[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]

exhibit 4 – the view back to

exhibit 4 – the view back to the curve from the recovery site – note the road sign. Looking back from here,  there’s a green utilities box opposite, then a house with a SOLD sign and here on the ground there’s a Red Bull can, if you want to locate it.

As well as the location of the pot hole, the bits about four other stricken cars and the “rolled round the corner” having heard a bang don’t quite add up for me. 

[David9694]

Exhibit 3 – the site where

Exhibit 3 – the site where the car was recovered from – note the straight tree trunk  and ivy covered tree that spits in three

[David9694]

exhibit 2 “Finding out the

exhibit 2 “Finding out the tyre of their Mercedes-Benz C-Class was instantly flat, they rolled around the corner to find two cars in the same position”

Speculation, but this could be the culprit pot-hole and seems to be the corner they rolled around – did he stop get out and inspect the tyre here? 

[David9694]

Exhibit 1 – despite bad

Exhibit 1 – despite bad weather and pitch-black, he chose the B road via Brandon, rather than the A134 via Thetford.

Mundford, the destination, is on the junction of the roads from Brandon and Theford. 

[giff77]

How the f*** did 3 motorists

How the f*** did 3 motorists manage to drive that close to the kerb?  I wouldn’t cycle there let alone drive.

[Awavey]

I think I lost sympathy, not
I think I lost sympathy, not that i had a great deal to begin with, when I saw how close the pothole was to the kerb https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23379467.bury-st-edmunds-pothole-gave-driver-six-weeks-car-trouble/

[ktache]

I was surprised that the

I was surprised that the motorists were leaving their doors open…

[David9694]

Everyday thing in the New

Everyday thing in the New Forest, loose pigs. 

[brooksby]

When I looked at the

When I looked at the Lincolnshire Live article, at the top was a far more interesting story 😀

Runaway pig causes rush hour traffic jams in rural Lincolnshire

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/runaway-pig-causes-rush-hour-8234747

[Hirsute]

Fed up with pedestrians in

Fed up with pedestrians in your way – simply remove them with your massive truck. In the unlikely event you don’t kill them outright, you can finish the job with your wing mounted shotgun.

(not entirely sure if the shotgun is a photoshop addition or not )

[Awavey]

made for tv shocker

made for tv shocker

[Jogle]

Ukraine war: Latvia sends
[b]Ukraine war: Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Kyiv[/b]

It’s an interesting idea, seize the cars of excessively drunk drivers and I could see it gaining support on this website for other driving offences but…..

”No-one expected that people are drunk-driving so many vehicles,” the NGO’s founder, Reinis Poznaks, told Reuters news agency. “They can’t sell them as fast as people are drinking. So that’s why I came with the idea – send them to Ukraine.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64903201

[mattw]

Nimbys run out of straws to

Nimbys run out of straws to clutch at.

[wycombewheeler]

NotNigel wrote:

Drivers and their problems I hear you say? According to a taxi driver’s diagnosis of why Hull is so congested it possibly comes as no surprise as to the first point that he makes…

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/taxi-driver-pinpoints-hulls-traffic-8156633?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

solution seems to be to ban taxis from bus lanes so they will avoid the problem of not being able to move out into the full second lane.

[Hirsute]

He did various excess speeds,
He did various excess speeds, so I assumed that the points varied with the band for the offence. Also a goods vehicle, so might get 6 for doing 41 in a 30 (band b ).

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