[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]

Don’t TIER scooters have a

Don’t TIER scooters have a geofenced area where you must leave them?  In which case, they might have ended up fining him for leaving them outside the area marked for leaving them.

[Hirsute]

Actually as the article says
Actually as the article says people have arrived to hire the scooter, he should hire them for 1 minute and leave them in public space!

[Hirsute]

Not heard of that expression

Not heard of that expression but have read some of the detail before in a different context. Does seem to relate to another person rather than a company and I thought the same as HP that the normal operation of Tier is to leave the bikes on public property, so I don’t think there would be a duty of care beyond making sure there was no obstruction of the highway.

[hawkinspeter]

OnYerBike wrote:

Not sure this thread is the place for detailed legal discussion, but I think the term would be “involuntary bailment” if you want to google it for more info. The long and short of it is the person who has come into possession of the goods (the bailee) has certain obligations regarding the goods, including keeping them safe. Simply dumping them in the street would likely by at the very least a civil tort against their owner, and potentially a criminal offence too (if deemed to be fly tipping). 

However, TIER bikes are left in the streets as part of their usual operation, so it could be argued that they are as safe in the street outside of his property as they would be anywhere else. Better to leave them where they were left by TIER though as it could be argued that moving them caused some damage.

[OnYerBike]

Not sure this thread is the

Not sure this thread is the place for detailed legal discussion, but I think the term would be “involuntary bailment” if you want to google it for more info. The long and short of it is the person who has come into possession of the goods (the bailee) has certain obligations regarding the goods, including keeping them safe. Simply dumping them in the street would likely by at the very least a civil tort against their owner, and potentially a criminal offence too (if deemed to be fly tipping). 

[hawkinspeter]

brooksby wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Not exactly ‘drivers’ problems’, but I’ll leave this here:

Businessman accused of ‘holding e-bikes to ransom’ after TIER left them at his storage firm by mistake

TIER didn’t come and pick up five bikes left at Stewart Burrough’s self-storage business, so he started charging them for the storage. TIER responded by calling the police

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/businessman-accused-holding-e-bikes-9213312

I saw that and had mixed opinions about it as TIER aren’t the best run business around, but the bloke had no right to move the bikes into his storage container and then try charging them for storage.

I think he should have informed the police/council about TIER fly tipping e-waste instead.

[Hirsute]

Why didn’t he just dump them
Why didn’t he just dump them in the street?

[brooksby]

Not exactly ‘drivers’

Not exactly ‘drivers’ problems’, but I’ll leave this here:

Businessman accused of ‘holding e-bikes to ransom’ after TIER left them at his storage firm by mistake

TIER didn’t come and pick up five bikes left at Stewart Burrough’s self-storage business, so he started charging them for the storage. TIER responded by calling the police

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/businessman-accused-holding-e-bikes-9213312

[Jogle]

SaveTheWail wrote:

SaveTheWail wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

You have to feel sorry for this poor driver: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/lamborghini-seized-police-m5-after-9213539

Could it be the same as this one, spotted by the Google Maps car in Tideswell in October 2021?

 

It looks like the car behind is also missing a numberplate. McLaren needs to look at their numberplate fixings; one falling off is unfortunate, two must be a fault. What else could it be?

[hawkinspeter]

Hirsute wrote:

Didn’t realise these are still made !

This driver had the perfect vehicle for today’s weather in Littlehampton, West Sussex – a Dutton Surf amphibious kit car, produced in nearby Worthing.

That driver must be having so much fun and laughing at the other drivers

[SaveTheWail]

hawkinspeter wrote:

You have to feel sorry for this poor driver: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/lamborghini-seized-police-m5-after-9213539

Could it be the same as this one, spotted by the Google Maps car in Tideswell in October 2021?

 

[SaveTheWail]

David9694 wrote:

Drivers and their problems 

The 12cm reason it is harder to get out of your car now

40% of drivers have reported the problem

“…motorists all over the country are at risk of damaging their cars, through no fault of their own.”

Of course they had no control over their choice of car, or where they parked it.

No mention of all the other people’s cars they have also damaged whilst parking their monstrous vehicles (not to mention tree stumps, etc.).

[SaveTheWail]

David9694 wrote:

I imagine the damage to the family’s multiple cars would be even worse on unfamiliar roads as opposed to the one they all use regularly. 

I can promise them it would be even worse in Derbyshire.

[LordSandwich]

Hopefully written off so we

Hopefully written off so we can have one less of those ugly monstrosities clogging up our streets!

[Hirsute]

Didn’t realise these are

Didn’t realise these are still made !

This driver had the perfect vehicle for today’s weather in Littlehampton, West Sussex – a Dutton Surf amphibious kit car, produced in nearby Worthing.

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