Suffolk cyclists warned to be on guard after wire found stretched across bike path

The more these stories crop up the more I'm inclined to take my chances on the roads.

We need a more joined-up structure of infrastructure design, lawmaking and law enforcement. There's no point creating routes 'safe' from motor traffic if they are not kept free of criminal behaviour such as this.

Anyway back in the real world....

I use this cycle path most days as do thousands (that's no exageration) of school children going to any of the three primary schools and one very large high school. It's also very popular with staff who work at the close by BT research and development centre or its many off shoot businesses.

It's a good area and I would say the majority of people cycle in some way and as such there's very little animosity to people on bikes. The excellent cycling infrastructure may even be why they moved to the area.

This wire was found on one of the minor feeder paths that lead onto the main cycle path(which is actually part of NCN1).

Locally the police have put the message out that "those" responsible have be apprehended.

Tonight the cycle paths and roads were teeming with cyclists as usual and there's no big drama, I suspect it was just someone being a dick.

Ah, another angry bell-end, just what we need...

we love to hate, look at when propaganda works it is all about hate ...

"I think the police should make it very loud and clear that anyone found doing this will be liable to a charge of attempted murder. There can't be a person in the land who doesn't know just how lethal this practice can be." - except for our law makers.

"162 Penalty for placing rope, etc. across highway.

A person who for any purpose places any rope, wire or other apparatus across a highway in such a manner as to be likely to cause danger to persons using the highway is, unless he proves that he had taken all necessary means to give adequate warning of the danger, guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding [F416level 3 on the standard scale]. " (Highways act 1980)

A fine under scale 3 is a maximum of £1000!

I'm slightly disappointed that his flouncing exit didn't last that long. Freedom for Tooting, anyone?

Quote:

And we - as a 'class' - are not yet angry enough to do something about it.

For goodness sake, have a word with yourself.

'We' are not a 'class', we are people who happen to ride bikes, and our latent anger is not an untapped resource, it's largely a figment of your over-active imagination.

Take that Che Guevara poster down and have a pint.

What is wrong with people?

Nothing new, I can remember someone at school hitting a wire at neck height 25years ago.

Not saying it Is right, and he police should follow up it up, just pointing out things aren't really getting worse, they have always been crap.

Loving the sad-faced policeman picture, and the gloves in case he catches the thievery disease...

i found it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574634/Cyclist-23-hospitalised-...

sick. There was something like this recently in New Brighton, they were caught. I need to check as they probably got a ticking off.

Cyclists should never be deterred from using cycle paths but please cycle carefully on them to give a better chance of avoiding anything like this. It's a horrible act and a rotten situation.

This is sheer lunacy and attempted murder if caught. These people must be caught and jailed for a long time.

This is sheer lunacy and attempted murder if caught. These people must be caught and jailed for a long time.

How on earth is a warning to the public of any use? For pedestrians at least their speed would probably result in minor injury and shock, but for runners and cyclists the results are open ended and once travelling at anything above about 6mph the chances of spotting the trap are close to zero. The police should be warning perpetrators that thorough investigation will take place and pursued with the intention to apply the maximum charge possible. Serious Bodily Harm as a minimum.

That's absolutely terrifying.

Frankly, it just doesn't surprise me. I'm waiting for the day it happens on my ride to work.

Thankfully, this is freakishly rare, and almost never happens.

Five minutes on google. Probably a lot more out there. Attempted murder might be legally tenuous, but what the hell.

A friend fell foul of this a some years ago, he was lucky and just lost a tooth, a few inches lower and it could have been a lot worse.

Sickens me there are people out there who think this is in any way acceptable.

It's just depressing that there are subhuman scum around who would actually do this.

I think the police should make it very loud and clear that anyone found doing this will be liable to a charge of attempted murder. There can't be a person in the land who doesn't know just how lethal this practice can be.