[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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[brooksby]

HLaB wrote:

[quote=HLaB]It’s what pedestrian walkways are designed for ain’t it 😕 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24435787.oxford-bmw-car-stuck-botley-road-pedestrian-walkway/%5B/quote%5D

So could you legitimately climb up and walk over the top of it?  Might need spiky-bottomed climbing shoes, mind… 

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

“Always leave enough room between your vehicle and the one infront so you can get out of the queue easily if you need … half a car length of visible road, also helps lessen the domino effect in situations like this”

Which is definitely best practice, if you don’t mind the motorists behind you honking their horns at you and wanting you to close up the line so that maybe one extra car will get through on a green light 

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Holdenhurst Road works spark anger from residents

He added it took him three hours to reverse out of his own driveway because no one would let him out.

I wonder where he was going, that he was happy to wait three hours to be able to drive there rather than walking or catching the bus?  Or – I dunno – “cycling”…

[OnYerBike]

Not quite the usual “can’t

Not quite the usual “can’t park there mate” story – would have thought the (presumably local) driver would have known better!

Ice cream van swept out to sea in rising tide

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4ng3g010z0o

[Hirsute]

Old but never tires

Old but never tires

[Jogle]

HLaB wrote:

[quote=HLaB]It’s what pedestrian walkways are designed for ain’t it 😕 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24435787.oxford-bmw-car-stuck-botley-road-pedestrian-walkway/%5B/quote%5D

It’s ridiculous that they put pedestrian walkways where cars [I] need[/I] to go

[HLaB]

It’s what pedestrian walkways
It’s what pedestrian walkways are designed for ain’t it 😕

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24435787.oxford-bmw-car-stuck-botley-road-pedestrian-walkway/

[Hirsute]

surry police

Surrey police

Red Porsche driver admitted checking his phone and causing a 6 vehicle shunt. Whilst #SPCasualtyReduction officers dealt with the incident a Porsche enthusiast started taking photos whilst driving past!! They were stopped and issued a TOR.

”   Always leave enough room between your vehicle and the one infront so you can get out of the queue easily if you need … half a car length of visible road, also helps lessen the domino effect in situations like this  “

 

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

I did an arts thing 

The North Circular has been named the most polluted road in London, but for many people, it’s known as home. Louis photographed the residents of the road, curious how they ended up in such an inhospitable and polluted environment. In 1952, the great London ‘pea soup’ Smog led to the clean air act four years later. This inspired the project to make invisible pollution visible. By hanging the photographic prints by the roadside, the image surfaces collected dangerous road dust, which were then photographed using an electron microscope to make clear the dangerous particles that are invisible to the naked eye. This particulate matter is 2.5-10 micrometres wide, so small that it slips past our bodies’ defences; you can fit a thousand on the full stop at the end of this sentence. These particles penetrate deep into our respiratory and circulatory system, damaging our bodies. 

The work draws attention to the invisible and dangerous impact of our love for fossil fuel powered motor engines.

Unfortunately, most of the particulate pollution ends up getting washed off into our waterways and certainly the tyre particulates are terrible for the health of marine life. However, there seems to be a national policy to keep polluting our waterways with the regulator being utterly toothless (e.g. if a pollution spill is reported late by a water company, then the regulator cannot measure the scale of it and won’t penalise the company for it).

[Hirsute]

One for wtjs !

One for wtjs !

[wtjs]

Got to finish the chapter

Got to finish the chapter

Well go on then! I see that the centre of that alloy wheel shows he’s guilty of multiple offences of many types every day but tell us the crack 24/7 Police Motorist Offence Excuses Squad said they ‘couldn’t take action’ because: he’s stationary in a traffic queue so it doesn’t count; it could be only a pretend tablet which doesn’t work; he’s looking out the window at you so not interacting with the device; there’s an ‘r’, ‘a’ or ‘j’ in the month; he doesn’t remember using the tablet in the car; we in this Constabulary don’t agree that it’s an offence; we had a word with him and he apologises and says he won’t do it again; he only looks at the tablet for a moment so it’s only a momentary lapse of attention on the road; we’re so busy on manpower-intensive operations to combat the cycling menace, that we have no time to waste on trivial non-offences etc etc

[David9694]

I did an arts thing 

I did an arts thing 

The North Circular has been named the most polluted road in London, but for many people, it’s known as home. Louis photographed the residents of the road, curious how they ended up in such an inhospitable and polluted environment. In 1952, the great London ‘pea soup’ Smog led to the clean air act four years later. This inspired the project to make invisible pollution visible. By hanging the photographic prints by the roadside, the image surfaces collected dangerous road dust, which were then photographed using an electron microscope to make clear the dangerous particles that are invisible to the naked eye. This particulate matter is 2.5-10 micrometres wide, so small that it slips past our bodies’ defences; you can fit a thousand on the full stop at the end of this sentence. These particles penetrate deep into our respiratory and circulatory system, damaging our bodies. 

The work draws attention to the invisible and dangerous impact of our love for fossil fuel powered motor engines.

[David9694]

Holdenhurst Road works spark

Holdenhurst Road works spark anger from residents

“People were shouting and swearing saying that they had been trying to get through for 20 minutes,” said Peter.

He added it took him three hours to reverse out of his own driveway because no one would let him out.

“It was impossible to get out, people couldn’t and wouldn’t let anyone through.”

He said on-road parking has become worse of a problem over the years and junctions are becoming blocked making the area more of a hazard.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24428201.holdenhurst-road-works-spark-anger-residents/

Fears lorries will hit residents after drivers ignore diversion for A226 Galley Hill landslide at Swanscombe

A mother fears it is only a matter of time until someone is hit by a lorry after seeing her parked car struck following an emergency road closure.

Residents in Swanscombe complain HGVs are using narrow side streets to avoid the diversion set up following a landslide which happened on the A226 Galley Hill Road last year.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/someone-is-going-to-get-run-over-fears-over-lost-lorrie-309299/

[Hirsute]

Got to finish the chapter

Got to finish the chapter

[Hirsute]

Well that’s a new one to me –

Well that’s a new one to me – Fibro fog

muscle stiffness. difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, which can make you feel very tired (fatigue) problems with mental processes (known as “fibro-fog”), such as difficulty concentrating or remembering things.

”  May, of Bay Tree Close, Colchester, suffers from “fibro fog” and “has no recollection of beating anyone, hitting anyone in the ribs – she accepts it is more likely than not that these things happened”.  “

A WOMAN who attacked and bit police officers who tried to stop her from drink driving in a Tesco carpark has avoided an immediate prison sentence.

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24428863.colchester-woman-assaulted-officers-tesco-carpark/

 

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