[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]

Well done to the drivers. If
Well done to the drivers. If the DISGUSTING COUNCIL can not provide adequate parking, then PARK WHERE EVER.

[David9694]

More concern about illegal

More concern about illegal parking in Trowbridge

Cllr Edward Kirk, the Tory ward member for Adcroft, has said that illegal parking, such as in loading bays and on double-yellow lines is an issue that has “ruined” parts of Trowbridge’s town centre.

He said: “In terms of Wicker Hill, people don’t want to pay, so they park in loading bays. There’s just not enough enforcement in those areas to stop people doing it.

“It’s not just Wicker Hill. They’ve ruined Church Walk. I know of one business who left because of problems with parking.

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24909929.concern-illegal-parking-trowbridge/

[chrisonabike]

brooksby wrote:

Never used, already crumbling: Road that cost £40m (BBC)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07k0n5v1vzo

Since it doesn’t go anywhere useful (yet) … why not call it a cycle path?

(I notice in the background of one of the Beeb’s pictures, a bicycle seems to have got through already and claimed the territory…)

[chrisonabike]

Jogle wrote:

[b]Steve Coogan avoids driving ban after plea to save new TV show The Trip with Rob Brydon[/b]

A (not so) novel principal is in operation here!  So …

Defence: “in mitigation, if my client is given sufficient points to disqualify him from driving, that will mean he may not be able to legally drive.”

Judge: “Ah – that is a very reasonable point.  It cannot be proportionate in this case to prevent someone from driving merely because they have passed some arbitrary threshold for offenses committed showing that they cannot drive safely.  It’s not as if he’s killed someone.  Let the penalty be 5 points.”

[brooksby]

Never used, already crumbling

Never used, already crumbling: Road that cost £40m (BBC)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07k0n5v1vzo

[Rendel Harris]

Pub bike wrote:

Steve Coogan avoids driving ban.

Very disappointing.  Ironically, his excuse was because he was allegedly planning to make a show based on driving, which the judge accepted despite it being in doubt.  Surely all the more reason to ban him out of public interest, otherwise it will continue to show that the courts don’t take speeding seriously.

Surely also be a case to charge with perjury if the series isn’t made?

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

8 months suspended for knocking over a worker whilst ignoring a road closure (includes video) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cpwxjnvp4dqo But did the worker swear?

I hope so! 

[Pub bike]

Steve Coogan avoids driving

Steve Coogan avoids driving ban.

Very disappointing.  Ironically, his excuse was because he was allegedly planning to make a show based on driving, which the judge accepted despite it being in doubt.  Surely all the more reason to ban him out of public interest, otherwise it will continue to show that the courts don’t take speeding seriously.

The points system is already a form of leniency allowed several offences before a ban, yet when push comes to shove, the police and courts show even more leniency.

 

[Rendel Harris]

stonojnr wrote:

stonojnr wrote:

Unfortunately I think Coogan the person is more like Partridge the character, than he’d probably like to admit.

Sadly this is the case with many comedians I think, Ricky Gervais certainly has the preening self-regard of David Brent, John Cleese has the impotent irascibility of Basil Fawlty and Jimmy Carr is, unforgivably, Jimmy Carr.

[Hirsute]

Or brydon does the driving
Or brydon does the driving
Pathetic, spineless.

[stonojnr]

Unfortunately I think Coogan
Unfortunately I think Coogan the person is more like Partridge the character, than he’d probably like to admit.

[Jogle]

Steve Coogan avoids driving

[b]Steve Coogan avoids driving ban after plea to save new TV show The Trip with Rob Brydon[/b]

Steve Coogan has been given five points instead of six meaning that he doesn’t lose his licence, so that he can continue filming The Trip. But he’s used that excuse before to get a reduced punishment, it’s not looking like The Trip will be continuing anyway and he hasn’t learned from his previous driving bans.

To me, if you are so important that lots of people will lose out from you being unable to drive, you must be important enough to be able to pay for someone to drive you.

The Trip’s director Michael Winterbottom has previously said there would not be a fifth series – but Coogan’s court correspondence suggests otherwise.

The series sees Coogan and Brydon playing caricatures of themselves – travelling around the likes of Italy, Spain and the UK.

He wrote a similar letter in 2019 after he was caught speeding, telling the judge the new series of Alan Partridge would be disrupted if he was disqualified.

Ultimately he was banned – but for only two months instead of the usual six – meaning the show could go ahead.

He was previously banned for 28 days in 2016 for driving almost twice the 30mph speed limit in Brighton.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/steve-coogan-avoids-driving-ban-after-plea-to-save-new-tv-show-the-trip-with-rob-brydon-13303955

[wtjs]

And this is the immediately

And this is the immediately following vehicle, which I suspect is the same company

[wtjs]

Remind me, again: how much

Remind me, again: how much floodwater is absorbed by a resin-sealed tarmacced driveway…? 

But that doesn’t matter, you hidebound reactionary because this go-ahead drive surfacing company of Preston and Morecambe (interestingly, they can’t even spell ‘Morecambe’) is keeping the economy moving by abolishing unneccesary red-tape such as VED

[Hirsute]

8 months suspended for
8 months suspended for knocking over a worker whilst ignoring a road closure (includes video)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cpwxjnvp4dqo

But did the worker swear?

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