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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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- Rendel Harris 2 hours 18 min ago
Absolutely they could have. Tarmac is a petroleum-based product and its surface can be very oily when it's newly laid. This is particularly the...
- ROOTminus1 8 hours 21 min ago
I'm glad the article went into more detail and cleared things up, the headline had me worried that some autonomous building had run rampant and...
- mark1a 8 hours 39 min ago
Still here, just showing a few signs of wear and tear. Hopefully still serviceable for some years to come.
- Secret_squirrel 9 hours 9 min ago
Has he fully recovered though, and will he ever?...
- Rendel Harris 9 hours 24 min ago
How can you know that you are "equally fearful" as "any female cyclist"? There is no possible way of quantifying such emotions and female cyclists...
- chrisonabike 9 hours 56 min ago
I think it would be fairer to blame the moon - as in "my client is a loony".
- Bungle_52 10 hours 19 min ago
Nice idea but Gloucestershire Constabulary are not interested as exemplified by this prvious NMOTD. Not only was there NFA for the close pass in...
- hawkinspeter 11 hours 51 min ago
I think black boxes are great for early detection of cognitive decline and/or sight problems. Someone's driving is going to become much less smooth...
- Bigtwin 12 hours 27 min ago
It's a fashion. https://guildford-dragon.com/shalford-driver-who-smashed-shalford-war-me...
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Pictures or it didn't happen.
But but pedestrians can just walk round the holes (through the bushes, mud, ditches), or jump them and if they fall into one they can just climb out - but I pay road tax and fuel tax and insurance and my increasingly expensive car gets damaged? How's that fair?
Sadly I think you're correct, with tweaks: "my guess it will be peds especially those who are very young, old or have disabilities that suffer the most (along with anyone still stupid enough to cycle on the roads) and drivers the least (though it will be a considerable advantage to be driving in richer parts of the country)."
"Mr Not So Bright said: "At the time I just had to take it on the chin and endure the speed awareness course...."
Two things come to mind regarding this statement. Firstly, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime and secondly "endure..."? It seems from this wording that Not So Bright simply learnt nothing from the course and thus, will still speed and put other peoples lives at risk. Lets listen out for a ban next time he is caught; as he will be.
Hermes actually out delivering parcels? That IS unusual!
Follow-up: not so ghostly
Calls for crackdown on drivers using closed Ashford road Avocet Way after dog almost hit by car
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/my-dog-was-almost-hit-drivers-...
Ordinary? Ordinary?? Don't you mean hard-working, innocent drivers?
Give me one good reason why I don't sentence you to riding a press-fit bottom bracket bike for 3 months.
That bus gate signage guidance in full
Recommend a browse of the comments.
Hmmmm, I haven't seen one yet. So, for the moment, here's a car stuck on a beach
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/disbelief-mercedes-gets-...
Another example here
Hampshire County Council could cut 26 school crossing patrols
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24052363.hampshire-county-council-cut-2...
need to check on the India deal before cross-posting into the Brexit Britain thread. I guess the good news is we won't need crossing patrols because there won't be any children.
And, I read, a general prohibition in Bristol soon.
Technically, there wasn't a "single" problem with his parking…
Good luck with that
There's a new message appeared on his windscreen written in oil saying
"please, take this crappy set of low profile alloys off of me, this isn't how it was meant to be"
I'm guessing that some of the scratches came from his very annoyed removal of a seemingly justified sticker.
Not one single problem, I tells ya.
He claims that the scratches came from the person placing the sticker such as if they had a belt buckle scratch the car as they leant across it. It makes sense as otherwise the scratches would be on the windscreen rather than the paintwork.
They weren't there before (I tells ya)
I would drive to the pub, instead of my normal cycle or walk, if I thought that might happen!
Maybe there's a petrosexual under there having sex with it. It will move off when they're done.
My grandfather and great uncles lived in Putney during WWII when they were on leave from active service, they always used to recount how if it seemed likely an air raid was imminent they would get down to the Rose and Crown down the hill because if the siren blew the landlord would let everyone down into the cellars to shelter - some very memorable nights ensued, apparently!
Well, thanks for helping re-kindle this unpleasant memory, which one cut price student movie night at the Roxy I had the dubious fortune to sit through.
This tended to happen because the main feature we'd turned up to see was full and the 2nd screen (yes that's all there was in those days, and it was located in the city centre, not next to Curry's and a TGI Fridays). But then that's how I came to see The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer, so lose some, win some.
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewi... - Car Trouble
It's even better than you described! Check out the place names!
"One Anglian Water driver was forced to abandon their van in Wash Lane in Combs Ford"
Who knew places with historical names featuring water might get wet?
Used to live in Combs ford many years ago and it is aptly named you'd still find a big puddle on Wash lane in the middle of summer, it literally is just a lane that drives through the river, this was July last year.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/osXw6a1WH9k2bmN3A
Got to have been following sat nav and not paying attention to end up there
Perhaps there is an upside.
10 tipsy drivers driving from the pub
10 tipsy drivers driving from the pub
And if 10 tipsy get caught up in the flood
There'd be no tipsy drivers driving from the pub...
I expect the driver thought nobody would notice - after all, it's a black pipe, and it was dark at the time:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/manager-sacked-banned-haulage-job-28307901
This is a year old, but here's a Texas driver having some real problems transporting a bit of lumber. And understanding geometry.
Somehow these people manage to tie their own shoes and use credit cards.
Optional traffic lights
https://twitter.com/MerseyRoads/status/1736720593850962323
snap
BBC reporting again- self driving car nearly kills mum and child
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-67762440
"Being a police officer means ramming your car into a building and arresting the owner for getting mad at you"
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