Close escape on the cycle path

Went out with Baz last night for a road ride and very nearly came to grief on the bike path between Loanhead and Roslin. Some complete idiot (or more probably idiots) had cut the top fence wire at the side of the path and stretched it across, round a post, along to another post and then back over the path again. It was only by sheer luck that I noticed it as it was beginning to get dark and we both skidded to a stop up against it. As we undid the wire another cyclist came bombing along on a road bike, I hate to think what would have happened to him if he'd run into it. I'll certainly be very careful going along there again. Any suggestions for punishments to the depraved culprits gratefully received, the more degrading the better!!