[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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[Cugel]

andystow wrote:

Pure gold today from the World Bollard Association!

 

That’s “an installation” by a-one o’ them postmodern “artists”. You can tell because no one has gone to view it excpet a photog from the mass media.

It will be bought for $1,050,999 by an American, who will have formed an expectation that he has also bought the street, bollards and surrounding buildings, so there’ll be an expensive court case lasting 13 years and paid for out of the local rates.

[Cugel]

andystow wrote:

I thought it was four black Audis working to keep a stereotype alive, but I see now that one is a black VW.

“Hey guys, want to go to the beach? Why don’t the four of us all drive separately?”

They’re all Sports Hearses – straight from carlooning to carcarting off to the ‘ole in the ground.

[Jogle]

Milton Keynes councillor
[b]Milton Keynes councillor resigns after motoring conviction[/b]

I saw the headline and thought that, for once, a politician had done the honourable thing; been convicted of something and resigned. Then I read the article and the councillor was convicted of driving without due care and attention, on a provisional licence and without insurance (caught after crashing into another car) in May but only resigned recently as the local newspaper reported it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66408067

[David9694]

Google translate says China 

Google translate says China 

[David9694]

Scurrilously implying that

Scurrilously implying that one idiot driver’s idiocy is typical for 8 months now.

Electric car surrounded by water at Port Isaac Harbour

It thinks it’s James Bond’s submersible Lotus. 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/electric-car-surrounded-water-port-8656676

[Hirsute]

I think that was stated in

I think that was stated in one twitter thread I saw the pic in.

“Typhoon in China. No idea if they were parked or being driven at the time though.”

Not sure what andystow’s last 2 characters are though !
 

 

[andystow]

David9694 wrote:

Have they been washed there by floodwater?

Hmmm, I guess it’s possible. It does look a bit like 中国.

[David9694]

Have they been washed there

Have they been washed there by floodwater?

[aledapeifion]

brooksby wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Man to appear in court after refusing to pay English-only parking fine

https://news.sky.com/story/man-to-appear-in-court-after-refusing-to-pay-english-only-parking-fine-12932245

You want to laugh, but that’s actually an interesting one given the law in Wales regarding bilingual signage…

Not quite sure what you want to laugh about? The second part of your comment suggests that you were close to appreciating that the case, which has now been dismissed again, was nothing to do with ‘Drivers and their problems’

[David9694]

hard-working drivers / let

hard-working drivers / let them have their fun / the roads are not for your toy – latest 

Car cruising crackdown results in six arrests as police warn street racing ‘won’t be tolerated’

The High Court injunction was put in place in a bid to stop the region’s roads being used as race tracks

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/car-cruising-crackdown-results-six-27458343

All together, now:

Just the good ol’ boys

Never meaning no harm

Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law

Since the day they was born

Straightening the curves, flattening the hills

Someday the mountain might get ’em but the law never will

Making their way, the only way they know how

That’s just a little bit more than the law will allow

Just the good ol’ boys, wouldn’t change if they could

Fighting the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods

[David9694]

The driver is said to be

The driver is said to be pretty binned-off by the whole episode. 

I can’t find it on Twitter?

0 likes – oh, come on – I had to sit though 10 minutes of Love Island to acquire that expression. 

[David9694]

Lincolnshire photographer’s

Lincolnshire photographer’s car a write-off after torrential rain floods hotel parking space

She says she’s now stranded in Sheffield

Any drivers making a connection when it comes to instances like this, any at all??

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/lincolnshire-photographers-car-write-after-8647906

[David9694]

Surrey Police pull over

Surrey Police pull over impatient driver after risky roadworks overtake in front of officers

The driver was filmed pulling out ahead of roadworks

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-police-pull-over-impatient-27449646

[David9694]

Two people stranded as tide

Two people stranded as tide engulfs car in Devon

Drivers have been warned of potholes and subsidence along the South Hams tidal road

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/two-people-stranded-tide-engulfs-8649703

[andystow]

Pure gold today from the

Pure gold today from the World Bollard Association!

 

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