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A cyclist badly hurt in a crash had insult added to injury when police charged him with carrying a knife. ‌

Christopher Cullen was covered in blood when he was found lying beside the Forth and Clyde Canal near Kilsyth . ‌

Police officers preparing to take him to hospital found a Stanley knife in the waistband of his trousers. ‌

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