Serious Incident Edinburgh?

[mercurykev]

Darwin Award nomination?

 

[marooncat]

Sorry to ask, what is a Ned?

I think that it might stand for "Non Educated Delinquent" or I might just be making that up

 

[gavintc]

I cycled past that spot on Sat at lunch time. I was extremely tired after battling the winds down the coast and decided to avoid Duddingston and Arthur's Seat and head up the Innocent Railway. I did not see anything, but in my state, I would not have seen much even if there was a body on the path.

 

[Waspie]

Darwin Award nomination?

It appears so...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...n-dead-by-path-for-three-days-86908-21726855/

 

[goo_mason]

I was particularly tickled by the delicious irony of this comment on the article:

"gordyboy a would watch what ur saying as every 1 mentioned in the article are ma friends and find ur comments out of order especially when u don't no any of then ya imbosile"

 

[MajorMantra]

Good news! We could have been reading headlines something like this, "Cyclist killed on popular bike path by youth on motorbike"

My flatmate has met a speeding motorcyclist on this path. My reaction is similar to yours.

Matthew

 

[Grendel]

I was a ranger with Sustrans and we were plagued with the same problem. The Police officer I dealt with had an interesting solution- and I quote- "Tie a rope across the path, that'll sort them out".
Perhaps he's been posted to Edinburgh....

 

[HLaB]

I was a ranger with Sustrans and we were plagued with the same problem. The Police officer I dealt with had an interesting solution- and I quote- "Tie a rope across the path, that'll sort them out".
Perhaps he's been posted to Edinburgh....

Only problem sometimes the neds copy this; I'm told their favourite is the washing line after dark !

 

[goo_mason]

Will we ever know the story behind this? My money's on him tearing up and down the paths in the middle of the night, coming off and doing the damage that killed him. Same thing happened on the cyclepath I used to use about three years ago just before you come under the bridge into Victoria Park - ned on a stolen motorbike, 3am, no helmet, head-on into a lamp-post. Darwinianism in action, really.

That lamp-post has been turned into a shrine to the 'angel' that he was, and funnily enough it's NEVER been vandalised, despite everything else around there getting trashed regularly. I guess they won't turn on their own.

Regularly came across scrotes on scramblers and motorbikes screaming along the paths during the day. The most frightening one I ever had was when I came round a corner to find two of them were screaming towards me, side by side, taking up the whole path.

Life is so much better on the roads, where it's safer than those paths ever were!!

 

[Norm]

"Something needs to be done about young guys taking bikes and driving them at high speed around here. "This kind of thing has been going on in Bingham, Craigmillar and Niddrie for years yet the police don't do anything about joyriders.

Always "something needs to be done", always someone else's issue to do it.

Try to do something though and it's either fascist state control or trying to curb "high spirited youth".

If having his older brother in jail for killing his best friend isn't enough to sort this guy out, then who knows what is the "something" which needs to be done.

 

[Cedric]

We'll find out what can be done, which will turn out to be plenty, when a middle class commuter, Edinburgh Uni student, or someone else who counts, is killed. Until then ordinary people who complain will continue to be called "nimbies" and "reactionary fascists" for asking for the freedom to travel in safety.