[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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[pockstone]

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

[David9694]

David9694 wrote:

Lorry carrying 25 tonnes of beer catches fire on the M11

One lane remained closed for nearly 13 hours

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/lorry-carrying-25-tonnes-beer-31352225

police had to draught in extra officers to help deal with the incident 

this one is wide open for puns, come on people.

[David9694]

Stouport residents bemoan

Stouport residents bemoan huge traffic queues through town

Reacting to the traffic, Jill Paggett said: “It’s like it every day. I think we need to get used to it.

“Bypass with a new bridge will never happen. Just add another 45 mins to get from Walshes to Stourport on your journey. I do.

“Maybe 60 mins when all the new houses are occupied.”

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25053643.stourport-residents-bemoan-huge-traffic-queues-town/

Walsh’s looks to be a caravan park next to the bridge into Stourport. The town has (naturally) been carved-up by a one-way system, so I guess the traffic engineers have done all that is possible.  No roadworks to blame it would seem. Perhaps it was just an Easter hols départ going through?

[David9694]

One more concreted over grass

One more concreted over grass verge will fix it 

Oasis Academy: could grass be turned into parking spaces?

Cllr Desayrah said: “Whilst it’s really nice to have some green space around the flats, given the chronic lack of parking available to residents and the displacement of school pick-up time parking, I think it might make sense for Platform Housing to consider making the grass verges into residents’ parking and I will ask them to consider it.

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/25058177.oasis-academy-grass-turned-parking-spaces/

[David9694]

cyclist should be made to

cyclists should be made to have number plates – Interesting police video here of the range of illegal number plates – we’d got, as the caption says, tinted, a couple where the plate is mis-stated with illegal spacing or amended characters, a CF effect, a couple of colour underlays, the wording underneath has to show the maker’s information. 

An invitation to get hauled over, I’d have thought.  

[David9694]

Lorry carrying 25 tonnes of

Lorry carrying 25 tonnes of beer catches fire on the M11

One lane remained closed for nearly 13 hours

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/lorry-carrying-25-tonnes-beer-31352225

police had to draught in extra officers to help deal with the incident 

[David9694]

Calls for Oxfordshire

Calls for Oxfordshire transport chief to resign blocked

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25055825.calls-oxfordshire-transport-chief-resign-blocked/

This article describes a whole lot of political nonsense (you need to win the election if want to change policy) but is an example – there are others in Bournemouth and Southampton and others – of how a progressive transport lead becomes a focus for driver hate in the microcosm of the Comments sections of local newspapers. 

It must take some guts. 

[David9694]

Honk if you think it’s a

Honk if you think it’s a goose. 

[ROOTminus1]

Untitled
[URL=https://goose.game/]Untitled[/URL]

[mdavidford]

Untitled, or entitled?

Untitled, or entitled?

I bet it speeds down towpaths and weaves in and out of boats, and it’s definitely not wearing a helmet or hi vis.

[hawkinspeter]

Tom_77 wrote:

Peace Was Never An Option

I’m pretty sure that’s an untitled goose

[Tom_77]

mdavidford wrote:

It’s a swan uprising.

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

Peace Was Never An Option

[mdavidford]

It’s a swan uprising.

It’s a swan uprising.

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

[David9694]

Any reports of any broken

Any reports of any broken arms?

[hawkinspeter]

Tom_77 wrote:

Hampshire police use blue lights for swan in Hot Fuzz chase

Sadly the image accompanying the article is “A generic photo of a swan” and not the actual bird in question.

What is this, a day for swans?

Bristol and Bath trains delayed – by swans: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/live-bristol-bath-trains-delayed-10070804

At this rate, we’re gonna need a different thread.

 

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