[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]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

’Regulars’ who drive to pub, get ‘stuck’ due to floods. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24030953.regulars-stranded-overnight-suffolk-pub-storm-henk/ I particularly liked the Anglian Water van,stuck in water.

I would drive to the pub, instead of my normal cycle or walk, if I thought that might happen!

[David9694]

Lock-in!!

Lock-in!!

[stonojnr]

‘Regulars’ who drive to pub,
‘Regulars’ who drive to pub, get ‘stuck’ due to floods.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24030953.regulars-stranded-overnight-suffolk-pub-storm-henk/

I particularly liked the Anglian Water van,stuck in water.

[brooksby]

After all of the fuss about

After all of the fuss about removing the car parking spaces on Clevedon seafront (road.cc articles passim), the residents of Saltburn in North Yorkshire kicked up a fuss after the council considered putting in parking spaces – https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/news/2023/marine-parade-parking-proposals-will-not-progress-following-consultation

[David9694]

Three Boomers and a Funeral.

Three Boomers and a Funeral. Well, maybe not the funeral, but a refuse truck going the wrong way, I ask you. 

New Herne Bay plaza and one-way system branded ‘ridiculous’ as hundreds sign petition against project

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/if-council-doesn-t-rip-up-seafront-plaza-i-ll-do-it-mysel-299492/

[David9694]

Ordinary? Ordinary?? Don’t

Ordinary? Ordinary?? Don’t you mean hard-working, innocent drivers? 

Give me one good reason why I don’t sentence you to riding a press-fit bottom bracket bike for 3 months. 

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Tiktok star warns drivers as new speed cameras land in Devon

DevonLive wrote:

It means drivers can be caught out when running red lights, using a phone behind the wheel and not wearing a seatbelt.

Bloody spies on our streets! Targeting ordinary drivers…

[David9694]

Tiktok star warns drivers as

Tiktok star warns drivers as new speed cameras land in Devon

The social media star has flagged three things drivers need to know about the new cameras

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tiktok-star-warns-drivers-new-9011456

A TikTok star? Me? I’m a soldier in Call of Duty. 

[David9694]

File under that special

File under that special category where the defence makes it ever clearer that the acccused really should not be driving. 

Driver who caused crash claimed car keys stolen in mugging

Michael Bond, 29, reported the keys to his Audi had been stolen when he was the victim of a street robbery in King’s Lynn.

Matt Diss, mitigating, said he had been injured in another road accident two months before and had subsequently contracted meningitis that had caused memory loss. 

“In the last 12 months the impact of this has been huge and speaks to his state of mind at the time,” he said.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24025611.driver-caused-crash-claimed-car-keys-stolen-mugging/

[wtjs]

Great to see the police and

Great to see the police and courts getting a firm grip on these offenders

Agreed! hanging is too good for these people bringing carnage to the roads! Meanwhile, respectable motor vehicle drivers are unfairly preyed-upon by unscrupulous sneaks for only doing what everyone does- fortunately, our brave lads know exactly what to do with reports obtained by such underhand means as walking about with a camera: Bin them! Bin them! Bin them!

https://upride.cc/incident/k7ddy_audia4_redlightpass/

https://upride.cc/incident/pj23vmc_honda125_redlightcross/

For some reason, the video of Hartley Transport and Training of Lancaster HGV D16 GHT crossing a red light hasn’t yet appeared on UpRide, so this is the scene when the light changed to amber- you know that bit about “AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident“

[David9694]

Hereford e-scooter riders are

Hereford e-scooter riders are fined by magistrates

Great to see the police and courts getting a firm grip on these offenders – why, there could be 4 or 5 fatalities every day if these were allowed to run riot. 

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24016994.hereford-e-scooter-riders-fined-magistrates/

[brooksby]

https://metro.co.uk/2024/01

The A443 is a proper nightmare after drivers acted like lemmings during flood

Not one, not two, but 11 cars have tried and failed to drive through flooding on the A443 close to Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire.

[Hirsute]

Multimillion-pound

Multimillion-pound improvements to a busy motorway junction have made no difference, unhappy residents claim.

People living close to the junction 10 roundabout, on the M6 in Walsall, said they believed a £78m scheme to cut congestion had been a waste of money.

“They have not achieved anything other than making four lanes on a roundabout that still get clogged up anyway.”

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxrwqrqd72do

[David9694]

drivers, all this infra has

drivers, all this infra has been put there at great expense to the public purse to for no other reason to facilitate you. Now, if you don’t want it…

Cornwall’s most pointless and annoying roundabouts

Everyone has moaned about these roundabouts at some stage in their lives

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwalls-worst-most-pointless-annoying-3693505

[David9694]

Free parking should be

Free parking should be introduced in Hereford to save shops

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24013432.free-parking-introduced-hereford-save-shops/

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