incidents in Surrey / Box Hill Road - cautionary email received.

From the Epsom cc group email this weekend :

"Hope you are well. just thought i would email you so you could possibly pass information on to other members.
Josh went out for a ride this morning by himself and unfortunately had a couple of incidents along his route.
One being that someone in a van threw something at him fortunately it didn't hit him! The other incident, which i have reported to the police involved a man in his 60'S near the pub called The Tree on Boxhill road. The man was walking a small dog possibly a Jack Russell and he threw a handful of drawing pins into Josh's path. Josh has seen this man here before so i'm sure it is not the first time this has happened. The police said it was important to let others know about the incident and encourage others to report it to the police if this happens again. The police can then build up a better picture and they are then more able to act upon the information.
I also think riders should be wary of this particular individual as he is obviously not thinking about the consequences of his actions.
I do hope there are not more reports of incidents like this."

He obviously very much IS thinking about the consequences of his actions - it's not a coincidence that he's dropping pins into this cyclist's path, is it.

Why doesn't he just knock him out?

Ever been in a fight with a Jack Russell?

He'd never have got his ankles back

"My front tyre suddenly deflated and the bike veered towards the small dog. I'm ever so sorry for the owner's loss" etc

Fair point.

When kids throw stones at cars or drop slabs of concrete from a motorway bridge they are not thinking about the consequences of their actions .
Unless they have mental problems.
Que quotes from those people with suggestions about what they would do to errant cyclists.

No, kids don't; grown men do. Let's not try and ameliorate this guy's behavior by making out he thinks it's a bit of harmless fun - he is intending to cause a puncture, simple as.

Que

¿Que?

That's wrong isn't it ?
What should it be ?

'Cue'

Not 'queue' either.

The point I was trying to make was there is this detachment that some people have between their thoughts/actions and the consequences.

Thank you so much.
Is 'quotes' ok ?

Yes, but I don't think so in this instance. This doesn't sound like a spontaneous act of sabotage; it appears to me that this guy very deliberately went about acquiring drawing pins to then take out with him and lay down in the path of bikes. He didn't chance upon them whilst out walking the dog, and, should his scheme succeed, I don't imagine him thinking to himself, 'oh no, what have I done.'

n/a

'pierced paw pads'

I like your alliteration.

he'll run out of tacks before we run out of inner tubes

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he'll run out of tacks before we run out of inner tubes

a nice " we won't bow down to terrorism " analogy .

Ever tried to fight in road cleats?

au contraire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot2RkUSRjmg

@mechamorgan HA!

If I were Josh, I would stop, take out phone, take pic of guy + dog ... pass the pic Police & put it all over the web.

Wonder if he will be about this Sunday as it's the Box Hill Original Sportive.

It's getting srs in south Wales.

Dorking cc have sent another email out concerning drawing pins being left in the road around Box Hill. 50+ were picked up and it's been reported to the police.
"...These had all been thrown down in the road where the vans are usually parked opposite one of the caravan parks"