Thoughts on Cycling Mikey

[Bonefish Blues]

AI will provide an answer to the issue of phone use - trials have already proven very reliable, I believe.

 

[Alex321]

Mikey is not doing anything illegal, in catching and confronting bad drivers. I suspect he has served as more of a deterrent, to phone driving at least, then the Police themselves.

He is when he blocks the road and refuses to let them past. The fact they are acting illegally by driving o the wrong side doesn't make his action of obstructing them legal.

 

[mickle]

He is when he blocks the road and refuses to let them past. The fact they are acting illegally by driving o the wrong side doesn't make his action of obstructing them legal.

Citation required.

 

[mickle]

Mikey is an absolute farking legend. We should all be cycling Mikeys.

 

[Binky]

Mikey is an absolute farking legend. We should all be cycling Mikeys.

So you record all your rides then? And submit any close passes etc to the police?

 

[mickle]

So you record all your rides then? And submit any close passes etc to the police?

We all should. I don't because i hardly ride at all these days due to ill health, and when i do i ride mostly traffic free routes. And I cant afford a camera.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

He is when he blocks the road and refuses to let them past.

It’s not blocked, the drivers have no right to be there. They should proceed on the section of road available to them.

 

[Alex321]

It’s not blocked, the drivers have no right to be there. They should proceed on the section of road available to them.

The fact they are acting illegally is completely irrelevant tyo the question of whether he is blocking the road.

It is simple fact that he is.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The fact they are acting illegally is completely irrelevant tyo the question of whether he is blocking the road.

It is simple fact that he is.

This pedestrian is blocking the shop I’m trying to drive through. Can they kindly get out the way.

You can’t be illegally blocking someone trying to go somewhere they are not allowed. Nothing illegal about what Mike is doing.

 

[Alex321]

This pedestrian is blocking the shop I’m trying to drive through. Can they kindly get out the way.

Irrelevant "example", since said shop is not part of the highway.

You can’t be illegally blocking someone trying to go somewhere they are not allowed. Nothing illegal about what Mike is doing.

It is illegal to obstruct the highway, and that is what he is doing.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Irrelevant "example", since said shop is not part of the highway.



It is illegal to obstruct the highway, and that is what he is doing.

Is it obstructing the highway if the person being obstructed is not supposed to be there??

Anyone know the legal definition??

 

[Animo]

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpg...ssheading/obstruction-of-highways-and-streets

 

[glasgowcyclist]

In all the times that Mikey has stopped drivers endangering others at that corner, have the police ever charged him with obstruction?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

In all the times that Mikey has stopped drivers endangering others at that corner, have the police ever charged him with obstruction?

That was my thought as well

I think what he did at the corner was valid

I do feel that he does go out looking for problems that are not serious enough

Someone on a phone while in a car is illegal - but if the car is stationary then the risk is very low - for example

There are bigger problem with cars to be sorted out than that

and concentrating on things that are actually illegal but have almost zero chance of causing harm just makes him look like a fusspot
and the rest of the cycling community is put into the same category by "some people" as a result

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Irrelevant "example", since said shop is not part of the highway.



It is illegal to obstruct the highway, and that is what he is doing.

But he is not obstructing for legitimate users.