[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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[David9694]

Alternative headline:

Alternative headline:

council accused of “cloak and dagger” tactics as cameras catch 37 drivers violating new traffic signs in first hour of operation

comments 

What is the world coming to? the council want to control every aspect of our lives and to take away all our cars by 2030

innocent road tax paying motorists persecuted by Labour council 

the whole city has been taken over by the Lycra Taliban now will my 93 year old father get to Asda now 

[Jogle]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

I knew it all along: 

Fly-tipper caught dumping fridge landed with big fine

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/fly-tipper-caught-dumping-fridge-28648842

You have to feel sorry for him, he had to drive while disqualified as no one else would fly-tip his fridge

But doesn’t the headline show how little is thought of driving offences? And six months disqualification for driving while disqualified, that’ll show him!

[Rendel Harris]

Even by usual shoddy

Even by usual shoddy reporting standards, this is special: stupid boy, breaking his legs!

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2024-02-13/boy-12-breaks-both-legs-in-crash-with-car-while-cycling?fbclid=IwAR3qN4KlZun_pkDyzo8eLSRFWUt3Ks8k6bH6MN0uYGtbZISCbf75Qk8PIK0

[David9694]

I knew it all along: 

I knew it all along: 

Fly-tipper caught dumping fridge landed with big fine

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/fly-tipper-caught-dumping-fridge-28648842

[David9694]

What a grim vision of Life

What a grim vision of Life drivers have: 

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24091094.herefordshire-council-spend-millions-bins-art/

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24121127.herefordshire-councils-spending-priorities-wrong/

[Jogle]

Norfolk man challenges
[b]Norfolk man challenges parking fine over puddle in car park[/b]

https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/24121523.norfolk-man-challenges-parking-fine-puddle-car-park/

[Jogle]

bensynnock wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

They’ve actually turned on the cameras here now, so the Daily Echo is going nuts. I read it for the horror show that is the comments section.

On a more serious note, how did people cope when Westquay was being built? I’m guessing Portland Terrace was closed for a quite a while to drop the height of the road and to put the building on top

[Jogle]

bensynnock wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

I read it for the horror show that is the comments section.

Let me guess:

“I’ve been driving down there since 1943, ten years before I was born, and no one has stopped me before”

“It’s now going to cost me £70 more a day to drive to work”

“Freddie Star ate my hamster and it’s all because I can’t drive down Portland Terrace.”

[bensynnock]

They’ve actually turned on
They’ve actually turned on the cameras here now, so the Daily Echo is going nuts. I read it for the horror show that is the comments section.

[David9694]

ktache wrote:

ktache wrote:

Paywall article. But you’d think after the first incident he might attempt to avoid the potholes or at least maybe slow down a bit.

per his “statutory duty?”

[David9694]

Keyless car theft victim told

Keyless car theft victim told to pay to get Range Rover back

She said: “I could not believe what I was hearing – I have been the victim of car theft, and I am now being charged [£192] just to get my car back.

“This is on top of the £3,000 worth of bollards, CCTV, steering locks, vehicle immobilisers and security lights we have bought to stop being a victim of theft again.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24119121.keyless-car-theft-victim-told-pay-get-range-rover-back/

[David9694]

Raglan Street car hits nurse

Raglan Street car hits nurse but she keeps broken wing ? mirror

She added: “He started threatening me, waving his walking stick. I said ‘why did you just drive off?’ He said ‘I wanted to get my newspaper’.

“I told him he had knocked into me and didn’t stop. 

“He said ‘I’m old I can do what I like! There’s no damage to your car’. I said ‘but I have hurt my ankle and my arm’. He said ‘I don’t care – prove it. There are no witnesses’.”

Mrs Ravenhill said she had got proof – his car registration and the car part which she said he demanded back.

“I said ‘sorry, you’re not getting your car part back. I’m going to hand it into the police. It’s evidence’,” she said.

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/24118539.raglan-street-car-hits-nurse-keeps-broken-wing-mirror/

(I needed to switch to private mode to read.) 

[stonojnr]

normal for Norfolk ?

normal for Norfolk ?

[David9694]

Great for toads, Mr Toads not

Great for toads, Mr Toads not so much (may I be the 94th person to say). 

[Hirsute]

Bath road to close for six

Bath road to close for six weeks to allow toads to cross

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-68252094

Annual event since 2003 – surprised no one is protesting they are unable to leave their homes again.

 

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