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  • Re: "Human bollards" step in to enforce road closure after "child knock

    From JNugent@21:1/5 to Simon Mason on Wed Feb 21 11:00:47 2024
    On 21/02/2024 03:35, Simon Mason wrote:

    ROOTminus1 | 23 hours ago
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    Action like this is interesting to me. These people are clearly doing the right thing, standing up for their community to promote safer streets and stop people breaking the law.
    But they're doing the job of criminal and civil enforcement. Whilst this is legal and vindicated action, it's still discouraged by police and civil enforcement in case it increases tensions instead of de-escalating.

    At what point does community action become vigilantism, and when do I crack out the black mask, cloak and talk in a deep raspy voice?
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    What kind of council rolls out a bus gate with no means of enforcement?

    No driver would ever break the law

    They are trained
    they are licensed
    They are identifiable
    They are Insured

    Unlike certain other road users

    You, May Sun, with your constant trolling, have repeatedly proven that
    you are a human bollard.

    Or something like that, at least.

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Simon Mason on Wed Feb 21 19:25:42 2024
    On 21/02/2024 12:58, Simon Mason wrote:

    At what point does community action become vigilantism, and when do I crack out the black mask, cloak and talk in a deep raspy voice?

    I know! I know this one! When it involves busybodies grassing on hard-working people just trying to go about their daily business of breaking the law! When it involves meddlers trying to be amateur policemen and stopping people exercising their
    rights as Free Citizens (Magna Carta!) to park and drive where they want. When it's creepy cyclists (likely paedos) peering through windows and spying on people with cameras, seeking trouble so they can upload unnecessary confrontations for clicks...

    There you are folks... a human bollard in action.

    Told you...

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to JNugent on Thu Feb 22 08:57:23 2024
    JNugent <jennings&co@mail.com> wrote:
    On 21/02/2024 12:58, Simon Mason wrote:

    At what point does community action become vigilantism, and when do I
    crack out the black mask, cloak and talk in a deep raspy voice?

    I know! I know this one! When it involves busybodies grassing on
    hard-working people just trying to go about their daily business of
    breaking the law! When it involves meddlers trying to be amateur
    policemen and stopping people exercising their rights as Free Citizens
    (Magna Carta!) to park and drive where they want. When it's creepy
    cyclists (likely paedos) peering through windows and spying on people
    with cameras, seeking trouble so they can upload unnecessary confrontations for clicks...

    There you are folks... a human bollard in action.

    Told you...

    When he mentions “… hard-working people just trying to go about their daily business of breaking the law”, I take it he’s talking about cyclists.

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    Spike

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Simon Mason on Thu Feb 22 12:11:29 2024
    On 22/02/2024 00:59, Simon Mason wrote:

    At what point does community action become vigilantism, and when do I crack out the black mask, cloak and talk in a deep raspy voice?

    I for one feel like my 25+ year study of judo and jujitsu (and a smattering of karate) will have been fully wasted unless I become a masked vigilante at some point in my life. I haven't been in a real fight since before I started studying it.

    I do a pretty good scary voice.

    You're just the one to do it.

    I expect. Probably.

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