[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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[brooksby]

quiff wrote:

Wouldn’t work round me. Even as a pedestrian if you stand too still the movement sensors will cancel the request. 

Ah – is that a thing?  That explains a lot – there are some crossings I use as a pedestrian where I have to keep pressing or else it just cancels out.  Maybe I should use headphones and dance more…? 

[quiff]

Wouldn’t work round me. Even

Wouldn’t work round me. Even as a pedestrian if you stand too still the movement sensors will cancel the request. 

[giff77]

Meanwhile in NI the DfI is

Meanwhile in NI the DfI is bumping up fees for MOT and Driving Test. The usual wails of anguish are predictable. Of course the decision is being challenged. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/revealed-new-mot-and-driving-test-prices-as-increase-set-for-next-month/a1272258609.html
Revealed: New MOT and driving test prices as increase set for next month

[giff77]

I’ve friends who have been

I’ve friends who have been doing this for years. Not that new a hack. I’ve also shouted on some youngsters to do the same for me though I suppose I could have walked to the lights myself but that means trying to get back on the bike and then try and join live traffic once they turn green. 

[OnYerBike]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Satnav made me pay ulez fines https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/23776329.norwich-mans-transport-london-battle-810-ulez-fines/ I’m appealing these on the basis that it is a tax on the stupid which is against my human rights.

And of course they are all “ULEZ fines”. One fleeting mention that he is in fact facing three separate fines, presumably only one of which is the ULEZ. (Would hazard a guess that one of the others is Congestion Charge, and the third no idea. LTN/bus lane infringement?)

And zero mention of the fact that that given he admits to having seen the signs and being aware he was entering the ULEZ, he could have simply paid the charge (£12.50) within three days of his journey, rather than ignoring it until getting hit with a fine.

[Hirsute]

Satnav made me pay ulez fines
Satnav made me pay ulez fines
https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/23776329.norwich-mans-transport-london-battle-810-ulez-fines/

I’m appealing these on the basis that it is a tax on the stupid which is against my human rights.

[chrisonabike]

Your options are limited as a

Your options are limited as a civilian facing armour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer#The_bulldozer

[brooksby]

Does anyone else remember one

Does anyone else remember one of the ‘classic’ threads on road.cc about pressing pedestrian crossing buttons if you’re not actually going to cross the road?

Anyhoo – apparently it’s fine if you’re a drivist:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/23900285/cheeky-trick-pull-out-junctions/

A DRIVER has revealed a cheeky trick that allows him to pull out from busy junctions.

Al Bates shared a TikTok clip of her husband using the unique hack, much to the delight of viewers.

In the video, the couple have obviously been forced to wait at a junction as traffic streams past along the main road.

However, Al’s husband leapt into action with an ingenious solution.

He can be seen hopping out of the car to push the pedestrian button at the traffic lights just up the road.

This normally indicates that people are waiting to cross the busy street, causing the lights to change.

This time, though, it simply works to Al and her husband’s advantage, by halting the flow of traffic which would otherwise have the right of way over them at the junction.

After the lights turn red, they then have a clear road to pull out into and drive off.

[HoldingOn]

I vaguely remember watching a

I vaguely remember watching a documentary about someone driving a tank down an American highway, while civilians tried to stop him using their cars and motorbikes.

[Tom_77]

HoldingOn wrote:

I wonder what they would have done if this had been a tank…

Military truck driven through police road block in Taunton

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-66772197

1993 Perth tank rampage

1995 San Diego tank rampage

also Sydney 2007

When queried as to the ease with which the vehicle had been stolen, Brigadier Terry Nolan stated that “If you’d have asked me this yesterday I would have said it’s not easy to do it, but the evidence of this morning would indicate that it’s perhaps easier than I would have thought.”

[Hirsute]

Attempted murder.
Attempted murder.

If he’d tried that on a cyclist, maybe careless driving.

[Steve K]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

”There are too many cars competing for too few spaces. It really is that simple.” And yet Andy has no solution other than “I should be able to park on *my* road”

That’s not fair.  He’s asking for “common sense”.  That’s his solution.  He doesn’t explain what that means in practice, but then if you call for “common sense” you don’t need to.

[HoldingOn]

I wonder what they would have

I wonder what they would have done if this had been a tank…

Military truck driven through police road block in Taunton

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-66772197

[Hirsute]

“There are too many cars
“There are too many cars competing for too few spaces. It really is that simple.”

And yet Andy has no solution other than “I should be able to park on *my* road”

[David9694]

war on cars latest 

war on cars latest 

New parking scheme divides residents in Anne of Cleves Road, Dartford

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/it-s-a-war-on-cars-new-parking-scheme-divides-residents-293118/

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