"Howard" <
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> Hi Simon,
>
> I feel we have a profile of this crank building up. Daily
> Mail reader, anti-cyclist and pro zero-tolerance policing,
> however strongly opposed to the law being used to regulate
> driver behaviour or enforce speed limits. Also wants
> national service bringing back. Given the number of
> authoritarian 'libertarians' and downright Fascists we
> have in the UK that really narrows it down!
>
> I have sent another e-mail to the Hull Daily Mail pointing
> out the latest bogus letter and asking them to check any
> letter claiming to be from yourself, me or Mr Minns.
>
> Howard.
Thanks Howard, I sent the MoS the following.
Dear Sir/Madam,
"In today's (4 JUL 04) Mail on Sunday letters page you
published a letter purporting to be from myself. The gist
of this letter was that motorists be left alone and
cyclists clamped down on. The writer of the letter is a
phoney who has persistently had published fake letters in
my home city's local paper the Hull Daily Mail slating
cyclists and has not only hijacked my name but two other
pro-cycling letter writers as well. Could you possibly give
any clues as to the identity of this individual so that
they can be exposed?"
Haven't had a reply yet, but it is extremely unlikely that
there will be a retraction published, as even the greatest
stars only get a tiny column somewhere when a major story
about them turns out to be false, so I've no chance!
I think I know who it is now though. There was a persistent
letter writer to the Hull Daily Mail called "P. Scott" of
Tranby Lane, Anlaby (yeah right! not in the phone book) or
sometimes it was Tranby Road or Priory Road; he seems to get
addresses confused. He sent in letter after letter
obsessively going on about cyclists with no lights,
sometimes directly asking me what I thought should be done
about them. "P. Scott" of course is probably not his real
name and unfortunately the HDM archives don't seem to go
back beyond JAN 04, otherwise I could show a whole list of
letters under that name that fits his profile perfectly. All
that's on the archive is this:
May I comment on the letter to you from P Scott (Letters,
January 14), "Are there laws about cycle lanes"?
--
Simon M.