How to deal with the police

[swampyseifer]

Course if bikes had to be licensed to an owner, like motor vehicles, then a cockwomble like that bloke couldnt get out of it by just being an ass and then cycling away

 

[Spinney]

Course if bikes had to be licensed to an owner, like motor vehicles, then a cockwomble like that bloke couldnt get out of it by just being an ass and then cycling away

Gets pop corn and settles into comfy chair...

 

[swampyseifer]

Gets pop corn and settles into comfy chair...

Have I said something controversial??

 

[benb]

Course if bikes had to be licensed to an owner, like motor vehicles, then a cockwomble like that bloke couldnt get out of it by just being an ass and then cycling away

That is true - I hardly ever see car drivers getting away with bad driving.
Oh, wait.

 

[swampyseifer]

That is true - I hardly ever see car drivers getting away with bad driving.
Oh, wait.

Well that isnt an issue with the licensing of the vehicle though it is. In theory the licensing of a vehicle is to make someone accountable for that vehicle, its usage and to have an identifiable "label" on the vehicle to identify it and the owner.

 

[Jezston]

Course if bikes had to be licensed to an owner, like motor vehicles, then a cockwomble like that bloke couldnt get out of it by just being an ass and then cycling away

Quite, and so as to stop people committing offences outside of their vehicles, we should have numbers tattood to our foreheads.

 

[Bicycle]

Quite, and so as to stop people committing offences outside of their vehicles, we should have numbers tattood to our foreheads.

I do not think the forehead is the place; I think there would be voter resistance. The notion is a sound one, but the proposed location would play badly at the polling booth.

I wonder whether we might not adopt instead a form of unique alphanumeric identifiers for all vehicles, to be displayed front and rear (rear only in the case of PTWs).

These vehicles would be allowed on the road only if registered to an identifiable person or entity and only if they could be proved to have passed an annual fitness-for-use test, to carry a minimum third-party insurance covering their use at that time and to be displaying proof that some sort of annual excise charge had been paid on them.

After much thought on this matter, I would exempt pedal-powered vehicles from these regulations. This may sound crazy, but it might work.

If one did go for tattoos, there would be several issues to address: font, size of characters, colour of tattoo; minimum distance above eyebrow; regulations covering the potential covering of the tattoo with the fringe... The list is long.

One way round this might be to speak to whoever is in charge of evolution (Darwin? is he still around?) and see if we can evolve a unique skin pattern on our fingertips. Failing that, we could develop an almost-unique code carried in our bodies that could be used to identify us by actors in US TV dramas about forensic analysts and slightly-too-telegenic SOCOs...

I like the tattoo thing, but I think my way (all of which I just invented) might work too.

 

[swampyseifer]

I dont think tattoos are neccesary. After all most people already are quite identifiable via documentation (passport, drivers license, utility bills, NHS/NI numbers, work records etc)? And, as has been mentioned above, fingerprints.

 

[Jezston]

I dont think tattoos are neccesary. After all most people already are quite identifiable via documentation (passport, drivers license, utility bills, NHS/NI numbers, work records etc)? And, as has been mentioned above, fingerprints.

So why do you think bicycles need massive great license plates bolted on to them then?

 

[the snail]

So why do you think bicycles need massive great license plates bolted on to them then?

we don't - just microchip everyone at birth.
Anyway we know that car-drivers can just say that someone else was driving..

 

[Cyclopathic]

Whether the cyclist is a numpty or not (and I tend to think he is) the police officer should have had enough about him to know whether or not he could arrest the guy and do so if that is his intention. He fully deserved to be outwitted and all the more embarrassing to be outwitted by some one trying to show off about how clever they are. There are no winners here I fear.

 

[Cyclopathic]

we don't - just microchip everyone at birth.
Anyway we know that car-drivers can just say that someone else was driving..

Microchip everyone at birth and enter a full dna profile onto a national register. And make everyone carry a headcam and audio recording gear around with them switched on all the time. If people aren't doing anything wrong then they've nothing to fear.

 

[Cubist]

Whether the cyclist is a numpty or not (and I tend to think he is) the police officer should have had enough about him to know whether or not he could arrest the guy and do so if that is his intention. He fully deserved to be outwitted and all the more embarrassing to be outwitted by some one trying to show off about how clever they are. There are no winners here I fear.

Quite right. He's a plonker.

 

[Cubist]

Microchip everyone at birth and enter a full dna profile onto a national register. And make everyone carry a headcam and audio recording gear around with them switched on all the time. If people aren't doing anything wrong then they've nothing to fear.

Will you be available for election anytime soon?

 

[swampyseifer]

Christ you people have some real "big brother" issues!

I made a flippant comment suggesting that if bikes were licensed like cars he couldnt have got away with it. I was "just saying", I never suggested that was the way forward or it was a view I believed in.