Live blog: Cyclist stands ground to stop car cutting junction on wrong side of the road (claim they're doctors in rush to see patients); cyclist unable to make Fred Whitton due to bike booking blunder; B'ham's new cycle routes blocked by bins + more

peted76 wrote:

I hope this story rumbles on.. has the internet found out the names of these two very important'ing doctors yet? 

Doctors can be a different breed of human sometimes, that video demonstrates the bubbling undercurrent of their ever so common god complexes.

Put two of them together and they can literally do anything! Heal the sick, drive within impunity, work two jobs...  basically superhumans.

You're thinking of consultants.

peted76 wrote:

I hope this story rumbles on.. has the internet found out the names of these two very important'ing doctors yet? 

Doctors can be a different breed of human sometimes, that video demonstrates the bubbling undercurrent of their ever so common god complexes.

Put two of them together and they can literally do anything! Heal the sick, drive within impunity, work two jobs...  basically superhumans.

Nailed it there Peted76!

It was posted on this thread that an NIP had been issued. So at least the police know who the car owner is. 

There must be some way of complaining to a  professional body (BMC?) about their ‘attitude’? It’s just that you need to identify them first.

peted76 wrote:

I hope this story rumbles on.. has the internet found out the names of these two very important'ing doctors yet? 

Doctors can be a different breed of human sometimes, that video demonstrates the bubbling undercurrent of their ever so common god complexes.

Put two of them together and they can literally do anything! Heal the sick, drive within impunity, work two jobs...  basically superhumans.

they can actually heal the sick all on their own...

srchar wrote:

Well, how did you become two doctors? That’s most unusual - I mean, did you take the exams twice, or…?

Ask Colin Baker

hawkinspeter wrote:

srchar wrote:

Well, how did you become two doctors? That’s most unusual - I mean, did you take the exams twice, or…?

Ask Colin Baker

 

Oh - that's from the story with the Sontarans, the cannibals, and the ginger eyebrows, isn't it?

(you could have also gone with (2) Tennant & Smith, (3) Pertwee, Troughton, and Hartnell, or even (4.5) Davison, Pertwee, Troughton, fake Hartnell, and old video of Baker...).

(I'll get my coat ).

srchar wrote:

Well, how did you become two doctors? That’s most unusual - I mean, did you take the exams twice, or…?

she’s only one doctor really. It’s her patients’ fault:

Doctor, Doctor - I keep singing "Green green grass of home" - I think I have Tom Jones syndrome

It's not unusual...

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:

This only 'worked' because the occupants of the car were 'nice' (for relatively small values of 'nice').    

When the vehicle is a flatbed belonging to a scaffolding company, and the two blokes inside are called Chris and Gary, then the cyclist is going to be seriously assaulted, and his bicycle crushed under the wheels.

And then the police will charge the cyclist with criminal damage, if the underside of the vehicle is scratched.

When has anyone in the building trade ever been worried about arriving late to work??

Nick T wrote:

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:

This only 'worked' because the occupants of the car were 'nice' (for relatively small values of 'nice').    

When the vehicle is a flatbed belonging to a scaffolding company, and the two blokes inside are called Chris and Gary, then the cyclist is going to be seriously assaulted, and his bicycle crushed under the wheels.

And then the police will charge the cyclist with criminal damage, if the underside of the vehicle is scratched.

 

When has anyone in the building trade ever been worried about arriving late to work??

Yeah, you'd think.

But why is it that when I leave the house early to get into the office, and most of the other vehicles are small white vans, large Transits and scaffolding lorries, everyone is going like a fucking bat out of hell?

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:

Nick T wrote:

Legs_Eleven_Worcester wrote:

This only 'worked' because the occupants of the car were 'nice' (for relatively small values of 'nice').    

When the vehicle is a flatbed belonging to a scaffolding company, and the two blokes inside are called Chris and Gary, then the cyclist is going to be seriously assaulted, and his bicycle crushed under the wheels.

And then the police will charge the cyclist with criminal damage, if the underside of the vehicle is scratched.

 

When has anyone in the building trade ever been worried about arriving late to work??

Yeah, you'd think.

But why is it that when I leave the house early to get into the office, and most of the other vehicles are small white vans, large Transits and scaffolding lorries, everyone is going like a fucking bat out of hell?

They have to get to site quickly to sit drinking coffee and "reading" the third page of a certain tabloid

hawkinspeter wrote:

Aren't doctors supposed to uphold the Hippocratic Oath - "First, do no harm unless you're in a car in which case do what you want and sod everyone else"?

I was also under the impression that most cancer treatments take quite a while and waiting an extra 5 minutes is probably not going to make much difference to someone going through weeks/months of chemotherapy etc.

What we should have is a system whereby professionals on their way to an emergency can indicate their urgency with maybe flashing blue lights and a loud siren to alert other road users.

there are already a few systems in place.

One lets you park on double-red, a bus-stop or cycle lane if you put a handwritten scrap of paper in the windscreen saying something like 'photocopier engineer on call'.

The other lets you break any traffic law simply by turning on the hazard warning lights. Everybody can interpret these correctly, and it's actually illegal to be really pissed off about it, so be careful.

Finally, if you nearly kill a cyclist or pedestrian during the course of your driving, say by racing through the lights, or turning right across them, or not seeing them on the roundabout, you can wave at them if you're a guy, or if you're a woman you can give them a sympathetic look and a little smile, and that makes everything ok, so if you then call them a something rhyming with blunt you're actually the criminal.