This is a message to all dog owners who regularly walk the waterways between Palm Beach Boulevard and Hartford Ave at Papamoa to be particularly mindful of a lunatic on a bike. I had an upsetting experience on December 6. At about 4.15pm, when out walking my dog, a man on a bike came up behind me at a terrifying speed. I couldn't hear him coming and he felt it was his right to kick my dog out of his way, and carried on merrily at break-neck speed. So whoever you are please be more courteous in that it is a shared walkway, use your bell so we can hear you coming and would it be too difficult to actually slow down a little during the couple of seconds it takes to pass people?

C Barrett, Papamoa Beach.