Drivers and their problems

andystow wrote:

This story has so much going on! Man angry he can't walk directly to his favourite parking spot because of a fence the council put up... because his wife fell while walking there!

That is impressive.

I looked up the area, it looks like there used to be little posts on the edge of the grass (I can't think why they would need needed.....) But they probably rotted and were removed leaving some holes, which is what the lady then tripped on, leading to the fence being installed.

Also, looking at the distance to either end of the fence, it doesn't look like it would use much more energy than the energy they're currently expending climbing over the fence.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tJYE5QUnNYoP1xRy6

One of their neighbours (or they) have complained to Google to get a house blurred, but now we can look at it in the newspaper photos, which seems to defeat the purpose of having it blurred

The driver of the Maserati failed to see the marked #RPU car in the rear view as it was followed at 125mph

Should have come to Lancashire! I have a photo of a Maserati with no MOT somewhere in the 2022 lists, but I can't find it without a lot of effort- a weakness in the filing system. It's set up for finding other appearances of the reg. and not for the vehicle type. Sometimes, I can remember them by key facts: this one with the non-existent plate is run by Hooray Henry outfit The Cannon Run

You should see it where I am in the USA. Warnings not to leave your cars unlocked as teens wander through at night checking door handles. One lady posted that two guns were stolen out of her husband's truck! I'm not joking.

But I did like the comment that read, "if you don't like the speed cameras please raise your right foot"!

chrisonatrike wrote:

Pointless crying as the M6 is blocked:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-66080113

Legendairy

Obviously not that notorious...

Don't remember headlights being an optional extra on my car...

Social Media is the Devil's work.

David9694 wrote:

In mitigation, Nathan Goldstein said his client was a "hard working family man" who had experienced a "moment of absolute madness" which will have a profound effect upon his life.

Although presumably not as profound an effect as if he had been hit by a speeding train...

Was he on his way to hospital for chemotherapy?  

I take it that the Police will be heavy handed in their usual way and arrest everyone who steps into the road to distrupt the God that is motor traffic. Afterall, the law is the same for us all.... or is it only relevant if the Polices paymasters don't like the reason behind the demonstration?

Yes, but my gold plated diesel guzzling w@nkpanzer enhances the look of the natural environment! 

I would assume is what the moaning people say.

hawkinspeter wrote:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/volatile-motorist-downs-drove-towards-8588935?int_source=nba

Quote:

The email said: “We use a secluded ‘classroom’ area surrounded mostly by bushes and trees so we are removed from the main body of the Downs. Yesterday, a car began to drive into the classroom area while 29 five and six year olds were seated on the ground.”

Two volunteers immediately approached the driver and asked him to back away, which he did, but then he parked on the trail which was about to be used by the children. The email said: “They asked him to move again and he refused and was very rude to them.”

The volunteers remained calm in order to defuse the situation, according to the email. It added that the children had been placed in 'an extremely vulnerable position with a volatile person at the wheel of the car illegally on the Downs'.

The article says that even before the motorist turned up they had had to clear away wet-wipes and human faeces from the site 

David9694 wrote:

we need to stop asking drivers for permission to improve society somewhat:

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It's like hawkinspeter said yesterday - speed limits and LTNs and school streets are all subject to endless consultation, yet there's never any local consultation for building a new motorway junction or a bypass...

"Clueless", Birmingham Mail, the word is "clueless".

David9694 wrote:

Genteel, hipster-ey Frome, where the best shopping street is the car-free one: 

Petition launched to prevent Somerset car parking fees rising by ten per cent (on average, from the sounds of things)

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/petition-launched-prev...

Frome is full of ex-Londoners who sold their semi inside the M25 so they could buy a Somerset mansion.

David9694 wrote:

Finally, let's cross to Wellingborough, Northamptonshire the largest place I know of where town centre off-street parking is free (although its days are probably numbered now). Do we hear the sound of happy traders, of a retail boom town? Well not exactly...

There are happy traders and a retail boom happening near Wellingborough at the free (for 5 hours only) parking oasis that is Rushden Lakes.

It's a forum comment on a thread to note press coverage, not a story.

Like most BMW's, indicators were optional on my new car. I decided to pay the extra to have them fitted, just so I had the fun of not using them to signal a turn. They do however, come in handy when parking on double yellow lines as I pop into the shops for a take away. 

Surely the post was a reference to the publication scraping the barrel for news

Good job too - cream leads to more serious arterial congestion.