[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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[hawkinspeter]

NOtotheEU wrote:

If the horse had been killed with any other weapon a prison sentence would have been the result. The only things we love more than animals are cars.

Are cars named after animals even more beloved? Jaguar, Panda, Rover etc.

[IanMSpencer]

I wonder what would have
I wonder what would have alerted the police that he was a banned driver? 😉

Did it not occur to the driver that the police knew where he lived?

Sometimes the criminal minds is quite amazingly dense.

[Jogle]

Banned driver sparked 140mph
[b]Banned driver sparked 140mph police pursuit after motoring court hearing[/b]

Any self respecting driver, having been banned from driving, would go home at 140mph. They’ve got to get off the road as quickly as possible!

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-65032910.amp

[NOtotheEU]

If the horse had been killed

If the horse had been killed with any other weapon a prison sentence would have been the result. The only things we love more than animals are cars.

[wtjs]

It’s a permanent police
It’s a permanent police excuse, as in the case of the callous killing of the treasured horse, that they’re busy on other calls. Works every time!

[David9694]

Still, I’m sure the driver

Still, I’m sure the driver felt very bad about it for a day or two so that’s ok then. 

[Awavey]

Seems the police response to
Seems the police response to this crash was pretty shoddy too 🙁

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23398105.earl-soham-rider-hits-suffolk-police-response/

[chrisonabike]

Oh – no, sorry again – taking

Oh – no, sorry again – taking us back to the 1920s.

[chrisonabike]

My apologies – that was the

My apologies – that was the altar of motoring extremism.  Here are some of those degenerate woke types, stopping progress – in fact literally taking us back to the 1970s!

[chrisonabike]

Ah yes, the altar of woke

Ah yes, the altar of woke extremism.

[HoarseMann]

“Time and again you expect us

“Time and again you expect us to sit here and accept that our freedoms, our history, and our heritage are all to be sacrificed on the altar of woke extremism.”

Ah yes, ancient Britain, where everyone lived on a satellite housing estate a good 10 miles from the nearest facilities and preferably further from their place of work.

Free to spend a good portion of their day battling the traffic, cocooned in perfect isolation, the occasional wave at a passing motorist their only interaction with the local community.

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Top Bath Conservative member accuses council of ‘woke extremism’

so, no doubt aware of of that is going down in Oxford…

Mr Pritchard said: “People don’t want to live in your dystopian carless world where everyone will stay in their designated 15-minute zones. People want to do their bit for the environment their own way and to live their lives in freedom and comfort. Nobody has ever asked for an eco dictatorship.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/top-bath-conservative-member-accuses-8262006

Quick – someone ask them to define ‘woke’ and see if they can do better than Bethany Mandel’s brain freeze when asked the same.

[David9694]

Top Bath Conservative member

Top Bath Conservative member accuses council of ‘woke extremism’

so, no doubt aware of of that is going down in Oxford…

Mr Pritchard said: “People don’t want to live in your dystopian carless world where everyone will stay in their designated 15-minute zones. People want to do their bit for the environment their own way and to live their lives in freedom and comfort. Nobody has ever asked for an eco dictatorship.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/top-bath-conservative-member-accuses-8262006

[Awavey]

Id be no good as a magistrate

Id be no good as a magistrate because if a lawyer came out with something like that Id take it as a challenge to impose the highest  punishment I could.

I think it bothers me more than normal as its a road I know well and cycle alot, specifically because its quieter and keeps you away from all the crazy so-and-so’s who can stick to the a1120, there would have been no room for a car and anything else to fit and nowhere to go, and if theyre driving at NSL speeds, it doesnt bare thinking about.

[wtjs]

Sounds like a good case for

Sounds like a good case for increasing the level of punishment that the courts can impose

Agreed, and I’m sure you are aware that the real problems are that the courts don’t impose the punishments they can impose

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