[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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[Hirsute]

Theree is a small auxillary

There is a small auxillary tip near me that has a pedestrian entrance and lots of pedestrian painted ‘corridors’ to walk on.

It’s just more car brain everywhere else.

[pockstone]

David9694 wrote:

“Cyclists are permitted to visit Cornwall’s Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs). For safety reasons, car and van drivers using the site are required to look out for and drive safely around pedestrians, who are also permitted at the sites.”

Cornwall Council’s own Suez crisis. Resolved.

PS. Any recycling centre/ council tip I have ever visited is swarming with ‘drivers’ who have got out of their cars and miraculously transformed into ‘pedestrians’ as they dispose of their rubbish.

[David9694]

mdavidford wrote:

It’s a swan uprising.

(As opposed to a swan upping, which is a different thing altogether.)

are you looking at my bird?

[David9694]

“Cyclists are permitted to

“Cyclists are permitted to visit Cornwall’s Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs). For safety reasons, pedestrians are not permitted at the sites.”

Cornwall Council’s own Suez crisis.

[pockstone]

You’re a barrel of laughs!
You’re a barrel of laughs!

Edit…with apologies to Rendel…I’m too late to the piss-up, again.

[pockstone]

Meanwhile…in other Cornish
Meanwhile…in other Cornish news, cyclists and their problems:
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/worlds-gone-mad-litter-picker-10098314?int_source=nba

[David9694]

I get the impression he

I get the impression he represented himself, came over as a bit of an ass and received a ban, when a lawyer might have got him spared that. 

[ktache]

Not enough awareness as a

Not enough awareness as a driver to notice those 30mph limit roundels.

[Hirsute]

New republic.com
New republic.com

Musk’s DOGE has fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly regulated Tesla.

[David9694]

Millionaire caught speeding

Millionaire caught speeding by controversial A390 Tregolls Road camera THREE times

He was caught speeding THREE times by the same controversial speed camera – but says taxis are too expensive, despite his vast wealth

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/multi-millionaire-caught-speeding-controversial-10096965?int_source=nba

Although the speed camera is still controversial (I’ll see your controversy and raise you a notoriety), here for a change is a judge not granting a driver’s exceptional hardship claim, 105 yo mother notwithanding.  

[Rendel Harris]

David9694 wrote:

If a redtop newspaper hasn’t headlined this incident FIRKIN HELL!! by now, I’m going to be questioning my whole Britishness.

I know they’re the dregs but that really would be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[David9694]

Dover District Council

Dover District Council refuses application for 17 homes in Wingham, near Canterbury, as protester told to leave meeting

Protester Mark Gardiner, of the Wingham Conservation Group, told the committee: “We are going to have to be certain this crossing is safe for thousands of future crossings, by pedestrians who may not pay attention, mothers with prams, people in wheelchairs and children on their own.

“This is the only available pedestrian crossing route to and from this development, next to a notorious and dangerous road junction.

“The safety of pedestrians is in the sole hands of this committee.”

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/get-out-protester-told-to-leave-meeting-as-plans-for-mini-322617/

Nice to hear of road safety getting an airing, even if I’m mightily cynical as to why it’s at the top of some people’s agenda. The application was refused against officer advice so await the appeal, I guess. 

https://publicaccess.dover.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=neighbourComments&keyVal=SEJNR4FZGNQ00

[David9694]

pockstone wrote:

pockstone wrote:

Yours worked wonders, but if you insist, I’ll hop to it…why the need for extra police? Did the fire brigade bottle it?

If a redtop newspaper hasn’t headlined this incident FIRKIN HELL!! by now, I’m going to be questioning my whole Britishness.

Anyway, yes the fire brigade were called, but turned up too late to be of help.  The Press Officer joked that while the local firefighters were normally quick to go wherever there was beer on offer, “unfortunately this time they got lost en route, having taken a wrong tun”.

[ktache]

Passenger been charged with

Passenger been charged with aiding and abbetting dangerous driving…

[brooksby]

ktache wrote:

Multiple police vehicle involved in crash

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/09/five-people-in-hospital-after-multiple-police-cars-crash-near-newcastle

TPAC gone awry?

That looks really nasty.  And yes, that is where I’d be placing my money.

 

(I would also wager that that incident wouldn’t turn up on PoliceTrafficInterceptorMotorwayCops999…)

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