http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: meanwhile on twitter en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:34:54 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53466 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:19:47 +0000 kaputnik 53466@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thinking about this a bit more, two things occurred to me.</p> <p>1/ it will reinforce the perceptions held by (too many) people that cyclists think they are above the law.</p> <p>2/ publicly humiliating a policeman going about his duty by posting this on youtube will do nothing to improve police / cyclist relations.</p> <p>If he was sure he had been wronged and (even though he had committed the offence) should be immune from prosecution because the policeman tried to charge him in the wrong manner, he could have taken the ticket and then used his video evidence to challenge it in court.</p> <p>Bah bah bah. It's annoyed me no end. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53457 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:35:56 +0000 kaputnik 53457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does policecop with rather wooly grasp of the intricacies of the law cancel out the fact that the cameracyclist went through the red light (he didn't seem to deny it) and is enough of a legal smartarse to get away with it? </p> <p>No, I don't think so. </p> <p>Policemen (who are not lawyers) have a job to do. This guy was trying to do his - albeit in the rather block-headed way that police can approach things when they are used to scraping drunks off the pavement for a living. </p> <p>We would be spitting with rage if it was a smartarse lawyer in a Porsche or 4x4 who "got away with it" and I don't see it's any different that he was riding a bike instead.</p> <p>He should man up and take the ticket and learn his lesson and not do it again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53436 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:25:20 +0000 Greenroofer 53436@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Comments I've seen on this video elsewhere, from people who claim to be police (but then on the internet you can never tell) is that the policeman handled it badly from the start, and never really managed to recover the situation.</p> <p>If you've not watched the video to the end, it's worth knowing that the policeman makes a lunge for the cyclist's camera, but then does not attempt to pursue him when he rides off.</p> <p>The cyclist in the video is Danny Shine, who seems quite an interesting character. Here's what he had to say on the matter: <a href="http://dannyshine.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html">http://dannyshine.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53435 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:21:38 +0000 Uberuce 53435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclists in the legal profession who dislikes red light jumpers must hate that guy with a passion that makes supernovae look damply squiblike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53426 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:50:57 +0000 SRD 53426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah, I only watched the start of that video, but how annoying. what a pompous idiot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53425 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:48:57 +0000 Baldcyclist 53425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice, Jump a red light, be a Twat, get away with it. Sigh! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53420 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:51:41 +0000 SRD 53420@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know 'where' it is on twitter. You know I don't 'get' twitter. It was crossposted on FB. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53414 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:26:35 +0000 chdot 53414@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where's the Twitter exchange? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53390 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:40:55 +0000 Cyclingmollie 53390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it <a href="http://youtu.be/V4oHTq3gjxU">this one</a>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53389 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:40:54 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 53389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Intriguing. In these days of multimedia I almost find myself demanding video evidence on YouTube of these sorts of things! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53388 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:39:34 +0000 SRD 53388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I asked 'why scary'; she replied "that an officer was so clueless about what he was doing and about the legalities he was "trying" and failing to enforce." </p> <p>so not an accident, I guess.</p> <p>Twitterer: police officer was aggressive as well as clueless, though cyclist pretty arrogant as well.....</p> <p>me: Fear combined with self-righteousness does that...<br /> 19 minutes ago · Like</p> <p>Twitterer: indeed - on both sides in this altercation. Almost funny! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53387 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:36:28 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 53387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any more details? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5030#post-53368 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:47:52 +0000 SRD 53368@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From a friend (husband ex-police, now MP)</p> <p>"scary exchange between the well informed cyclist and a hapless police officer, who got it wrong from the start and didn't know the law." </p>