World Naked Bike Ride cyclists kicked off their bikes in shocking attack

 Look like these. Edit: Different Website link.

Just wonder where they robbed them from. 

Isnt that a bit of a dodgy site to link to here?! It does seem to come up very early in google searches for segway ebikes, but that is not a normal retail price for a dirt ebike, "flash sale for first 100 units" or not! I don't think most on this site would fall for the scam but still probably better not to give the site the publicity or the free links for seo. 

I was using it for the image on there and not for anyone here to rush to buy some. But I take your point and have put on a more legit site. 

This is the same police force that allowed someone to walk around Birmingham stabbing people for 2 hours before bothering to actual respond and do something. They're corrupt.

Whilst not one to usually leap to  WMP defence but with the incident you are referring to, the totally random nature and timings of the attacks did not help them. The defendent actually went home at one point in a taxi and then came back to another part of the city centre. Eyewitness reports state that when he attacked at 2am in Hurst Street, the next thing they knew the area was swarming with Police and helicoptors so by then they were out in force to try to stop it. However again, the perp had decided to go home again.

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

Whilst not one to usually leap to  WMP defence but with the incident you are referring to, the totally random nature and timings of the attacks did not help them. The defendent actually went home at one point in a taxi and then came back to another part of the city centre. Eyewitness reports state that when he attacked at 2am in Hurst Street, the next thing they knew the area was swarming with Police and helicoptors so by then they were out in force to try to stop it. However again, the perp had decided to go home again.

Random timings? The perpetrator travelled along a busy road stabbing multiple people over the space of 2 hours. They didn't even travel to the area to investigate. Multiple sources at the time stated the perpetrator was ignored until he got closer to the gay village, at which point the police immediately sprung into action to avoid the negative media attention. West Midlands Police don't do anything but police behaviour online and damage control for the force. They're an embarassment.

I think you need to re-read the case. After his first few attacks north of the City Centre, he went into a Pizza place to get a knife but they allowed him to call for a taxi home. He went home, got another knife, taxi'd back in and ended up south side where he then continued his attacks. So although his attacks were over a two hour period, his presence in the city was alot less. He was not travelling along a busy road attacking people for two hours straight as per your statement. 

 "if we don't look we won't find, and if we don't look or find we can continue sitting on our backsides complaining about a lack of resources"

This registration doesn't exist. It was reported on 17th May, and it's on the public road outside the same house today. In the meantime, it's been away on holiday for a week or so. The house is 1/4 mile from Garstang Police Station, where there are always numerous parked police vehicles. 

Report it to the council as abandoned and the DVLA not SORNed, and to the rozzers as a stolen vehicle.

Report it to the council as abandoned and the DVLA not SORNed, and to the rozzers as a stolen vehicle

It appears that, despite my not inconsiderable efforts, the message about how crap and bent Lancashire Constabulary is has not been adequately disseminated. Reporting anything to the police here results in no response and no action. SORN is hardly relevant as the registration doesn't exist. There are loads of these around here, but this is the only one I know of which is always parked outside the same house and can therefore be easily dealt with. They do nothing about all the 'No MOT' cases either- I only report them to the OpSnapLancs Black Hole to build up my case.

wtjs wrote:

Report it to the council as abandoned and the DVLA not SORNed, and to the rozzers as a stolen vehicle

It appears that, despite my not inconsiderable efforts, the message about how crap and bent Lancashire Constabulary is has not been adequately disseminated. Reporting anything to the police here results in no response and no action. SORN is hardly relevant as the registration doesn't exist. There are loads of these around here, but this is the only one I know of which is always parked outside the same house and can therefore be easily dealt with. They do nothing about all the 'No MOT' cases either- I only report them to the OpSnapLancs Black Hole to build up my case.

I think squirrel's point is that you can bypass the police entirely and some action might then be taken - e.g. report it here rather than to OpSnap.

e.g. report it here rather than to OpSnap

QED! Report what exactly, to a mob down in Swansea who are only minimally interested even in VED evasion and have no authority over 'No MOT'? Even if they don't just immediately bin every report in the 'too difficult, all that way up there' file, it's going to be like a bunch of Daleks crashing into each other while wailing 'Does not compute- AN61 VER does not exist!!' and then exploding all their diodes

The first 2 comments covered it and have 22 likes at the moment.

So we can't comment on 19 children shot dead needlessly with legally obtained weapons because some knobhead on this side of the atlantic kicked somebody off their bike for no reason. 

Roulereo wrote:

Funny that the blowhards are all too happy to comment on American politics and even guns here on this site, yet have nothing to say about their own backyard

We're always complaining about politicians in this country, so I don't know what you're on about. There's even been people complaining about too much complaining about Tories (I think we're quite happy to complain about other parties too).

hawkinspeter wrote:

We're always complaining about politicians in this country, so I don't know what you're on about. There's even been people complaining about too much complaining about Tories (I think we're quite happy to complain about other parties too).

Indeed.  I've just come from complaining about a Labour Mayor on the Weymouth Axe story.  Its almost as if we care more about our shared passion (cycling for most of us here) than politics.  Any political thread tends to be viewed through that lens, certain monomaniacs aside.  Not you Peter unless you count the squirrels

Secret_squirrel wrote:

Indeed.  I've just come from complaining about a Labour Mayor on the Weymouth Axe story.  Its almost as if we care more about our shared passion (cycling for most of us here) than politics.  Any political thread tends to be viewed through that lens, certain monomaniacs aside.  Not you Peter unless you count the squirrels

I've tried, but they just keep running around and I lose count

That is why they need tabards with registration numbers emblazoned on them. 

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

That is why they need tabards with registration numbers emblazoned on them. 

Have you tried getting them to wear them? I recommend extremely tough gloves.

Roulereo wrote:

Funny that the blowhards are all too happy to comment on American politics and even guns here on this site, yet have nothing to say about their own backyard

Are you really going for that? "Yes we have 40,000+ gun deaths per year but you Brits have no right to talk about them because look, a couple of arseholes on motorbikes knocked off some people on bicycles."

I can see at least one blowhard on this comment thread, well done for keeping the average up.

Roulereo wrote:

Funny that the blowhards are all too happy to comment on American politics and even guns here on this site, yet have nothing to say about their own backyard

In all fairness, I think that we only comment on here about the American "politics of guns" because from the point of view of many (if not most?) people in Europe and the UK, the US attitude toward guns seems to be completely f-ing insane.

brooksby wrote:

because from the point of view of many (if not most?) people in Europe and the UK, the US attitude toward guns seems to be completely f-ing insane.

RoW: thank god we have a stable enough civilian government that we can severely limit the availability of killer weapons to the general public.

USA : YeeHaw! Lets twist a valid part of the constitution that was about raising Militias for defence during the Wars of Independence into our god given right to let kids die in schools and us to die mostly by our own weapons.  That'll look good to the RoW - real world leadership right there.

Say what you like, but it's kept America free and the citizens have never been terrorised or oppressed by authority there.

chrisonatrike wrote:

Say what you like, but it's kept America free and the citizens have never been terrorised or oppressed by authority there.

*cough* McCarthyism *cough*

Shurely the real problem wasn't if you were red, but not white?  Or just if you happened to live conveniently near a nuclear test site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States#Fallout_research

We've been quite happy to do a bit of that here too though.  The problem is - being armed to the teeth with small arms doesn't tend to stop the state putting rounds through you if and when it decides you've gone beyond the pale.