[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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[andystow]

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.

[David9694]

Oh, Mr Facebook – that’s

Oh, Mr Facebook – that’s quite the drivetrain you’ve given your riders.

[David9694]

“let them have their fun”

“let them have their fun” update – Torquay locals terrorised by noisy ‘boy racers’ blasting music

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/torquay-locals-terrorised-noisy-boy-8534020

[Hirsute]

The driver of a farm vehicle

The driver of a farm vehicle was caught texting, as it* held up traffic on the A14.

*He !

A large agricultural vehicle was seen swerving on the A14 at Risby, in Suffolk.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23596261.driver-farm-vehicle-caught-texting-a14-risby/

[David9694]

“Wish my drivetrain was this

“Wish my drivetrain was this dirty.”

https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23596684.writing-wash-me-dirty-vehicles-land-2-500-fine/ 

[pockstone]

Jason Bournemouth?

Jason Bournemouth?

[David9694]

“Genuinely deprived people

“Genuinely deprived people probably can’t afford a car in the first place!”

Which, for me is the essence of the Drivers and their Problems thread. 

“Provide my exclusive luxury facility at a bargain basement price” is what I hear in the Woolacoombe story. 

All that said, if you didn’t want to be poorer, for your local authority to have less money, why did you vote for Brexit? (56.5% in Cornwall) 

[David9694]

Visitors slam ‘extortionate’

Visitors slam ‘extortionate’ parking charges at popular Devon beach (Wollacoombe- also ‘won’t return’ klaxon)

The fees have received mixed reviews with one calling the trip a ‘waste of time’

User Charley M said the parking charge was extortionate. She commented on June 5: “Car parking… £10 for 1 hour?! We had no other choice but to pay it.

“Daylight robbery. We were taking little one for her first play in the sand, turns out she isn’t a beach babe! Otherwise we would have stayed longer. Should have gone to wales. Waste of time- won’t visit again.”

Another user, Kelvinjohn agreed that the parking charges were ‘unacceptable’. They said: “Car parking charges have become extortionate and really are a rip off despite their contributions to RNLI and beach maintenance. Ten pounds to park a car for a day or an hour is unacceptable.” (See picture of “unacceptable” charges.)

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tourists-slam-extortionate-parking-charges-8528283

[HoldingOn]

It can’t have been pre
It can’t have been pre-meditated, she was driving a car and drivists never think ahead.

[Hirsute]

“Triggered”‘ , “Provoked” ,
“Triggered”‘ , “Provoked” , “Vigilante”
Oh hang on, she’s the vigilante.

At least one to quote to people like gr0g who get very confused about the term.

[Mungecrundle]

Holy fucking Shit! That wasn
Holy fucking Shit! That wasn’t just a gentle nudge, that was pre meditated with absolute intent and every prospect of causing serious injury.

[Hirsute]

Angela Jarrom #CottesmoreHunt
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.

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://t.co/iKQTeQ5Tid pic.twitter.com/9UuidNrwKo

— Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs (@HertsHuntSabs) June 17, 2023

[Mungecrundle]

I didn’t use the term
I didn’t use the term ‘deprived people’. My point was that local people should be considered a bit more when the problems of resource scarcity are, in certain areas, a direct consequence of somewhat uncontrolled tourism.

[Simon E]

Mungecrundle wrote:

Mungecrundle wrote:

Whilst it would be great for more people to cycle or get the bus to the beach, for many, a car is pretty much an essential.

It’s not ‘essential’ to go to the beach unless it’s part of your job. Genuinely deprived people probably can’t afford a car in the first place!

Using the term ‘deprived people’ is just like the whataboutery deployed against LTNs, pedestrianisation of town centres etc saying “what about disabled people” when they don’t GAF about them. Do they really think that these Cornish car parks are full of 20 year old Peugeot 307s and tired Skoda Fabias? There will be more 19- to 22-plate SUVs and Audis than anything else. Anti-social drivers have had it too easy and too cheap for far too long.

Thanks to the repeated cuts every council has to find revenue somehow to pay for the services that everyone takes for granted – like the street cleaning, bin emptying and litter picking due to all the selfish c**ts that toss litter everywhere (like the sleeping bag with broken zip that I carried back from a beach walk on Anglesey the other week and the carrier bag full of bottles and cans collected the following morning on a short walk in Bangor).

[Mungecrundle]

I do actually have quite a
I do actually have quite a lot of sympathy with local people in these popular tourism areas. Who, besides being increasingly priced out of housing, are now being priced out of having access to amenities.

Whilst it would be great for more people to cycle or get the bus to the beach, for many, a car is pretty much an essential. There’s also the basic resentment that ‘poor’ people have to change their ways so that the rich, for whom £10 parking is pocket change, get easier access to a restricted resource.

Surely it is not beyond the wit of the local council to ensure residents at least get a hefty discount on the amenities they already pay for via council tax?

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