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A sight to warm the heart

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  1. Min
    Member

    Coming home last night I was stopped at traffic lights at Nicolson Street and it was the green man. The lights changed in favour of West Richmond Street and I watched in fascination as a cyclist coming towards me kept going and through the red light and into the path of the motor vehicles and cyclists just started moving from West Richmond Street. Horns were sounded so I was even more aghast to see yet another cyclist following the first one through! He held up his hand in the universal sign of "its alright I have my hand held up" then I realised it was bike mounted Polis and he was going after the RLJer.

    [Nelson Munst]Ha Ha[/Nelson Munst]

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. Smudge
    Member

    Hurrah, go-on the bike Polis!

    Hope he had his flashy blue LED's and whoo-woo siren, I've not seen a bicycle v bicycle "hot pursuit" :-))

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Min
    Member

    Sadly not and it was all disappointingly slow motion.
    ;-) They obviously don't watch as many Jackie Chan films as I do - Project A has an awesome bike chase!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. SRD
    Moderator

    excellent. now let's have them also stop some cars doing stoopid things.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. DaveC
    Member

    Great news!!

    I have visions of the chase to dastardly 1950's chase music from old 'Penelope Pitstop' style films in my head now (but don't know what its called).

    :-)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. kaputnik
    Moderator

    YES! YES! YES!

    More of this please.

    @DaveC - Wacky Races or spinoff Stop the Pigeon?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. amir
    Member

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dastardly_and_Muttley_in_Their_Flying_Machines

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. amir
    Member

    Perhaps they could have one of those fly-on-the-wall documentaries like the many about traffic cops (e.g. Motorway Cops).

    I was watching one of those last night, boggled eyed in horror. One of the coppers was distraught (self-named stickler) when he couldn't find a way to let an attractive mother off a series of traffic crimes.

    Firsly she passed him when he was doing eighty (on the motorway). He wanted to let her off because she said her son was to see a police car but then found that she had no licence after losing it for multiple speeding offences. He was still feeling generous so let her off for faulty brake lights.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. Smudge
    Member

    Maybe L&B's pedalling team need to make a vid of a simulated chase with Danny Mccaskill playing the Police rider, should put people off from running lol

    (and equal Mr Chan's efforts :-o )

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. DaveC
    Member

    @ Kaputnik,

    Neither I'm afraid, and now I can't recall any partuicular program I've seen the music in.... This is really bugging me as my PC at work has no sound so I can't even google it.....

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Possibly Devil's Galop, from "Dick Barton : Special Agent". It's a piece of familiar music often used in cartoon chase scenes.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    "I was watching one of those last night, boggled eyed in horror"

    I was watching that as well amir. Astonishing wasn't it. I guess he did at least do her. How on earth her thought processes throught passing a cop car that was already doing 80 so that her son could wave at the driver was a good idea... Then again, it was 14 years since she'd lost her licence and hadn't re-applied for it. Just a bit of an oversight that one.

    The other lovely moment was the businessman on his phone. In the back of the car the cop tells him he views it as a serious offence, the businessman replies "Well I don't". Hah. Means bog all when the cop has you! Made me laff.

    As for cope cyclists, probably going to get the bike stamped by the polis at lunchtime on Festival Square, will try to get chatting.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. Min
    Member

    "excellent. now let's have them also stop some cars doing stoopid things."

    Haha, good one!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. wingpig
    Member

    Excellent, though I do worry that the people that witnessed it develop some strange idea that bicycle miscreants my only be caught by bicycleplods, or that it is only bicycle-based crime they're allowed to thwart.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. DaveC
    Member

    I'm sure if they see any crimes in a vehicle they'll make a note of the reg number to follow up on (otherwise the Blue Meanies would only be allowed to ticket illegaly parked mopeds)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @wingpig well as any Evening Chipwrapper reader will tell you, cyclists are responsible for the vast majority of serious crime around town, so it's only fair that we have our own Police force for the specific purposes of hunting us down and throwing the (fixed penalty ticket) book at us.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. Smudge
    Member

    I'm looking forward to seeing one so I can follow them around and watch them ticketing/warning cagers for stopping in the asl... or ask them why not if they don't (less likely) :->

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. Stepdoh
    Member

    @kaputnik did you know most of dick barton was all but lost, but for some re-recordings that had been made for broadcast in Australia.

    Thus enabling it to be played every hour of the Day on BBC R4Ex

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. spytefear
    Member

    @kaputnik - "it's only fair that we have our own Police force for the specific purposes of hunting us down and throwing the (fixed penalty ticket) book at us."

    Bring
    It
    On

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. Smudge
    Member

    What was the name of that film.... "Catch me if you can" ;-))

    Actually cancel that, I know one L&B Policeman who does Triathalons and time trials for fun and could catch me if he was riding a dutch bike and I was on an all carbon TT machine :-/

    Posted 13 years ago #

  21. wingpig
    Member

    The chattier of the two doing the securifying at Torphichen Place station today said they'd nabbed three people this morning including one who 'failed the attitude test' when stopped.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  22. wingpig
    Member

    ...and a pavement-cyclist was chased down and instructed on the error of his ways by two bikefuzz on Semple Street this evening.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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