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Just coming home after a great club ride, am in my home city, on a busy road , sense a car very close trying to 'creep' past, look round to see passenger with his hand out ready to grab/slap my arse, evade it by cutting toward kerb, they go past laughing, gesticulating, passenger has arm out imitating grabbing, -- have reported it to non emergency , await developments-- got the reg as it was distinctive, also heard their plummy voices-- i love students !!!!


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:13 pm
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Wasting police time?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:16 pm
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glupton-- you reckon people like that should be driving ??


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:22 pm
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Why's that wasting police time? You should hear some of the 999 calls they receive.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:23 pm
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'kin steeewdents, y'say?

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Posted : 07/10/2012 5:26 pm
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Q1 - no, but the passenger wasnt driving.
Q2 - Because there is heehaw chance of getting a conviction. What would you charge them with?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:27 pm
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Driving without due care maybe? Even if not, that shouldn't stop them from going to have a word or two.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:30 pm
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just be happy you have an arse worth pinching and be on your way? i'm assuming youre a bloke, which means MTFU ๐Ÿ˜‰
if car is going fast and swerving into you, then report.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:30 pm
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report it - Plod may call and make them re-evaluate their behaviour

Ignore the troll


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:34 pm
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glupton-
1 the passenger was not driving, the driver was attempting to manoeuvre to let his passenger do the deed, after they went past to much laughter and merryment he did a swerve with the car to intimate it again, so yes the driver was very much involved-- jolly japes for them tw*ts, potential serious injury for a cyclist,
2- they should have a stern word and log it for future ref, driving with malicious intent, he may ave only passed test not long- whatever-- oh and this is a smallish place ,a very distinct reg, i may see the car again...

JY- have reported it --they seem to have taken it as an offence-- have promised to report back....


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:37 pm
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JY - you're sooooooo predictable it's boring.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:46 pm
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A bit pathetic blaming students when you don't evev know who they are


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:46 pm
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It is not my fault you are the boy who cried wolf.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:48 pm
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You finshed?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:51 pm
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students here are very easy to spot/identify, they often behave in very predictable ways, language is a give away, dress is another, and the fact that they were not competent enough to carry out the deed tops it ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:54 pm
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That's attempted assault?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:54 pm
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I'm calling troll on this thread.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:56 pm
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That's attempted assault?

No, just a sense of humour fail for the OP ๐Ÿ™„


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 5:56 pm
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The consequences of a successful hit would have been possibly serious for me-- i was doing a reasonable speed, for them its more likely ignorance and too much clarkson--

these things happen all the time , a cyclist found by the side of a road with horrific injuries-- no witnesses -- who's to say..

Any one who thinks that these things are trivial either has no experience of road riding, or is just the same as the people in the car


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:03 pm
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No, just a sense of humour fail for the OP

My brother had a half empty beer can thrown at him from a passing car a few weeks ago, I should have told the humourless sod to laugh it off ๐Ÿ™„


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:04 pm
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Errr don't ask me how I know this, but 100% the police see it as assault. They did at least unless its changed.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:19 pm
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students here are very easy to spot/identify, they often behave in very predictable ways, language is a give away, dress is another, and the fact that they were not competent enough to carry out the deed tops it

Maybe, at the last second, they realised they might catch their hand on the stick that appears to be jammed up your ass, and thought better of it?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:20 pm
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Great inverted snobbery!


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:22 pm
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My brother had a half empty beer can thrown at him

Pessimist!


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:30 pm
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Great inverted snobbery!

this


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:32 pm
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where was it?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:34 pm
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on the arse!

sorry, the offence is dangerous driving, the arse thing is speculation?

if hand had met arse, then add that to the bill.

i'd be more worried about that hand pushing me off, than copping a feel.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:38 pm
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Pessemist!
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(would have been ๐Ÿ˜† , but for the spelling ๐Ÿ˜‰ )


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:38 pm
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driving that close to a cyclist is dangerous. No debate here is there?


 
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Great inverted snobbery!

bloody Hoorah Henries.. all teeth and tweed.. greedy Aywots

I can't believe that some are defending the actions of the car's occupants (of unyet ascertained heritage) though.. STW student contingent..?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:40 pm
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I probably would have been erked had this happened to me, but I think it may have been fairly harmless. Don't dwell, it won't help.

I take it you were in lycra? You were basically asking for it... ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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oh yes wearing lycra is asking for it.. wait this is dangerously close to the 'women deserve to be raped for dressing that way' argument no?

(put's flame suit on).

anyway, no arses were harmed by the sound of it.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:48 pm
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Did it really happened? Do you have proof? As they said waste of muppet time.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:51 pm
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My brother had a half empty beer can thrown at him from a passing car a few weeks ago,

One man's half empty beer can is another man's half full one,cheers!


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:52 pm
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There was a cracker on Youtube where a rear seat passenger was trying something similar by hanging out the door - smacked his head on a parked car instead. Justice seen to be done.


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:53 pm
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I'm calling troll on this thread.

George.
Have you any idea how funny that sounds coming from you. ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 7:03 pm
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North Wales Finest have got back, they have spoken to driver and passenger involved, both fessed up ! they said they were remorseful and realised it was a stupid thing to do.(they are students )

He thanked me for reporting this and said that people should not delay in reporting any instances of bad/reckless behaviour on the road, its only by going through the appropriate channels that this sort of behaviour becomes as taboo as drink driving.
He added that NW Police are about to have a cycle awareness campaign, aimed at motorised road users-- I can only say that this is a positive outcome and hope others will be encouraged to do the same.


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 8:18 pm
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Hope he bought you a drink before going for a feel.


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 8:24 pm
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That is a good positive outcome.

A couple of weeks ago I was driving home from work when an oncoming car started veering off into my path - the driver having too much fun throwing stuff out of the window at a student to realise he was on the wrong side of the road! He swerved out of the way at the last minute. Would've reported it but I was too busy mouthing the letters [i]WTF?[/i] There's some idiots out there.


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 8:33 pm
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Don't let this get in the way of any discussion, but I'm pretty sure there's no such offence as attempted assault.

Edit: just seen outcome which is positive and seems a good approach from police. Result


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 8:38 pm
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[i]No, just a sense of humour fail for the OP[/i]

Why is driving close enough to a cyclist to enable the passenger to give the cyclist a slap in any way amusing?

Honestly the attitudes from some 'cyclists' on this forum are shocking.


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 9:06 pm
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Some trolls or twunts on this supposed cycling forum should grow up. OK we might not all have bothered reporting it but fair play to the OP for doing so. If they had hit the OP's arse knocked him off his bike, maybe hit him with the car then what? Worst case scenario another cycling casualty on our roads. And some of you give him grief? Unbelieveable.


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 9:15 pm
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I'm more staggered at the sheer hypocrisy of the OP, who is happy to stereotype students, but only earlier today bored me to death with his self righteous preaching about not describing people who throw bricks through windows as 'chavs'


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 9:27 pm
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nothing wrong with the OP's cycling point, but everything wrong with his stereotyping of students.

Why confuse the issue by seeking to blame some apparently identifiable minority? Plummy accents could equally have indicated farmers, conservatives, or other supposed homogeneous groups. Why stop there, you could have suggested all sort of stereotypes - none of that helps your point about the dangers of being ****s towards cyclists when driving


 
Posted : 08/10/2012 9:34 pm
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I wonder how the enlightened masses of this forum would react if it were a woman who'd been harassed in this manner?


 
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