[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]

Send him to jail or there

Send him to jail or there will be more like this – would be my take away. 

[essexian]

I guess the four month old

I guess the four month old was brought to court for the experience seeing how they are likely to spend quite a bit of their life in and out of court if their father is the example which they follow. 

[Jogle]

Driver who led police on
[b]Driver who led police on 160mph police chase in East Yorkshire claimed car was stolen[/b]

There are some things in this that I find very worrying.

This man led the police on a very high speed chase, damaged police cars, lied to the police about the car being stolen (although he didn’t lie to his insurance company, that would be fraud…) and thought that he’d got away with it because it took the police so long to prove that it was him. After thinking that he’d got away with it, did he learn from his actions and turn into a model driver? No, he got caught speeding twice!

Something else that worries me is [I]”Whitaker had a four-month-old daughter, who was brought into court by her mother with permission from the judge.”[/I] Was the child allowed in because there were childcare issues or was the child being used as some form or mitigation? He’s a family man and sending him to jail is a bad thing to do…

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2023-10-07/driver-who-led-police-on-160mph-police-chase-claimed-car-was-stolen

[David9694]

Hampshire fly-tippers dumped

Hampshire fly-tippers dumped waste including fridge at walking spot

https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23842163.hampshire-fly-tippers-dumped-waste-including-fridge-walking-spot/ 

police were able to eliminate cyclists from their enquiries at an early stage

[ktache]

But it’s the cyclists they

But it’s the cyclists they hate.

Did learn a new word though, agister.

[David9694]

cars.destroy.everything 

cars.destroy.everything 

Hampshire police pleas for drivers to report animal collisions amid fatal New Forest hit-and-run spate

https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/news/five-hit-and-run-animal-deaths-in-three-days-on-new-forest-r-9334060/

[chrisonabike]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Family of teen killed by driver ‘speeding and clowning around’ devastated at sentence

Less the sentence (suspended), more the “passed 33 days ago, now screwing around in a car”. And no mention of “banned from driving for at least a decade” either. Just another tragic accident…

[David9694]

cyclists should be made to

cyclists should be made to display number plates etc 

Surrey driver fined for leaves taped to number plate after speeding on A3 near Guildford

The leaves were said to be taped to the number plate

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-driver-fined-leaves-taped-27848506

[David9694]

Family of teen killed by

Family of teen killed by driver ‘speeding and clowning around’ devastated at sentence

‘We didn’t get the verdict we feel we deserved as we haven’t had closure to what happened and never will’

Denise Thomas said: “As a family we are absolutely heartbroken at the loss of our daughter Chantelle, we are not happy with the outcome of the hearing. What sort of outlook does this give to youngsters to abide by the law? Tayla is free to carry on her life where Chantelle was robbed of her life. Justice was certainly not done.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/family-teen-killed-driver-speeding-27859625

[David9694]

Although I enjoyed them as a

Although I enjoyed them as a kid, I then came to think good guys vs bad guys storylines were trite and simplistic – things are never that clear-cut. Now the contrast grows ever stronger. 

Exeter Just Stop Oil protester ‘struck by motorist’

The march brought traffic to a standstill in Exeter on Saturday – leaving some drivers angry

Mia Fidge, 20, “My generation has no choice but to fight against the genocidal decisions that the UK government is making, in an attempt to protect our loved ones and the future for all.”

Marilyn Spurr, 75, “I find slow marching with Just Stop Oil rather scary but the climate crisis is even scarier. 

In the south, T-shirt weather in October. Landslips and flooding in Scotland. 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-just-stop-oil-protester-8813585

[HoldingOn]

“The council said that

“The council said that forcibly moving cars comes with difficulties surrounding the risk of damaging cars and legal issues.“

I used to live near a football stadium. The council would come round a couple of hours before a match and tow cars away so they wouldn’t get damaged…

[Jogle]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

MP Johnny Mercer says ‘no-one has worked harder on this than Sheryll Murray'

And if people can’t afford price increases, they can use food banks. Sheryll Murray is very pleased that South East Cornwall has food banks

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/i-m-pleased-we-have-foodbanks-tory-candidate-faces-backlash-after-comments-filmed-at-hustings-a3557361.html

[hawkinspeter]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Article on PCPs and their dangers. I was told I was being extreme when I mentioned this before.

The financialisation of car consumption

 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2254727

“Car manufacturers have promoted PCPs to solve long-running problems in their business model related to the need to maintain a certain level of ongoing new car consumption to conform with path-dependent patterns of production. In doing so, they have partly exported their own financial risk onto consumers, leveraging what is widely construed as consumers’ material dependency on their vehicles for transport to do so.”

Thanks – I found the Abstract interesting and I’ll have a read through it later.

[Hirsute]

Article on PCPs and their

Article on PCPs and their dangers. I was told I was being extreme when I mentioned this before.

The financialisation of car consumption

 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2254727

“Car manufacturers have promoted PCPs to solve long-running problems in their business model related to the need to maintain a certain level of ongoing new car consumption to conform with path-dependent patterns of production. In doing so, they have partly exported their own financial risk onto consumers, leveraging what is widely construed as consumers’ material dependency on their vehicles for transport to do so.”

[Hirsute]

How thick do you have to be

How thick do you have to be to achieve this ?

“The walls were touching on both sides of the car,” he said. “They got it wedged and they just put more power on.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67032246

 

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