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If The Law's An Ass, What Are The Enforcers?
Police in Grantham threaten to confiscate 4 year olds bike because she was riding on the pavement.earlier in the week it was stated that police were cautioning some criminals instead of arresting them , it seems we have strangely selective law enforcers.
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All this could have been avoided if the 4 year old had just cycled in the cycle/bus lane like he is supposed to do. He is not too young to understand that laws have to be obeyed and that policemen are there to make everyone, including infants, do ad they are told. Jeez, people will be complaining next when a conscientiou s policeman conficates a child's imitation...
00:42 Tue 10th Mar 2015
I agree it seems petty - but just a word of caution about accepting reporting as always being balanced. I've seen kids allowed (even encouraged) to ram people's legs from behind with their teeny bikes. Now if challenged, the parents in charge would say it was an accident, you're over-reacting etc, and it will all happen again to someone else. As long as we're sure the parents in question aren't in this category then yes, a definite case of overplodding.
// I used to carry a sharpened steel comb in my boots whilst walking to roller skating - I'd be in a cell too.//
Mama
you narty girl ! - yes definitely against the then legislation ( Offensive Weapons 1936 I think .... it was all such a long time ago )
In 1921 my grandmother when asked what she would do if attacked by a ruffian said : " I always have my hat-pin ! "
Mama
you narty girl ! - yes definitely against the then legislation ( Offensive Weapons 1936 I think .... it was all such a long time ago )
In 1921 my grandmother when asked what she would do if attacked by a ruffian said : " I always have my hat-pin ! "
Father on teevee confirms that there was a threat ( intended course of action ) to confiscate the bike.
Another says it is lawful to ride a bike on a pavement if the wheels are less than 18" diameter
a police spokesperson on the tee-vee tried to inject a vein of plain old British common-sense into all this when he said:
“if the officer deemed it necessary to award a caution as he did, then so be it !” ( Beeb 10 29)
Another says it is lawful to ride a bike on a pavement if the wheels are less than 18" diameter
a police spokesperson on the tee-vee tried to inject a vein of plain old British common-sense into all this when he said:
“if the officer deemed it necessary to award a caution as he did, then so be it !” ( Beeb 10 29)
Small bikes are actually called 'Pavement Cycles'
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What surprises me is that this was not a case if riding for play, it was their daily, routine, trip to school. The bike had stabilisers and I am wondering if they've given her the bike because she has complained of becoming tired out by the walking.
fwiw, because cycling is so much more energy-efficient than walking, she is burning off fewer calories by riding instead of walking ie she is getting less actual exercise this way, because the mileage is fixed (the idea with bikes is to travel far, after all).
fwiw, because cycling is so much more energy-efficient than walking, she is burning off fewer calories by riding instead of walking ie she is getting less actual exercise this way, because the mileage is fixed (the idea with bikes is to travel far, after all).
In Japan everyone is happy with bikes being ridden on pavements by adults and kids alike, but everyone is also ferociously poilite and considerate. Umm asked (above) if I'd really experienced being rammed by a kid on a bike - yes, actually also had a woman try to get her littlun to pedal fast as poss into my legs from behind. Just after setting her dog on me. Because I asked her not to let the dog (rottweiler) jump up at me. Takes all sorts.
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