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    From JNugent@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 12 21:44:06 2024
    I don't know or remember the presenter's name (it was about 13:30), but
    there was a discussion about chavs on their chav-bikes, with caller
    after caller complaining about chav-cycle-riding on footways and
    pedestrian zones.

    Then... a typical pseudo-intellectual road.cc reader... complete with a sequence of total non-sequiturs and made up stats, pointing out that the
    only country that has chav-registration is North Korea.

    It was Road.cc Bingo.

    But then (and I do wish that smug, self-satisfied, road.cc chav had been
    kept on the line for this)... a dignified gentleman by the name of
    Matthew Briggs rang in.

    He introduced himself and advised the station and its listeners that his
    wife, Kim Briggs, had been killed by a chav on a chav-bike (I am
    paraphrasing the nomenclature - the caller was just a little too polite
    to them as far as I was concerned).

    He recounted his battle since 2017 to have the law governing chavs and
    their behaviour on their chav-bikes amended to create offences of
    causing death by careless and/or dangerous chav-cycling.

    And... Good News... Iain Duncan Smith, MP, has undertaken to table an
    amendment to a Bill currently on its way through the Commons.

    Read more (ironically, though it is followed by wails of anguish in the comments) at:

    <https://road.cc/content/news/iain-duncan-smith-calls-death-dangerous-cycling-law-308247>

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to JNugent on Mon May 13 08:51:50 2024
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    I don't know or remember the presenter's name (it was about 13:30), but
    there was a discussion about chavs on their chav-bikes, with caller
    after caller complaining about chav-cycle-riding on footways and
    pedestrian zones.

    Then... a typical pseudo-intellectual road.cc reader... complete with a sequence of total non-sequiturs and made up stats, pointing out that the
    only country that has chav-registration is North Korea.

    It was Road.cc Bingo.

    But then (and I do wish that smug, self-satisfied, road.cc chav had been
    kept on the line for this)... a dignified gentleman by the name of
    Matthew Briggs rang in.

    He introduced himself and advised the station and its listeners that his wife, Kim Briggs, had been killed by a chav on a chav-bike (I am
    paraphrasing the nomenclature - the caller was just a little too polite
    to them as far as I was concerned).

    He recounted his battle since 2017 to have the law governing chavs and
    their behaviour on their chav-bikes amended to create offences of
    causing death by careless and/or dangerous chav-cycling.

    And... Good News... Iain Duncan Smith, MP, has undertaken to table an amendment to a Bill currently on its way through the Commons.

    Read more (ironically, though it is followed by wails of anguish in the comments) at:

    <https://road.cc/content/news/iain-duncan-smith-calls-death-dangerous-cycling-law-308247>

    I see there’s a call on road.cc from a commenter about videoing cars
    breaking the law at traffic lights, claiming that the police could make millions from fining such drivers, and suggesting that the police become self-financing by such a method.

    I wasn’t aware that fines were retained by the police.

    However, those that comment on road.cc seem to have the memory-span of a goldfish. Road.cc did this video exercise a year or so ago, with the aim of determining what types of bicycle people rode and what clothes they were wearing, at three traffic-light junctions in London.

    I don’t recall any comments being made about drivers breaking the law, but circa half of the ~250 cyclists videoed jumped a red light. Little wonder
    that has been filed in road.cc’s ‘memory hole’.

    Report here (very boring):

    <https://road.cc/content/feature/londons-cyclists-what-they-ride-how-they-dress-301157>

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    Spike

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