3 Friends Just Got Nicked on Their Bikes. WTF!!!

do you have something to hide? ;)

I think the issue here was lack of lights, not the heavy-handiness of the functionaries of some dystopian nightmare state.

yeah they should've had their lights on - we all have them. I think they just forgot...dumb i guess (i had mine on, was already on the road when i bumped into them).

More importantly i want answers to iHateLaw's questions! It's the kind of thing that runs through my mind on a rare occasion. In this case perhaps the police where actually fairly reasonable? I don't think they mentioned the drinking, just the need to have lights on.

Moral of the story: if your gonna ride through red traffic lights half cut, have your flashers on :-p (just a joke)

do you have something to hide? ;)

maybe he just hates the law...

ihatelaw why did you get pulled over under anti-terror legislation?

Who me? they wanted to do a S&S and didn't have to give me a reason other than it was for anti terror purposes. They were serious too, no numbers on the shoulders etc.

Nothing really has changed. Under PACE anytime they wanted to have a look in my pockets they just had to make something up.

Ant [quote]ihatelaw why did you get pulled over under anti-terror legislation?

Who me? they wanted to do a S&S and didn't have to give me a reason other than it was for anti terror purposes. They were serious too, no numbers on the shoulders etc.

Nothing really has changed. Under PACE anytime they wanted to have a look in my pockets they just had to make something up.[/quote]lol for some reason this reminds me of a mate of mine a few years ago who had just been to get "sorted" for his weekend, while walking home the police stopped him and said they were doing a routine stop and search for operation BLADE or something against knife carrying.. so worried they were going to find his drugs he pissed himself thinking they would feel sorry for him as they started to pat down and ask questions ..I mean he actually pissed himself! lol, he started to act scared and said "I dont have a knife ..I dont have a knife" he said the coppers aborted the search and said to him "...calm doon wee man, its just routine..we have to do it every now and again" so they asked where he lived which was just round the corner and they gave him one of their jackets to wrap round his waist and walked him home! haha I forgot about this untill now! :P

that is probably the most excellent story i've been told in the last fortnight or so cheers!

hippy How about getting some lights then? Muppets.
+1

I heard that Ken had put up the fine from £30 to £60 on the spot fine for:
cycling through red light,
cycling without lights.
cycling on the pavement.
cycling without brakes.

There is no legistlation that states you must have a helmate,
and according to the highway code your lights should be clear at the front and red at the back, they should be constant (not flashing).
oh and additionally: according to the highway code: if you are in a situation where you feel that a car could /is going to overtake you dangerously then you should position yourslelf in the middle of the road.

chris crash being drunk on a bike is illegal, it is not an arrest able offense, but police now have the power to arrest people for non-arrest able offenses (go figure) this requires more paper work so they must have made it worth it to the cops some how. as far as i know there is no blood alcohol level limit for riding a bicycle, just if the police can make a case that their ability to ride was impaired. either way bail your mates out and they will have to go to court.

Police have had the power to arrest for non arrestable offences since the admission into law of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

what most people don't realise is that there have been numerous acts of parliment passed in the last 10 years that remove or restrict your freedoms. Worse is that some of these acts allow a home secretary to define an act, article, or organisation illegal without a vote in the house.
Try looking up:
Criminal Justice and Police Act 2003
Violent Crime Reduction Bill 2006

If the home secretary decides that fixies are "dangerous" then he can ban them at a stroke: An we all get arrested.

Anyone for a bit of anarchy?

toodle pip

i prefer nhilism, its more internally coherent, and besides it doesn't require that tedious re-building of society thing.

Ah, but what a society we could build:

Free, honest, equal, and above all fixied.

Toodle pip

hybrid I heard that Ken had put up the fine from £30 to £60 on the spot fine for:
cycling through red light,
cycling without lights.
cycling on the pavement.
cycling without brakes.

There is no legistlation that states you must have a helmate,
and according to the highway code your lights should be clear at the front and red at the back, they should be constant (not flashing).
oh and additionally: according to the highway code: if you are in a situation where you feel that a car could /is going to overtake you dangerously then you should position yourslelf in the middle of the road.

I recently read the latest highway code stuff and if I recall correctly constant lights are not mandatory, just preferred. If you are riding around on an older bike (manufactured earlier than mid-seventies I think), you also don't need reflectors on your pedals, but you are required to have a rear red reflector on any bike.

Also being fined for riding on the pavement is at an officers dissgression, i.e. if you can give a good reason for doing so they won't mind (road busy/dangerous, riding slow, no peds around).