{"id":5656,"date":"2011-04-11T21:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2011-04-11T21:27:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:27:39","slug":"dangerous-cycling-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Cycling Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5657 lazyload\" title=\"Uncle Albert\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/uncle_albert.jpg\" alt=\"Uncle Albert\" width=\"180\" height=\"145\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/145;\" \/>This one is timely. With the sun, and the first leaves appearing with the Cherry blossom, <em>prattus spandexius<\/em> is now out of hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see him &#8211; typically with a full-face beard and\/or the physique of Thunderbird 2 &#8211; pretending to be fit on country lanes and other places where he can cause maximum inconvenience. On weekends, he&#8217;ll be part of a gang &#8211; almost invariably\u00a0with one of the gang members being a dead ringer for Uncle Albert\u00a0and riding one of those lie-down bikes &#8211; deliberately riding two or three abreast to hold traffic back.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/apr\/10\/death-dangerous-cycling-law-government-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this story in the Guardian<\/a> is interesting &#8211; maybe not for exactly the\u00a0reasons I&#8217;d like to think, but it should give <em>prattus spandexius <\/em>something to think about next time he tries to act like a rolling road block if it ever actually happens.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/jul\/09\/ukcrime?INTCMP=SRCH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a cyclist hit a teenager and killed her<\/a>. He was found guilty of dangerous cycling &#8211; he shouted to a group of teens &#8220;move, because I&#8217;m not stopping&#8221;. He didn&#8217;t, and he killed the girl. He was fined \u00a32,200. There isn&#8217;t a specific law covering dangerous cycling like there is for driving.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how far this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is timely. With the sun, and the first leaves appearing with the Cherry blossom, prattus spandexius is now out of hibernation. You&#8217;ll see him &#8211; typically with a full-face beard and\/or the physique of Thunderbird 2 &#8211; pretending to be fit on country lanes and other places where he can cause maximum inconvenience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}