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Assault on cyclist I witnessed - driver pleads guilty

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  • Started 6 years ago by Cyclingmollie
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  1. Cyclingmollie
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    The quad bike driver I witnessed assaulting a cyclist between Stow and Fountainhall earlier this year has pled guilty.

    I don't now have to go to court as a witness to the driver punching the cyclist. Hopefully the driver will appreciate in future that a cyclist waving him past is only trying to help.

    I'm glad that the cyclist brought charges as the assault I saw was really nasty. I didn't witness the brake check but I was almost run over by the driver as he left.

    For the record the guilty party was James Fergus Wemyss Muir.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  2. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Not the hired help for once

    http://www.thepeerage.com/p42483.htm

    Posted 6 years ago #

  3. PS
    Member

    The goal of this website is to capture in one place all of the members of the inter-connected families of the British peerage. The site is the result of around 17 years of work by one (somewhat eccentric) person collating information on the British Peers (and some European royals), and then entering it into a range of various genealogy programs.

    I guess everyone needs a hobby, but...

    Posted 6 years ago #

  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Such a database would have been handy in 1917 in Russia.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  5. Greenroofer
    Member

    @IWRATS, possibly, but I'm in there and I don't have any aspiration to be first against the wall when your revolution comes.

    The only evidence beyond this website I have of being part of the peerage is a couple of paintings of dead white males (and females, actually) the best of which features this chap, whose picture in army uniform makes him look too young (and too camp, frankly) to be a Lieutenant General and an unspeakable slave owner. Other than that I believe myself to be surprisingly normal.

    (Oh yes, and before anyone who knows me gets any ideas, precisely because my mother's maiden name is visible on this website I don't use it for security anywhere)

    Posted 6 years ago #

  6. slowcoach
    Member

    from the local paper's website "Stow farmer admonished for attacking cyclist" but fined £500 for illegal possession of ammunition

    Posted 6 years ago #

  7. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Greenroofer

    I shall direct the militia to spare you.

    If there was a website detailing the descendants of unmarried and mysteriously pregnant farm servants in north-east Scotland I'd be all over it.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    Freaky down Stow. Someone died at David Steel's son's party down there recently

    Posted 6 years ago #

  9. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    It's maybe a cruel twist that his name may now connected on Google with an incident that was in part caused by his attempts to prevent a record of said incident from being made.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  10. unhurt
    Member

    "mysteriously pregnant"?

    Do they do it differently in Aberdeenshire? Or is it time that someone sat you down and explained about avian and colonial insect reproduction?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  11. dessert rat
    Member

    turns out that if you install the 'auto refresh' extn in Chrome, you can get almost any article in the "most read" side banner to trend a lot higher in the Border Telegraph.

    Was 8th a while ago, now 3rd.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Do they do it differently in Aberdeenshire?

    Guy roch kind.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  13. dessert rat
    Member

    James Fergus is up to 2nd, having displaced a grim sounding story "Woman crushed between cars in Earlston crash".

    Only "Plans to convert long vacant Galashiels shop refused" stand between him and a Christmas number 1.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  14. unhurt
    Member

    @Iwrats I have been defeated by your gnomicness. I need further explanation.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  15. Frenchy
    Member

    They, rather infamously, do it differently in parts of Aberdeenshire, but that doesn't normally result in pregnancy.

    I believe God is involved in the more mysterious pregnancies, maybe try asking them?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  16. crowriver
    Member

    I do believe the local sheep farmer story is not the most read in the BT.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  17. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Iwrats I have been defeated by your gnomicness.

    That's Doric, not Gnomic. 'In a dreadfully rough manner.'

    Posted 6 years ago #

  18. LaidBack
    Member

    BT report says - "The court was told Muir grabbed the cyclist by the wrist during a confrontation after he had been trying to overtake the bicycle in his car.

    His lawyer said Muir made a "poor decision" after reacting to photographs being taken of him on a mobile phone by the cyclist."

    @cyclingmollie No mention of a quad bike? A mere detail of course but considering papers almost always name the make and model of a car it seems an odd omission?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  19. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    Yes, the car was actually a quad bike.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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