MichaelW

Check out this:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/4422219.stm

>>Motorist stops and fines cyclist
A motorist stopped a 14-year-old cyclist and fined him for riding without lights and a helmet.
Police are trying to trace the driver who flagged the boy down on Dark Lane in Broseley, Shropshire, at about 2030 BST last Friday.

The man said he was fining the teenager £5, which the boy handed over and the motorist drove off towards Ironbridge. >>

I thought that demanding money from people by trickery was called theft.

Karldar

Citizen's arrest gone awry? Don't know if you have that over there(or if anyone's crazy enough to try it over here-might get shot). I've thought about trying it with cagers, but decided against.

Metro

I think we can use this. I have encountered many a motorist who plain-out failed to yield at a stop sign. It is quite a wake up call at 35mph' on a big downhill! I would love to stop, issue a citation and fine, payable in cash immediately to me.


I love it.

powers2b

Some people are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Enjoy

genec

Wow, true hiway robbery...

Crazy Cyclist

That kid must really be stupid if he gives gives money to someone who aks for, it would have told the motorist to take a hike, I guess the motorist was a wannabe cop.

operator

It's a kid.

Guest

I'm going to have to start doing that. I'll be a millionaire by the end of the summer!

BRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAW!!!



Koffee

CommuterRun

When the cager is found he should be dressed well and dropped off in Compton or Harlem and see how much he gets "fined".

Ubie

Can't speak for Compton, but Harlem is now choc full o' whiteys like me. I'm in a shirt and tie every morning as i walk out the door, and never had a problem. Damn Columbia students started moving north about a year ago, completely changed my neighborhood. I used to know every white person in a five block radius. Now, only three apartments in my entire building are occupied by non-whites. Harlem has become gentrified. Hell, we don't even have the guy selling weed on the corner anymore, and you can't find an alley craps or cards game to save your life.

slvoid

Are you talking the area near columbia and the area north of bronx where all the rich whiteys live? Cause around 190th street or so, last time I was there, it was still pretty hairy at night.

Guest

Damn Clinton for bringing his offices to Harlem! Damn him!

He should have brought them to Cabrini-Green.

Koffee

Ubie

Nah, i'm talking 125th - 145th on the west side. We ain't rich, but we sho' is white. I knew things were going downhill when an hippie commune type art gallery opened on 126th near Amsterdam (i'm not *****ing, they often have some pretty damn cool stuff). Up in the 190's things are still kinda iffy at times i guess, but that neighborhood is changing too. If you want the rich whitey's, you still gotta be along side the park, 110th and south (really 98th and south judging by the people i know that live in that area).

kwv

It could be but then the motorist could in trouble for pretending to be cop and sorry if the next comment is not about the UK as someone might get upset.

In Victoria Australia a person from a Local Council held up a hair dryer towards on coming traffic and the drivers slow down as they thought it was a speed camera :-)

catatonic

I used to do that back when I had my grand marquis...those things resembled police cruisers so it was all the more amusing as people saw a guy hanging off the open door, with ray-bans and a "radar-dryer" in his hand, pointed at them.

I ended up getting 100 hours community service out of that one

FOG

My mom grew up on 134th between Broadway and Amsterdam, which was an Irish neighborhood, known as Vinegar Hill.

peterm5365

Citizen's arrest is generally only allowed when a felony has been commited in your presence. Few motor vehicle violations are considered felonies.

Guest

You know, if it was really allowed for me to stop someone if they didn't have a helmet, I'd be really rich.

Maybe he'll ride with a helmet from now on.

Koffee

Karldar

Really!? I did not know that. Thanks for the info. Hmm, I wonder--would it be a felony if you were driving, say, a deadly weapon? Only sometimes, I'm sure.

Bigmikepowell

What is a cager?

catatonic

cager = driver. it's a (somewhat) derogatory remark, based on how a car is essentially a metal cage with wheels.

CB HI

What were you charged with? As long as you did not pull someone over or state that you were a police officer, no law was violated. Sometimes cops and judges seem to make up the law as they go.

LittleBigMan

Over the years, I've heard more than one report of someone maquerading as a police officer in order to pull over a female motorist, only to assault her.

(But I might want to try the hair-dryer/radar trick someday... )