On topic! Beware riding in a group

This just bought to my attention:
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co....ive_arrested_over_road_deaths_of_bike_couple/

Six bike riding in a group, one bike has head-on with a car, killing
rider & pillion.

The other five riders have been arrested on suspicion of causing death
by dangerous driving!

There's not a lot of detail there, but it seems a tad worrying that
they can do this.

 

Ginge?

 

"Assistant Chief Constable Sue Cross said North Yorkshire Police had
taken the unusual step of carrying out the dawn raid as part of the
'serious' investigation into the double fatal crash."

A dawn raid FFS! Talk about OTT.
<*THIS IS A JOKE*>
JOKE: Time to put a fucking bomb under North Yorkshire Police HQ.
<*THAT WAS A JOKE*>
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Possibly.

There was definitely something previously about riders in a group
potentially being done for speeding if one rider got caught, but this
is the first I've heard about this particular case.

 

And the picture on that page seems to show them carting away a PC. I
wonder if there's photos or video footage of the incident, or just of
the rideout.

 

Ah, hadn't spotted that. Perhaps that's their 'justification' for the
dawn raids. Or they reckon all bikers are closet pedophiles and if they
can't get them on dangerous driving they can fit them up for something
else.
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Full story in last weeks MCN.

6:15am, plod went in and arrested the riders. I don't know how this is going
to stick, but it probably will.

 

Since "Ride your own ride" is such a common exhortation to bikers, one
wonders how they can say the others were at fault. (Unless there was a
wager or contest.)

OTOH, a few days ago, this happened near me:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/14/motorcycle-club-trying-to-regroup-after-crash/
(Later articles say the driver was not drunk.)
I'm not a big fan of riding in groups. Riders tend to take more risks
to keep up with fast groups, and cages take more risks to pass slow
groups.

 

It's N.Yorks police. They have taken over the mantle from N.Wales as uber
cunts. They are on a mission to banish a certain type of people from their
roads. It doesn't affect me and might force Hog overseas so could have a
positive effect in the long run.

 

Hah I'm a willing departee but I don't often head North of York TBH

 

H they are cunts, make no mistake about it.

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R1

 

This sort of thing doesn't help.
URL:http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Celebrities-join-fight-against-fast.781982.jp

 

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Celebrities-join-fight-against-fast.781982.jp

So Boycott wants a boycott!

 

Indeed. And I'd forgotten Alan Titchmarsh was on the list. Now to
break it to Pat ...

 

Sorry, but that's a concept I cannot grasp.

 

Remember the poster hails from 'the land of 55'.
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But he *needs* a bat in the fucking bollocks.

 

I look forward to Ken Braithwaite's obituary notice. Sooner the better.

 

Ampleforth is an Abbey with an affiliated Catholic public school which has a long
history of sexual abuse of pupils. Wright was Abbott from 1997 to 2005 and
like his predecessor sat on the details of the abuse. He "retired" when it
all went public. So, he's probably the biggest **** of the lot.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Ampleforth-child-abuse-scandal-hushed.1258869.jp

 

And cruisers.