Cycling in Melbourne Australia

A bicyclist who is serial flasher, or a flasher that rides a bike?: in The Age today

Recently The Age seemed to be sympathetically reporting incidents where cyclists have been injured on the road, and sometimes, unfortunately, killed.

What a difference a week makes, and what a difference a headline makes. In today's The Age there's this - Bicycle flasher jailed - the crime is serious, and the punishment fits the crime. But would it have grabbed any reader's attention if it just said - Serial flasher jailed - ?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Jay on March 17, 2010 at 10:20am: Isn't The Age planning to move from Broadsheet to Tabloid sometime soon? ;-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ritsardo on March 17, 2010 at 2:08pm: Wonder how they'll cope with this, then?
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Permalink Reply by Ritsardo on March 23, 2010 at 2:00pm: And then it was reported on TV in ... Denmark!! http://www.dr.dk/nettv/update/?video={0AE9BFB4-C299-444D-9F19-CD6C05EA6C43}; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cory on March 18, 2010 at 11:01am: Meh.

It was reported, quite overtly, that he was a cyclist back when they were trying to identify/catch him. (Perhaps, in the same way that they would if he were a 'cab driver' or some other method to stand out from the crowd). The photofit had him in a helmet.

So... this was just following up on that meme. I probably wouldn't have made the link myself, except that it had cyclist in the headline. The same as I'd expect, if he were a cab driver.

(Not wanting to say anything against cabbies - just using it as an example).

(Use of the term 'bicyclist' however. BLEAUGH! ) ;); ▶ Reply to This