been an outcry and then one of his high ranking superiors would have ben sacked for letting such obscene instances occur!