[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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[chrisonabike]

Nice!  Although for maximum

Nice!  Although for maximum points surely you’d make the fastening straps out of old inner tube?

Inner tube is definitely more handy, for protecting bike frames from scratches / dings, padding attachment brackets, elastic straps etc.

[Steve K]

David9694 wrote:

Probus residents trapped after internet firm digs up road without warning

trapped, I tells ya!

work started in full swing on Saturday morning but residents were only provided with plastic ramps to drive over the cabling trenches in and out of their driveways at 2pm, meaning they had been stuck at home or unable to drive back to their house for most of the day

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/probus-residents-trapped-after-internet-8833456

There’s something very interesing in the language here.

Compare “a collision between a car and a cyclist” – no mention of the driver; with 

“Residents trapped” – when the people can easily get out, but it is the cars that are trapped.

[muhasib]

Maybe because cyclists are
Maybe because cyclists are recycling their tyres as these:

Make Your Own Seat Harness from an Upcycled Tire

I was sceptical but having had a go at making one out of odd bits left around it is surprisingly useful and durable.

[chrisonabike]

Don’t forget all those
Don’t forget all those cyclists dumping piles of old car tyres…

I have found more dumped inner tubes than I’d imagine (eg. expecting none – why would you do that?) but not bike tyres.

[stonojnr]

You think youve read it all
You think youve read it all then get this, its literally a dirt track both sides, just a farm on one side, how does a car even get there ? Let alone consider driving up that bridge makes sense !!! https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23859291.concerns-cars-using-suffolk-rail-bridge-pedestrians/

[David9694]

Probus residents trapped

Probus residents trapped after internet firm digs up road without warning

trapped, I tells ya!

work started in full swing on Saturday morning but residents were only provided with plastic ramps to drive over the cabling trenches in and out of their driveways at 2pm, meaning they had been stuck at home or unable to drive back to their house for most of the day

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/probus-residents-trapped-after-internet-8833456

[David9694]

oh here we go drivers’ annual

oh here we go drivers’ annual Christmas present of free parking

Cheap parking perk for Torbay shoppers this Christmas

Drivers can pay for an hour and park all day in car parks around the Bay

…for the whole of December – come, you big spenders get the Torbay cash tills ringing

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/cheap-parking-perk-torbay-shoppers-8834909

[ktache]

Dedicated cycling fly tippers

Dedicated cycling fly tippers.

Maybe they got turned away from the council tip, after riding a cargo bike loaded with a fridge, twice..

I ride across a common using a bridleway most mornings on my morning commute, and one day saw a large fridge freezer, not quite US size, just off the bridleway, it was the time of mud, would have required a proper off road 4×4, not one of those vanity behemoths, full dedication.

[David9694]

Fridges found off Martlesham

Fridges found off Martlesham road in suspected fly-tip

Charlotte Ingham discovered a pair of appliances, which appear to be fridge freezers, off Waldringfield Road on the edge of the village. “My husband says he thinks he saw a cyclist leave them there, but I said I’m sure he’s mistaken.”

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23856752.fridges-found-off-martlesham-road-suspected-fly-tip/

[Backladder]

Whilst annoying I’m sure I’ve

Whilst annoying I’m sure I’ve played on worse pitches in the past

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

Police target ‘pavement blockers’ in blitz on Cheshire neighbourhood

Officers say a total of four fixed penalty notices were dished out in Leighton

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/police-target-pavement-blockers-blitz-27846443?int_source=nba

Wait – this needs to be a major news story on the live blog surely?  I thought this was actually decriminalised?  Plus any efforts to sort this by councils were increasingly seen as “making the place unlivable for ordinary people just trying to go about their business”?

[David9694]

Police target ‘pavement

Police target ‘pavement blockers’ in blitz on Cheshire neighbourhood

Officers say a total of four fixed penalty notices were dished out in Leighton

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/police-target-pavement-blockers-blitz-27846443?int_source=nba

[David9694]

Yep, keep putting in those

Yep, keep putting in those “vehicle restraint systems”,  keep on adapting the world for cars, don’t make drivers do their job properly. 

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/a537-cat-fiddle-remain-closed-27843658

[David9694]

Dramatic photo shows damage

Dramatic photo shows damage as car smashes into telegraph pole in West Mersea as man arrested on suspicion of drink driving

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/dramatic-photo-shows-damage-car-8830204?int_source=nba

[David9694]

The Essex street where shops

The Essex street where shops are “suffering” as parking restrictions threaten survival

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-street-shops-suffering-parking-8797742

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