[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]

First the police wanted to
First the police wanted to remove the tint from his windows and then they took his axe off him. The police just have it in for drivers!

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/portsmouth-man-is-stopped-by-police-for-over-tinted-car-windows-and-reacts-by-getting-an-axe-out-and-swinging-it-around-3917757?amp

[Awavey]

I cant find the link to it
I cant find the link to it now but there was some weird spokesman for one of those driving associations who claimed speed limits were unfair or something, as drivers naturally knew the correct “safe” speed to drive at.

But there you go if papers like the Mirror are headlining articles “UKs greediest speed cameras catching out most Brits…” https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uks-greediest-speed-cameras-catching-28460938 is it anyone wonder speeding motorists dont think they’re doing anything wrong

[Awavey]

Car flips by itself again
Car flips by itself again
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/pensioner-shaken-after-car-flips-25506042

[David9694]

Will someone please think of

Will someone please think of the drivers?!

[Seventyone]

I don’t pay for the telegraph
I don’t pay for the telegraph but it’s not paywalled for me
Here is the “best” bit:

If only speed limits were the end of it. But they’re not. Blundering into ever-expanding low-traffic neighbourhoods (fine), congestion zones (fine) or emissions zones (fine); bus lanes that suddenly rear out of the side of the road (fine); yellow box junctions set up like fiendish games of chance (fine) – it can all seem like a confusing, infuriating lottery in reverse. Instead of low odds you’ll win, there are high odds you’ll lose. Single streets – like Lansdowne Drive in Hackney – have earned councils more than £1m in just a few months.”

[David9694]

I’m getting a paywall. 

I’m getting a paywall. 

[Seventyone]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/13/great-speed-camera-racket/

Lots to love here, including the incredible statement (as in it’s incredible anyone could write it and not have it subsequently edited out) that most people speeding get caught

[Spangly Shiny]

Agreed. I don’t like to get

Agreed. I don’t like to get mixed up with either straight amps or wiggley amps.

[David9694]

“Help motorist’s save fuel” ?

“Help motorist’s save fuel” ?

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

Local angry man… hits most
Local angry man… hits most bingo items. Later confirms his delay was two minutes.

It’s the cycle path on the A308 go figure

[IanMSpencer]

Yes, but there are still

Yes, but there are still cables from that battery to things under that bonnet. I’d not mess.

[Spangly Shiny]

The battery is not under the

The battery is not under the bonnet, it’s in a small compartment next to the driver’s seat.

[David9694]

South West Water van trapped

South West Water van trapped as Tidal Road claims another vehicle

One local resident said this type of thing happens ‘quite often’

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/south-west-water-van-trapped-7796943

EDIT I can’t from a drive through on Google find the location with certainty, but it looks like mr south west water has got through most of the road and failed at – I suspect – the village end.

I like how there are boats in the background – there ought to be a cheery fish spurting up some water and maybe a crab nipping his ankles. 

[David9694]

I wondered if that was Mr AA

I wondered if that was Mr AA – going the extra mile, if so. Maybe standing orders say he always has to check under the bonnet? 

[David9694]

Not sure if the actual

Not sure if the actual “product” is worse. “This product is actually a vermin repellor” 

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/voltmod.com

https://getvoltmod.com/ (do not buy – for information only)

Mind you, I have been working on a similar device to run off my Dynamo that makes the exact sound the clutch in an Audi makes when it’s about to fail. Available soon. 

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