Stopped By Police Community support Officer

[GrumpyGregry]

I call them Police Constable Shaped Objects

Blimey. Oh to live in Surrey.

The PC's round our way must be shaped like Weebles as all our PCSO's have serious pie habits and make me look svelte and lissome.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

cycling on the pavement is antisocial, and stopping it improves the quality of life in the community.

Are those two statements actual facts....?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

On my commute to work in London this morning I was stopped by one of the above for cycling on the pavement I had just got on to the pavement and had travelled no more than a few metres when he spotted me before I spotted him

He told me he could issue a £60 fine for cycling on the pavement but he was not going to do it and let me go much to my relief

Can Police Community Support Officers fine you if they feel like it

Are you prepared to share your reasons for riding on the pavement and describe the manner of your doing it?

Your motivations and actual behaviours are actually key in determining how the forces of law should respond to your presence on the pavement.

For myself many a "step into my office..." conversation often continues along the lines of "I could, if I was so minded, do such-and-such..." along the lines of your PCSO's when in reality I, and the PCSO, may well both know that "higher powers" would only very rarely allow us to exercise those powers in the manner threatened.

 

[Wester]

So why were you on the pavement in a city ?

Because the road that I was going to cycle on was blocked with traffic that is why I mounted the pavement

On another note if I was issued with a fixed penalty notice would it give ,me a criminal record or show up on a CRB check ?

 

[fossyant]

No reason for using the pavement

 

[Cyclopathic]

No it's "Now everyone can hear my mum's old Vauxhall Nova when I have to over-rev it just to get away from the lights"

Seems strange spending all that money when a well placed hole punched in the exhaust can sound very similar.

 

[Cyclopathic]

No reason for using the pavement

Sometimes there is no reason not to. Keep it slow, be careful, give way don't be a git. I have no problem with cyclists on the pavement who behave well. I'd rather that than they wheeled the things along the pavement taking up twice as much room. It's only people who bomb along on the path that are any problem.

 

[ianrauk]

Because the road that I was going to cycle on was blocked with traffic that is why I mounted the pavement

On another note if I was issued with a fixed penalty notice would it give ,me a criminal record or show up on a CRB check ?

No excuse for riding on a pavement.
Cyclists are traffic too and should abide by the law.

And no it won't give you a criminal record.

 

[CopperBrompton]

PCSO issues penalty notice for littering, resulting in £1000 fine for smoking driver here

I'd be fully in favour of a £1000 fine for littering. There's never any excuse for it.

 

[ufkacbln]

Another reason for banning smoking in cars

Motorcyclist friend of mine tells how he caught a cigarette in the groin after it had been thrown out of a drivers window..... Leathers were singed, but saved him from a nasty incident.

He was not happy, so drew up alongside car and knocked on window.... then threw the stub into the back seat, with a comment of "You seem to have dropped this"

Then left with the driver hysterically searching the back of the car for the stub

 

[ufkacbln]

How much of this is in "good faith" though

In Gosport all cycle paths are in a nice shade of red.....

In neighbouring Lee -on- Solent the higher promenade pavement is the same colour.. an easy mistake to make

 

[downfader]

How much of this is in "good faith" though

In Gosport all cycle paths are in a nice shade of red.....

In neighbouring Lee -on- Solent the higher promenade pavement is the same colour.. an easy mistake to make

I've said the same myself. Workmate came up to me last year and said "I saw you cycling on the pavement!" and was really chuffed to have "caught me out".

However you look at it a standard, grey path with 2 times 10 inch blue signs does not convey "legal cycling" in other people's eyes. I've been stopped by 2 people there in the past couple of years and had to point out the signs (which are often out of sight and hidden by branches during 2/3rds the year).

We need a single, better standard for offroad routes imo.

 

[JoeyB]

[QUOTE 2953003, member: 259"]Did you ask him why he wasn't hotly pursuing real criminals?[/quote]

Surely his answer would be 'No, because I'm not a REAL policeman lol