[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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[wtjs]

She added: “I studied

She added: “I studied environmental science

Obviously, not diligently enough. These dimwit motorists, with the belief that they’re entitled to drive and park anywhere at any time, possess no insight or self-awareness beyond ‘I demand…’

[David9694]

Looking forward to reading

Looking forward to reading about Harried Henry and Indignant Ian as the Stoke Sentinel gently pokes fun at their subjects: 

Livid Lee in council dispute over £105 Hanley bus lane fine

Lee Davies says he was fleeing the Hanley riots – and Stoke-on-Trent City Council does not agree

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/livid-lee-council-dispute-over-9769978

Gobsmacked Gordon lands £100 KFC parking fine after taking too long eating

Now he’s boycotting KFC

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/gobsmacked-gordon-lands-100-kfc-9812495

These two are a bit run-of-the-mill in themselves to be honest, although Gordon made it into the The Mirror from where the photo comes. He managed to spend over an hour at KFC on daddy/daughter stuff, but there’s a one hour parking restriction. 
 
Lee says he did drive down the bus lane on the Saturday on police advice to escape a Farage riot,and other routes were “blocked” but the cameras say it was Sunday. 

 

[David9694]

hawkinspeter wrote:

wtjs wrote:

What a load of lemmings! Rushing to motor-geddon, complaining about all these people driving to the shops getting in the way of me driving to the shops

The people causing traffic jams complaining about the traffic jams

Theres not one scrap of self-help among drivers is there, it’s always someone else’s issue. 

[belugabob]

I had to double-take the
I had to double-take the headline…

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/takeaway-driver-19-who-left-elderly-woman-with-life-changi-317620/

[hawkinspeter]

wtjs wrote:

What a load of lemmings! Rushing to motor-geddon, complaining about all these people driving to the shops getting in the way of me driving to the shops

The people causing traffic jams complaining about the traffic jams

[David9694]

Driving relies on other

Driving relies on other people not driving. 

[wtjs]

What a load of lemmings!

What a load of lemmings! Rushing to motor-geddon, complaining about all these people driving to the shops getting in the way of me driving to the shops

[mdavidford]

An excellent example of

An excellent example of complaintese there:

I witnessed first hand the dire consequences of inadequate exit solutions

[David9694]

Jogle wrote:

[b]Breathalyser designer banned for drink-driving[/b]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd607v0v2yvo.amp

Representing himself at the hearing, Lacey said: “I’ve really got nothing to say. I misjudged how much I’d drunk.

“I had a couple of glasses of wine with lunch and a few pints of beer,” he said.

[Jogle]

Breathalyser designer banned

[b]Breathalyser designer banned for drink-driving[/b]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd607v0v2yvo.amp

[wtjs]

What was supposed to be a 10

What was supposed to be a 10-minute drive turned into a journey of an hour and 45 minutes

The Joy, The Joy!

[David9694]

Driver fuming after ploughing

Driver fuming after ploughing into carpark barrier ‘painted black’

Liam Dyson was attempting to turn his van around during Storm Bert when he crashed into a barrier that he hadn’t even spotted.

Liam said: “When I said in the video that I wasn’t concentrating, I meant that I wasn’t concentrating on a bar in the sky. I was concentrating on the road and the traffic coming towards me, to move into the car park. You keep your eyes on the road don’t you? Not up in the air.

“The rain was really coming down as well so that added to how disguised it was. It actually blended in with the brickwork of the building behind it from the angle I was coming at.

“It was around 3pm, so it wasn’t going dark but because of the weather it was darker than it normally would have been.”

Liam says this is the first time an incident like this has happened while out in his van – and many of the other barriers he has seen are yellow in colour.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/driver-fuming-after-ploughing-carpark-9807712?int_source=nba

This one has made my day!

[David9694]

spare a thought this

spare a thought this Christmas for all the people driving to their spin class 

Traffic jams at Tunbridge Wells Sports Centre off St John’s Road makes people late for activities due to congestion

One person impacted by the situation is Lucy Mappley who plays netball at the sports hall every Monday evening. She says the lack of parking or clear route around the site causes delays.

The sheer volume of people parking in the leisure centre means that on one occasion, although she arrived at 7.05pm she could not get parked and into the hall until 7.18pm.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-wells/news/it-s-the-absolute-worst-despair-over-traffic-jams-at-leis-317674/

[David9694]

great timesaver you’ve got

great timesaver you’ve got there: 

Car park chaos angering motorists at Bournemouth hospital

John phoned the hospital enquiry desk after waiting in traffic for 20 minutes, but was told that it’s a regular occurrence due to rush hour traffic. 

He was sat waiting and decided to get out of his car where he found three streams of traffic attempting to leave out of one singular exit. 

John finally reached the main road after an hour and a half, and then had to face the traffic coming from The Village, Bournemouth Crown Courts and surrounding areas.

What was supposed to be a 10-minute drive turned into a journey of an hour and 45 minutes.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24807261.car-park-chaos-angering-motorists-bournemouth-hospital/

[wtjs]

Just like pushing a sore

Just like pushing a sore tooth, it’s sometimes worth looking at these comments to see just how thick thick people are. Last night on the BBC NW England local news there was an item about Christmas traffic jams in Manchester- it was all being blamed on roadworks. We could see on screen briefly that at least some of the roadworks were for…wait for it!..a cycleway, although there was no mention of that in what was broadcast. Neither was there anybody saying to the complainants: well don’t drive in you stupid *******, use public transport

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