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Old October 16th 04, 08:24 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport.london
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Default Institutionalised law-breaking using bikes - anarchy is near at hand

[Not Responding] ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

Try 774 ped deaths last year - of which around 60% were over the legal
blood-alcohol level for driving.

In other words - around 11 sober pedestrians killed on the roads *per
fortnight*...


What the hell has sobriety got to do with it? Fortunately this isn't
America or Saudi Arabia and you're perfectly within your rights to
walk home drunk as a lord and not get run over.


Did I say otherwise?

Has it not occurred to you that maybe some of those ****ed peds might have
walked into the road without looking? And that they therefore may have been
partly to blame for their demise?

I know I've done that in the past - and that it would have been my own
bloody stupid fault if I'd got flattened as a result.