weepej wrote:
WildCat wrote:
then all the more reason that we should now consider making those who use them accountable und responsible for their actions. Thus we should really be looking, as Ken Livingstone rightly suggest (und about the one rare occasion I actually agree und APPLAUD his point of view on this) that we should consider some form of registration und compulsory test for increasing numbers of cyclists on the road.
Its a hot topic in London: -
http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=74Because so many are stupidly ignorant there
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IMO way out of proportion to the threat imposed by silly cycling, some perspective is required. It would cost silly amounts of money to operate a licensing scheme for cyclists (more than it costs for cars I imagine), its not done anywhere in the world as far as I know.
EU has BiBs und gendarme. Swiss frogmarch pedestrians und cyclists to cash machines re on spot fines too.
Ach .. ja.. we have history of "Ausweis bitte"
YOUR PAPERS PLEASE"
That not something imagined by director of "Great Escape/ColditzStory/." whatever.
It work though as we not have so many j-walking/.lycra clad idiots as here.. but I suppose way of life und culture ist different as in we foreigners have more self respect und respect for others.
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However, how do you think it would have helped in this situation?
He would have been done for riding without insurance or qualification und been banned from riding bike to endanger in the future.
Not that it work 100% .. but police have database und can chuck away key on re-offend
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And what next, registration plates for people on foot, who in the grand scheme of things can be quite dangerous, especially when armed with a knife or drunkenly aggressive?
ID cards. They on way not matter how you protest about it
Ach Ja.. I see only too well the arguments against. I am not in favour,. It not British culture after all. I like to think you British stay Bull dog British as this your culture .. tradition.. way of life.. what you fought Kaiser Bill und Nazis for.. for FREEDOM of speech.. mobility und if threatened you defend from the beaches .. from the heart.. from the head.. und give no damned quarter in your fight to keep what essentially a very peculiarly British culture und tradition which foreigners or borugh up foreign like me respect completely und utterly.
But an ID card.. I see the other side's point too. I grew up with them. To me it not a real problem. But then it not used to control back in Swiss Alps or EU Continent. But UK's Labour Party? Ach.. they so two faced to be honest. I not trust them any more than I trusted the KGB/Stasi when living in Moscow as student or Leipzig for 3 dismally awful months.
But on the plus side .. ID cards would identify rogue cyclists/pedestrians. The Grauniad reader seem to want them too
I concede as someone who grew up with ID requirement .. that there are merits. But. it not British way of life...
but I have to say it will be if you Brits bang on a course of binge drink fuelled anarchy und a muesli muncher CM with scant consideration to others who want to get from A to B by whatever means they are free to use as free citizens of Europe und as subjects as what was once acclaimed as the fairest Kingdom in the World.
I can gets aways with above as foreign brought up
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Yet again words fail me.
puts a link to my original post on COAST. I am 100% delighted that he did so. Means a lot from Handy whose views I enjoy reading to be honest here. 
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Because he still can get on a bicycle. There no law to stop him und this ist why he should be locked up und if so "mentally slow" - given some proper help in this respect.
It's simply like carrying a passport, and if you get stopped for any reason, it speeds things up because they can confirm exactly who you are... as long as you dont mind having your ID confirmed. If not they are a damned nuisance, as failing to produce carries a penalty!