[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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[Rendel Harris]

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Three times a week Ms Amos travels to a walled garden in Havering-atte-Bower, where she volunteers her skills as a retired lecturer in horticulture at Capel Manor College.She also goes to hospital and doctor’s appointments, local shops in Collier Row, banks in Hornchurch, Romford, and Upminster, and Newbury Park to do her ‘big shops’. This totals, she says, around 40 miles a week.

Collier Row to Havering-atte-Bower is less than a kilometre; the two nearest hospitals are 2 km and 4 km away respectively. An 8mph electric mobility scooter can be had for around £1200 new or less than half of that good condition secondhand, a lot less than the scrappage price for her motor. Bank online, keep shopping locally and get the “big shop” delivered free, stop paying for petrol, MOT, servicing and insurance and get around for bobbins in terms of electricity required. It would also mean she could get into the hospital and GP surgery under power without having to walk from a parking space. You’re welcome Ms A!

 

 

[HoldingOn]

wait – what?

wait – what?

“The car’s windscreen was significantly damaged in the crash” – how was the cyclist able to do that and “pedal away”? (I presume it wouldn’t have been called a “crash” if the cyclist smashed the windscreen with a pump, for example)

[David9694]

Search for hit-and-run

Search for hit-and-run cyclist in Swindon after car ‘significantly damaged’

Wiltshire Police said the rider failed to stop at the scene and officers have issued an appeal for witnesses

https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wiltshire-news/search-hit-run-cyclist-swindon-8720592

[David9694]

Northumberland village

Northumberland village residents left without power after tractor takes down power cables

Ms Ling claims that earlier in the week, another tractor scraped a townhouse, took out a bollard, and ripped electrics out of a road sign, which has been reported to Northumbria Police.

We’ve got a lot of holiday cottages here as well, so you can imagine the parking. Everybody’s got to have off-street parking because there’s nowhere to put your car.”

Residents were without power for just under three hours, after Northern Powergrid engineers travelled from Gateshead to fix the issue. 

Northumbria Police confirmed they had received the call from Ms Ling.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-village-residents-left-without-27648775

[Jogle]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Driveway with bus shelter across it latest

Homeowner says ‘no one will buy my house’ because of bus shelter ‘blocking’ driveway

Simon Williams says everyone who has viewed the property has been ‘put off’ by the bus shelter in front of his drive

“A lot of bus stops haven’t even got bus shelters, they just have posts with a sign on it. The bus doesn’t even stop outside the shelter, because if it did, it would be half on the road because it is at the end and located at a terrible location.”

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/homeowner-says-no-one-buy-27659649

 

Who needs a driveway when there’s a perfectly good pavement to park on?

[essexian]

Last time I went to Romford..

Last time I went to Romford….thankfully five years ago, the place is a dump, I needed a massive 4×4 to get around given how bad the roads are etc… /s

This person is a joke. Her reasons for not getting a car which fits the regulations…. she can’t be bothered.

So its okay for you to damage the lungs of the young as you can’t be bothered. I say make the charge £100 a day for such people. 

[HoarseMann]

That looks like a series 2

That looks like a series 2 disco, they stopped making them in 2003! I suspect the model year is 2002, not 2022 as quoted in the news article!

This is exactly the sort of vehicle that should not be used for short, single occupancy, journeys in a built up area. The entitlement of these people who think they are somehow a special case. 

[David9694]

And with all that medical

And with all that medical stuff going on,she’s A-OK to drive her massive panzer.

If only there was some mechanism that would allow her to realise its economic value in favour of something more suitable.

[David9694]

ULEZ expansion means Romford

ULEZ expansion means Romford pensioner ‘forced to pay to attend vital hospital and GP appointments’

Ms Amos says she’s unable to use public transport due to arthritis

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/ulez-expansion-means-romford-pensioner-8724531

[David9694]

Driveway with bus shelter

Driveway with bus shelter across it latest

Homeowner says ‘no one will buy my house’ because of bus shelter ‘blocking’ driveway

Simon Williams says everyone who has viewed the property has been ‘put off’ by the bus shelter in front of his drive

“A lot of bus stops haven’t even got bus shelters, they just have posts with a sign on it. The bus doesn’t even stop outside the shelter, because if it did, it would be half on the road because it is at the end and located at a terrible location.”

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/homeowner-says-no-one-buy-27659649

 

[David9694]

Coltishall residents’ anger

Coltishall residents’ anger as village is ‘no longer quiet riverside community’

The village sees huge volumes of traffic due to a bridge which reduces journey times

a slow-burn story, no doubt being played out up and down the land in different terms

Locals say the situation has worsened since the opening of the Northern Distributor Road, which is sending more motorists their way.

“A bypass for the village, from my perspective, would be a bad thing, but I don’t know what the solution is. If you take away passing trade it could kill the village.”

“Trying to get off our drive onto the street is a nightmare and the more houses they build in North Walsham the worse it will get. 

https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/news/norfolk-news/coltishall-residents-anger-village-no-8713829

[David9694]

A bit of a McFlurry going on

A bit of a McFlurry going on here…

McDonald’s car park horror as BMW ‘deliberately driven at people’ outside East Kilbride restaurant

Police Scotland were called to the scene at the Queensway car park on Sunday afternoon after it is claimed the car was being driven erratically following an alleged row.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/mcdonalds-car-park-horror-bmw-27653257?int_source=nba

PS Has anyone seen this Reddit story doing the rounds? Slight absence of names, dates and places for for my tastes – but there is a picture (of something) here:

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/elderly-couple-praised-revenge-neighbour-27643118?int_source=nba

[David9694]

You never hear traders say

You never hear traders say “so many people around here spending their last few £££s running a car they can’t really afford – if only they took the £2 bus, they would have more to spend with us here”. 

How the Camborne traders will miss the people moaning in a national “newspaper” about paying a couple of quid to park a car. 

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Residents fume over Exeter parking permit plans

“Wait until they start charging you congestion charges to get to your house”

“If you pay road tax why should you pay extra to park on the public highway”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/residents-fume-over-exeter-parking-8725543

The Sun had an article today where the residents and shopkeepers of Camborne were blaming the decline in footfall in their town and subsequent closure of many shops, on the council introducing a minimum £1 (for up to an hour) parking charge for on-street parking.

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

When questioned, a passenger said they were “just in the process of applying for insurance”, according to Wiltshire Police. 

That happens a lot on Police Interceptor Motorway Traffic Cops – the police will stop someone for having no insurance, and then actually give them maybe ten minutes to sort it out… Which has always seemed weird, since it doesn’t solve things retrospectively AFAIK.

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