[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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[Hirsute]

Have to mention this one

Have to mention this one although not driving.

Tortoise on railway tracks causes train delays

“Its owner collected it from the station later that evening, and, as far as we are aware, was unharmed.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmm2ydrpljvo

 

[David9694]

Fuming man wows never to

Fuming man wows never to return after being stung by parking fine

He said: “I was disgusted when I opened the letter. You don’t expect this sort of thing in Glastonbury where everything is so calm and relaxed, it is so heavy-handed and run by a private company as well. I spend a lot of time in London, you expect this sort of thing there but not in Glastonbury, it is so unfriendly,” he said.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/fuming-man-wows-never-return-9418148

[Hirsute]

”  Local garage thought it

”  Local garage thought it was ok to post that they had a customer with 4 tyres like this and they released the car to them after they signed a waiver. Customer said they couldn’t afford to replace them. Garage should have called the police and refused to release the vehicle.  “

 

[mark1a]

David9694 wrote:

Younger viewers will be interested to know that the character featured, played by comic Harry Enfield is “Loadsamoney”, an otherwise nameless London plasterer getting rich in the late 1980s building boom. 

Bish bosh shoom shoom wallop – dosh!

[Rendel Harris]

David9694 wrote:

Younger viewers will be interested to know that the character featured, played by comic Harry Enfield is “Loadsamoney”, an otherwise nameless London plasterer getting rich in the late 1980s building boom. 

Who drove, as I recall, an “XR3i Turbo Nutter Bastard”.

[David9694]

Younger viewers will be

Younger viewers will be interested to know that the character featured, played by comic Harry Enfield is “Loadsamoney”, an otherwise nameless London plasterer getting rich in the late 1980s building boom. 

[David9694]

Ashford residents say

Ashford residents say constant roadworks are plaguing the town with gridlock and closures on Simone Weil Avenue, Newtown Road, A251 and more

“The work near the town centre means a journey normally taking me five or 10 minutes is now taking me 30 minutes.”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/no-area-has-this-many-closures-is-this-kents-most-gridlo-309982/

[brooksby]

Steve K wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Mum and Dad’s taxi

how much money and time is spent on transporting children by car?

https://www.zuto.com/blog/the-taxi-of-mum-and-dad/

In our family, Dad’s taxi is (normally) a Tern GSD.  Mum’s taxi (and dad’s if taking both kids) is the car.

The timings and distances of my kids’ events means that my wife does the taxiing (in a car).  I’m usually still at work, and she works from home (she is self-employed)

[mdavidford]

Steve K wrote:

I went past a car in (slow) moving traffic on the A24 (CS7) in South London earlier this week where the driver had both hands off the wheel as he was counting a wad of bank notes.

Was it this chap?

[Steve K]

brooksby wrote:

I followed a car up to the Clifton Suspension Bridge last night.  In the last couple of car lengths before the toll barrier I could see the driver take both hands off the wheel while he leaned over to fiddle with something over by the glove box (wallet, I presume), while still driving forward.  As I passed him at the barrier (cyclists don’t pay, and have a bypass cycle lane) I could see that this paragon of driving virtue had a car full of small kids (5/6 years old?).  Really safe driving, yeah… 

I went past a car in (slow) moving traffic on the A24 (CS7) in South London earlier this week where the driver had both hands off the wheel as he was counting a wad of bank notes.

[Steve K]

David9694 wrote:

Mum and Dad’s taxi

how much money and time is spent on transporting children by car?

https://www.zuto.com/blog/the-taxi-of-mum-and-dad/

In our family, Dad’s taxi is (normally) a Tern GSD.  Mum’s taxi (and dad’s if taking both kids) is the car.

[David9694]

But no balaclava?

But no balaclava?

[David9694]

Merthyr Tydfil: Man

Merthyr Tydfil: Man ‘callously’ left dying girlfriend after crash – before trying to blame her

https://news.sky.com/story/merthyr-tydfil-man-callously-left-dying-girlfriend-after-crash-before-trying-to-blame-her-13180189

[David9694]

Mum and Dad’s taxi

Mum and Dad’s taxi

how much money and time is spent on transporting children by car?

https://www.zuto.com/blog/the-taxi-of-mum-and-dad/

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Wiltshire driver ate breakfast with no hands on the wheel

“Stopped for having both hands off the wheel, apparently eating their breakfast has earned this driver a TOR for ‘not being in control’, as well as ‘ply exposed’ on closer inspection of the van,” said a spokesperson for Wiltshire Police.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24456889.wiltshire-driver-ate-breakfast-no-hands-wheel/

I followed a car up to the Clifton Suspension Bridge last night.  In the last couple of car lengths before the toll barrier I could see the driver take both hands off the wheel while he leaned over to fiddle with something over by the glove box (wallet, I presume), while still driving forward.  As I passed him at the barrier (cyclists don’t pay, and have a bypass cycle lane) I could see that this paragon of driving virtue had a car full of small kids (5/6 years old?).  Really safe driving, yeah… 

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