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@CYOA
Ha, I saw them.
Well, one in particularly who chased me the other week. I waved.
I was at that same junction heading north about two weeks ago trackstanding at the lights like the best of these skiddie-fixers. I saw the other lights change and adjusted my balance to get ready.
I had headphones in at the time and was listening to a particularly rousing bit of Talk Talk so didn't hear the police cyclist behind me say "Wait...."
Lights went orange. I got ready to push. Just turning green, I was away.
Record timing up Roseberry avenue, right down Tysoe Street. Across to Myddelton Street and all the way up to Spencer Street where the lights changed so I duly stopped.
I hadn't done a thing wrong at all as far as I could tell, I had waited, cycled safely, stopped at lights.
Except I hadn't noticed the same policeman I saw this morning hiding behind the tree had been following me since the Farringdon intersection breathlessly wheezing "STOP".
About 20 seconds into the lights he pulled up, exhausted, shaken, sweaty and told me in no uncertain terms that I had broken the law.
I asked him what he thought he'd seen and went through the situation with him.
Something clicked in his brain that he was obviously wrong and he gave me a "Next time.." and tootled away on a side street hunched over his handlebars.
I was glad to see him this morning.
I thought he was going to die.
Best of all I was wearing this: