Close Pass Initiative, The Daily Mail take

It must be extremely wearing

It must be extremely wearing to be that angry about everything that you need to post in the DM comments section 

Perhaps the drivers caught close passing should have to attend a course instead getting a fine? A close pass from a police interceptor on a closed circuit might be more beneficial for a few of them than any financial punishment.

Mungecrundle wrote:

I know I shouldn’t of but I did (in a Victorians visiting the madhouse to be entertained by the gibbering ravings of the wretched inmates sort of way) go and look at the comments section on this DM story. 

Inspired, can I propose that we now call the comments section of the DM Bedlam (or Bethlam Royal  to use it’s proper name) after the infamous asylum where Victorians would entertain themselves watching the “gibbering ravings of the wretched inmates”.

EK Spinner wrote:

I  thought I would have a laugh and read some of the comments, so far this is my favorite

 

“Merseyside police farce did nothing when a cyclist riding on the pavement collided with my car as i was turning into a factory off a roundabout.”

Sounds like this driver was incredibly lucky not to face a dangerous driving charge if they hit a cyclist who was on the pavement 🙂 

 

Confused by this one . .  was the cyclist on the pavement ? Meaning the driver was therefore driving (illegally) on the pavement or was the cyclist on a road, as roundabouts rarely feed traffic onto a pavement ?
Sounds like Mr Driver is rather confused about what happened, and is instead telling half a story, a friend mentioned hearing from a mate down the pub (after a few pints), that he’d heard someone on the Mailonline mention in a comment about something with a vague connection to a cyclist.

hawkinspeter wrote:

maviczap wrote:

ClubSmed wrote:

Here’s the headline

Isn’t it ironic that the core DM readership voted in the George and David club who have demolished every Police Force in the country, you reap what you sow.

Our PM was at the helm when these cuts were made, and even Maggie didn’t go after the boys in blue

Wasn’t that because Maggie was using the police as her private enforcers?

Certainly during the miners strike

ClubSmed wrote:

Here’s the headline

Isn’t it ironic that the core DM readership voted in the George and David club who have demolished every Police Force in the country, you reap what you sow.

Our PM was at the helm when these cuts were made, and even Maggie didn’t go after the boys in blue

I’ve got a DM ranty twat down

I’ve got a DM ranty twat down my street, was on his horn behind me on Monday because I was ‘in the middle of the road’ as I was passing a parked up Luton box van. He stops ahead to give me a load of grief to which I give him a “fuck off you stupid old cunt”, I cycle on, he overtakes and then reverses back threateningly, I cycle past and my street is literally 75m on.

I notice he drives past me, I saunter down to the bottom of the street and say to him, now what are you going to do now you can threaten me with your motor. Gives it the ‘I’ve got it all on video, you were in the middle of the road’ BS. I tell him to learn the HC and that I’m perfectly within my rights to cycle wherever I want. He says he’ going to call the police, I said good luck because you’ll be waiting ages but I tell him my address and encourage him to send the rozzers round so we can see what a dangerous fucktard he is.

I was tempted to leave him a present on hgis windsscreen, a blown up print of the HC and the law but DM ranty wankers like that aren’t interested in the law, they have their own set of rules and governments are only too happy to legisitimise their actions by doing fuck all to change it.

Jimbonic wrote:

Not wanting to be alarmist or anything, but….

“Im going to fit a 1.5m cattle prod on my wing mirror,if a cyclists falls off then i know im to close.” got 60 up clicks……..!

I wouldn’t worry. Those mouth-breathers would fit the cattle prod and then forget about it and zap themselves every time they got into/out of their vehicle.