On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:03:40 +0100, Bod wrote:

A lorry driver has become one of the first people to be prosecuted for
driving too close to cyclists after being caught by a plain-clothed
police biker.

Officers posed as cyclists in Birmingham and the black country to try
and catch drivers putting bikers lives at risk.

The 60-year-old driver was taken to court and ordered to pay £1,038 in
fines and costs. He was also given five points on his licence for the
manoeuvre in Park Lane West, Tipton, last November after being found
court at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court.

So how did they catch up with him? Must be damn fit police.

He was among the first motorists in the country to be taken to court
after the operation to protect cyclists from ‘close passes’.

I drive and cycle, and I find it absurd that cars leave such a *large* gap. I only need a foot or two when I'm cycling, because I cycle in a straight line. Same gap as cars leave each other when passing in the *opposite direction*.

There's enough room on most roads for a car to overtake a cyclist when there's another car coming the other way, yet so many morons want to drive right over the other side of the road to overtake the cyclist, somehow imagining he's the width of a car.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/12/underc...-bike-6772386/

That's called entrapment, the police should all be fired. You can't just go around encouraging people to break the law. Imagine I placed my wallet in front of someone on a bus, filmed him take it, then reported him to the police, the police would laugh at me.

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