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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)Exeter police still searching for naked nightime cyclist
Police in Exeter are still looking for a naked cyclist who rides through the city’s streets at night.
In April, we reported how Devon & Cornwall Police had issued an appeal after two sightings of the mystery rider, wearing a black hoodie but lacking trousers or underwear.
He was spotted again this weekend, with officers from an armed response vehicle who also carry out general policing duties despatched after the rider was spotted again on Saturday evening.
According to posts by Sergeant Harry Tangye on Twitter, officers tried to find the man on foot but were unable to do so, and he appealed to the cyclist to get in touch.
Exeter Response have been in pursuit of a naked cyclist who appears regularly at night. Are you Naked Cycle man?! Do you know who he is?!
— Sgt Harry Tangye (@DC_ARVSgt) July 24, 2016
Needless to say, the tweet prompted some jokes on Twitter.
@DC_ARVSgt Chris Froome? I hear he's on a winning streak at the moment
— Anthony Rowe (@truro_boy) July 24, 2016
@DC_ARVSgt not me guv'. I'd be too concerned I'd get caught in the chain
— Mick (@geezamick) July 24, 2016
In their appeal in April, police said that the man was "described as a white male, aged twenties to early thirties, with collar-length scruffy hair and riding a dark coloured bicycle.”
Curiously, they didn’t highlight the naked-from-the-waist-down aspect.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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What a cheek!
If they can't find him from the ground then they need to get a chopper out
If he was wearing a hoodie but no pants/trousers etc, then he wasn't actually naked, was he? "Bare-arsed", maybe...
I've heard that it wasn't even his own bike, he'd merely left a deposit on it.
Apparently he raced past a couple of elderly women and one of them had a stroke
...and the other one couldn't reach
.
Would he get a suspended sentence or penile servitude?
Is there a law against riding a bike starkers? I have heard of naked bike events to raise money for charity. I hope he has a wide seat, cos he wouldn't want a racing saddle up his ass. The cops need to focus on real crime
Did anybody see his helmet???
Yes, police officers, this is definitely a more valuable use of your time than sorting out issues with, I don't know, dead cyclists.
What a cock!
Said a passing nun.
I'll get my coat...
As 'even' being naked in public isn't against the law, why are the police seemingly spending so much effort on this?
I didn't know there was a special police unit for dealing with nudie-rudies:
"Nude rider spotted again on Saturday night butt officers' pursuit on foot proved fruitless..."
Sorry, I'll get my coat!
Can't afford a skinsuit?
Armed response seems extreme as being naked is not of itself an offence.
Someone probably said they caught a glimps of his weapon so the cops thought they better send armed police.
Someone probably said they caught a glimps of his weapon so the cops thought they better send armed police.
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were they acting on a tip-off?
... "described as a white male, aged twenties to early thirties, with collar-length scruffy hair and riding a dark coloured bicycle.”
Well, Peter Sagan has been getting a lot of exposure lately.
Fab you cannot beat the wind blowing through your hair...........