[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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[Jogle]

Mercedes driver stuck in
[b]Mercedes driver stuck in middle of road after hitting bollard in ‘slowest crash ever'[/b]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mercedes-driver-stuck-middle-road-29593273

[David9694]

good grief 

good grief 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23423129.m27-driver-caught-100mph-tells-court-i-soiling-myself/

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23315298.ford-galaxy-driver-caught-speeding-almost-100mph-m27-hampshire/

[OnYerBike]

That story also reads as

That story also reads as though the majority of cars belonged to residents of Castle Cary, who had decided to drive to the station rather than walk for 15 minutes.

Can’t say I blame them – must be hard to walk to the station with the pavement being blocked!

[Rendel Harris]

Quote:

”There needs to be a longer term solution to this. There is a car park being built, [but] hopefully there’s going to be a solution in the short term that can rectify the vandalism taking place.”

Chris the estate agent doesn’t seem to have cottoned onto the best short-term solution which not only will stop the vandalism but also stop the parking tickets, stop parking on the pavement!

[Hirsute]

YPLAC
I assume

YPLAC

I assume

[ktache]

Why do these self-entitled

Why do these self-entitled motorists think they should be blocking a pavement.

Doesn’t their “road tax” pay for them to block the road.

[Awavey]

door mirror not wing mirror ?

door mirror not wing mirror ?

[brooksby]

TrollsandPBUsWelcome wrote:

Scores of commuters whose cars were parked on the pavement returned to find their vehicles had been vandalised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65065520

“I understand the frustration. I know it’s not right for the locals but it’s definitely not right for the people paying money for train tickets.”

So now buying a train ticket entitles you to park wherever you want regardless of how it affects others.

Resident Chris, parked his car in Station Road and said he returned to find an offensive sticker on his mirror and damage to his vehicle he estimated would cost £1,000 to fix.

Hmm – I wonder what that offensive sticker was…? 

[Hirsute]

A DRIVER’S bizarre decision

A driver’s bizarre decision to abandon his car in the middle of the road caused traffic mayhem in Colchester city centre.

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23419701.head-street-colchester-driver-ditches-car-causing-traffic/

All caused by the cycle lane of course !

[Hirsute]

Scores of commuters whose

Scores of commuters whose cars were parked on the pavement returned to find their vehicles had been vandalised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65065520

“I understand the frustration. I know it’s not right for the locals but it’s definitely not right for the people paying money for train tickets.”

So now buying a train ticket entitles you to park wherever you want regardless of how it affects others.

[chrisonabike]

Should have bought a Biro

Should have bought a Biro (Estrima Birò).  Or (if qualifying) a Canta.  Of course other microcars are available, centres of gravity may vary…

[andystow]

Awavey wrote:

its 4 inches taller than a MINI, but 13 inches narrower, the MINI was designed with a low centre of gravity and gokart style handling, the Citroen Ami clearly not.

but heres the fifth gear team trying it too, if anyone thinks its a one off…it even features a race against a bicycle, I wont spoil the result 🙂

Citroen said in response “it is not a car… and is only intended for use at low speeds in busy stop and start urban traffic.”

Wow!

“low speeds in busy stop and start urban traffic” sounds like an optimum use case for (checks notes) a bicycle!

[Awavey]

I did say “almost like” it

I did say “almost like” it was staged, but theres more than one video of it out there showing multiple runs lifting its left side, and theres one that finishes with one of the camera filmers facetiming the driver in hospital afterwards.

[Awavey]

its 4 inches taller than a

its 4 inches taller than a MINI, but 13 inches narrower, the MINI was designed with a low centre of gravity and gokart style handling, the Citroen Ami clearly not.

but heres the fifth gear team trying it too, if anyone thinks its a one off…it even features a race against a bicycle, I wont spoil the result 🙂

Citroen said in response “it is not a car… and is only intended for use at low speeds in busy stop and start urban traffic.”

[andystow]

Awavey wrote:

Awavey wrote:

High centre of gravity + speed, only going to end one way. And its actually one of those vehicles they want to allow in cycle lanes isnt it ?

I don’t understand why as an EV it wasn’t designed with a very low centre of gravity. I guarantee my gasoline powered MINI would not have rolled. I’ve had it on the track, and even with sticky tyres it eventually just understeers.

Most cars are only capable of rolling over in a turn if they are “tripped” by a vertical kerb, or in some cases if an extreme manoeuvre like a J turn is performed, but this video just looks like a steady state turn as the left is well after the previous right.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/02/rollover-101/index.htm

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