[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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[NOtotheEU]

That’s the pub/hotel I stay

That’s the pub/hotel I stay at when I visit my folks, they do a great breakfast.

As brooksby says Clevedon isn’t huge and even though they are 77 and 81 (I think) they can walk and cycle anywhere they need to go. They certainly wouldn’t drive to that pub as they live in the next street. Oh, and they don’t own a car.

Clevedon parking is terrible though as locals know there are no parking wardens so they are used to parking wherever they like.

 

[David9694]

We’ve created a monster,

We’ve created a monster, haven’t we? 

[brooksby]

I wonder how many people

I wonder how many people would drive to a pub for the evening?

Firstly: because Clevedon really isn’t huge; and secondly: because none of them would drive home again after spending an evening in the pub, surely…?

[David9694]

continuing our occasional

continuing our occasional series on totally inaccessible pubs. 

People : do the work at night

council : ok then

pubbie : not like that 

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-pub-forced-close-early-7887427

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/seaside-town-roadworks-killed-off-7912275

[Hirsute]

Imustdriveinthesnowwithoutthe

Imustdriveinthesnowwithouttherightyresorsnowchains.

Bus driver goes for a hand brake turn too !

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1602020921040113666

only 1:21 long !

Cyclist at 0:30 shows how to do it !

 

[chrisonabike]

Tinted glass… wild

Crazy driving, tinted glass… wild assumption but perhaps there may be more than one vehicle with these numberplates in circulation?

[ktache]

Wow!

Wow!

[Hirsute]

The road was closed for a
The road was closed for a Christmas party, so I had no choice.
https://mobile.twitter.com/garethjhooper/status/1601932949422804992

[Backladder]

Its not like there are only a

Its not like there are only a few idiots, that is part 137!!!!

[David9694]

Who are you rooting for?

Who are you rooting for? There’s some sort of “cricket test” here isn’t there, the drivers cheering the cars that get through…

[David9694]

I took the Google car for a

I took the Google car for a spin along Isca Place – it’s a private road – that explains some of it. Nice that their staff encourage the practice of pavement parking, even if the rather overgrown signage doesn’t. 

[Hirsute]

If he didn’t park in a car
If he didn’t park in a car park, how did he get a parking charge?
Who parks in the pavement “because some random said it was ok” ?

[David9694]

Exeter visitor hit with £200

Exeter visitor hit with £200 fine despite paying for parking

“The problem is that I was actually told to park outside the car park on the pavement because there were no car parking spaces in the actual car park itself so I didn’t actually see any signs.”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-visitor-hit-200-fine-7914362

[Hirsute]

I am disgusted, I am
I am disgusted, I am absolutely disgusted.

[mattw]

Locally this has been a thing

Locally this has been a thing for decades and decades. People used to go down with  a picnic to watch. Going through a watersplash was a traditional part of a family day out on the way back, if there was one around. Isn’t that the same everywhere?

Rufford was just very deep sometimes, and got deep very quickly after rain as it was part of a waterdupply for a mill, hence Rufford Mill Ford.

Now it has been closed permanently – too many hoons and Youtubers – and will not be reopened until Notts County have a way of taming it in place. Though the banks were recently reprofiled by the landowner to stop the water building up.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/life-next-rufford-ford-dangerous-7896024

There no shortage of other fords, however – at least a couple of thousand. https://www.wetroads.co.uk/

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