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I expect he’ll get a paltry

I expect he’ll get a paltry fine

Of course! After all, ‘he didn’t mean to do it!’

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Police Scotland exists in a
Police Scotland exists in a black hole whence nothing emerges
Continuing this theme, I can assert and prove beyond reasonable doubt that Lancashire Constabulary is a Supermassive Black Hole in comparison.

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PCCs are expensive worthless
PCCs are expensive worthless junk and should be binned – which is just what they do with any letters sent to them in their capacity as the second tier of complaints against the police. When the inevitable response is, essentially, that’s what the police have decided so it must be correct, the value of a load of people sitting around in County Hall should be obvious

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I predict that the response
I predict that the response from the PCC will be: this is an operational decision of the police – we can’t be involved, in practice, if not in exactly those words. That was the invariable response of the (disappointingly, both Tory and Labour incarnations

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‘Education’ is just another
‘Education’ is just another name for doing nothing, rather like Community Resolution

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this will come as absolutely

this will come as absolutely no surprise at all to anyone who regularly sees bad driving in West Yorkshire – a black hatchback Audi with blacked out windows

They sometimes come over the Border. Hierarchy of Road Users? What Hierarchy of Road Users? MF67 VEP

https://upride.cc/incident/mf67vep_audi_hierarchydenial/

https://upride.cc/incident/cd10wer_audiq7_closerpass/

https://upride.cc/incident/hk64pzt_audiq5_dwlcross/     White is just as bad

https://upride.cc/incident/st23fhf_audi_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/k7ddy_audia4_redlightpass/

https://upride.cc/incident/yh66utp_audia1_handheldmobile/     etc.etc

Never mind the hordes without MOT, VED etc

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Except it is. The police are
Except it is. The police are not transcribing from illuminated Middle English parchments, they’re parroting what they’ve seen on American films and TV

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I meant the ‘gotten’

I meant the ‘gotten‘

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The shocking thing about this

The shocking thing about this alleged assault of a driver by a cyclist is this part of the police statement- I hope it’s a transcription error at the website!

one of the men grabbed the victim by the throat after he had gotten out of his car

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In a Facebook post, the
In a Facebook post, the police team said the section of road was “notorious” and had seen “hundreds of collisions over the years”
Good! The police team have managed the first step: spotting all the vehicles that have left the road. Next, and this will require a step up, they need to work out how to prosecute people for careless driving (dangerous if somebody is KSI’d) without collapsing in tears wailing about ‘lack of resources’.

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Good! Each to his own, but
Good! Each to his own, but that proofing isn’t going to help when the fabric wears through on the folds. Agree about the plastic bags, though. Always 3 for a sleeping bag!

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There are also a few bits of

There are also a few bits of text which say that they NFAd because I swerved into the path of the car

Police officers are often surprisingly thick, and rather less surprisingly malevolent in pursuit of the ‘sod the cyclists’ agenda. I recall, before they realised I keep and record everything and hit on the ‘don’t respond at all’ dodge, them describing me as swerving in and out along the road. They had been informed that it’s a ‘headcam’, and that’s obvious to anybody with more than 2 neurones to synapse together that cyclists do not suddenly cycle over the kerb and up onto the grass verge at speed, and I think it’s mostly genuine stupidity that they can’t comprehend that looking right is not the same as ‘swerving right’.

Another suspicious oddity…

It’s just standard police behaviour, covering-up their mistakes and incompetence

 

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I also contacted my local
I also contacted my local Police and Crime Commissioner
I predict that the response from the PCC will be: this is an operational decision of the police – we can’t be involved, in practice, if not in exactly those words. That was the invariable response of the (disappointingly, both Tory and Labour incarnations. See the final lines of Orwell’s Animal Farm) Lancashire PCC

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I repeat, risking the

I repeat, risking the annoyance of those who have read this many times before, that it is difficult to fail to despise the police. Don’t imagine that conditions on the roads can’t get worse for cyclists- they can and they will and the prime cause is (you knew this was coming) the attitude of the b*****d police. It’s not just West Yorkshire…

https://upride.cc/incident/wk66uhc_transporter_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/md19lxp_fiesta_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/pn68byl_mercedesa_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/unknowntractor_bigtrailer_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/w2agw_barbarian_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/yg25tsz_bmwix_closepass/

https://upride.cc/incident/pn70vux_polo_closepass/

And that’s just July 25. The police apologists will be spouting ‘what can the police do when there are so many’. There are so many because of the unthinking, uncaring anti-cyclist pro-motorist beliefs prevalent in these increasingly hostile forces. 

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So if we don’t like /

So if we don’t like / understand it, it’s branded “ideological” and scrapped

You forgot ‘woke’!

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