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Jt:
should hvea justg told them to fook off, poked em in the tits and wheelied off into the distance?

Dark Diggler:

--- Quote from: jonathonturner on June 21, 2007, 10:12 PM ---should hvea justg told them to fook off, poked em in the tits and wheelied off into the distance?

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Hows the Magners :LolLolLolLol:

darkersomeday:
CYCLING FURIOUSLY?
It's an in-joke in cycling that cyclists can't be booked for speeding but can be fined for "pedalling furiously." Many cyclists list being cited for "cycling furiously" as one of their life ambitions. Professor David S. Wall, Head of the University of Leeds Law School, a professor of criminal justice lists his hobby as: Cycling (Furiously)
As bicycles are, in law, classified as carriages, it's often been assumed that the old offence of "furiously driving a carriage" under section 35 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, applies to cyclists.

However, these legal eagles say they have been unable to find a a reference to such a cycling offence in Blackstone's Criminal Practice or in Halsbury's Laws of England.

Which is odd, as Christopher McKenzie, an Australian barrister, pointed Bikeforall to these cases: Taylor v. Goodwin (1879) 4 QBD 228, a case where the Queen's Bench Division held, on appeal, that a cyclist was appropriately convicted by a magistrate for furious riding of a bicycle. The dicta of Justice Melor in the case has been cited and followed in a number of cases since: see, for example, Smith v. Kynnersley [1903] 1 KB 788 (cyclist not liable to pay bridge toll) and Corkery v. Carpenter [1951] I KB 102 (cyclist liable for offence where cycling drunk).



how cool is that! :D
thats definitely going on my list of ambitions!

"so joe, have you ever been in trouble with the police before?"

"yes officer, i was recently in court for CYCLING FURIOUSLY"


 :daumenhoch:

Trev:

 :police:

bitd i got nicked on my bike and on the police report i was recorded as doing piroettes on my bike.  :idiot2:

OrgasmDonor:

--- Quote from: Trev on June 21, 2007, 10:49 PM ---
 :police:

bitd i got nicked on my bike and on the police report i was recorded as doing piroettes on my bike.  :idiot2:

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thats taking things tutu far :LolLolLolLol:

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