Anyone ever see a cyclist get a ticket from a copper?

[BigSid]

... jumped up little hitler PCSO.. I have heard these referred to as CHIMPS. Completely Hopeless In Most Policing Situations.

 

[Drago]

Found the evidence.
Story was there was a road closure out side Buck House. A real copper waved us onto the pavement, where we where then stopped by PCSO Gordon Brown of Belgravia nick who decided to only ticket me out of about a dozen other cyclists. I tried to appeal but got nowhere and had to stump up £30. And he was a jumped up little hitler, not listening to any reason and even taking off his name badge when I took a picture of him.
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I hope you reported him for the name badge.

Also please report him for stopping you. He has no powers to stop you under the road traffic act (unless thats changed since I retired 844 years ago ), his powers being limited to stopping you for antisocial behaviour purposes. I'd have waved merrily and carried on...

It's up to the copper to actually require you to atop, not simply direct you towards his chum from the Asthma Police. I'd challenge it in court on the basis of an unlawful stop.

 

[PaulB]

Talking about the helmet debate, I was once cycling through the Yorkshire Dales on a rare hot sunny day for that year when I met another rider and asked him for directions. He told me he was going the same way and that we could ride together. We immediately encountered a big hill (the one that rises out of Arncliffe towards Malham for those that know it) and our speed naturally dropped. He removed his helmet. I asked him what he did and he told me he was a Neuro-surgeon at a big nearby hospital. I asked him what his views were on the cycling debate. A waste of time at speeds over 5mph he told me. As we reached the crown of the hill, on went the helmet! Hang on, I asked him. If the helmet is only useful at low speed and useless at high speed, you as a Neuro surgeon who knows all about brain injury, should surely have worn the helmet on the steep slow climb where it might have done you some good in the event of a crash, and removed it on the downhill where it would have been useless. He told me it's more likely to crash at high speeds but in the event of a crash, even though he knew it would be no use whatsoever, he'd bring embarrassment to his department with the knowledge he wasn't wearing a helmet! And as he wouldn't be around to defend his actions, that would have to do.

 

[Drago]

I have heard these referred to as CHIMPS. Completely Hopeless In Most Policing Situations.

That is very true. The scrambled egg ranks discourge the use of the term - shame they don't do something about the very thing that brought the term into being.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Talking about the helmet debate, I was once cycling through the Yorkshire Dales on a rare hot sunny day for that year when I met another rider and asked him for directions. He told me he was going the same way and that we could ride together. We immediately encountered a big hill (the one that rises out of Arncliffe towards Malham for those that know it) and our speed naturally dropped. He removed his helmet. I asked him what he did and he told me he was a Neuro-surgeon at a big nearby hospital. I asked him what his views were on the cycling debate. A waste of time at speeds over 5mph he told me. As we reached the crown of the hill, on went the helmet! Hang on, I asked him. If the helmet is only useful at low speed and useless at high speed, you as a Neuro surgeon who knows all about brain injury, should surely have worn the helmet on the steep slow climb where it might have done you some good in the event of a crash, and removed it on the downhill where it would have been useless. He told me it's more likely to crash at high speeds but in the event of a crash, even though he knew it would be no use whatsoever, he'd bring embarrassment to his department with the knowledge he wasn't wearing a helmet! And as he wouldn't be around to defend his actions, that would have to do.

Similar to my "I wear it because it makes my wife feel better" argument

 

[yello]

Similar to my "I wear it because it makes my wife feel better" argument

I know of folk that fall into that category. Fortunately, my wife hated wearing one (helmet hair the main reason!) so I would get a pass even if she was the sort of person to impose her wishes on others.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I know of folk that fall into that category. Fortunately, my wife hated wearing one (helmet hair the main reason!) so I would get a pass even if she was the sort of person to impose her wishes on others.

Ah yes - helmet hair - another reason why making them compulsory is a bad idea
half the population would refuse to wear one because of helmet hair
even if they would ride a bike in the first place!!

 

[Drago]

Ah yes - helmet hair - another reason why making them compulsory is a bad idea
half the population would refuse to wear one because of helmet hair
even if they would ride a bike in the first place!!

On the plus side I could mask off my head and have it painted up to closely resemble a bonce potty.

 

[PaulB]

Ah yes - helmet hair - another reason why making them compulsory is a bad idea
half the population would refuse to wear one because of helmet hair
even if they would ride a bike in the first place!!

Teenagers. The main excuse they give for not cycling due to helmet hair.

 

[presta]

This one's quite funny.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7BQvt3XeAY

Ah yes - helmet hair - another reason why making them compulsory is a bad idea
half the population would refuse to wear one because of helmet hair
even if they would ride a bike in the first place!!

What's needed is a perm that'll cushion a crash, then there's no need for helmets.

 

[PaulB]

What's needed is a perm that'll cushion a crash, then there's no need for helmets.
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You have absolutely no idea how offensive I find that. A stint at His Majesty's pleasure should end your attempts to ridicule the poor members of our society currently undergoing a temporary inability to produce follicles though the top of their skills to produce enough hair for a perm. I shall be contacting my legal representatives forthwith!!!