Wires in Milton Keynes

Just seen this on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...ts/7116449.stm

If you're cycling in MK, watch for wires across cycle-lanes.

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Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:55:30 +0000
Paul Boyd usenet.is.worse@plusnet wrote:

Just seen this on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...ts/7116449.stm

If you're cycling in MK, watch for wires across cycle-lanes.

Some nutter drives into Glasgow airport harming noone but himself,
all hell breaks loose.

Some nutter causes a real danger to the public ... **** all happens.

--
not me guv

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:09:22 +0000 someone who may be Nick Kew
wrote this:-

Some nutter drives into Glasgow airport harming noone but himself,
all hell breaks loose.

Some nutter causes a real danger to the public ... **** all happens.

The difference is that officials and party politicians don't give
two hoots about private transport if the people concerned are on
bikes. However, they do like to be seen to be "doing something"
about public transport if the people concerned are using aeroplanes.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

"David Hansen" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:09:22 +0000 someone who may be Nick Kew
wrote this:-

Some nutter drives into Glasgow airport harming noone but himself,
all hell breaks loose.

Some nutter causes a real danger to the public ... **** all happens.

The difference is that officials and party politicians don't give
two hoots about private transport if the people concerned are on
bikes. However, they do like to be seen to be "doing something"
about public transport if the people concerned are using aeroplanes.


Or it could be because driving a burning vehicle into a building with
thousands of people in it has a much greater destruction potential than
stringing a bit of wire across a cycle track.

A better example would be comparing it the media hype over the girl abducted
in Portugal.

in message , Adam Lea
') wrote:

A better example would be comparing it the media hype over the girl
abducted in Portugal.

_Allegedly_ abducted in Portugal.

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(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

Hobbit ringleader gives Sauron One in the Eye.

"Simon Brooke" wrote in message
...
in message , Adam Lea
') wrote:

A better example would be comparing it the media hype over the girl
abducted in Portugal.

_Allegedly_ abducted in Portugal.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

Hobbit ringleader gives Sauron One in the Eye.

I have my own opinions on that case which I would never express on a NG.

But I do believe that you, Simon, have made an "error" ( not an _error_ ) of
judgement, and a serious one, in making that comparison where opinions on that
case must be widely diverse and while the "case" is still very much under
investigation. It is not worthy of your normal posting standards

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Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.
www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

in message , Trevor A
Panther ') wrote:

"Simon Brooke" wrote in message
...
in message , Adam Lea
') wrote:

A better example would be comparing it the media hype over the girl
abducted in Portugal.

_Allegedly_ abducted in Portugal.

I have my own opinions on that case which I would never express on a NG.

But I do believe that you, Simon, have made an "error" ( not an _error_
) of
judgement, and a serious one, in making that comparison where opinions on
that case must be widely diverse and while the "case" is still very much
under investigation. It is not worthy of your normal posting standards

I expressed no opinion on whether the child was abducted or not. I have no
opinion on whether the child was abducted or not. It is alleged she was
abducted. It is not a fact that she was abducted. That was all I was
pointing out.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; part time troll.

In article , Trevor A
Panther
says...

But I do believe that you, Simon, have made an "error" ( not an _error_ ) of
judgement, and a serious one, in making that comparison where opinions on that
case must be widely diverse and while the "case" is still very much under
investigation. It is not worthy of your normal posting standards


WTF are you talking about? Simon didn't make any comparisons. It is
AFAIK an undisputed fact that the parents have alleged that the kid was
abducted.

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:50:57 -0000 someone who may be "Adam Lea"
wrote this:-

Or it could be because driving a burning vehicle into a building with
thousands of people in it has a much greater destruction potential than
stringing a bit of wire across a cycle track.

Passive design to prevent/restrict vehicle mounted attacks is not
"sexy" and thus is not often mentioned in the mass media or by party
politicians. However, it has been carried out since at least the
early 1980s and I suspect some time before that.

ISTM that the bollards which arrested the car were not there by
accident and did their job extremely well. I congratulate the
designers.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

On 2007-11-29, David Hansen wrote:
ISTM that the bollards which arrested the car were not there by
accident and did their job extremely well. I congratulate the
designers.

Indeed, bollards seem very effective.

As in this video, "When Bollards Attack", which is most chortlesome.
Although I do feel very sorry for the child/children in the people
carrier for having the misfortune of being born to such dumb parents...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Cw0QJU8ro

It's amazing how the vehicles come to an instant, utter dead stop.

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