[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]

It always is!  Everyone can

It always is!  Everyone can relate, all drivers are victims of “them” – car park companies, Council, Eurogarages, the police – all of them out to do the down hard done by, hard-working driver. 

Car washed away by tide is another seasonal favourite – more when we have it. 
 

[Hirsute]

Surely the post was a
Surely the post was a reference to the publication scraping the barrel for news

[mattw]

It’s a forum comment on a

It’s a forum comment on a thread to note press coverage, not a story.

[OnYerBike]

Must be a slow news day, if

Must be a slow news day, if “private parking company issues dubious parking charge” is worthy of a story.

[David9694]

Retired garage owner fined

Retired garage owner fined for parking in Portreath despite paying

Christine is adamant she won’t pay the PCN when she did pay to park

how nice to have got to that age and this is the worst problem in your life. 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/retired-garage-owner-fined-parking-8555117

[David9694]

Audi driver caught parking

Audi driver caught parking outside entrance to St Mary’s Fire Station

AN “ABUSIVE” driver refused to move after blocking St Mary’s Fire Station in Southampton. 

Firefighters posted on social media today showing the Audi parked next to the entrance to the fire station on Brinton’s Road.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23615595.audi-driver-caught-parking-outside-entrance-st-marys-fire-station/

[wtjs]

Wow, he must have really

Wow, he must have really annoyed someone to get a four year ban

Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police’s No Excuse team

He shoud have gone to Lancashire Constabulary’s Every Excuse team!

[brooksby]

peted76 wrote:

[quote=Hirsute]Angela Jarrom #CottesmoreHunt supporter pleads guilty to ABH and receives lenient suspended sentence. Filmed ploughing into a @NhantsHuntsabs sab by a Hertfordshire sab, she’s gotten off lightly. She was heard saying ‘don’t worry, I’ll get them ‘ as she got into car. https://twitter.com/HertsHuntSabs/status/1669951339781079041%5B/quote%5D

That is horrendous! The sentence is not appropriate, six months suspended sentence and 100 community hours. No mention of any driving ban or points. I hope that sentence is appealed because it’s appalling.

She supports the local hunt.  It is not beyond the realms of possibility that the judge or magistrate also rides along with the same hunt… 

[wycombewheeler]

The Larger Cyclist wrote:

Burst water main causes issues, drivers going down one way street wrong way and BINGO ALERT cyclists and road tax get into the comments

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23607395.severn-trent-barbourne-road-closure-causes-dangerous-driving/

seems like a parady account to me, user name is even Gammon, 

[peted76]

Hirsute wrote:

[quote=Hirsute]Angela Jarrom #CottesmoreHunt supporter pleads guilty to ABH and receives lenient suspended sentence. Filmed ploughing into a @NhantsHuntsabs sab by a Hertfordshire sab, she’s gotten off lightly. She was heard saying ‘don’t worry, I’ll get them ‘ as she got into car. https://twitter.com/HertsHuntSabs/status/1669951339781079041%5B/quote%5D

That is horrendous! The sentence is not appropriate, six months suspended sentence and 100 community hours. No mention of any driving ban or points. I hope that sentence is appealed because it’s appalling.

[The Larger Cyclist]

Burst water main causes

Burst water main causes issues, drivers going down one way street wrong way and BINGO ALERT cyclists and road tax get into the comments

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23607395.severn-trent-barbourne-road-closure-causes-dangerous-driving/

[David9694]

Driver ‘falls asleep at the

Driver ‘falls asleep at the wheel’ and causes crash on A31

Providing more information this afternoon, a Hampshire Police spokesman said they were called to the crash just before 5pm. 

He added no injuries were reported and no arrests were made. 

https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23604333.driver-falls-asleep-wheel-causes-crash-a31/

[David9694]

Won’t somebody please think

Won’t somebody please think of the drivers. 

[OnYerBike]

andystow wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Cornwall ‘cash cow’ car park charge increases spark rebellion in Penzance

“Penzance has got high deprivation – the people from estates like Treneer should be able to drive to the beach and they can’t.” 

“You can’t get a bus if you’ve got three children and surfboards.”

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-cash-cow-car-park-8527216

Unless I messed up (Google Maps has no specific entry for Treneer(e) housing estate), it is just over a mile walk on minor roads with pavements to the beach from there.

Just give free parking to the actually disabled.

From a bit of googling, I think it is the bit around here: https://goo.gl/maps/bAV1XBV4f5oDwW9C7

Looking at the census data, I think the estate is split across multiple output areas, but roughly 30-40% of residents would appear to be in households with zero access to cars or vans.  (https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/choropleth/housing/number-of-cars-or-vans/number-of-cars-3a/no-cars-or-vans-in-household?oa=E00095988) 

[brooksby]

andystow wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Cornwall ‘cash cow’ car park charge increases spark rebellion in Penzance

“Penzance has got high deprivation – the people from estates like Treneer should be able to drive to the beach and they can’t.” 

“You can’t get a bus if you’ve got three children and surfboards.”

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-cash-cow-car-park-8527216

Unless I messed up (Google Maps has no specific entry for Treneer(e) housing estate), it is just over a mile walk on minor roads with pavements to the beach from there.

Just give free parking to the actually disabled.

I was reading a book (cannot remember which one, I’ve been reading a lot more again lately).  Anyway, the author claimed that 40-50 years ago, 80% of the population walked 8 miles per day.  Now, 80% of the population walk less than 1 mile per day.  If you say that it’s “Just over a mile walk on minor roads with pavements”, many people nowadays will hear you saying “It’s an easy walk – you just walk barefoot on broken glass for ten miles and then you’re there!”

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