Cycling is a dangerous hobby

There have been lots of bike-jacking incidents recently, this one is
particularly nasty:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Cycli...ail/story.html

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:03:10 +0000, Mrcheerful wrote:

There have been lots of bike-jacking incidents recently, this one is
particularly nasty:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Cycli...ck-Totterdown/
story-17618467-detail/story.html

This looks like a robbery. The fact that the person robbed and hurt
happened to be on a bicycle is incidental.



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On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:03:10 +0000, Mrcheerful wrote:

There have been lots of bike-jacking incidents recently, this one is
particularly nasty:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Cycli...ck-Totterdown/
story-17618467-detail/story.html

This looks like a robbery. The fact that the person robbed and hurt
happened to be on a bicycle is incidental.



--
Life is a venereal disease with 100% mortality.


sounds like he was targetted 'because ' of the bike.

Zapp Brannigan wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
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sounds like he was targetted 'because ' of the bike.

Detective Sergeant Mark Brain: ..... "Fortunately, this is an
isolated incident and it is unusual to see someone assaulted in this
way in order to steal a bike".

Perhaps cycling is now so overwhelmingly popular that the lumpen
masses feel they must participate. Surely that's good news in the
big picture, and the minor injuries received by the donor should be
weighed against the greater social benefits?

I have the impression that it was not stolen because they wanted to ride it.

On 19/12/2012 14:29, Mrcheerful wrote:
Zapp Brannigan wrote:
"Mrcheerful" wrote in message
...

sounds like he was targetted 'because ' of the bike.

Detective Sergeant Mark Brain: ..... "Fortunately, this is an
isolated incident and it is unusual to see someone assaulted in this
way in order to steal a bike".

Perhaps cycling is now so overwhelmingly popular that the lumpen
masses feel they must participate. Surely that's good news in the
big picture, and the minor injuries received by the donor should be
weighed against the greater social benefits?

I have the impression that it was not stolen because they wanted to ride it.


Indeed. There seems to be a ready market for stolen bikes. No honesty
amongst thieves - or cyclists it seems.

--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton, of Lancaster
University, wrote in an interim assessment of the Understanding Walking
and Cycling study. "For them, cycling is a bit embarrassing, they fail
to see its purpose, and have no interest in integrating it into their
lives, certainly on a regular basis."