Cyclist cheats death in garrotting horror
June 6th, 2006 by Tim GrahlSeriously… what’s wrong with people?
AN 11-year-old boy is lucky to be alive today after being almost garrotted by a wire stretched across a footpath.
Today, there are livid marks on Luke Barton’s neck as a reminder of the moment he rode into the trap as he cycled to a park close to his home.
Luke was cycling to the park behind Stanground St John’s School, in Chapel Street, Stanground, Peterborough, when he rode into the wire, which had deliberately been stretched between two fences and was almost invisible.
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This makes me shudder. I’ve been afraid of this type of thing ever since I first saw an ELF handout describing how to set these, as well as other traps on trails.
Local to me, a couple of grown men have been arrested after stretching a rope across “their” public road and nearly killing a motorcyclist (one of their neighbors) when they pulled the rope as he passed by.
And my friends tell me that people are “basically good.”
God has given him second life otherwise no one would have survived after being roded into the wire. His story would be a lesson for others and they would be alert in the future.
Be alert? How the heck are you supposed to “be alert” to a wire that can’t be seen while riding a bike?
The punishment for these type of crimes need to be so severe that no one will risk even trying it.