[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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[andystow]

Court case thrown out after
Court case thrown out after attorney can’t find parking near courthouse.

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/04/case-tossed-when-lawyer-cant-find-any-parking-near-the-courthouse/

[David9694]

You and a friend have won

You and a friend have won first prize, a day out at Diddly Squat Farm. 

[hawkinspeter]

ktache wrote:

.With thanks to the anti cyclist guardian, Joe Lycett and Foka Wolf.

Do I win a prize for recognising where that is from just half of the road sign?

It’s just 5 minutes from my house in Bristol – Blackswarth Rd leading to Crews Hole Rd.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6c7gSndgy7tGVory9

Edit: rode past there and it’s currently a British Airways advert

[David9694]

Come on Kentonline we’re 2

Come on Kentonline we’re 2 weeks past April Fools Day, so traders actively blocking their own High Street to cars, yeah right

Accident fears in Rochester High Street after chain barrier swapped for ANPR cameras

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/traders-fear-they-ll-be-an-accident-after-barrier-is-taken-a-304985/

[David9694]

chrisonabike wrote:

chrisonabike wrote:

wtjs wrote:

Another day, another Sudden Unexplained Acceleration Incident about 2:30 this afternoon […]

The pattern that David9494 (was it?) outlined is becoming clearer – like predators and con-artists these electric autonomous vehicles are biding their time then selectively picking on the unsuspecting old and infirm – having convinced them they are just there to help.

You wish the car was autonomous, then it would be like “oh, feels like Pops here has mixed-up the gas and the brake AGAIN – I’ll just wait here ’til he sorts himself out. (And not the sort that says “that toilet block looks just like the A6 – full speed ahead then”)

[wtjs]

Good to see the person in

Good to see the person in yellow apologising to the driver for having caused this

No, he’s Praising the Lord for saving him from being killed! Fire and Rescue turned up a couple of hours later to knock down the teetering walls, and the council has done a good job of shoring up the remainder. This could all have been much worse- there’s a lot of pedestrian traffic coming and going to the river off left, and vehicle traffic parking.

[ktache]

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.With thanks to the anti cyclist guardian, Joe Lycett and Foka Wolf.

[David9694]

Good to see the person in

Good to see the person in yellow apologising to the driver for having caused this.

[David9694]

ktache wrote:

ktache wrote:

Why would tyre extinguishers need their weights set to zero?

it’s their human rite

[David9694]

Herefordshire homeowner fed

Herefordshire homeowner fed up with state of a road

“As a local resident, I am happy to go to jail and refused to pay my council tax.

“I shall also give a bottle of champagne to the residents of a road in Herefordshire which may be found to be in a worse state than ours.”

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24241751.herefordshire-homeowner-fed-state-road/

[chrisonabike]

wtjs wrote:

wtjs wrote:

Another day, another Sudden Unexplained Acceleration Incident about 2:30 this afternoon […]

The pattern that David9494 (was it?) outlined is becoming clearer – like predators and con-artists these electric autonomous vehicles are biding their time then selectively picking on the unsuspecting old and infirm – having convinced them they are just there to help.

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

As the wetter winters (and drier summers) of climate breakdown settle on to the starting blocks, and the gammon curtain of Brexit descends making the UK a second world country, […]

If the UK is going to be a 2nd world country (which would be about right, absent our glorious past of global rapine and pillage) do we at least get an upgrade to 2nd-world- class cycle infra and local streets?

[john_smith]

To match their IQs?

To match their IQs?

[ktache]

Why would tyre extinguishers
Why would tyre extinguishers need their weights set to zero?

[wtjs]

Another day, another Sudden

Another day, another Sudden Unexplained Acceleration Incident about 2:30 this afternoon- the difference is that I saw this one happening. Noisy hard acceleration across the car park, straight into the Garstang Gents- which will likely collapse when they pull the automatic hybrid electric CRV out. Driver (that’s him in light blue) and wife stepped out, both relatively unharmed, with him saying “I can’t understand why it wouldn’t slow down”. I can. I only had enough time to register ‘that’s a bit much even for the average psycho BMW or Audi driver’ before he totalled both the 1 year old car and the toilets- that’s £40,000 down the drain. If anyone had been in the way he’d have killed them- not even anyone in the toilets. Both airbags deployed- impressively effective.

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