Sting in the tale

READERS afflicted by pavement cyclists may be interested in a device my brothers and I made a few years ago for a TV programme.

It consisted of a steel plate studded with spikes and hinged at one end which could be attached to a walking stick and folded up.

On the approach of an errant cyclist on the footpath, a flick of a finger could deploy this mini stinger into the cyclist’s path.

The resultant punctures to a bike tyre immediately transformed the rider to a pedestrian.

P W Anderson, Consett, County Durham.

Comments(4)

melwilson says...
10:58pm Sat 29 May 10

how nice of the Echo to publish a letter that incites violence - very poor indeed

BMD says...
9:54am Sun 30 May 10

Effective but not community spirited.
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It would be less stressful if pedestrians stayed on the pavements and cyclists stayed on there cycle paths.

miketually says...
10:24am Sun 30 May 10

I'm shocked the Echo have published this. Do they not remember the outcry, and complaints, when Matthew Parris suggested similar measures in his column?

Would the publish a letter suggesting cyclists carried water pistols full of paint stripper, for use on cars that passed too closely?

Tricky2009 says...
8:38pm Sun 30 May 10

Interesting idea, but I suspect this will fall into the Criminal Damage Act 1971
"A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence."

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