Drivers and their problems

The dead giveaway was 'my little one'- ...heaves with nausea

pockstone wrote:

"A SANDWICH??"...channeling Lady Bracknell. “One worker told me he no longer has time to drive home for lunch, so has to make do with a sandwich,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/19/drivers-protest-as-bologna...

I think we need to start exporting Cornish pasties and a pint of wine in a British version of a Bento box.

David9694 wrote:

Hampshire country road closed due to icy conditions

Poles Lane will be shut for 24 hours until Friday, January 19.

Motorists are asked to use alternative routes while the closure is in place.

In a post on Facebook, Winchester police said: "A road closure is in place for Poles Lane in Otterbourne for 24 hours due to icy conditions. Access only from Hursely to Silkstead Farm.

"Please plan your journey ahead and take an alternative route."

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24058900.hampshire-country-road-closed-...

This is a new one on me, I think - police closing a road simply because of the ice. 

Looking at Streetview, it's a typical rural road but very long and straight (old Roman road?).  I was expecting it to be narrow and windy, or steep… 

for real? Is this who we are now? 

No, it's who they are now: very stupid

The idea that it protects people is the same argument used against LTNs but equally discredited - as if drivers are going to notice much beyond the end of their bonnet or suddenly stop.

David9694 wrote:

anyone one know anything about this utopian image? New York, maybe Heath Robinson? 
 

https://www.soane.org/

Here. The Urban Anthro-Scape Above by Alexander Jeong.

Original story from a while back, quite surprised he wished to publicise his tiny penis in a local rag. He had moved from one incredibly rural suburb of Birmingham to another incredibly rural area.

She looks tiny enought to have got out via the window.

David9694 wrote:

Drivers 'turn bus lane into car park' along Stratford Road and locals say 'it's a problem'

Reading the article, the cars parking in the bus lane are double parking there.  So who's parked in the actual parking spaces?  My money would be on 'the people wot work in the shops'.

Hirsute wrote:

Local rag scraping the barrel to call an allegro a 'vintage car' !

A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.

This is what happens when you allow vehicles on the road that don't pay any tax and don't need an MOT. It does need insurance and a numberplate, so we can't quite play Cyclist Bingo

Brilliant lawyering.  I can only imagine - "My client was certainly not driving dangerously at at least two points - when he started and when he stopped".

You missed what he got and what he paid though: 90 mph, driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway, trying to ram police, no valid licence, no insurance.

Cost to him: 12 months jail sentence and also banned from driving for three years.

Obviously we won't now see him on the roads for four years, honest.

Quote:

Strangely, this exact problem with car insurance was not the first time this had happened to the couple with a Jaguar Land Rover vehicle.

While on holiday over the Christmas period in 2022, Adrian Flux said it could not renew a policy on Mrs Platt's 2021 Range Rover Sport, which cost around £80,000 new.

So Mrs Platt was turned down for insurance on her previous Range Rover Sport but less than a year later bought a similar vehicle and she's now surprised she's been turned down for insurance on that. Mrs Platt is clearly not the sharpest utensil in the drawer and would not be even if the other utensils were all spoons. There's something suspicious/unreported about her story anyway, I've never heard of a company issuing an insurance policy and then cancelling it without any reason after two months - surely once they've agreed to a policy they have to honour it for the term of the contract? Just out of curiosity (slow work day) I put my details into GoCompare with the same no claims and lack of offences that Mrs P claims and I was offered £2250 fully comp on a brand new £80,000 Defender in my inner-city London, relatively high crime location...

Bit of schadenfreude

But don't they just throw them in the bin and get away with it because the relevant authority just can't be bothered to follow them up? (we don't have any parking problems around here)

Hirsute wrote:

I mean who hasn't taken their pet in their car ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68091153

It rather puts Travis and Sigrid to shame.

I doubt they'll keep him on with that cocaine use.

One of the comments on the original article -'The bumps at least should have very prominent warnings'....how much more of a prominent warning do they need than what's shown in the photo?

“I didn’t see the double yellow lines...."

That comment should be sufficient to ensure that he pays the penalty charge notice and loses his licence for several years. We do not need people like him driving many tons of metal on our streets.

Although...what he actually meant to say was: "I saw the double yellow lines but thought "bugger it, I'm too important to bother with such things: I'll only block traffic for a few minutes and those people don't matter to me."  Wrong move to cancel the charge IMHO.

I think Cornwall Live have got the wrong end of the stick re. the definition of "Neighbourly".

Pointless post since the link is behind a paywall and since the last time I was in kent was 1987 I ain't interested in subscribing.

I assume they are soft southerners !

hawkinspeter wrote:

pockstone wrote:

"A SANDWICH??"...channeling Lady Bracknell. “One worker told me he no longer has time to drive home for lunch, so has to make do with a sandwich,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/19/drivers-protest-as-bologna...

I think we need to start exporting Cornish pasties and a pint of wine in a British version of a Bento box.

I didn't read this properly.  I thought you were talking about that article about dabbawalas - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jan/...

(Can't remember where I read an article about this in the last day or so, and was sure it was in the Grauniad).

I'm glad you saved me the pain of going to that site !

Err, no !
PCNs are a good source of income and there is a lot of automation in the process - initial data uploaded, dvla info obtained, letter sent, online payment, pcn record updated with payment - all without human intervention

Then a bit of manual work to chase any debts but when you have statutory powers, it's a lot easier to enforce.

how much more of a prominent warning do they need than what's shown in the photo?

But how can you see those road markings at 30-40 mph?!

essexian wrote:

“I didn’t see the double yellow lines...."

That comment should be sufficient to ensure that he pays the penalty charge notice and loses his licence for several years. We do not need people like him driving many tons of metal on our streets.

Although...what he actually meant to say was: "I saw the double yellow lines but thought "bugger it, I'm too important to bother with such things: I'll only block traffic for a few minutes and those people don't matter to me."  Wrong move to cancel the charge IMHO.

Did you notice how they also got in "church goer" too? Automatically makes you a better Law Abiding Motorist, apparently, like Killer Driver Dr Helen Measures 

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I think we need to start exporting Cornish pasties and a pint of wine in a British version of a Bento box.

I didn't read this properly.  I thought you were talking about that article about dabbawalas - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jan/...

(Can't remember where I read an article about this in the last day or so, and was sure it was in the Grauniad).

I remember reading about that - it's an incredible feat of logistics. Also, I'd love to have a lunch-time tiffin delivery service, but not so keen on paying takeaway prices for it. (That's made me hungry for a lentil dahl now)

Did you notice how they also got in "church goer" too? Automatically makes you a better Law Abiding Motorist

Otherwise Law Abiding Motorist!