Letter in the times (ID for cyclists)

[downfader]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6922159.ece

Personally I think this is a daft idea. I've written two replies stating why too, one being that when I was hit last year my jacket was damaged - a tabbard will have a high chance off falling apart in a collision. Secondly ID on cars hasnt stopped the great swarms of uninsured drivers now has it.

 

[thomas]

It wouldn't work as I usually cycle in the nude

 

[WeeE]

What next - demands for the numbered tabard to be lit up at night?
Numbered tabards for all those of the lower classes, perhaps?

 

[summerdays]

Hmm... cos the numberplate system works so well... I'm sure none of us would ever borrow some one else's tabard.

 

[joolsybools]

He's a bright lad is our Graham

 

[downfader]

He's a bright lad is our Graham

I thought at first it was taking the micheal - but after a second read he seems serious...

 

[jonny jeez]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6922159.ece

Personally I think this is a daft idea. I've written two replies stating why too, one being that when I was hit last year my jacket was damaged - a tabbard will have a high chance off falling apart in a collision. Secondly ID on cars hasnt stopped the great swarms of uninsured drivers now has it.

I am sure my 8 year old will look forward to the day when she requires a tabard, red flag, geo positioning chip and 3rd party insurance.......to take her bike to the sweet shop with her dad.

 

[mr_cellophane]

A numbered tabard, that will be highly visible under my rucksack.

 

[HJ]

Where do they get these silly ideas from Next it will be tattooing a bar code to every ones forehead...

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Where do they get these silly ideas from Next it will be tattooing a bar code to every ones forehead...

nah, just tattoing it onto our forearms, to mark us out as the lower form of life that we are

 

[downfader]

nah, just tattoing it onto our forearms, to mark us out as the lower form of life that we are

And this is exactly what strundles through my mind when people bang on about "identifying cyclists". I think of the Nazis. I know its a big leap but it happens.

 

[brokenbetty]

I don't mind the principle, though I can't see it working in practice.

 

[I am Spartacus]

One of the reasons I carry BC silver membership is that I can tell any peanut driver that I DO have 3rd party insurance.

 

[jimboalee]

Where do they get these silly ideas from Next it will be tattooing a bar code to every ones forehead...

Why not. The Africans have been tattooing bar codes on donkeys for thousands of years.

 

[ufkacbln]

I think it is brilliant!

I am starting a website called "SafeTabard" where such ruses as changing digits and claiming you are dyslexic will be promulgated. Also using lettering fonts that make them unreadable.

There wlll also be advice on how to wear someone else's Tabard (by mistake) and how to apply sprays so that they cannot be read by automated devices. Of course such simple things like claiming a foreign national was wearing your tabard do not require much discussion as they are obvious.


Finally we will demonstrate how to trawl the obituaries and claim a recently deceased person was wearing your tabard as the Police will not want to upset the family with a prosecution.