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Not to be confused with Frank McAveety of course, though can’t remember what he did as Cycling Tsar.
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We drove through Currie* on the way back from work last night and I spotted @gembo around Juniper Green.
*After reading on this forum people's complains about using Lanark Rd for car commuting I avoid going that way but I wasn't driving last night and it was 10min quicker than Calder Rd.
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@bill, was it not all very snarled up? Seemed to be a tailback from Gillespie X Road to Currie?
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An article in EEN or Scotsman other day about Edinburgh Police being able to knock cyclists off bikes to end a pursuit.
Glee from some motorists saying 'if only we could all do that', and woe from some lefites saying how terrible it all was. I wasn't really sure why it was news, or why is it a surprise Police can do that? Anyway can't find the article now to post...
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why is it a surprise Police can do that?
General police policy is, I understand, not to pursue people on motorbikes in urban areas, as the risk of killing or seriously injuring someone is considered too high.
Pursuing a cyclist will obviously have fewer risks, but I'm surprised that deliberately driving into them is allowed except in extreme circumstances. I'm equally surprised it's ever necessary, though.
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Sorry, been looking for article again, can't find it. Article, with video of criminal being taken out was on Facebook I think.
I don't find it excessive tbh. It's something that would be done as a last resort, in the same manor that taking a car out isn't done lightly, and likely only with permission from above etc.
This isn't the article, but in similar vain:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-knock-moped-thugs-bikes-13632501Posted 5 years ago # -
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Saw Facebook photo of polis car with moped decals. One for each moped taken out.
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The entrance to Valleyfield St from Leven St totally closed as part of the roadworks. Nothing so mundane as warning signage, let alone a diversion route. (Remember we've already temporarily lost the ASZ in Gilmore Place so now having to mix it with cars there as well.) People just cycled through the cones, of course…
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Brightly-coloured streamlined recumbent proceeding in a westerly direction along Oxgangs Road around half eight/nineish of the morning a couple of days back. Just realised it might have been Arellcat of this parish?
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@piosad sorry, I could have reported the random closure of Valleyfield Street last night along with bad driving by a Lothian Bus driver; a number 11 bus was sauntering across the junction from Home Street to Leven Street well after the Gilmore Place/Tarvit Street traffic lights changed to green. I ended up bailing up onto the pavement when I saw that the road was closed in addition to avoiding the bus, while also dealing with lashing rainfall and random gusts.
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Also spotted for the past few days: massive puddle at Tarvit Street, not sure if roadworks-related but both the pedestrian crossing and most of the ASZ are underwater. Bad for pedestrians, plus a couple of drivers seemed irritated when cyclists move into the centre of the road rather than wait in the puddle.
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@ejstubbs, none other.
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@ejstubbs: if you heard a strange sci-fi 'thrum thrum' noise growing rapidly in volume behind you, then had a flash of red low in your peripheral vision, before a set of red lights rapidly disappeared into the distance in front of you, that would have been Arellcat.
...well that's always my experience of an encounter with the red torpedo, anyway.
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Full set
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Was on my pub bike heading to PY Soderberg on Friday morning when I spotted my neighbour's very tall grand daughter in the distance on the pavement just before the Pentland View pub of Currie stepping around an object on the pavement. When I closed in on the spot I noticed it was The Currie Rat. Very big, very wet and very dead.
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@urchaidh on the Seafield seafront on the way to Porty Prom with various children & adults. I rudely zoomed on as I was late for a sea swim (but then hung back to talk Surlys with one of his friends).
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Cyclist wearing a helmet with the chinstrap on the front of their chin. Like, just below their mouth.
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@unhurt James does like a bit of Surly chat.
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As do I. Since our chat have been trying not to look at Stragglers on the internet...
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Walking round the Meadows cos couldn't be done with wet cycling today. Spot a lady doing star jumps in the dark, but illuminated by a searchlight operated by a man who is also shouting at her.
IWRATS' Internal Monologe: Are you working out your prison fantasies or something hen?
Just at that moment the lady's dog loomed out of the blackness wearing, I kid you not, a four-legged Guantanamo Bay style orange jumpsuit.
IWRATS' Internal Monologe: Point taken I have been owned.
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Re: dogs in clothes, I saw this on Twitter earlier and it brightened my whole afternoon. I did not even know that there was such an item as a "coyote vest".
IWRATS' Internal Monologue - can you write a script that will tweet that out at random intervals?
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IWRATS' internal monologue personified;
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In the gutter but under restraint?
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You see these polyester fleece cat suits on dogs all the time on WoL path. I always wonder about the boy dogs and the things they get up to in the downstairs dept. And how this works wrapped inside a fleecy catsuit thing.
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Cats should only wear beebop hats, that way downstairs can be free.
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@iwrats, oh you bet, hey hold on, let's not get frantic down there, those cats in the bebop hats, they're living in the past, they're living in the past.
As mr jimi once said. He followed that up with some very loud and indeed frantic eeeelectric geetar.
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The late Chris Squire was part of the first public Hendrix gig in the UK, at the Marquee Club, since The Syn were the support band that Tuesday. He said of Jimi, after half an hour's yakking with him backstage after rehearsals, "well he's a real nice guy, it's a shame that the band can't play and no-one's going to come and see us tonight." Of course it was Noel Redding that wasn't very good on bass, and Chris had been away, while Jimi had already jammed with Mick Jagger and created a bit of a buzz around the place. Jimi brought the house down, apparently.
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