Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

IanMSpencer wrote:

Alpacas are smaller and look silly, often helped along by stupid haircuts, llamas are bigger and have a face like a camel (not that this helps in the UK). I was surprised to discover that alpacas make noises. A local was walking two large shaggy dogs and the local alpacas went mad, making a screeching noise. Apparently they did it on sight of the dogs every time.

There's no dogs allowed on the alpaca-walk as alpacas get very nervous around them. Alpacas can be very skittish, but they're quite friendly to humans as long as they don't get spooked. Apparently they spit at each other as a dominance thing, but very rarely spit at humans whereas I've heard that llamas can be quite aggressive.

Not in that case, it was to do with a W204 C Class being driven in a "spirited fashion" and I was aware of it because mine only had traction control.

A KLF "art" project.

it was totally an Alpaca  it was just the police tweet where they called it a "lama"

But he's certainly not justified...

David9694 wrote:

It was Doctoring the Tardis, wasn't it, a kind of Gary Glitter (Rock and Roll) and Who theme mash-up. 

<face/palm> You're quite right, mea culpa

David9694 wrote:

I don't recall Madness/ Judge Dredd, though. Can you hum it?

"You hum it, I'll smash your face in."

I'll get me Crombie coat. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmh5o1XfB40

brooksby wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmh5o1XfB40

As a fan of Madness (well, the earlier ska-based stuff), I can say that song is dire.

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmh5o1XfB40

As a fan of Madness (well, the earlier ska-based stuff), I can say that song is dire.

It is. But we were just discussing songs based on popular culture, not whether they were good songs based on popular culture...

David9694 wrote:

Where did it all go wrong? After Our House?

When they made a conscious (and announced) decision not to be a ska band any more and Suggs decided he had a soul voice. As an old fart I can well remember the sense of despair which greeted every album after about 1982.

Rendel Harris wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Where did it all go wrong? After Our House?

When they made a conscious (and announced) decision not to be a ska band any more and Suggs decided he had a soul voice. As an old fart I can well remember the sense of despair which greeted every album after about 1982.

Yep, pretty much.

brooksby wrote:

OT:

Ah, remember "novelty records of the 1980s"?  Star Trekkin', Doctorin' the Who, that one Madness did about Judge Dredd...?

A pedant writes: the Judge Dredd song, Mutants in Mega-City One, was by the Fink Brothers, Suggs and Carl from Madness, rather than an official Madness release.

I'll get me baggy trousers...

"Star Trekkin'" by The Firm, not many remember another record they had 5 years earlier, "Arthur Daley E's Alright". 

mark1a wrote:

"Star Trekkin'" by The Firm, not many remember another record they had 5 years earlier, "Arthur Daley E's Alright". 

...and who remembers Mel Brook's Hitler rap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpYQJkBQp0

Going back a bit further with novelty records, I happened across the only performance of Monster Mash with Boris Karloff on Shindig - unfortunately there's a huge logo right across the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J45fHh8TP8A

(Possibly a whoosh) Wasn't that the 90s?

I heard from a friend of a friend who used to work at Rover that when Rover redesigned the BMW Z rear axle for the 75 it handled so well that BMW insisted it was 'softened' to avoid showing up the M5. Sounds unlikely but I always hoped it was true.

Who pays to fix or redo that concrete ? as it doesnt read like the car driver is automatically coughing up for it, despite being clearly an idiot and at fault.

It's just like here where a charity shop took nearly a year to reopen after a range rover driver tried to make it a drive thru, doesnt read like the car drivers insurance pays out for it necessarily
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/nansa-charity-shop-norwich-to-reopen-next-w...

Is that a rental scooter or a <clutches pearls> illegal privately owned one?

Jogle]SKODA CRASHES INTO PARKED CAR ON RYDE’S MARLBOROUGH ROAD It's sounds like a dangerous road [Quote wrote:

It’s unclear if the C4 was shunted into a Suzuki Jimny parked behind it. The Suzuki was involved in a similar crash back in May last year.

#NoDriverInvolved https://www.islandecho.co.uk/skoda-crashes-into-parked-car-on-rydes-marl...

That reminds me of this:]