Cyclist shot in B'ham - By another cyclist!

John Mallard' not_me@all said:

Wow! When I'm cycling in Handsworth I tend to be a little
pragmatic with my reaction to car drivers, but I never
thought that other cyclists might be dangerous.

see news.bbc.co.uk367Open ↗
9959.stm

Oddly, the spoken version on Radio 4 had that a "cyclist"
was shot by another "person on a bicycle". Perhaps there is
an equally knee-jerk cyclistist in the Radio Newsroom.

Like most of the stories that people point to here, this one
seems to have no more to do with cycling than that there was
a bicycle present at the event. Well, two. Given the number
of violent deaths every day in Britain, and the number of
cycles about the place, one ought to expect a few violent
deaths in the presence of bicycle every now and then, purely
by chance.

Take me: I just use a bike to get about the place a lot.
Something of the order of a thousand to two thousand miles a
year, several times a day. Little more than that. I am not a
cyclist, I am a free man.

"John Mallard" <not_me@all> wrote in message
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Wow! When I'm cycling in Handsworth I tend to be a little
pragmatic with

my

Quoted message said:

reaction to car drivers, but I never thought that other
cyclists might be dangerous.

What about this John? Saturday night daughter number 2 was
at work in MacDonalds and since our lass won't let her
cycle there, she set off at 2245 to go and pick her up. At
the same time I was staggering out the sauna in a semi-
drunken state and settled down to watch the footy.

Sort of remembered our lass and Gemma coming come and
muttering something about Gemma coming out of the restaurant
at the same time as some armed robbers were going in. Armed
robbers brushing by my little girl? What nonsense and went
back to watching footy. Unfortunately, it was all too
horribly true :-(

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Simon Mason said:

"John Mallard" <not_me@all> wrote in message news:40965b18_1@mk-nntp-
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Quoted message said:

Wow! When I'm cycling in Handsworth I tend to be a little
pragmatic with my reaction to car drivers, but I never
thought that other cyclists might be dangerous.

What about this John? Saturday night daughter number 2 was
at work in
MacDonalds and since our lass won't let her cycle there,
she set off
at 2245 to go and pick her up. At the same time I was
staggering out
the sauna in a semi-drunken state and settled down to watch
the footy.

Sort of remembered our lass and Gemma coming come and
muttering something about Gemma coming out of the
restaurant at the same time as some armed robbers were
going in. Armed robbers brushing by my little girl? What
nonsense and went back to watching footy. Unfortunately,
it was all too horribly true :-(

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My God Simon! That is very frightning. Thank heavens nothing
went badly wrong.

Regards

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Cheerful Peddling John Mallard

Geraint Jones said:

Quoted message said:

Oddly, the spoken version on Radio 4 had that a
"cyclist" was

shot by another "person on a bicycle". Perhaps there is an
equally knee-jerk cyclistist in the Radio Newsroom.

Like most of the stories that people point to here, this
one seems to have no more to do with cycling than that
there was a bicycle present at the event. Well, two. Given
the number of violent deaths every day in Britain, and the
number of cycles about the place, one ought to expect a
few violent deaths in the presence of bicycle every now
and then, purely by chance.

Very true. However I am often concerned by the occasional
talk here about what can only be descibed as retributive
road rage reaction by cyclists to dumb driving. About two
years ago there were two road rage (car v car) incidents
involving fire arms in as many weeks here in Brum. It
certainly calmed me down a lot.

This particular incident, although not, as far as I can
tell, a road rage incident, got me thinking. I cycle in
Handsworth a lot. It is definately one of those areas of
Birmingham where I resist the urge to hand slap cars.

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Take me: I just use a bike to get about the place a lot.
Something of the order of a thousand to two thousand miles
a year, several times a day. Little more than that. I am
not a cyclist, I am a free man.

Good man. :-)

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Cheerful Peddling John Mallard

"John Mallard" <not_me@all> wrote in message
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Regards

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Cheerful Peddling John Mallard

slightly OT John, but what are we supposed to be selling?

burt said:

"John Mallard" <not_me@all> wrote in message news:40967256_2@mk-nntp-
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Regards

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Cheerful Peddling John Mallard

slightly OT John, but what are we supposed to be selling?

Whoops! Thanks Burt, I hadn't noticed. I was obviously
in too much of a rush when I set up after last change
of 'puter.

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Cheerful Pedalling John Mallard

"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:8e-
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Saturday night daughter number 2

What, you have at least two daughters for every night of
the week? :-)

Graeme

On Mon, 03 May 2004 17:27:49 +0100, John Mallard wrote:

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This particular incident, although not, as far as I can
tell, a road rage incident, got me thinking. I cycle in
Handsworth a lot. It is definately one of those areas of
Birmingham where I resist the urge to hand slap cars.

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You mean in case a 'hand slapping' results in a [censored]
slapping?

"Geraint Jones" <[email hidden]>
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John Mallard' not_me@all said:

Wow! When I'm cycling in Handsworth I tend to be a
little pragmatic

with my

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

reaction to car drivers, but I never thought that other
cyclists might

be

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

dangerous.

see news.bbc.co.uk3Open ↗
679959.stm

Oddly, the spoken version on Radio 4 had that a "cyclist"
was shot by another "person on a bicycle". Perhaps there
is an equally knee-jerk cyclistist in the Radio Newsroom.

Like most of the stories that people point to here, this
one seems to have no more to do with cycling than that
there was a bicycle present at the event. Well, two. Given
the number of violent deaths every day in Britain, and the
number of cycles about the place, one ought to expect a
few violent deaths in the presence of bicycle every now
and then, purely by chance.

I reckon these two knew each other. Anyway, aren't guns
illegal in this country? How come this other guy was
carrying one?

Vivian
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"We learned more from a three minute record than we ever
learned in school". No Surrender

Well i've been known to cycle in Handsworth in my time. The only thing to be concerned about are all the bloody potholes 🙁