[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]

It’s a shame that that page

It’s a shame that that page doesn’t have the video and Waverley Council, which originally posted the video on Twitter, seems to have taken it down as well – legal reasons, perhaps? I caught it early this morning before it was taken down from Twitter, absolutely hilarious watching the bin man calmly watching the idiot slide down the bank with a “Oh look, there’s another one of them” expression.

[Fignon's ghost]

Apparently it was dressed all
Apparently it was dressed all in black lycra. No hi viz vest in sight.
Where there’s blame…

[quiff]

I’m dreading the inevitable

I’m dreading the inevitable onslaught of adverts that will follow, but I can’t resist watching this one… 

[David9694]

Watch moment impatient 4×4

Watch moment impatient 4×4 driver tries to pass bin lorry and fails

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/watch-moment-impatient-4×4-driver-2743848

[brooksby]

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…

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

… a garage, complete with turntable so the vehicle emerges going forward.  

Did somebody watch too much Gerry Anderson when they were young?

[David9694]

Mr Schiavone, you’ve

Mr Schiavone, you’ve inherited £30,000 from your long lost aunt Betsi/ won the lottery 

oh, thank you very much. Damn. 

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

[David9694]

The Council have now

The Council have now published the documents on this matter. It seems the plan was to turn part of the side of the property facing Swinegate into a garage, complete with turntable so the vehicle emerges going forward.  

That seems quite ambitious for a medium sized property in a town in Lincolnshire – you’d have to like a property a lot to put that kind of investment in, I’d have thought. 

Local knowledge needed – did this all happen? 
 

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8170&application=s15/3510&section=documents

[David9694]

Someone on Twitter X pointed

Someone on Twitter X pointed out the large number (42,000 I think) of people living within a one mile radius of the site.

[Jogle]

[b[Florence Pugh’s father
[b]Florence Pugh’s father hits out at low traffic neighbourhood scheme as his cafe closes[/b]

I might be wrong but I assume that, for an LTN to impact on a cafe, they must be have had a high level of cars stopping and therefore there must be available parking. I don’t know this area and so this comes from Google but the roads surrounding the café appear to be permit holders only (therefore the customers can’t stop there). There are four spaces for 30 minutes parking on the main road, but they’re not going to be sufficient for the café (and aren’t impacted by the LTN). The nearest road which may provide parking and has an LTN is Temple Street, but if you’re lazy enough to not want to drive the two minutes to go to the other side of the bollard, you would probably be too lazy to walk the one minute from there to the café.

To me, due to the lack of parking in the area, I can’t see how the LTN has had a negative impact on the café.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/florence-pugh-father-oxford-low-traffic-b2385205.html

[David9694]

coach drivers 

coach drivers 

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23693669.coach-gets-stuck-tight-gap-outside-chicken-blues/

[andystow]

I love this comment.

I love this comment.

[stonojnr]

1800 ? They measured 10,000
1800 ? They measured 10,000 in a week on a suburban residential road in Ipswich, one of the below the line commentators claimed it was “anti car” to highlight that kind of speeding, especially as no one got killed.

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23684363.calls-stop-speeding-cauldwell-hall-road-ipswich/

[Jogle]

1,800 drivers caught speeding
[b]1,800 drivers caught speeding on Devon link road in 6 hours[/b]

Devon and Cornwall Police has issued a plea for motorists to slow down on a 40mph stretch of the A380 Torbay Link Road after carrying out a speed detection operation there.

Hmmmm, maybe they could issue fines and points instead of pleas…

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2023-07-31/1800-drivers-caught-speeding-on-same-road-in-6-hours

[Hirsute]

Something, something scrap

Something, something scrap 20mph limits

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23691869.bmw-crashes-bus-stop-near-prep-school-oxford/

 

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