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Adam Lea
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"Tony Raven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I've lost my Dhobi Wallah!..... wrote:
>>
>> Of *course* these cycle aficionados should be required to carry third
>> party insurance!! If I inadvertently knock one of the dawdling buggers
>> from his contraption and send him sprawling on the ground, there would be
>> the devil to pay!! - lot's of limping, and groaning, and camping it up
>> for the benefit of my insurance company! - but if they collide with my
>> car and damage the paint, whose going to pay *me*!? No-one!, that's who!
>
> You have a very poor grasp of the basics of insurance. Its to protect the
> person insured from liabilities they may incur not you. Your rights to
> claim against the individual are not reduced one iota by whether or not
> they have insurance. Indeed you will probably take greater pleasure from
> sending the bailiffs in to seize his bicycles than you would from having
> an insurance company pay everything off for him.
>
> And I am sure you will be delighted to know that almost all of us do have
> third party insurance. Its so cheap for a cyclist that they throw it in
> free with my household policy as well as with the membership of the cycle
> clubs I belong to.
>
>>
>> I, along with other motorists, pay for the roads that these spongers
>> appear to think they own! - and compulsory third-party cycle insurance
>> would go a small way to redress the existing inequity!
>
> Your having a larf bringing that old chestnut up. Back under your bridge
> with you laddie.
>
> Tony
>
Tony I think you are making the same mistake that I did i.e. feeding trolls.
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> I've lost my Dhobi Wallah!..... wrote:
>>
>> Of *course* these cycle aficionados should be required to carry third
>> party insurance!! If I inadvertently knock one of the dawdling buggers
>> from his contraption and send him sprawling on the ground, there would be
>> the devil to pay!! - lot's of limping, and groaning, and camping it up
>> for the benefit of my insurance company! - but if they collide with my
>> car and damage the paint, whose going to pay *me*!? No-one!, that's who!
>
> You have a very poor grasp of the basics of insurance. Its to protect the
> person insured from liabilities they may incur not you. Your rights to
> claim against the individual are not reduced one iota by whether or not
> they have insurance. Indeed you will probably take greater pleasure from
> sending the bailiffs in to seize his bicycles than you would from having
> an insurance company pay everything off for him.
>
> And I am sure you will be delighted to know that almost all of us do have
> third party insurance. Its so cheap for a cyclist that they throw it in
> free with my household policy as well as with the membership of the cycle
> clubs I belong to.
>
>>
>> I, along with other motorists, pay for the roads that these spongers
>> appear to think they own! - and compulsory third-party cycle insurance
>> would go a small way to redress the existing inequity!
>
> Your having a larf bringing that old chestnut up. Back under your bridge
> with you laddie.
>
> Tony
>
Tony I think you are making the same mistake that I did i.e. feeding trolls.