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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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[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.