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I'm sure this is NOT a forum member but do 'we' know him?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-66236473
That's right near my work. Hmmm, hope it wasn't me 🤔
Terrible though. I meet a few odd sorts along the canal but as yet, haven't been attacked.
I notice they mention the attacker wasn't wearing a helmet...
Poor woman.
It's interesting how many times that article refers to a cyclist. Is it not a person on a bike?
I note that, at a few seconds glance, BBC refer to a car and someone using it, not a driver, in other assault cases.
It just seems another way of being negative about cyclists.
Shocking…
He’s still got the reflectors on his wheels
That was my first thought!!
That was my first thought!!
He'd never be convicted of being a "cyclist" in court.
Mental pleb who just happens to be on a bike just doesn't have the same ring to it. Lucky he didn't push her in. Canal paths do attract wrong uns for some reason.
I was there Saturday and have witnesses.
Canal paths do attract wrong uns for some reason
Yep. Funny innit.
But do troubled individuals flock to towpaths, or do towpaths bring out the worst in people?
But do troubled individuals flock to towpaths, or do towpaths bring out the worst in people?
I don't think so.
Commuted on canal paths for years ,they are places where you often have a long time to watch/weigh up the people coming towards you on a narrow path,so you get more detail about how 'odd' they may be.
Having said that,I did use towpaths less in the winter months and was always prepared to turn back to the last exit if there was a gang of folks with a sketchy vibe heading my way.
wearing a red shirt and no cycling helmet.
What a strange way to describe what someone is wearing! Or erm, not wearing. What else wasn't he wearing, we need to know!
What wasn't the woman wearing? This could be crucial to the incident!
What wasn’t the woman wearing? This could be crucial to the incident!
Well it was coventry, so I suppose she could have been dressed as Lady Godiva
Semantics question, can you dress as Lady Godiva?
If anyone can think of a better way for a suspect to be described in a Police press release that will possibly go out on non visual channels, please crack on.
"Riding a bike" vs "a cyclist" are the same thing for the majority of the population who aren't snobby about wheel reflectors.
Poor woman.
It’s interesting how many times that article refers to a cyclist. Is it not a person on a bike?
I note that, at a few seconds glance, BBC refer to a car and someone using it, not a driver, in other assault cases.
It just seems another way of being negative about cyclists.
Local rag in York is the same, relentlessly... Just gets the local idiots shouting about taxing "cyclists", banning them for running red lights etc. In my head, there's a big difference between a cyclist and someone on a bike, in the same way that there's a big difference between a footballer and me kicking the ball around in the garden with the kids.
There are media guidelines for reporting incidents with cyclists to get the language correct.
Complain if they are in breach. Shouting hear won't change anything.
I do that every day. Does that make me a transvestite?
Oh no you don't. Nope it makes you wrong/dressed as some other medieval noble women.
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/23645340.driver-arrested-attacking-man-iron-bar-road-rage/
Driver arrested after 'attacking man with iron bar in road rage'
Do you think anyone on pistonheads is arguing that this isn't a "driver" but a person driving a car?
If anyone can think of a better way for a suspect to be described in a Police press release that will possibly go out on non visual channels, please crack on.
From what I remember, looking at the photo (I'm not opening it again) - the punchy scumbag was wearing black skanky shorts, a red t-shirt and wearing thick black rimmed glasses. Also had flabby white legs. How's that?
He wasn't wearing a purple tutu, lemon coloured swimming armbands or pointy Aladdin shoes with bells on the toes. I hope that helps with your enquiries occifer.
Well it was coventry
Take that back!
Unlike when cyclists are hit by drivers, the helmet status is relevant since this was a witness appeal.
If I'd been walking on the footpath, that info would help me identify whether I'd been passed by that guy and might be able to assist.
Obviously people will probably recognise him from the image provided as well, but it is relevant.
Appalling Posture!
I do that every day. Does that make me a transvestite?
I think it makes you avestite.
I’m sure this is NOT a forum member…
Aged between 25 and 30? Riding a bike?
No way.
Well it was coventry, so I suppose she could have been dressed as Lady Godiva
Except that Coventry is quite a way from Leamington Spa.
A cyclist, in Leamington Spa, was probably on their way to the pump rooms...
What they do in private is none of our business.
Except that Coventry is quite a way from Leamington Spa.
Meh. Leamington is just a crowded suburb of cov! 😉
Were it an assault by Lemming in cyclist spa I'd be interested but....
Towpaths do attract utterly bizarre people. I regularly walk and cycle on the local canal and nine times out of ten I meet an odd person or utterly smashed person with a tattooed face drinking cider. There’s probably a scientific research grant available for this.
If anyone can think of a better way for a suspect to be described in a Police press release that will possibly go out on non visual channels, please crack on.
“Riding a bike” vs “a cyclist” are the same thing for the majority of the population who aren’t snobby about wheel reflectors.
Well they could have bothered to mention he was wearing black shorts and had glasses rather than zero in on the absence of a plastic hat. It seems rather odd to describe an individual by the items they happen not to be wearing, presumably based on the mode of transport they happened to be using. Presumably at some point he reached his destination and was no longer a man on a bike sans lid, at that point more details might have helped...
A more thorough description of the individual rather than some loaded statements about his choice of PPE for trundling along a towpath might actually help catch the nutter...
As for the term "cyclist" in a lot of muggles heads if you said "person on a bike" they might actually have a different image in mind. "Cyclist" invokes images of lycra and mirrored sunglasses, that there Bradley Cavendish doing the old tour dee France and so on. Where as taking the extra time to say "person on a bicycle" kind of sets you up to then describe the person more than the activity they happened to be engaged in...
Lazy use of language in the reporting of a crime, and insufficiently detailed description of the likely perpetrator smacks of poor journalism and/or just taking the Rozzer's own hurried blurb and pasting...
There's being concise, and there's not really being arsed...
nine times out of ten I meet an odd person or utterly smashed person with a tattooed face drinking cider.
Sorry I missed you on the tenth time. I was busy getting another tattoo.
Sorry I missed you
Could have been a Grand re-Union.
Meh. Leamington is just a crowded suburb of cov!
There's plenty of green countryside between Coventry and Leamington - enough to fit in Kenilworth, and still have green gaps between all three.
If anything, Leamington is a suburb of Warwick (or vice-versa) as it's tricky to know when you've left one and entered the other.
I spent a lovely day in Leamington after visiting my daughter at UoW - very good VFM Travelodge in the Regent Hotel, lovely brunch at WSK, and walk around the gardens, and then an hour or so train back to London.
I'd move there in a heartbeat.
I moved here in 86 and it's not been a bad place to live. No mountains and it's a long way from the beach. Also no off road with any gnarr, just bridleways. But it is a great place for road riding, you can easily put together rides of any length you like and hardly go on a main road.
Don't know what's happening at the moment though, as well as the incident that provoked this thread three schoolkids had their bikes taken at machete point in the park last week.
Canal paths do attract wrong uns for some reason
But they do allow for great film scenes like in Wilt.
"I am the ****ing police, you gormless erection!"
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23677161.man-bicycle-alleged-touch-womens-bottoms-newcastle/
A refreshing change in reporting (though not very comforting if it's your bottom being touched).
^^^ probably too distracted by the thought of bottoms and making off and consequentially forgot to dehumanize people on bikes.
Pity they're confused about how to use the words 'past' and 'passed.' At least the police report got it right.
Pity they’re confused about how to use the words ‘past’ and ‘passed
Not to mention 'touch' instead of 'touched' in the main headline.
'Man on bicycle alleged to have touch women's bottoms'
A refreshing change in reporting (though not very comforting if it’s your bottom being touched).
A lot of people would prob' be more pissed at him skipping a red light on his escape than the actual sexual assualt