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Cyclist kicked Into burn
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Not nice. But... this "article" appears to be a quick job based on the tweet, which refers to the cycle path and not that he was a cyclist?
Posted 11 years ago # -
They've now updated the article. Victim was indeed on a bike, as were the two ne'er-do-wells.
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"updated the article"
Is it an 'article'? I mean apart from it being very short the fact that the first sentence is "This is just awful", doesn't really mark it out as news.
Obviously I don't dispute that it is awful. I actually misread the thread title as "Cyclist kicked in the bum", which might be slightly less awful.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Hmmm. There were a couple of pairs of assumed-neds on bikes hanging around the Ainslie Park entrance and underneath the bridge under Wardie Road on Thursday evening, though I was more suspicious of the woman simultaneously asking if anyone had seen a wee golden dug, suspecting it to be a distration-technique.
Posted 11 years ago # -
"updated the article"
Actually, they've created a new one, didn't notice link had changed.
Posted 11 years ago # -
New article says '2 cyclists attacked man".
Sigh.
Posted 11 years ago # -
So, to sum up (recent threads on here), if you use NEPN, you put yourself at risk of tacks on the path, stones being thrown at you, and being kicked and robbed?
Posted 11 years ago # -
^ it is a path running through some of the poorest parts of a major city. You have to expect problems now and then and use it after dark with a bit of caution & common sense.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Yes, though -
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/youth-crime-falls-to-ten-year-low-1-3292260
Posted 11 years ago # -
Not sure it counts as a burn, mainly standing water and pollution with potential fir all sort of bugs
Posted 11 years ago # -
So only the attackers were cyclists?
Loathe as I am to waste brain cells trying to analyse headlines, I believe 'cyclist' is traditionally the term for RLJ pavement riding two wheel lycra hooligan etc and so clearly the attackers in this case deserve the same label (guilt by association etc), but the victim being on the receiving end is deserving of the slightly better 'person on bike' label.
Posted 11 years ago # -
That's the section to the west of fiveways junction, just after a bridge where the new ramp climbs up next to South Trinity Road. Sounds like the poor guy ended up in the stinking drainage ditch.
Not good.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Award for the most unnecessary mention of hi-viz in this story goes to the EEN today:
"The cyclist, who was wearing a high-visibility jacket, was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He is set to attend St John’s Hospital in Livingston for further treatment."
Disappointed they made no mention of whether he was wearing a helmet!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Or pants. 'cyclist wearing pants and socks was taken to.....',
Yawn. Maybe they put it in to try to make them seam more sensible sort rather than RLJ type?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Or they're trying to jog the memories of folk in the area
Posted 11 years ago # -
Signs of horse activity on path there this am, wondered if it might have been police horses? Surely locking the stanke door after the horse has boltedbif it was! If not thre is a fery large fog about
Posted 11 years ago # -
dougie I saw that horse manure both on the roseburn to craigleith stretch and on the trinity stretch. Police horse is logical.
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I saw two police on horseback heading east on London Road yesterday afternoon, which is unusual. Not beyond the bounds of reason they had traversed NEPN beforehand.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I wonder, if they'd spotted the suspects on their bikes, if they'd have galloped after them in a high-speed chase along the NEPN.
That would have been worth seeing.
Do Police horses have sirens and flashing lights?
Posted 11 years ago # -
You used to be able to tell whether the source of horse manure was a police dobbin by the smell of it. I don't know what they fed the horses while they were stabled at Fettes, but the ultimate result had a significantly more unpleasant smell than that procduced by the more normal diet of a recreational horse. Not sure if the same applies now they're based in Ayrshire.
With this and the A90 path thread, the forum's on a horse manure tip at the moment.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I expect they are stabled and don't get much grass.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I thought the Police Horses in Lothians were being no more? I recall something last year about Police Horses being cut?
Would make sense though, but usually Fery Police st just send a Panda car down, occupying the full width of the path sending the public flying into nearby burns and stagnant water....
Posted 11 years ago # -
This is a Flickr group for the NEPN, but it doesn't include pictures of police horses that I know I have taken!
Posted 11 years ago # -
Do Police horses have sirens and flashing lights?
Yes, but rather than go "nee-naw" their siren is "neigh-naw"...
Robert
Posted 11 years ago # -
I saw two police on horses riding two abreast along Grange Road yesterday. Lots of cars backed up behind them, going even slower than I would up there into a headwind!
Funnily enough none of the motorists peeped their horns, or revved their engines or shouted anything about road tax.
Posted 11 years ago # -
There were two horses riding 2-abreast down Telford Rd last week at 6pm, probably after coming off the NEPN. Nobody beeped at them or shouted at them to ride single-file.
The riders have red lights on their back but no hi-viz as far as I could see.Posted 11 years ago # -
I have to say I'm glad the police are taking this seriously and establishing a presence. I was concerned - based on the police's usual lack of concern about cyclists - that they were just going to let NEPN turn into the wild west.
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