Someone is trying to kill cyclists in Eastbourne

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[Dave 123]

This used to happen in Plymbridge woods in Plymouth many years ago.

Whoever they are, they're eejits.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I'm sure whoever did it was only joking.

 

[annedonnelly]

There was a similar incident on Tyneside a year or so ago. Every now and then if I'm riding somewhere with trees either side I wonder if there might be something fastened between them.

 

[Accy cyclist]

They'd better not try this in my neck of the woods(!)

 

[hoopdriver]

I'm sure whoever did it was only joking.

Very funny joke...

They should go up for attempted murder and do serious time

 

[Archie_tect]

Frightening how devious and evil people can be... if they get any lead on the person doing this I hope they manage to charge them with attempted murder.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Very funny joke...

Very funny joke...

They should go up for attempted murder and do serious time

Try reading the previous posts and have a think about what I might have been referring to.

 

[hoopdriver]

So you think it's just a little prank? Boys'll be boys? That sort of thing?

 

[Dave Davenport]

So you think it's just a little prank? Boys'll be boys? That sort of thing?

I refer you to my previous post.

 

[ufkacbln]

Before this gets too heated....
I got @Dave Davenport and his sense of humour.

It refers to a case where a journalist (Matthew Parris) wrote an article entitled"

"What’s smug and deserves to be decapitated?"

Included in the vitriolic article was the line:

"A festive custom we could do worse than foster would be stringing piano wire across country lanes to decapitate cyclists".

His "defence" tho the several hundreed complaints to the Press Complaints Commission and the barrage of complaint from cycling organisations was that:

"I offended many with my Christmas attack on cyclists.

"It was meant humorously but so many cyclists have taken it seriously that I plainly misjudged. I am sorry."

I hope this resolves the issue and puts it into context

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Goodness was my clue too subtle?

For the victim of decapitation, most surely.

 

[classic33]

Dewsbury & parts of Leeds had fishing lines & brake/gear cables used across cycle paths, a few years ago.
One rider ending up in hospital as a result of making contact with a cable fastened across the cycle path.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Whoever they are, they're eejits.

Dangerous eejits though!,

There was a similar incident on Tyneside a year or so ago. Every now and then if I'm riding somewhere with trees either side I wonder if there might be something fastened between them.

Yes, this always runs through my mind on a lot of my local cycle tracks. It only takes one idiot, and.... Well, you get the jist