Just got pulled over for the most stupid thing

[tomtvr]

Cycling on the footpath By 2 community support officers demanding £30

Thought id cycle to town to save money on petrol and parking (and the TVR was overheading )

Gave them a lecture on catching real criminals - particularly since i was cycling through a bad part of town, yea funny i dont see them when the bus stops are getting smashed up i told them. Not to mention the fact that it was school closing time and 200 yards down the road theres countless kids riding on the paths.

I told him i had left that school a couple of years ago and i knew there were much better ways their time could be used in the area. He said the area has improved recently and suggested that perhaps it was because i had left! - i could barely contain my laughter as i agreed with him and that its people like me on my pushbike really bringing down the neighbourhood.

Anyway he couldent find his ticked book so i got away with it - idiot

Whats the deal with these people - they dont have the power to arrest but i believe can detain me until an officer arrives - im sure that would make the local headlines if i had been carted away in a van for riding on the path!

Dont get me wrong cyclists can be a pain cycling down shopping arcades etc dodging around people. But this was an empty piece of path next to a fairly narrow busy road - hardly crime of the century.

I was considering cycling off quickley as i think i could have out paced them. Even if i couldent the only way they would have been able to stop me would have been to push me off and then i could at least have cried police brutality.

Never been stopped in such away in my life, bloody rediculous - i know its a cliche but FFS catch some real crooks rather than hounding the good honest citizens.

[vonhosen]

PCSOs are supposed to be dealing with the run of the mill anti social stuff that local communities complain about on a regular basis. Things like .............cycling on the footway.

Edited by vonhosen on Friday 12th January 21:06

[M5Dave]

From reading your post I wish they had pushed you off, you sound as if you need it.

[spants]

Hmmm....the number of times I've nearly been hit by stupid cyclists on the footpath.

[Balmoral Green]

Saw a chav cycling on the pavement the other day whilst waiting at the lights, a beat copper tells him to get off and walk, all chav did was give the copper a real mouthfull and pedalled away like mad, nowt the copper could do.

[tomtvr]

M5Dave said:

From reading your post I wish they had pushed you off, you sound as if you need it.

Why do you say that?

[peaktorque]

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

[tomtvr]

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

[vonhosen]

tomtvr said:

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

And it can get you a ticket just like speeding can too (whatever the conditions).

[tomtvr]

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

And it can get you a ticket just like speeding can too (whatever the conditions).

But would you not begrudge getting busted at for example 63 in a 60?
Im not refuting the law, im just saying that they should be dealing with more important issues which im sure most people will agree with.

[Balmoral Green]

TBH, if you're a community support officer, cycling on the pavement probably is an important issue

[so8]

I would have kept you there until a ticket was brought to me if I hadn't got any and you had that attitude towards me ..... local communities absolutely hate people cycling on footways and want police to deal with it - they were actually doing their jobs and what the public want. We get loads of complaints that it gets ignored by police and is just the sort of thing PCSO's can deal with.

I have been to one fatal collision - on a not so busy bit of road - where the cyclist was on the footpath and clipped an elderly man as he went past. The man fell as a result and banged his head .... he died later that day. Unlucky I know.... and it is the only one I've been to, but it's simple .... use the road.

I cycle to work and use the road - I know other drivers can be intimidating but ride accordingly .... I won't use the footway.

[tomtvr]

Balmoral Green said:

TBH, if you're a community support officer, cycling on the pavement probably is an important issue

No wonder, according to the website they are on 16k basic with 21 days holiday, overtime and paid sick leave.

If i havent amounted to much in a few years i might give it a go - riding around all day keeping people off the pavement.

[vonhosen]

tomtvr said:

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

And it can get you a ticket just like speeding can too (whatever the conditions).

But would you not begrudge getting busted at for example 63 in a 60?
Im not refuting the law, im just saying that they should be dealing with more important issues which im sure most people will agree with.

I don't know of anyone who is prosecuted for 63 in a 60.
I think they should have given you the ticket, I'd have considered it a good use of their time

Edited by vonhosen on Friday 12th January 21:27

[Plotloss]

Why on earth did you stop for them?

[peaktorque]

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

And it can get you a ticket just like speeding can too (whatever the conditions).

But would you not begrudge getting busted at for example 63 in a 60?
Im not refuting the law, im just saying that they should be dealing with more important issues which im sure most people will agree with.

I don't know of anyone who is prosecuted for 63 in a 60.

I think that is his point?

[tomtvr]

I wasnt giving him attitude - just being sarcastic in a friedly way - parly due to the fact i genuinely couldent stop chuckling to me side at how rediculous the situation was - particularly in the context as i say earlier that is a bad area with loads of crime. We even had a chat about university as the guy did as similar course to the one im doing.

Obviously i had to explore all routes of escape - if i could get away then why not!?

Oh well ill take the TVR next time - then see if he can catch me

[Balmoral Green]

PC Mark Milton, on his bike, on the pavement, earlier today...



And in St Louis, cycling on the sidewalk if you're a cop is obviously not a problem either...

Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 12th January 21:32

[vonhosen]

peaktorque said:

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

And it can get you a ticket just like speeding can too (whatever the conditions).

But would you not begrudge getting busted at for example 63 in a 60?
Im not refuting the law, im just saying that they should be dealing with more important issues which im sure most people will agree with.

I don't know of anyone who is prosecuted for 63 in a 60.

I think that is his point?

I consider this more important than 63 in a 60.

[tomtvr]

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

vonhosen said:

tomtvr said:

peaktorque said:

Will it deter you from riding on footpaths in the future?

Definatley not, especially when its much safer to do so.

Its the same kind of thing thing as speeding when the conditions allow - cycling on an empty footpath - doesnt do any harm to anyone.

And it can get you a ticket just like speeding can too (whatever the conditions).

But would you not begrudge getting busted at for example 63 in a 60?
Im not refuting the law, im just saying that they should be dealing with more important issues which im sure most people will agree with.

I think they should have given you the ticket, I'd have considered it a good use of their time

Then you much be either rich or ignorant to think thats a good use of you taxes.


I stopped because i am a good honest citizen - and thought they were real police at first, if i had mirrors on my pushbike i might had got a jump on them