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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- SecretSam 2 min 58 sec ago
Maybe take some drugs to calm your nerves...
- SecretSam 3 min 51 sec ago
So...don't cycle on it. Lots of other routes around that area. Source: I used to work there.
- jaymack 5 min 34 sec ago
I'm not sure that aero carbon fiber bike would have been much use in such circumstances. But a gravel bike, well that's another story...
- SecretSam 6 min 23 sec ago
So, do those buses do as much damage per person as a w@nkpanzer?
- Hirsute 8 min 36 sec ago
Armando Iannucci "Today is Day One of humanity’s Idiolithic Era."
- Steve K 23 min 24 sec ago
My photochromic specs have just turned up in the post today
- Capt Sisko 16 min 8 sec ago
It's not just cycling shoes, walking boots have the same problem. A long time ago I was told I had Germanic feet and those of us descended from...
- Paul J 30 min 19 sec ago
Downhill Alpe d'Huez TT would be _awesome_. And someone should organise one for real!...
- Hirsute 31 min 17 sec ago
Couldn't find the breathalyser sketch, so this one will have to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxXNZcIdwM
- BikingBud 1 hour 35 min ago
Custom bikes used to be for life....
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"Late again, Smith, what's the excuse this time?"
Great pictures, but the story doesn't quite add up for me.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-terrified-after-find...
More unfortunate goings-on - comments on this story have it right.
Dad with heart condition 'abandoned' in pitch black car park
Darren Williams said he joined breakdown firm after his car broke down - but claimed they gave him wrong information about costs to get home leaving him stranded for hours in desolate country park
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dad-heart-condition-abandoned-...
Clevedon : "We will fight tooth and nail for our seafront parking"
*Camper vans join in*
"Not like that!!"
Anger as tourists in campervans take over seafront parking spaces
Holidaymakers are taking advantage of a lack of parking restrictions on evenings and Sundays
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/anger-tourists-camperv...
see also: I can't remember what role Clevedon Town Council played in the seafront thing, but WTAF
Somerset folk can't access numerous public areas after insurers dump council
Access to allotments, tennis courts, and a park is now 'strictly forbidden' (situation resolved by Friday)
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-folk-cant-acc...
Angered Hertford residents slam footway works set to close street from vehicle access and 'trapping disabled people'
Residents will be forced to move their vehicles 30 minutes before the works begin every day at 7.30am
https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/angered-h...
'The cars fined included a Mazda, a Honda, a Mercedes and a Porsche.'
https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/transport/porsche-among-cars-fined-for-illegal-parking-in-peak-district-as-number-of-drivers-slammed-for-breaching-highway-code-4259073
Hoping that we've now reached peak silly season 2023:
Boy finds piece of chicken which looks just like the UK
Harry Hitcham, 16, was travelling with his dad and younger sister to Cornwall when he spotted the fillet in his Boneless Banquet meal
dad, Rob, 53, said Harry is “well proud of his UK chicken.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-news/boy-finds-piece-chicken-loo...
Wiltshire Police family liaison officer on fatal crashes
A missive from the front-line of the daily death toll from cars
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23735522.wiltshire-police-family...
A "seemingly minor mistake" led to someone dying.
Tractors and three-wheel car cause standstill traffic in protests against this month's ULEZ expansion
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/tractors-three-wheel-car-caus...
'Cheeky' Callington shoppers 'taking the mick' amid town's 'frustrating' parking problems
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cheeky-callington-shoppe...
Man vows to fight 'grossly unfair' Chester parking fine even if it means going to court
The grandad-of-four admits he's worried 'debt collectors will be banging at the door' but refuses to pay out of principle
"You had to input your registration. I tried all that with no joy and gave up. I'm 67 and my eyesight isn't great."
https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/man-vows-figh...
"A man who crashed into the back of a police car, causing injury to a police officer, has been fined more than £700."
"Stevenson was fined £755 and had his driving licence endorsed with nine points."
Should have been wearing hi Viz !!
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23732436.colchester-man-crashed-back...
From my Facebook feed part 1. My favourite here is the "my brother says there are no emissions from old vehicles" bit - I guess all those people with respiratory conditions* must be wrong, then.
Part 2
* modern medicine can do so much to repair injury and reverse diseases and their effects. But - on the strength of one clinical presentation a few years ago - one hospital specialty you don't want to be under is respiratory. They can do relatively little to repair lung damage - the best you can hope for is to stabilise optimise what lung function you have.
Is it aero though? And does it climb?
That road looks quite familiar - I wonder what area that's in.
Edit: they've posted it under "Horfield", so not that close to me. Though I did live for a while on Broadway Rd - just a couple of houses away from The Young Ones house. (They'd turned Neil's grave into a fishpond)
Just saw this mock up
Nice to see a bike in the library pic of the court.
Wonder if he'll stick around for trial here? The US tends not to support prosecution of its military and associates overseas. (Just like the UK of course, but more so).
Like moving house or getting divorced, crashing your car/ chancing it is a rich man's pursuit. Quite a worrying video.
Many of the head-oners are so because drunk, it seems. Many were directed there by their stupid-nav.
Others will be going car-jousting because they're drunk on freedumb. Who is this "society" (that doesn't exist anyway 'cos The Thatcher Thing banned it) that dares to say I can't DO WHAT I WANT?
Others again will have seen a robber-hero do it on an yank cop movie so it must be cool. See the second-raters swerve-crash out of his way!
Oh Brave New Blighty, that has such carloons in it.
Phew - it's all for a good cause then! I thought it looked like a very large space for the convenience of motorists, and indeed that is just what this is again.
Indeed looking closely at the picture they appear to have expanded the space for cars (on the right).
Lucky that some people refuse to let observation of imperfect reality dampen their belief and are happily "penny wise, pound foolish":
Who would have thought that a tourist destination in a part of the country very popular with tourists that is offering free child places in the middle of the school holidays might be a little bit busy...
Strange, mine went down by about 20% this year.
“Come off it, Mr. Dent,” he said, “you can’t win, you know. You can’t lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely.” He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but they just wouldn’t do it.
Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him.
“I’m game,” he said, “we’ll see who rusts first.”
“I’m afraid you’re going to have to accept it,” said Mr. Prosser, gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head; “this bypass has got to be built and it’s going to be built!”
“First I’ve heard of it,” said Arthur, “why’s it got to be built?”
Mr. Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again.
“What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?” he said. “It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/670/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the...
No Bugattis this time? Damn, nearly got the full set...
"we've got to spend 40k on a new car"
You can afford the tax then.
Well, I'm on the driver's side this time. If he spent the 12 minutes trying to pay for parking before giving up and leaving, then he shouldn't be fined.
It annoys me how it seems so easy to fine drivers for (not even) a minor parking offence, yet careless driving largely goes unpunished.
RE Wlitshire Police article, the last paragraph reads as follows
She said: “It doesn’t matter if you are in the car on your own, or with others, you must be completely focused on what you are doing and pay the road your full attention. One minor mistake can have massive consequences."
I don't think anyone on here would argue with that. Mr Loophole might though.
Raise you
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/irate-paignton-driver-rams-pol...
Oh! They are writing "dept" but mean "debt" and not "department". That makes more sense now...
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