[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]

polainm wrote:

Half a mile is about 800m, which can be walked in well under 15minutes. #carbound

Well, well under. I did 24 minute miles last weekend hiking on steep off-road paths carrying a 35 pound pack. Earlier in the day, 16:33 per mile with no pack. On flat ground, 800 m is probably seven minutes.

Here’s 18 minute miles, up a decent hill, with my less fit brother.

https://www.strava.com/activities/744583009

[Cugel]

polainm wrote:

Half a mile is about 800m, which can be walked in well under 15minutes. #carbound

In some locales, folk become so habituated to sitting, in car or idiotbox sofa (or even the chair in front of their PC) that walking any distance at all becomes a real trial of their extremely enfeebled and perhaps also bleb-like bodies.

One can have sympathy with those who find themselves forced into this condition by ill health or being badly pranged by a car, but for huge numbers of such it was a lifestye “choice” (although they had been hypnotised by adverts at the time). Even as they wheeze and strain when getting out of their chair or sofa, they prefer its “comfort and convenience” to having to get fit enough to walk about, even from sofa to car, without inducing “a bad turn”.

It’s inconvenient having to ask a teenager to fetch your junksnak & grog bottle from the fridge, though.

Of course, their lifestyle choice with the consequent reliance on car seems to have severely restricted or demeaned the lifestyle choices of others, who must learn car-dodging skills if they are not to be murdered or maimed by a bleb-feeble “driving” a car who has terrible reaction times and an inability to look away from their hypno-gizmo.

What’s required is A Nanny of uncompromising intentions to improve the lives of bleb-feebles, whether they want them improved or not. First – confiscate the car.

But no one should listen to me as I am a-one o’ them would-be thieves of personages’ freedumbs to bugger up everything, including the lives of not just themselves but everyone else; and every thing else. A pink-livered bluddy socialist snowflake or summick, me! I should be run over.

[Jogle]

Warning to dangerous drivers
[b]Warning to dangerous drivers as Bristol Waste staff end up in hospital[/b]

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2023-10-27/warning-to-dangerous-drivers-as-rubbish-collectors-end-up-in-hospital

[polainm]

Half a mile is about 800m,

Half a mile is about 800m, which can be walked in well under 15minutes. #carbound

[Bungle_52]

Jogle wrote:

[quote=Jogle][b]Cambridgeshire: CCTV shows BMW driver smash through road barriers[/b] Dramatic CCTV footage shows a silver BMW breaking through an illuminated barrier as the driver ignores warnings to stop. https://news.sky.com/video/cambridgeshire-cctv-shows-bmw-driver-smash-through-road-barriers-12993369%5B/quote%5D

“The motorist was banned from driving for four months”
That’s more than you get for killing a cylist!

 

[David9694]

Eastchurch chalet owners on

Eastchurch chalet owners on Sheppey face gridlock due to SGN gas works in Warden Road

“My friend was stuck in the queue for a little less than an hour and a half just to travel 0.5 miles down the road”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/my-half-mile-journey-took-90-minutes-country-lane-diversi-295820/

[David9694]

It’s interesting what the

It’s interesting what the police can do when they’ve a mind to it. 

[Jogle]

Cambridgeshire: CCTV shows
[b]Cambridgeshire: CCTV shows BMW driver smash through road barriers[/b]

Dramatic CCTV footage shows a silver BMW breaking through an illuminated barrier as the driver ignores warnings to stop.

https://news.sky.com/video/cambridgeshire-cctv-shows-bmw-driver-smash-through-road-barriers-12993369

[brooksby]

chrisonatrike wrote:

David9694 wrote:

A VAN blocking a path has been seized by police in Malvern – and officers also found there was no tax or insurance in place on the vehicle after performing extra checks.

The van parked in Green Lane in the Priory area of Malvern was blocking the path so no pedestrians could use it.

Hang on this can’t be right.  First – surely when asked about a vehicle blocking a path they said “you need to speak to the council”?  Then – why would the police be interested in tax and insurance?  “That’s the DVLA mate”.

And don’t the council just say they can’t do anything if they can’t reach the owner?  Seem to recall a recent case here where they “had to” work around a car when resurfacing.

All I know is that this wouldn’t have happened in Lancashire…

Perhaps the chief constable lives on green lane in the priory area of malvern…?

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

A VAN blocking a path has been seized by police in Malvern – and officers also found there was no tax or insurance in place on the vehicle after performing extra checks.

The van parked in Green Lane in the Priory area of Malvern was blocking the path so no pedestrians could use it.

Hang on this can’t be right.  First – surely when asked about a vehicle blocking a path they said “you need to speak to the council”?  Then – why would the police be interested in tax and insurance?  “That’s the DVLA mate”.

And don’t the council just say they can’t do anything if they can’t reach the owner?  Seem to recall a recent case here where they “had to” work around a car when resurfacing.

All I know is that this wouldn’t have happened in Lancashire…

[David9694]

Storm Babet: Upton car

Storm Babet: Upton car graveyard formed after floods

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23876559.storm-babet-upton-car-graveyard-formed-floods/

This is what happened next after van blocked Malvern path (towed away)

A VAN blocking a path has been seized by police in Malvern – and officers also found there was no tax or insurance in place on the vehicle after performing extra checks.

The van parked in Green Lane in the Priory area of Malvern was blocking the path so no pedestrians could use it.

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23879045.happened-next-van-blocked-malvern-path/

[David9694]

the roads are not for your

the roads are not for your hobby:

Revving, donuts and people hanging onto car bonnets in Callington

Police are investigating anti-social behaviour and driving from the weekend

A group of at least ten people were involved, Callington Police said. It happened in the New Road carpark and along Southern Road during the evening of Sunday, October 22.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/revving-donuts-people-hanging-onto-8855891

[David9694]

Southampton residents up in

Southampton residents up in arms over ‘chaotic’ roadworks

Genre classic – utterly deranged: 

“The cars have taken over the whole road, it’s just a car park now. It’s not pleasant.

“It’s part of the campaign against cars and drivers.”

Kevin added: “The council really need to come down here and look at it when it’s busy. It’s difficult for me to get home after work.

“I pick my grandson up and it’s heaving round here and dangerous.

“Cars are blocking the road and the pavement, so you can imagine the parents having to walk their children into the road.”

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23871032.southampton-residents-arms-chaotic-roadworks/

so that’s what happened to Saint and Greavsie:

[David9694]

“This airline is 95% safe.”

“This airline is 95% safe.”

[peted76]

chrisonatrike wrote:

Yup.  You can add to “sudden unexpected events” things like “in winter sometimes the roads are weirdly slippy”.

Then the perrenials of “sometimes lots of water falls out of the sky and this impairs vision and makes the car handle funny”, “some mornings and evenings the sun appears right on the horizon in front of you, depending on which way you’re heading” plus “at night it can get dark and hard to see!”

All that is irrelevant however because “I had to drive“.

It’s clearly not their fault that the weather changes.. so why should they change how they drive. How they drive is 95% perfectly accident free for most of the year so they must be right. 

[Author]

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