Man hurls abuse and kicks a youngster's cycle

On 13/05/2020 13:13, TMS320 wrote:

On 13/05/2020 12:24, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


"Arrested"?!
The brat should not have been on the path in the first place, you know
that
as well as I do.

"You can walk, jog, bike, cross-country ski or ride horseback on most
trails at Blackwell."

....as long as you stay 2 metres away from everyone else and do not
expose your children to avoidable danger by failing to control them,
particularly in the matters of staying at least 2 metres away from other
people and not running into other people on a bike.

On 13/05/2020 15:15, Pamela wrote:

On 13:13 13 May 2020, TMS320 said:
On 13/05/2020 12:24, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


"Arrested"?!
The brat should not have been on the path in the first place, you know
that as well as I do.

"You can walk, jog, bike, cross-country ski or ride horseback on most
trails at Blackwell."

It doesn't say you are obliged to give way to poorly supervised children.
The child had poor control of her bike and after striking the couple could
have gone on to strike the dog who may have then responded. Social services
should investigate why the child wasn't properly supervised.

This is the sort of trouble poor parents create. You can also see it when
their children grow up to become unruly teenagers...

....on bikes, and so "entitled".

Some of them go on to make usenet posts in support of law-breaking.

On 15:20 13 May 2020, Simon Mason said:

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:15:20 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:

This is the sort of trouble poor parents create. You can also see it
when their children grow up to become unruly teenagers.

They were both saying "please excuse me" very politely indeed.

It's a courtesy if the couple choose to stop walking to let through a
child who should have had stabiliser wheels and who was so unstable on her
bike that she promptly fell over when she slowed down ... but they do not
have an obligation.

On 13/05/2020 15:20, Simon Mason wrote:

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:15:20 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:

This is the sort of trouble poor parents create. You can also see it when
their children grow up to become unruly teenagers.

They were both saying "please excuse me" very politely indeed.

And of course, that fully entitles the speaker to breach the rules on
social distancing and to to risk causing injury by collision with
pedestrians, doesn't it?

That criminal idiot on the brake-less bike at Shoreditch should have
used that as a defence: "I DID shout "Excuse me", ever so politely, your
honour". It would have been as true as some of his other testimony.

Come of it, all of you who are attacking the victims. How much more
innocent could that couple walking their dog on a lead actually *be*?

The incident is something that happened *to* them. Not something they
caused (except by the highly-provocative act of being on a footpath when
a cyclist didn't want to stop).

On 15:27 13 May 2020, JNugent said:

On 13/05/2020 13:13, TMS320 wrote:

On 13/05/2020 12:24, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


"Arrested"?!
The brat should not have been on the path in the first place, you know
that as well as I do.

"You can walk, jog, bike, cross-country ski or ride horseback on most
trails at Blackwell."

...as long as you stay 2 metres away from everyone else and do not
expose your children to avoidable danger by failing to control them,
particularly in the matters of staying at least 2 metres away from other
people and not running into other people on a bike.

Not only that but the poor dog could be traumatised. The RSPCA should
investigate why the child was so out of control that she startled the helpess
animal. It's obvious the poor thing wouldn't understand the father saying
"excuse me".

The mother admitted, "She is new to going on bike rides" but still didn't
supervise her closely.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:28:53 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:
On 15:20 13 May 2020, Simon Mason said:

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:15:20 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:

This is the sort of trouble poor parents create. You can also see it
when their children grow up to become unruly teenagers.

They were both saying "please excuse me" very politely indeed.

It's a courtesy if the couple choose to stop walking to let through a
child who should have had stabiliser wheels and who was so unstable on her
bike that she promptly fell over when she slowed down ... but they do not
have an obligation.

Nobody is saying that they did, but they did not act as poor parents as you suggested.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:36:52 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:

Not only that but the poor dog could be traumatised. The RSPCA should
investigate why the child was so out of control that she startled the helpess
animal. It's obvious the poor thing wouldn't understand the father saying
"excuse me".

The police are currently investigating the foul language and the criminal damage to the child's vehicle, not the RSPCA.

On 15:37 13 May 2020, Simon Mason said:
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:28:53 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:
On 15:20 13 May 2020, Simon Mason said:
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:15:20 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:


This is the sort of trouble poor parents create. You can also see
it when their children grow up to become unruly teenagers.

They were both saying "please excuse me" very politely indeed.

It's a courtesy if the couple choose to stop walking to let through a
child who should have had stabiliser wheels and who was so unstable on
her bike that she promptly fell over when she slowed down ... but they
do not have an obligation.

Nobody is saying that they did, but they did not act as poor parents as
you suggested.

The little girl is not an experienced cyclist and should have be riding
her bike in her back garden, not a public place.

She loses control of her bike and it falls over with her on it because she
was going too fast to avoid a pedestrian.

The dozy father captured on video the consequences of inadequate parental
supervision and then his equally dozy wife posts it to Facebook. Oh my!

On 15:40 13 May 2020, Simon Mason said:

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:36:52 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:

Not only that but the poor dog could be traumatised. The RSPCA should
investigate why the child was so out of control that she startled the
helpess animal. It's obvious the poor thing wouldn't understand the
father saying "excuse me".

The police are currently investigating the foul language and the
criminal damage to the child's vehicle, not the RSPCA.

There can't be any criminal damage until someone is convicted of a crime.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:47:20 PM UTC+1, Pamela wrote:

The dozy father captured on video the consequences of inadequate parental
supervision and then his equally dozy wife posts it to Facebook. Oh my!

Yet the police are investigating the incident as foul language and criminal damage.