When to call it a day?

[kingrollo]

When I was recovering from an op I was forced to work in the control room while I recovered.

One night I was about to knock off and my final call of the evening was from a little old dear in absolute tears of panic because sheetbags were throwing stones at her windows. I sent the job to the desk for deployment, and booked off duty.

Driving home I realised the old lady's address was only a few streets away. I diverted, parked in a dark corner of the next street along and started strolling towards the target with my hood up. It was a dark and cold late autumn evening so I attracted zero attention.

Walking along I could see the target address a few hundred years away and sure enough three late teenage sheetbags were targeting her house. I decided id stroll up innocently and then twat one, maybe two if I was lucky, good and solid in the chops, and then hoof it away at speed.

I was approaching, trying to look casual, and as I was about 20 metres from them and just bunching my hand into a fist a police car came into the street from the opposite end so I put my head down and carried on walking...

They never knew how close they came to a visit to A&E that night.

I think you should change you're user name to Jack Reacher

 

[Andy in Germany]

Any witnesses, not that there were any, would not have not been able to describe the offender because he wore a balaclava and was gloved up, so even his ethnicity would be unknown. The perfect crime.

Were you in uniform?

 

[Drago]

Were you in uniform?

I was in half blues, uniform boots and trousers but shirt without regalia under my civvy coat.

 

[Binky]

Had an "interesting" incident on ride on weekend. I was heading along a local lane I know well which is narrow and single track in some places. I was aware of a vehicle suddenly right on my rear wheel revving engine like mad, typical impatient driver and as I glanced back he swerved over to pass me but there was no way he could without ramming me into the hedge. As I knew road well I knew there was a farm 50metres ahead so I shouted there was a place to overtake ahead. I got to farm and kept at same speed of about 15mph as slight uphill and moved over to demonstrate I was being accommodating. Driver pulls alongside and shouts "pull over you f***ing idiot" through open passenger window and roars off.

All of this captured on video so clip sent to Operation Snap. Be interesting to see if action taken though.

 

[Drago]

Sounds like a S.4a public order act offence to me. If you caught it on fillum thats a slam dunk for a crime FPN.

 

[Binky]

Sounds like a S.4a public order act offence to me. If you caught it on fillum thats a slam dunk for a crime FPN.

The shouting and swearing? Camera doesn't show this as pointing ahead but can hear him on the audio.
It does show how close vehicle is as he goes past though.

 

[Jameshow]

I think that life has rubbish going on that cycling is the least of my worries!

The shouting and swearing? Camera doesn't show this as pointing ahead but can hear him on the audio.
It does show how close vehicle is as he goes past though.

If your camera is handle bar mounted turning it 90° might help you catch footage whilst stationary.

 

[Binky]

I think that life has rubbish going on that cycling is the least of my worries!


If your camera is handle bar mounted turning it 90° might help you catch footage whilst stationary.

Not possible with mount I have, it's fixed in a forward facing position and anyway it was so quick then doubt I'd have had time to adjust it anyway. And as I said, I wasn't stationary I was still moving.

 

[Drago]

The shouting and swearing? Camera doesn't show this as pointing ahead but can hear him on the audio.
It does show how close vehicle is as he goes past though.

I would think hearing him on the audiom would be sufficient, particularly if your statement nsays it was him and the camera shows no one else around.

 

[Punkawallah]

I once had some little sheet deliberately close pass me coming in the opposite direction. I dont scare easy, but this properly put the wind up me, thought I was going to kark it for a moment there. I will not say where or when this encounter occurred for reasons about to become clear.

A month or so later I saw the car parked up, and the following morning he will have awoken to find his mirrors had been kicked off and all his wipers bent.

Any witnesses, not that there were any, would not have not been able to describe the offender because he wore a balaclava and was gloved up, so even his ethnicity would be unknown. The perfect crime.

Fun fact. Only one in twenty crimes in the UK results in a charge. Not prosecution, not conviction, not a custodial sentence. A charge.

 

[Punkawallah]

Get a camera then you can get a more meaningful revenge by reporting such incidents to the police .

Lols.

 

[Drago]

Fun fact. Only one in twenty crimes in the UK results in a charge. Not prosecution, not conviction, not a custodial sentence. A charge.

Ah, the mystery motor marauder should be safe then.

 

[BADGER.BRAD]

The way to make cycling safer is to make sure that there is infrastructure suitable for cyclists, so mistakes don't have such high stakes.

I would agree with this 100% !

 

[Drago]

Or ruthlessly enforce the law so we can use the existing public infrastructure that we've already paid for...?

I know, I know. Enforcing standards of behaviour is so passe these days.

 

[BADGER.BRAD]

All of this captured on video so clip sent to Operation Snap

Has anyone ever heard anything back from a post to them ? Anything under 15 people dead and they are uninterested in the Midlands !