kwackers wrote:In the past (when I had less respect for my bike) I've thrown it over fences. I must confess it never occurred to me that it might then became an aeroplane.
And you a pilot?
kwackers wrote:In the past (when I had less respect for my bike) I've thrown it over fences. I must confess it never occurred to me that it might then became an aeroplane.
Geriatrix wrote:kwackers wrote:In the past (when I had less respect for my bike) I've thrown it over fences. I must confess it never occurred to me that it might then became an aeroplane.
And you a pilot?
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s 329 Highways Act 1980:- (...)329 Further provision as to interpretation. In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—
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“footway” means a way comprised in a highway which also comprises a carriageway, being a way over which the public have a right of way on foot only; (...)
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/329
Ellieb wrote:What this thread needs is someone to find a traffic light junction with a policeman standing by it: Push the bike through the red light while yelling " You'll never take me alive copper!!!" & the subsequent court case will allow all the arguments to be put forward in a court of law.
thirdcrank wrote:Ellieb wrote:What this thread needs is someone to find a traffic light junction with a policeman standing by it: Push the bike through the red light while yelling " You'll never take me alive copper!!!" & the subsequent court case will allow all the arguments to be put forward in a court of law.
Just make sure it's not somebody from the Diplomatic Protection Group.
Ellieb wrote:What this thread needs is someone to find a traffic light junction with a policeman standing by it: Push the bike through the red light while yelling " You'll never take me alive copper!!!" & the subsequent court case will allow all the arguments to be put forward in a court of law.
gaz wrote:I think that so far as wheeling a bike on the pavement that is as close to definitive as we may get, good find snibgo.
What a load of tosh. Just coz he's learned to fly, it doesn't make him a pilot - he's still at school!
As child 40 years back I found it strange that the large petrol lawnmowers used by the council had registration plates, though they weren't sit-on designs.thirdcrank wrote:A little while ago somebody posted a link to some footage of road conditions 50 or 60 years ago. One of the the scenes in it showed a man pushing a handcart; he stopped at the traffic lights. (Obviously, he didn't want to go to heaven or hell, pushing a handcart. Boom, boom.)
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Here's the link to the thread - even older than I thought: 1939.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47679
aprildavy wrote:Nor is a pedestrian pushing a car across a garage forecourt because he ran out of fule, he's a "driver who ran out of fuel!