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[desperance]

Further to recent spit-hate for pavement cyclists: I was just downstairs with the cat, looking out of the window at the rain, and along came a policeman. On a bicycle. On the pavement. Please may I run out and make a citizen's arrest, please? Snarrrrllll...

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[guipago.livejournal.com]

So confused!

I take it you and the kitty don't like bicyclists? Am I wrong?

I'm tired, so am therefore confuzzled. :P

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, didn't mean to confuzzle anyone; this is the back end of an earlier conversation. I'm entirely happy with cyclists in their place, which is on the road, where wheeled vehicles belong. On the pavement - which is where I belong - they are an ever-increasing danger, and a cause for impotent fury in me.

Barry-cat has no view, that I'm aware of. He watches bikes with a deep lack of interest. Dogs, on the other hand, excite him utterly; he dashes from one window to the next to keep them in view as long as possible. I'd back him against the little ones any day, but he thinks he can take a Rottweiler. How do your kittens get on with Val - and if peacefully, did that just happen, or did you need to persuade 'em to play nice?

[guipago.livejournal.com]

Loki, the original Scott and Jenny cat, Loves dogs. So we got a very young dog and for awhile Loki enjoyed scaring her. After awhile they started to play and now Valkyrie thinks she's a cat. :)

It works out well.

She does happen to chase cats that are not in our house, or don't belong to those friends that she visits regularly. :P

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. She thinks she's a cat, and is hence territorial. Yup.

The only other thing I wanted to say, are you going to post pictures of these fabulous rock walls you're building? I keep envisioning something like Minas Tirith, which I'm sure is over-grandiose, but oh, I am curious...

[guipago.livejournal.com]

If I can actually remember to bring my camera out to the site/parents' house I will definitely post the pictures. It is work that we/I are/am very proud of :)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

PS - the other thing about the original post - cycling on the pavement is illegal. The law is never enforced, but it does still exist. So when I see a policeman do it, my rage runneth over...

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he was in hot pursuit of the woman who abandoned her helmet earlier in the narrative. He knows it's wrong to ride on the pavement, but sometimes you've got to take the war on crime to their turf. Sometimes you've got to get a bit dirty yourself before you can clean up this town. It ain't pretty, but if the end justifies the means.... just be aware that when you gaze into the abyss of pavement cycling, it looks right back at you.

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

I had a neighbour, who told me this this story, and there's no way of getting more details now because the poor woman died over nine years ago, but here goes:
She was riding her bicycle without a light and was stopped by a policeman who told her she was breaking the law and demanded to know her name and address. This she refused to tell him. He then told her that he was arresting her. She then informed him that riding a bicycle without a light was not an arrestable offence. He then inquired as to whether the bicycle was hers. Could she prove it was? He then arrested her on suspicion of stealing it.

Footnote: You can tell this was a long time ago because (a) the policeman actually was enforcing the law about bicycles needing lights and (b) riding a bicycle without a light is now an arrestable offence under Section 110 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.