Not my locale, but thought some people are down that way

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cyclists-bike-stolen-after-clothes-line-strung-across-cycle-path-32708

i was thinking (bristol/bath cycleway) before clicking the link.unfortunately i was right 🙁 i hope they catch the to**er’s 😡

scumbags shoot the tossers if they catch them.

loving the picture that accompanies the article:

Nice account of something very similar happening to a London copper:

…I am cycling through the park, and it’s quite dark. In the corner of my eye, I spot some movement. At nearly 3am, in a dark park, that’s generally bad news, so I slow down to take a closer look. Slowing down probably saved my life, because the next thing I know, I’m thrown off my bicycle. The movement I had spotted was a teenager ducking in behind a tree, and the reason he was there was that he and a friend had spanned a length of steel wire across the cycle path, roughly at neck level. It’s an old trick: Get the cyclist off the bike, then nick their bike and possessions whilst they are dazed and confused. Or, in some cases, dead.

— http://mattdelito.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/introducing/

Not the first time along there.

Always gives me the heebyjeebies riding it in the dark. Not good. 😐