A Sleaford motorist has been given a formal warning by police after allegedly throwing a bucket at a cyclist as he overtook.
Lincolnshire police officer Jimmy Conway tweeted:
First job today: S.59 vehicle seizure warning on #Sleaford man after bucket thrown from car at #cyclist in #Lincoln pic.twitter.com/4DK73VKIoZ
— PC Jimmy Conway (@PCJimmyConway) October 15, 2017
The Sleaford Standard reports that a cyclist had been riding along Monks Road in Lincoln on Friday October 13 at about 10pm when a plastic car was thrown at them from a passing car.
A police spokesman said: “Officers issued the driver of the vehicle a s59 warning the following day. This means if they use a vehicle in the next 12 months in a manner that causes or is likely to cause alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public, then the vehicle will be seized under the Police Reform Act and the owner will pay a fee to get it released.”
26 thoughts on “Lincolnshire motorist threw bucket at cyclist as he overtook”
WHAT A DETERRENT!
WHAT A DETERRENT!
Typo alert. “when a plastic
Typo alert. “when a plastic car was thrown at them from a passing car”.
Credit to the police for following up, but feels a bit week.
Grahamd wrote:
Come on Alex Bowden, you’re supposed to be a journalist……
Greeneyelevin wrote:
Can imagine a few knuckle draggers now thinking it’d be hilarious to throw toy cars at cyclists while shouting some gibberish about getting a car.
A formal warning?! That
A formal warning?! That implies they think he might not have been aware throwing things at cyclists is illegal.
Or maybe I’m wrong and there isn’t anything illegal about throwing things.
Why isn’t he named anywhere?
Why isn’t he named anywhere? Whose idea is it that toe-rags like this deserve to have their identity protected? WTF??
Why is it treated as a
Why is it treated as a motoring offence? If you throw a bucket at someone shouldn’t it be classified as assault – even if it is from a car?
What would they have done for a drive by shooting, just given them some points on their licence?
“Vehicle will be seized if he
“Vehicle will be seized if he
does it againactually gets caught again for a similar offence while using a car”FTFY.
Typo alert. “when a plastic
Typo alert. “when a plastic car was thrown at them from a passing car”.
Credit to the police for following up, but feels a bit week.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. If you’re going to point out a mistake, and why not, you have to be careful with your own speelllling.
HarrogateSpa wrote:
Touché
Grahamd wrote:
We play road.cc-bingo in the office every day. Whoever correctly guesses what the number of typos published during that day will be gets to bring in the coffee the next morning. Everyone wants to be wrong, like everyone wants there to be no typos one day.
simonmb wrote:
Isn’t that a sweepstake rather than bingo? Road cc bingo would be having a series of words to match; close pass, Audi, killed a cyclist, momentary lapse, 3 points etc.
alansmurphy wrote:
We play road.cc-bingo in the office every day. Whoever correctly guesses what the number of typos published during that day will be gets to bring in the coffee the next morning. Everyone wants to be wrong, like everyone wants there to be no typos one day.
— Grahamd Isn’t that a sweepstake rather than bingo? Road cc bingo would be having a series of words to match; close pass, Audi, killed a cyclist, momentary lapse, 3 points etc.— HarrogateSpa
Pedent [sic]
simonmb wrote:
Your wish is my command:)
Compare the meanings of toe-rag and tow-rag.
janusz0 wrote:
Everyone wants to be wrong
— janusz0 Your wish is my command:) Compare the meanings of toe-rag and tow-rag.— simonmb
@janusz0 – I’m correctly aware of these terms. Read this and you will be too: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/07/dot-wordsworth-origins-of-the-toe-rag/
And so the police continually
And so the police continually put out a message that its ok to be violent towards Cyclists.
If they just crushed his car
If they just crushed his car that might actually be a deterrent, instead of threatening to perhaps take it away and make him pay a trivial fine to get it back.
The poster is wrong – it
The poster is wrong – it should say “if you are using your vehicle in a manner which is… and are caught, TWICE!”
And the next time you commit
And the next time you commit murder you’re off to jail mate. FFS
Was it the driver who threw
Was it the driver who threw the bucket or a passenger ? I can’t imagine how I’d throw a bucket at a cyclist if I was driving. Who even has a bucket in their car anyway ?
I wonder how much attention
I wonder how much attention it would get if a cyclist threw a bucket, or a plastic car, at a pedestrian? My guess is charged with assault and sent down for six months minimum, with the MSM all over it for several weeks.
So yet again the police fail
So yet again the police fail to take appropriate action when an assault is carried out. an assault that could have easily led to death, it’s this ignorance of actually using the law to be a deterrent is why we are in the situation we live in. Broken windows is the phrase i believe which raises from just a small relatively innocuous crime to something that builds into something far greater and has a societal impact.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Only if he’s actually kicked it.
They should throw the book at
They should throw the book at him.
Handy if you’re needing a new
Handy if you’re needing a new bucket … is it still an offense if you shout “catch”?
nbrus wrote:
That would be beyond the pail.