[David9694]

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. 

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[David9694]

Oh great, crash your car,

Oh great, crash your car, abandon it and let the emergency services and local lifeboat spend hours looking for you as well as clearing up the mess you made. 

The article is so driverless it’s not even clear what they went out searching for.  “Why don’t they use the cycle lane?” for the bonus. 

Car left hanging over cliff after crash at Pendennis Point in Falmouth

An extensive search of the area was carried out

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/car-left-hanging-over-cliff-9894078

[David9694]

mdavidford wrote:

It mustelid to a lot of frustration though.

You all get a badger of honour for so many animalia-literate puns. 

[mdavidford]

It mustelid to a lot of

It mustelid to a lot of frustration though.

[hawkinspeter]

ktache wrote:

Stoataly different…

That kind of mistake is weasely made

[ktache]

Stoataly different…

Stoataly different…

[chrisonabike]

mdavidford wrote:

mdavidford wrote:

You’d be boiling over with uncontrolled anger too if that was how someone summed your life up.

Inaccurate count of ferrets? They were actually weasels?

[chrisonabike]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

”had mental health issues and a “deficiency in thinking skills”.”
Perhaps best if he doesn’t drive again.

“Shurely blatant discrimination”, said his counsel, “and we all know that those branded ‘normal’ or mentally competent are very well represented amongst those convicted for these offenses…”

Personally I’m happy with being a lot more restrictive about those who get to drive – BUT without us providing alternatives to driving the charge of unfairness has to be addressed…

[Hirsute]

“had mental health issues and
“had mental health issues and a “deficiency in thinking skills”.”
Perhaps best if he doesn’t drive again.

[mdavidford]

You’d be boiling over with

You’d be boiling over with uncontrolled anger too if that was how someone summed your life up.

[SaveTheWail]

How is ‘living alone with

How is ‘living alone with four ferrets’ mitigation for dangerous driving?

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/angry-derby-driver-forced-motorists-9890003

[Mr Blackbird]

That driver is almost
Re the horse ramming incident.
That driver is almost certainly a Daily Express or Daily Telegraph reader, who will have a Union Jack fluttering on a pole in his garden. He is a lifelong Conservative voter, who has recently switched to Reform UK.
” Farage has charisma and is the sort to give foreigners a bloody nose. Like Boris.”
After hacking his way round 9 holes at the local course, followed by a couple of pints and a stiff scotch in the 19th, he is on his way home. The missus better “bloody well have his lunch ready”.

[SaveTheWail]

No drivers involved in any of

No drivers involved in any of this.  I’m wondering if the journalist who wrote it is actually a car itself.

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/24877282.range-rover-pictured-driving-onto-beach-newquay/

[brooksby]

Horror 10 pint driver caused

Horror 10 pint driver caused life-changing crash near Bristol Airport (Bristol Post)

Looks like the law does work sometimes.

(He) appeared at Bristol Crown Court where he was handed a three year and two month jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving and for failing to provide a specimen. He was also handed a driving ban for 11 years and seven months.

…

Officers (had) arrived at the scene and suspected (him) of drink driving. However, he claimed he was innocent and bodyworn video footage showed him saying that the driver was unknown to him and had run off. He then refused to complete a roadside breath test.

edited: and the BBC link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czeplwegn4do

[pockstone]

Perhaps they should start
Perhaps they should start with killer drivers?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/22/dwp-crackdown-could-see-people-banned-from-driving-if-welfare-debts-go-unpaid

[brooksby]

SimoninSpalding wrote:

I vaguely remember red routes in the Highway Code and they are absolutely no stopping. I didn’t commit it fully to memory because as far as I knew they were only in major cities, and as a country boy any paint on a road is a novelty!

A section of the A369 in Leigh Woods (just outside Bristol) is a marked red route.

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