[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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[David9694]

Driver got her own back on

Driver got her own back on bailiffs who clamped car

She was given six penalty points and a reduced fine

Bailiffed for having no insurance, the fairies broke the clamp off, she drove it uninsured  and then…

Deputy District Judge Peter Donnison said: “This was an unusual and unfortunate incident.” He said Tulloch was remorseful and the offences out of character. It wasn’t a deliberate driving without insurance – “rather a lapse in payments because of complicated factors in life,” he added. Tulloch was fine £160 and told to pay costs of £85 and surcharge of £64.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/driver-back-bailiffs-who-clamped-9937035?int_source=nba

[David9694]

What cars do to people 

What cars do to people 

‘Disgraceful’ thug attacked parking warden after getting ticket

As part of the sentence he must stop boozing for four months

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/disgraceful-thug-attacked-parking-warden-9935815?int_source=nba

[wtjs]

A dangerous, reckless and

A dangerous, reckless and aggressive BMW driver. Who saw that coming?!

[David9694]

what cars do to people

what cars do to people (police video)

Coach driver protects 80 children from dangerous driver

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24927450.coach-drive-protects-80-children-dangerous-driver/

[David9694]

the little onion wrote:

It’s outrageous. A whole £4 fee to store your property (a car) on council-owned land for 24 hours. /sarcasm

next up Colin (84) from Chapel Allerton complained that there were no machines to pay for parking and although he is perfectly competent to handle his new Mazda EV he can’t possibly use an app. 

[Hirsute]

“If this were Just Stop Oil,

“If this were Just Stop Oil, there’d have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. “

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwypj14q122o

[the little onion]

It’s outrageous. A whole £4

It’s outrageous. A whole £4 fee to store your property (a car) on council-owned land for 24 hours. /sarcasm

[brooksby]

“Multiple parking meters have

“Multiple parking meters have been vandalised in Leeds shortly before charges at several beauty spots were introduced.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626q0nrlp9o

[chrisonabike]

I think it’s more likely it

I think it’s more likely it’ll first be claims when a tourist / some York student does themselves a nasty on one of them…

[wtjs]

These self-driving bollards

These self-driving bollards are among my favourites

The race must be on now to be the first to ram them down- just so long as there are cameras ready to charge the phenomenal repair cost to the winner’s insurance. Hope some York resident tells us!

[andystow]

David9694 wrote:

I haven’t gone looking for the Facebook group in question, it’s all a bit too close to home for me – anyone else got the stomach for it, maybe could give us the gist? 

Bunch of carbrains, occasional voice of sanity, not as bad as Xitter.

[David9694]

Hopes coaches will be kept

Hopes coaches will be kept out of the heart ‘Venice of the Cotswolds’ after tourism chaos

More backing for coach parking solution after nightmare last summer

seems a bit unfair to me https://www.terringtonarchive.net/businesshope.php

🧥

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/hopes-coaches-kept-out-heart-9932811?int_source=nba

 

[David9694]

Police advise against

Police advise against councillors attending public meeting

ADVICE was given to a councillor to not attend a public meeting with a pro-car group, Dorset Police says.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24924506.police-advise-councillors-attending-public-meeting/

I haven’t gone looking for the Facebook group in question, it’s all a bit too close to home for me – anyone else got the stomach for it, maybe could give us the gist? 

[BBB]

“Buggy hit by car blamed on
“Buggy hit by car blamed on traffic scheme”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77r544ymxdo
Another gem from BBC. So many things wrong with it, it’s depressing.

[andystow]

These self-driving bollards

These self-driving bollards are among my favourites.

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