I've just read on Facebook that a cyclist was taken out by a rope across the North Edinburgh path near Crewe Toll. Cyclist bruised but OK, police informed. Be wary.
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Rope across NEPN November 2016
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Another unsettling story from Facebook
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Hi just a warning to anyone who cycles on the cycle path from roseburn to leith.Yesterday I met two neds who asked for a light and when I politely said I didn't one of them kicked my back tyre which could have resulted in me badly hurting myself and seriously knocked my confidence, however I have reported it to the police as we shouldn't gave to put up with this behaviour"
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Beware the groups of still-on-school-hols neds giving agro on the NEPN Craihleith - Crewe Toll section. I passed two groups last night just before 5pm at the Drylaw- Crewe Toll section. The technique they employ is to completely block the path then one on the MTB pulls a wheelie towards you to try and frighten you. If you respond you'll get a tirade of foul verbal abuse (and hate to think what they'd do if they sucessfully knocked you off).l suspect the little darlings have been spending the last of their school hols causing trouble at Craigleith retail park.
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I avoid that section of the path completely now and go past Fettes and through Inverleith Park on the way to work. There's too much dog poo and broken glass.
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unfortunately I fell victim to what sounds like BigJack's gang at about 5.30 tonight by Easter drylaw park (between Craigleith and the Red Bridge). Group of youths on foot and one on a mountain bike slightly ahead. He stands on his pedals and aims karate style kick at my head as I pass (he missed) and as his pals laugh one of them hurls a handful of what I think was ice cubes in my face. Fortunately my glasses bore the brunt. I stopped momentarily. I thought better of it and got on to the police instead, as there seems to have been an escalation of this behaviour recently. Police very good and a visit to my home within the hour and statement given. Not sure anything will come if it as I can't identify them but hopefully police may increase their presence. Be careful.
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There are sometimes youths standing above the Telford Road bridge (near the Drylaw exit) shouting and chucking things at cyclists below. Halloween was a bit of nightmare cycle, and not many youth incidents since then, but this evening around 5.30ish I was heading towards Roseburn and I could hear then shouting and throwing stuff before I reached the bridge.
They shouted that I was a "Specky c*nt" before launching a few missiles, but thankfully none of them landed on me.
I tried calling the Police non emergency number after Halloween experience, but I had to hang on for so long, and then it was evident the person had no idea about the location of the cycle paths it was a complete (and expensive) waste of time. Do others have better strategies for alerting Police promptly to this behaviour so they can drive a car past, or do you not bother.
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Councillors and community councillors should have email addresses for the local beat police, who should be interested.
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@SRD. Thanks.
My own councillors? Or does one need to work out the councillors for area through which one happens to be travelling.....
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My own councillors? Or does one need to work out the councillors for area through which one happens to be travelling.....
Either should work - the local councillors are likely to speak regularly with the right officers anyway. Your own councillors will, at the very least, be able to pass it on to the local councillors.
I believe Telford and Drylaw are in Inverleith ward - councillors for Inverleith are here: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/councillors/specificWard/8/inverleith
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Polis seem to tackle ASB on NEPN by driving a car along it... whereby the neds see them coming a mile off & just loiter out of sight before returning to their no-good antics 2 minutes later.
The group chucking stuff off the Telford bridge - that has been going on 10 years or more, as I got roped by them when I worked in Haymarket. They had a lookout girl in the bus-stop but the main gang just hung about on the embankment waiting for a call-to-arms from her. They need to be filmed & caught red-handed. A lady was bricked after being roped near House O'Hill on the path.
School holidays are the worst time - the latchkey kids are left to wander the sink estate & find their own amusement by their parents.Posted 8 years ago # -
And of course, there is nothing the NEDs want more than a chase from the police. How do you win?
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not NEPN, but I got laser-pointered this morning while in Forthquater Park.
Fortunately they were to the side and a bit behind so not direct into my face. Pretty sure it came from the flats along Colonsay View / Colonsay Place.
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I once got lasered in Ratho. Fortunately I was heading away from the perpetrator so no harm done. I think they where on the bridge as I cycled along the tow path.
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I got laser-pointered...
That is pure evil.
Many of those laser-pointers sourced over the internet are NOT eye-safe and can cause permanent eye damage.
For example, it's easy to obtain a laser pointer of 150mW* (or more), yet max power for "eye-safe" is only 5mW.
Shockingly, you can even buy 5000mW pointers!
*Often the power is not even specified - on one example with no power rating, we measured the power and found it to be 150mW, 30 times the max for eye safety!
Posted 8 years ago # -
@HankChief Many thanks for tweeting.
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And of course, there is nothing the NEDs want more than a chase from the police. How do you win?
The win would take a couple of generations to achieve, following a concerted and determined effort to improve social equality via reducing the wide gap in pay and conditions across the earnings spectrum.
The norwegians did it, and by and large, it works.
Despite the vague "scots are socialist at heart" backdrop, the people in this country don't really want it - we remain a class-based society, and the gap is widening.
So its not going to change.
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incidentally, at the moment kids from a neighbouring estate throw stones at my windows every single night.
its torture to refrain from dealing with it directly, but there's little i can do about it without ending up in court on a charge.
it will probably calm down somewhat when school starts again next week.
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too much glass on the path
Posted 8 years ago # -
@bax - bleak, but I have to agree... it's hard to successfully engage people to work towards a long-term goal they might not even be alive to see. All of the worthwhile political activism I have been involved in were populated by people that accepted that things weren't going to improve in the short term.
the people in this country don't really want it
I remember watching my Grandmother work her fingers to the bone in a Michelin factory and yet I still own her collection of Royalist mugs and would listen in disbelief at her core Conservative values. She believed those values were there to protect her if she bettered herself, even at the age of 80. It didn't matter how much my Grandfather would lecture her in the character of Frank Owen.
I take some heart though from small successes - I doubt the changes at Roseburn are going to be a short-term improvement - I do believe the vote for option A was embracing a longer-term view of things...
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@bax I've had my windows subjected to golfing driving range(100's of balls in baskets, all stolen) & stone throwing from the cycle path. Each time, I went around & covertly took photos, showed the evidence to the police, they knew who it was, knocked on the parents doors and no more throwing incidents (until the next school hols & the next batch of scrotes).
I get your point about social improvement, but some people want to wallow in misery & outside of society. Society has put them all together & there they live among their peers in their comfort zone.Posted 8 years ago # -
@bax - incidentally, at the moment kids from a neighbouring estate throw stones at my windows every single night.
I had the same in the summer except the scrotes were doing target practice with our conservatory and were walking over the tops of neighbours' cars. I caught this on video, reported to the police, alerted the car owner (who didn't even care...). Police sent a DI round to look at the footage, said bobby said the local officer may know who they are. Why we never got the local officer in the first place I have no idea, but he never has made an appearance. It seemed to stop when the evenings got dark at least. Got their return to look forward to in the spring...
No idea what happens if they actually cause any damage and do get caught because they're hardly going to pay for it.
Worst thing - they come on bikes so invariably if they do anything worse then there will be an alert to keep a look out for "3 cyclists".
I do wonder if their parents know and don't care, or are completely unaware.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Possibly both. I once turfed a group of kids out of our stairwell around 11 on a Wednesday night, most drunk, some on grass, a mix of ages from around 8 to 15. What parents let an 8 year old smoke grass in a stranger's stairwell at 11 on a school night. Got my head kicked in for my trouble. Police advice - 'keep a golf club behind the door'. It was on that night that I started planning my permanent move out of the city.
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Passed a group of around 8 youths, 2 of whom riding a motorbike on the Blackhall Path between Craigleith and Silverknowes this evening. Reported to the police, so hopefully they managed to intercept...
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