[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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[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…)

[ktache]

Multiple police vehicle

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?

[David9694]

Here’s Kent’s version of West

Here’s Kent’s version of West Portholland, Cornwall

Holy Family Church in Park Wood, Maidstone, criticised for installing ANPR cameras in car park as nearby housebuilding piles pressure on places

One woman who lives nearby, but didn’t want to be named, said: “It’s disgraceful. That car park has always been there for people to use it in the 30+ years I’ve been here.”

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

PS it seems to be All Quiet on the West Portholland front. 

[David9694]

“Babergh District Council

“Babergh District Council said it had been “clear throughout” that it “had no option but to introduce charges” and could not afford to continue to subsidise free parking.”

Drivers and their Problems. 

[David9694]

It just seems a lot of

It just seems a lot of trouble to go, doesn’t it. If you are into building stuff like this perhaps some system where the vehicle brings you to where you want to go to and then maybe goes off, either taking people who want to leave from that location or it’s goes and gets more people who want to travel there. There could be a timetable and all you’d pay was for your journey, you wouldn’t own the bit you used. Just a thought. 

[andystow]

Just wait until he gets the

Just wait until he gets the bill for overstaying that long!

[Hirsute]

“We pay our road tax” !
“We pay our road tax” !

Handy to know if I go there that there will be spaces in the car parks !

[Tom_77]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?

There are some details of the system used here and here. Looks very impressive (when it works).

 

[stonojnr]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr7y311exlo

I’d like to think most of them are spending the £1 they’re saving on parking on petrol just driving around looking for a space

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

I was thinking after so many weeks they might dismantle enough to get one in. I also wondered about legal action – borderline theft: ‘intention to permanently deprive’ and arguing failing to resolve anything was equivalent to ‘intention’.

What, and risk damaging their parking equipment? 

I wonder whether they’ll have the gall to try and bill for backdated parking fees as and when they are finally able to get the cars out of there?

[Hirsute]

I was thinking after so many
I was thinking after so many weeks they might dismantle enough to get one in.
I also wondered about legal action – borderline theft: ‘intention to permanently deprive’ and arguing failing to resolve anything was equivalent to ‘intention’.

[brooksby]

hawkinspeter wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?

I’m surprised that they didn’t get the police involved for theft of the van. Maybe the terms and conditions for using the car park state that you relinquish any right to the property left there?

And they probably make all their customers sign an NDA and he’s already in trouble for going to the press 😉

I note that the owners of the facility “declined to comment” and the company which runs and maintains it said they cannot comment as they signed an NDA 

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?

Aren’t a lot of those places mechanised, so you wouldn’t be able to get a forklift or anything else in there.

[hawkinspeter]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo Doesn’t say how many others were trapped. Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?

I’m surprised that they didn’t get the police involved for theft of the van. Maybe the terms and conditions for using the car park state that you relinquish any right to the property left there?

[Hirsute]

Bit of a strange one – van
Bit of a strange one – van trapped in car park for 2 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw74djvnjo
Doesn’t say how many others were trapped.
Couldn’t they use a fork lift ?

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