Not all British laws bad

[Sam Slater]

1. If you're a responsible adult you shouldn't be riding your bike on the pavement. Pavements are for pedestrians.

2. You still committed common assault at the very least.

I'm sure being the model citizen you are, where you continually take a hard-line stance on everything that goes on in the world, you'll be handing yourself in to the nearest police station. You'd be a right hypocritical twat(t) not to. My guess is that you couldn't sleep at night and have already done so.

[RoddersUK]

I wondered if you would put your head up.
No I haven't, nor will I either. Just don't try and run me down on a pavement because you would get the same treatment.

[Sam Slater]

Oh please.....get over yourself for Christ's sake.

I think it's wrong for an adult to ride their bicycle on a pavement. I'm with you on that. You have, as far as I can tell, admitted to assaulting someone, which is a crime. I just wanted to know what sort of punishment you feel should be dealt when you're the type that likes to take a hard stance on criminality?

A similar gripe of mine is with mobility scooters. I find these things far more dangerous on our pavements than bicycles. Some weigh 200kg+ and people have been killed by them and one two year old girl seriously maimed after being run over, getting caught up in the wheels and dragged down the road with the dozy driver completely oblivious. Given this danger is it OK to go around elbowing pensioners and the disabled in the head and then come brag about it on internet forums?

I think it's about time you grew up a little bit, rodders. Let me know how you get on down at the station when you turn yourself in - there's a good lad.

[jimslip]

DavidS wrote:

> An unrepealed section of the Offences against the person Act,
> 1861 Section 35 allows a court to impose a 2 year prison
> sentence on anyone who causes bodily harm to another by
> furious riding!

"Furious riding" Eh? I wonder if this is exclusive to the furious riding of a velecopede or could it be invoked against, "Cute Hungarian girls who within the course of their work as porn performers have furiously ridden, to the point of injury, their male host?"

As Hungary in in the EU, I presume extradition proceedings could be brought about against these shameless hussies!!wink!