I took pedals off bike... and was fined. (From Gazette)
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I took pedals off bike... and was fined.
4:30pm Tuesday 25th September 2012 in News By Will Lodge
Gavin Hindle with daughter Ella-Rose, by his new motorbike.
A MAN has been fined £200 for riding an electric scooter without insurance - because he had removed the pedals.
Gavin Hindle, of Bishop Road, Shrub End, was stopped by police while riding the £120 silver scooter along Layer Road back in June.
He had bought the bike, which can be used with pedals like a conventional bicycle, because the original marketing said the moped did not require a licence or insurance. It was classified as a pedal cycle with electric assistance, and helped save Mr Hindle, 34, £400 a month on taxi fares to and from work.
But he was informed by police this only applied if the pedals were attached and without them it was classified a motorised vehicle, as the only means of propulsion was a motor.
Read the full story in today's Gazette.
Comments(8)
ShadowReturns
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5:27pm Tue 25 Sep 12
Sdapeze
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6:53pm Tue 25 Sep 12
Im_Like_HELLO
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7:12pm Tue 25 Sep 12
6079 Smith W
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8:29pm Tue 25 Sep 12
Say It As It Is OK?
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8:37am Wed 26 Sep 12
6079 Smith W wrote:The difference here is this guy took his pedals off, no dispute.
Considering the police allow government ministers (in such a telling phrase from Cameron's toffs) to call them a f*cking pleb', I'd also have thought a warning could have sufficed.
In the case of "alleged" name calling by Andrew Mitchell to Downing Street policemen then who said what is a matter of conjecture intermingled with political point scoring by many who actually don't know what was said. Nothing more than a storm in an Earl Grey tea cup.
But now we find the police, who are not always whiter than white, have become super sensitive about name calling, so perhaps it's time to view all those police video's where the police, sometimes justified, used unsavoury words like pleb or moron when dealing with some of the general public.
6079 Smith W
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6:12pm Wed 26 Sep 12
Say It As It Is OK? wrote:If you think the hatred the Tories have for us 'plebs' is a 'storm in an Earl Grey tea cup'; well, what next will come with this sort of thinking? Presumably you'll be joining Mitt in wondering why aeroplane windows don't open?!
6079 Smith W wrote:The difference here is this guy took his pedals off, no dispute.
Considering the police allow government ministers (in such a telling phrase from Cameron's toffs) to call them a f*cking pleb', I'd also have thought a warning could have sufficed.
In the case of "alleged" name calling by Andrew Mitchell to Downing Street policemen then who said what is a matter of conjecture intermingled with political point scoring by many who actually don't know what was said. Nothing more than a storm in an Earl Grey tea cup.
But now we find the police, who are not always whiter than white, have become super sensitive about name calling, so perhaps it's time to view all those police video's where the police, sometimes justified, used unsavoury words like pleb or moron when dealing with some of the general public.
Say It As It Is OK?
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7:47pm Wed 26 Sep 12
Can't imagine many people will be supporting the labour party's calls for an enquiry into what Andrew Mitchell actually said.
Anyway why don't aeroplane windows open?
kelz_colchester says...
5:21pm Tue 25 Sep 12
Most pointless news story!