Anyone read the 'What a ghoul' letter in todays MCN?

I bought todays MCN and was appalled to read a letter under the heading "What a ghoul" c/o Judith Oppenheimer

It contained the following text:

I read with some grim satisfaction in this weeks press that biker deaths rose by 25% during the first quarter of this year

Her letter goes on about her village on the A51 and the thursday night rally.....which is the Stormy Petrel pub at Ternhill. The writer is cheesed off at the noise the bikers make when going through the village and ends her letter with:

every biker death represents one fewer menace on our roads and a tiny measure of relief

Did anyone else read the letter. I am sure MCN printed it just to create controversy.

[Ruffy]

And people still think fitting loud race cans is a good idea!

Unfotunately, not everyone is alive to the good of biking, and so we do have a certain responsibility in sharing our activities with others. Having said that, her viewpoint is totally unacceptable.

That letter was a disgrace. I cant believe somebody has actually taken the time to write that letter! and the fact that MCN has published it without his/her address! Okay I like loud cans and I accept that they are not to everybodys taste. But I hate "boy racers" with 1000W Amps and Subs who blare their music out at max chatt through reading town centre, but I dont hope they die wiring up the subs in a freak crossed wire accident.

[Wideboy]

Originally Posted by sideshow46

That letter was a disgrace. I cant believe somebody has actually taken the time to write that letter! and the fact that MCN has published it without his/her address! Okay I like loud cans and I accept that they are not to everybodys taste. But I hate "boy racers" with 1000W Amps and Subs who blare their music out at max chatt through reading town centre, but I dont hope they die wiring up the subs in a freak crossed wire accident.

+1 not often you hear people like this complaining about boy racer exhausts ETC most of there stereos are louder than my sv with baffles out! always bitch about the bikes

Loud cans or not, its one thing to say such things in private but to basically wish all bikers dead in a 'national' paper is a disgrace and MCN for printing it. Wherever this woman is doesnt really matter, all those bikes and other vehicles use her local roads because they can, because they have paid their road tax and can drive wherever and whenever they like, loud can or not.

I have just sent her an email now. I shal post it in a minute. Seems I didnt waste my time in taking English Languge at A-Level..... Vey tort me 2 speek proppa!

Before we all go round there to burn the witch...

Isn't it possible someone else wrote that letter, and posted it using her name, hence 'c/o Judith Oppenheimer'?

But that doesn't necessarily mean we should vilify her without access to all the facts.

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

true, but how many judith oppenheimers can there be near one pub?

seconded!

Sorry but I am sick to death of people villifying bikers!!! It sucks. And I know some bikers thrive off it, they almost love the attention and the constant arguement. But I am sick of it. That is why I have canned road riding for a while and decided to go racing. I am sick of being branded some leatehr clad monster who goes around terrorising old people and being a menace to society! I'm not, I just have a hobby.

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

true, but how many judith oppenheimers can there be near one pub?

btw that pic is crying out for a shopping

Originally Posted by sideshow46

seconded!

You've both missed the point - it doesn't have to have been THAT Judith Oppenheimer, or even any OTHER Judith Oppenheimer. It could have been someone with an anti-Judith Oppenheimer agenda, maybe called Julian Starkey from Wythenshawe.

Who knows?