OTT police officer?

I agree Anya, I have a scar on my ankle from one of the little dears riding straight into me and the mother said I shouldn't be on the pavement!

Thinking about it a bit more, perhaps 6.

The law should be changed to allow children up to the age of 7 or 8 to ride on the pavement.

I have no objection to cyclists using the pavements responsibly. We have lots of legally 'shared pavements' where we live. This is patently ridiculous and I hope he was dragged over the coals for his officious behaviour.

However some little kids on scooters are a public menace. I've had to dive out of the way of two of them just this morning when walking the GS to school.

The child is very lucky she wasn't tazered

Of course, over the pond in somewhere like Shapeless, Mass, he'd have just shot her...

"Bicycles are, in law, carriages (as a consequence of the Taylor v Goodwin judgment in 1879) and should be on the road not footway. (Technically speaking, a ‘road’ is a ‘carriageway’).

The DfT view, from discussions with Home Office, is that the law applies to all but the police can show discretion to younger children cycling on the pavement for whom cycling on the road would not be a safe option.” (See, event the Department for Transport uses the word ‘pavement’).

The age of criminal responsibility is 10 so, technically, only children below this age can cycle on footways without fear of redress."

So he was seriously saying that a four year old on a tiny bicycle with stabilisers should be riding it on the road.....he's made himself look extremely pompous and stupid!
Utterly ridiculous to say the least.
If the child had been in the road I bet the parents would have been prosecuted for bad parenting.

Is there no actual crime in Lincolnshire? Fancy a Police Officer threatening to take away a four year old's bike. My children and grandchildren rode their bikes on the path and nobody minded.

Totally OTT and, yes, they should pay more attention to loutish teenagers racing along the pavement on their bikes expecting everyone to move out of their way. Ditto big boys on skateboards.

Where are our boys in blue when you have an adult riding a bike on the pavement (which many cyclists do when and where it suits them)? Nowhere to be seen, of course. They want their * kicking!

OFFS !!!
I've never heard anything so stupid