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KennethKennedy wrote:
where is Darwin when you need him?


Probably in hospital having been knocked over by some mentally-subnormal ASBO-case on a bicycle!

There is an extremely simple cure for this problem: police robots specifically designed to shoot people who cycle on pavements.

This would not only give us a massively improved gene-pool by virtue of the vast numbers of idiot teenagers and lardy middle-aged blokes in lycra that would be removed from it, it would also stimulate the ailing economy and boost our robotic research at the same time. Everyone's a winner apart from the people who (deservedly) get killed in the process.

Some might argue that the robots should serve a wider function (launching missiles at people with loud car stereos, tripping over skate-boarders, disemboweling the little b*****d up my street with the really noisy scooter, and so forth) and I'd be hard-pressed to disagree with these as long-term aims, but in the meantime, let's go for the low-hanging fruitcakes and start with the pavement cyclists. They deserve it the most.

If there is a downside to any of this, I'm struggling to see it.
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