Buckingham palace this morning.
spursn17
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Apparently my bike is now a WMD.
Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.
Did this happen to anyone else?
Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.
Did this happen to anyone else?
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When did you last clean it?Pannier, 120rpm.0
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Anything going on there that made this a bit less random? 1000's of bikes go past Buckingham palace every day :?- Genesis Croix de Fer
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pangolin wrote:Anything going on there that made this a bit less random? 1000's of bikes go past Buckingham palace every day :?
There's a state visit happening in Windsor tomorrow which is probably related to this0 -
spursn17 wrote:Apparently my bike is now a WMD.
Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.
Did this happen to anyone else?
More disturbingly, what kind of mind thinks that walking a bike (with a suspected bomb) rather than riding it would reduce it's efficacy as an explosive device?1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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rjsterry wrote:spursn17 wrote:Apparently my bike is now a WMD.
Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.
Did this happen to anyone else?
More disturbingly, what kind of mind thinks that walking a bike (with a suspected bomb) rather than riding it would reduce it's efficacy as an explosive device?Pannier, 120rpm.0 -
spursn17 wrote:Did this happen to anyone else?
Not to me, but then I was riding the Thorn Sterling with Marathon XC tyres, and that is pretty bomb proof
oh, yes and I'm over 200 miles away from the PalaceNobody told me we had a communication problem0 -
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TGOTB wrote:rjsterry wrote:spursn17 wrote:Apparently my bike is now a WMD.
Cycling past the palace about half eleven this morning (middle lane, surrounded by coaches and taxi's) I got told to walk my bike across to Birdcage Walk as it could contain a bomb. I pointed out that every vehicle and tourist outside the palace could have a bomb on them.
Did this happen to anyone else?
More disturbingly, what kind of mind thinks that walking a bike (with a suspected bomb) rather than riding it would reduce it's efficacy as an explosive device?1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Surely you can just say no to that kind of request. Fair enough for going along with it, but they have no actual right to order you off a public road without reasonable suspicion do they? And if they had reasonable suspicion that you had a bomb then they would hopefully do a bit more than just make you use a different route.
*goes off to do laps of Buckingham Palace for lunch hour*- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Surely you can just say no to that kind of request. Fair enough for going along with it, but they have no actual right to order you off a public road without reasonable suspicion do they? And if they had reasonable suspicion that you had a bomb then they would hopefully do a bit more than just make you use a different route.
I did ride on the road after having a roadside 'discussion' with the officer, a lot of cyclists got off and walked though.0 -
so the coaches full of foreigners and 1000's of kilos of potential explosives are ok...but the cyclist with maybe a backpack is not?!??!
Did they also ask tourist pedestrians with a bag to f**k off too??
Just amazing.
Someone should do something0 -
CookeeeMonster wrote:so the coaches full of foreigners and 1000's of kilos of potential explosives are ok...but the cyclist with maybe a backpack is not?!??!
Did they also ask tourist pedestrians with a bag to f**k off too??
Just amazing.
Someone should do something
This was the argument that I put to the officer, the choice I gave him was let me ride on the road or put me in a van to the nick.0 -
spursn17 wrote:CookeeeMonster wrote:so the coaches full of foreigners and 1000's of kilos of potential explosives are ok...but the cyclist with maybe a backpack is not?!??!
Did they also ask tourist pedestrians with a bag to f**k off too??
Just amazing.
Someone should do something
This was the argument that I put to the officer, the choice I gave him was let me ride on the road or put me in a van to the nick.
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