Peterborough ditches firm that was enforcing cycling ban and keeping all the fines

Boatsie wrote:

I believed it. Thought it was golden.

if it's any consolation I once tried to park in a place which was metered except on Sunday. On the Sunday I tried to park there a group of rather paleolithic-looking types were offering to protect people's cars for a very modern sum of money. I made my excuses and left, never to return.

ConcordeCX wrote:

offering to protect people's cars for a very modern sum of money

Bitcoin?

Boatsie wrote:

I believed it. Thought it was golden.

It's such a charming idea that it deserves to be true.

I'm a fan of the idea that the main thing that separates humans from other animals is that we have stories. A good narrative will win over truth any day.

Boatsie wrote:

You guys ever read of the car park attendant? I believe he was collecting at London Zoo. Personally installed council type parking meters, attended daily, collected millions. Then he disappeared. No one knew whom he was, didn't pay tax. Zoo thought it was councils job. Council knew it as part of the Zoo. Lol. I only read about it. Pretty sure I remember story as London Zoo. Estimated collection exceeds 20million quid.

It's an urban myth and was originally Bristol Zoo: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/urban-myth-bristol-zoo-parking-1059

alchemilla wrote:

If challeged, what happens if you refuse to give your details to this private company? Theyre not the law, are they?

Just cycle away. Most of the chubby little Hitlers wouldn't even attempt to follow you.

alchemilla wrote:

If challeged, what happens if you refuse to give your details to this private company? Theyre not the law, are they?

Depends on what authority they've been given as there's different rules (even those rules are shady AF) they could call the police and if they don't turn up in 20 minutes (some say 30) there's nowt they can do, same with a local authority person or a PCSO.

If you can ride away do so, you're hard of hearing so never heard a thing , if they try to pull you off your bike then that's an assault, if they knock you off then that's an assault, as such the committed an arrestable offence. You could try making a citizens arrest and calling the police yourself if you want to up the stakes but plod will ignore the assault and focus on you cycling safely calling it dangerous and use CCTV despite them having a policy of not taking much if any notice when cyclists are driven at and assaulted so they'll charge/threaten you for breach of the peace/public order offence or some such BS for forcing them away from the doughnut run.

Just waiting for the first disabled person to be stopped and they are using their bike as a mobility aid and see how that pans out!