Drivers and their problems

Waterways licence needed but included in canoe England membership. Hope they are insured!

In nine years of driving illegally (and dangerously, given he can't see) the Lancashire Police didn't pick up on him.

Fits with everything else I've heard about them...

If urine counts as 'litter', then logically that would apply whether it be human or e.g. canine urine.  Are dog owners required to pick up their dog's urine?

David9694 wrote:

Roadworkers in Southampton set to have wear body-worn cameras

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23975904.roadworkers-southampton-set-we...

Wow, is this what we've come to now?  Police, traffic wardens, parking attendants almost anyone who works in the public domain particularly where drivers are concerned.  (+ idiot comments)

And linked within the article

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23972457.southampton-van-driver-attacks...

Quote:

A roadworker has spoken out about how a man armed with a bat attacked his colleague because a road was closed. … Victim Brenton McLean, who works for Balfour Beatty, said a van driver asked to go through a closed road - claiming he lived on the street - but turned violent when asked his address. Brenton said: "The guy then proceeded to get out of the van with a rounders bat or baseball bat and me and four or five other of my colleagues came rushing to his gate and the guy was just hitting him with the bat.

David9694 wrote:

New Forest traders say roadworks (cycleway) are ruining Christmas sales

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23974425.new-forest-traders-say-roadwor...

And the usual comments in the article:

Quote:

Some critics claim not enough people cycle along Beaulieu Road to justify a cycleway. They also dispute the need for a new pedestrian crossing so close to an existing one.

Mr Patel said: "If the county council has got money to spare maybe they should use it to subsidise our business rates or invest in more police to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour."

Subside your business rates, Mr Patel?  That hardly seems a fair use of public money …

brooksby wrote:

Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

‘It’s a form of social justice,’ says Anne Hidalgo of move to target richest drivers to tackle climate breakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/paris-mayor-plans-to-tripl...

I wish we had politicians that wanted social justice rather than competing with each other to make things as unfair as possible and stacking the odds against the poor and vulnerable.

Maybe the French were onto something with the guillotine and it's about time that we instilled some fear into the ruling class.

That's an unfair clause and should be challenged.

Oh, hang on, this is the UNcropped version

https://twitter.com/Innkeeper55/status/1733097254771179749

"Bollocks. The bollards are there to stop drivers smashing into the supermarket. They don't form the boundary of a "pedestrian walkway". The rest of the footway is to your left."

David9694 wrote:

Anyway here's plucky Chris and his tiny road sign: 

This does seem a bit picky, but fair play to him, rules are rules!

I once got a parking ticket which I thought was very unfair. I parked for 15 mins in a marked bay, with a sign saying you could park for an hour between 11am and 6am (it was the afternoon). I came back to the car to find a traffic warden writing me a ticket. He said - look, you are parked on double yellow lines! (the double yellow lines did run down the length of the road, but this was clearly a mistake). But nope, he wouldn't listen and issued me a ticket. I wanted to contest it in court, but my other half was not keen (not got time for that, just pay the £30!).

Anyway, somebody must have taken the council on and won, as a few months later I got refunded the fine I'd 'received in error'!

They've now removed the double yellows at the parking bays.

Im sure it used to be a thing that you were advised to drive as if the roads werent treated at all when it was icy

David9694 wrote:

Car park "scam" is AI health nudge 

There have been a number of reports of innocent drivers being signed up to gym memberships and sent veg box deliveries.  One driver claims that a bike was delivered to his home a week after he visited a car park 400 yards away from home.

In fact, this is a cheeky health promotion initiative by NHS Healthly West of England.  A spokesman told us, "in areas where we know diet and obesity are major mortality factors, we are using AI to help point people to more healthy alternatives.  

"In the car park initiative, drivers arriving to pick up a takeaway, a bottle of Johnnie Walker, cigarettes and a scratchcard, which is to say most of them, are assessed for their BMI and appropriate interventions are signposted through the parking app."

Car park user billed for gym membership in 'scam'

Warnings about dodgy QR codes being used by fraudsters

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/car-park-user...

I hate QR codes due to how easy it is to just use a sticker to mislead people. The problem is with it not being human readable - they should include the text version of the URL and a checksum so a phone won't accept a QR code that doesn't match the URL. Of course, that would involve entirely changing the QR spec, so the best solution is to never, ever use a QR code - just type in the URL instead.

You'd think that someone who decides to encourage helmet wearing might at least attemp to wear the thing properly.

HoldingOn wrote:

£1billion for ten miles of new road

No mention of any active travel. Plenty of Save the Driver nonsense though.

They've got a mention of cars moving to Net Zero for tailpipe emissions. Yeah, don't worry about the incredibly harmful and poisonous particulate matter that's generated from tyres and brakes - that'll just get rained off the roads into our rivers and waterways.

David9694 wrote:

Shirley Road driver admits pleasuring himself near woman

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23985010.southampton-man-21-admits-carr...

I haven't been able to access this story in full as I'm too cheap to subscribe, so grateful if anyone can. 

A driver has admitted pleasuring himself as he drove slowly along a busy Southampton street near a young woman.

Harrison Carter, 21, admitted a charge of outraging public decency at Southampton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

It follows an incident on April 30 this year when he was spotted in a car on Shirley Road, Southampton. 

The court heard that the car was moving slowly at the time and that there was a "young female" close by to him.

Prosecutor, Laura Jenking-Rees said Carter also has ongoing court matters "of a similar nature" in Portsmouth. 

Sentencing was adjourned to be linked up with the other cases. 

He previously admitted stalking, exposure and outraging public decency in Portsmouth. 

Carter also admitted causing criminal damage to a window in Southampton on September 2 this year. 

Magistrates remanded him in custody as they said there were "substantial grounds to believe you would commit further offences". 

Carter, of Bath Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, will next appear at Portsmouth Crown Court on December 21.

It'll disturb the sleeping policement...

Maybe they're onto something though?  Like bronze-age chieftains or Viking leaders perhaps we should return to burying the elite (motorists) with their transport as a sign of their status?

In nine years of driving illegally (and dangerously, given he can't see) the Lancashire Police didn't pick up on him

Even a reasonably effective force would not necessarily detect such cases, but the determinedly ineffective forces are a different matter (I only know about traffic offences personally). I suspect no significant action has ever been taken over any of the offences I have reported since December 2018. Initially, years ago, I was told that warning letters had been sent, but I now suspect they were lying about many of those and they no longer respond to any reports. The complaint to 'Professional Standards' over the refusal to act over this offence resulted in a statement that they had to have confirmatory video from the alleged offending vehicle, and because there wasn't any they'couldn't do anything'.

https://upride.cc/incident/md68fwc_apcovernight_whitelinecross/

Over a year after these offences, they backed out (blaming, of course, the CPS) of the prosecution of these (same driver, same vehicle, same offences, same place, 2 days apart) because of a law they had made up where you have to have rear view video to show them actually crossing the unbroken white line from left to right- the obvious conclusion being that it's legal to speed down the right side of the road and pass the start of the UWL in Lancashire :

https://upride.cc/incident/j111kdw_bmwgrancoupe_uwlcross/

https://upride.cc/incident/j111kdw_bmwgrancoupe_closepassuwlcross/

They are going to extraordinary lengths to refuse to disclose the actual penalty for this (nearly all of you have seen these, of course), after declaring they would be taking action from a provided list which included 'no action at all'. There is no doubt that they can tell me what action was taken, because there are numerous instances provided by such as Cycling Mikey- they just don't want to admit that it was indeed 'no action at all', and even LC are wary about lying in writing to a court. This quite an important case, because if all this 'we can't tell you because of GDPR, even though police forces are doing it all the time' (courtesy of HoarseMann) dodge was removed, we would all know how little they're doing

https://upride.cc/incident/4148vz_travellerschoicecoach_closepass/

Finally, WU59 UMH, as I have shown too often recently, is still frequently seen around Garstang (last sighting by me 2 days ago) despite several reports, a Facebook page, a recent failed MOT for dangerous defects, and over 6 years of happy MOT, insurance and VED free motoring. So, even if they had been told about this 'Death by Dangerous Driving' offender above, they would just lie about it and cover it up

How come he's riding a bicycle from his 1950s future?