"I'll pay the fine! You're not going to see me complaining": CyclingMikey shares footage of him accidentally riding through red light, although barrister doubts prosecution is "in the public interest"; Paris-Roubaix cobbles stolen + more on the live blog

Ah, but did they arrive looking like an explosion in the Decathlon aisle, with helmet hair and oil on their Louboutins? Got to look at the whole picture you know.

Actually looks more like a double bass (around 6ft/182cm) than a cello (around 4ft/121cm) to me, in which case all the more kudos to the rider.

"Contrebasse portée roulant en si"

but cello is near enough !

Legin wrote:

What is the point of sending somoeone to prison for four weeks. All it does is punish society. The state of our prisons mean that somone who goes in as a person who could be rehabilitated will probably come out as an in debt drug user, who then needs to commit further crimes to pay the people he owes.

The government are proposing that short prison sentences (12 months or less) be suspended in almost all circumstances.

Sentencing Bill Factsheet: Short Sentences

Quote:

55% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months are convicted for further crimes. For offenders punished with Suspended Sentence Orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is substantially lower at 24%.

The trouble is we've had 14 years of this Government talking about doing all sorts and delivering the square root of zero! Roll on the election and we may get some politicians who actually want to work and get things done.

Legin wrote:

The trouble is we've had 14 years of this Government talking about doing all sorts and delivering the square root of zero!

I'm not sure about your maths there - did you remember to carry the zero?

brooksby wrote:

Legin wrote:

The trouble is we've had 14 years of this Government talking about doing all sorts and delivering the square root of zero!

I'm not sure about your maths there - did you remember to carry the zero?

I checked 

https://www.cuemath.com/questions/what-is-the-square-root-of-0/

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I would like to encourage cyclists to look into the best ways to protect their bikes when it comes to leaving them."

Like, er, using a lock, PC Jenkins?

[Snip]
Would the police ever provide similar (victim blaming) advice to motorists...?
[Snip]

Really?

Have you slept through the last few decades of public broadcasts and adverts inviting people to *not* leave valuables in their cars, or if they do, to cover / hide them.

True - but they don't tend shake their heads and suggest you should have looked at the best way to protect your missing car?  Nor shrug while pointing to the sign that says "car thieves operate in this car park".

mitsky wrote:

 

Would the police ever provide similar (victim blaming) advice to motorists...?

I tried "taking methods to protect my bike" such as making the bike, lock and stand live with high voltage electricity, but apparently that is illegal. How much does an armed security guard cost? Asking for a friend.

And they're correct!  Our historic market towns are full of motor traffic and parked vehicles - and they have been for a generation (or more)!

Bikes and cycling are no more "in keeping" than wearing a wimple or driving a (horse) carriage.

Further - plans to make the store fronts of e.g. Macdonalds / Starbucks / Tescos are entirely ignoring history - merchants have always liked it gaudy.

We can't have people cycling and walking in any numbers in these places because the streets are too narrow.

We go to Woodbridge 3 or 4 times a year and it annoys me that cars are allowed along the main street on a Saturday and even park on the pavement.
Quite what the dynamics are I have no idea - more wankpanzers in the pedestrian bit I suppose.
Oh and then there are all the drivers who park in the bus stop by the town square.

Think the original intent was to make the main market square pedestrianised, but they backed off it.

The changes proposed werent exactly earth shattering, couple of modal filters and one dead end.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a5255b1b7fa34d148a8caf75c3d78d7b

But this is a place where parents demanded a car park to drop their kids to school at with a catchment area of no more than 2 miles https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24150450.concerns-traffic-kyson-primary-scho...

And there was me thinking that a lot of market towns pre-date cars.

I was thinking the same - overcoming his reservations due to his dispraxia and learning anyway - that's an inspiration.

Hirsute wrote:

One of the most disgusting things I have ever read

https://globalnews.ca/news/10412137/baby-ocean-driver-acquitted/

driver who "failed to observe four separate red lights at the intersection and "failed to brake or steer", jumping curb & killing baby, held to be "single, momentary lapse of attention", acquitted of all charges.

That is a tragic miscarriage of justice and Judge Katherine Denhoff should be immediately removed from her position.

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In acquitting Zadeh of all charges, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Katherine Denhoff noted there were no drugs or alcohol involved, and no evidence of any issues with his driving before the crash.

Considering that the driver went straight through a red light before crashing, I would dispute that statement as being categorically false.

I just wondered how many people it would need to have been killed at that spot - 4,5,6, 12 before it became a guilty verdict or would it make no difference as to how many were killed and he still would have been aquitted?

The way that was written makes me think it is a sick April fools joke.

And the reporting is awful (as usual with most media outlets) too:
"Zadeh has admitted he was driving a Ford Escape that ran a red light at the intersection of Hornby and Smithe streets. The SUV hit another car.. "
I would ask if the vehicle was sef-driving/autonomous.
http://rc-rg.com

The judge should be permanently removed from office for this.
How would she feel if she was related to the baby that died?

The way that was written makes me think it is a sick April fools joke.

And the reporting is awful (as usual with most media outlets) too:
"Zadeh has admitted he was driving a Ford Escape that ran a red light at the intersection of Hornby and Smithe streets. The SUV hit another car.. "
I would ask if the vehicle was sef-driving/autonomous.
http://rc-rg.com

The judge should be permanently removed from office for this.
How would she feel if she was related to the baby that died?

* KERB

[** though possibly not in Ca?)

That's terrible.  At best a momentrary lack of concentration, at the most forgiving, is 1 red light, not 4 with the last fatal one having been red for 20secs