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Thread ID: 107481 2010-02-17 20:53:00 Are you crossing the road LEGALLY? lance4k (4644) PC World Chat
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859502 2010-02-18 04:44:00 Cyclists are alright on the footpath, but the council should come 'round and scrape them up twice a day during hot weather lest they become a health hazard. R2x1 (4628)
859503 2010-02-18 04:46:00 I agree with you that it's safer to cycle on the footpath.

Just don't know why the politicians made it illegal to do so.

Because they dont have to ride bikes. They have big flash free cars. So it doesnt occur to them that bikes bend easily. PJ
Poppa John (284)
859504 2010-02-18 21:20:00 Because it is supposed to be for Pedestrians!!

Whenever I see people being dogmatic about rules I am reminded of the old saying

"Rules are for the guidance of the wise man and observance of the idiot"

Sadly I have so often seen examples in the past of rules being blindly followed for no benefit to anybody.

And fortunately for most of us wiser console prevailing.
After all it was only in the last 40 years or so the old English law about
"It is illegal to leave your parish on Sunday"
was finally done away with.
It was so widely ignored (except by the Lords Day Observance Society - a prime example of first class idiots) most people didn't even know it existed.
Thomas01 (317)
859505 2010-02-18 21:47:00 On that point, even the fuzz seem to have some "flexibility". Many years ago, a friend of mine was stopped by a friendly gendarme, and told off for riding his bicycle up Bowen Street in Wellington, just below the Botanical Gardens. The cop said he was asking for a pasting from cars, and that he should ride his bike up the footpath as far as Tinakori Road. John H (8)
859506 2010-02-18 21:50:00 Americans call it J walking...though dont know where the J comes into it? SolMiester (139)
859507 2010-02-19 07:07:00 I jaywalked in heavy rain once to catch a Newlands coach, got slapped with a wet bus ticket. Twelvevolts (5457)
859508 2010-02-19 07:41:00 I jaywalked in heavy rain once to catch a Newlands coach, got slapped with a wet bus ticket.

:clap

That's a fairly standard punishment under the NZ judicial system. ...
johcar (6283)
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