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Devon car ride horror after wife fetches husband from pub
Susan Rogers was overwhelmed by “irrational panic” after going the wrong way down a country lane
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/wife-blazing-row-drunk-husband-9620212
The policeman … jumped over a garden gate and injured himself on a wheelie bin.Did this incident take place in a 1970s sitcom?
Car crashes into side of Winchester city centre churchhttps://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24642034.car-crashes-side-winchester-city-centre-church/
She was just taking her car in for a service
The complainant claimed because the registration plates and faces had not been pixelated, it was a breach of the code of conduct.If you’ve done nothing wrong etc etc.
I don’t understand the obsession with pixellating number plates – if the car is obviously parked illegally/inconsiderately, or is being driven in a dangerous manner, then they deserve the recognition IMO.
Also, there’s often issues where the owner of a specific car denies knowing who was driving it at the time of an incident, so surely the number plate doesn’t actually identify an individual?
There’s also the fact that number plates are easily visible in public places and so there should be no expectation of privacy from the vehicle owner.
[b]Bristol parking wars: Greens gear up for fight with drivers over pavement ban on cars[/b]There’s a great quote as to why cars have to be parked on the pavement “If cars are parked on the road it becomes inconveniently narrow,”. Yes, people must walk in the road as the pavement is blocked because it would otherwise be inconvenient for drivers!
At least when roads become inconveniently narrow, it tends to reduce the drivers’ speed. However, we do have an issue in Bristol with not very many garages and so drivers have come to expect that they are entitled to park their vehicles somewhere convenient for themselves and that they are owed a parking space.
I think the e-scooter/e-bike scheme should also be amended so that they have to use on-road parking rather than littering up the pavements.
Velo-drone wrote:
On timestamp, I think it is admin – if the timestamp is wrong then a defence lawyer will try to use that as a reason to dismiss the case, arguing that their client was not in the place at that time. I have in the past been asked to submit a formal statement confirming that the date stamp was incorrect, for that reason – and I can see exactly why they want to avoid the burden of this kind of admin I turned my timestamps off immediately after that to avoid a repeat But it does seem particularly pointless given that they happily process reports with no timestamp based on the time advised by the submitter. The default approach should be that the timestamp is ignored, and a standardised response is given to loophole lawyers. However in the meantime, cyclists submitting reports to Met should just definitely turn off any timestamp that doesn’t automatically check and update itself whenever the camera is turned on, just in case.It’s a ridiculous requirement and they should just accept incorrect timestamps as long as the submitter declares the correct time. Surely it is better to include timestamps as it makes it less likely that the footage has been edited or sped up etc.
Car flips onto roof in crash
Car flips onto roof in crash near Bristol hospital https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-flips-onto-roof-crash-9605690
slc wrote:
Looking forward to not queueing/filtering round bedminster bridges.I often have to navigate that massive roundabout. The biggest problem I have is with drivers using a lane on the left when they want to take the third exit and meanwhile I’m using the right-most lane which means that some of them are undertaking me as I’m trying to turn left to reach my exit.
I hope they do a better job than they did with all the fragmented cycle bits around Temple Meads roundabout. However, I’m still waiting on the livable neighbourhood changes in St George to actually go ahead since they were proposed years ago.
mattw wrote:
Lol.
Lots of smaller errors, such as the line widths.
These are put up by Captain Mainwarings on Town Councils everywhere, though that may have been made by his 5 year old grandchild.
Can’t we just take these down?
T
Yes, feel free to remove them
No sale.Feathers fly as zoo ranger runs half marathon in ostrich attire
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/feathers-fly-zoo-ranger-runs-9286401
That’s just cheating!
He’s just sat there and letting the ostrich do all the running.
stonojnr wrote:
[quote=stonojnr]Emu spotted walking in road. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24590784.emus-spotted-walking-road-hadleigh-suffolk%5B/quote%5D
Advance troop for the coming war?
Another autonomous car
Another autonomous car flipping over
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-flips-upside-down-9556393
When you cycle to the Mathematics Faculty.But apparently don’t have the nous to lock your bike to the concrete-embedded metal post and just lock through the back wheel?
You’d be wanting the Topology Department
Worcester News readers react to proposed blanket 20mph speed limit…James Toghill, was also sceptical, saying: “No to 20mph, cars brake better than they ever have and are designed to hit pedestrians in a safer manner than old cars.”
Can’t we start designing cars to NOT hit pedestrians?
Matthew Acton-Varian wrote:
The bolt holding the outer plate is as tight as I can get it but there is still a small amount of play.
I want to be certain that a new outer plate assembly will fix the issue as I don’t want to waste money on it if the derailleur body overall is also knackered.
Sorry, I can’t provide any certainty. I’d be tempted to try adding a washer to see if that removes the play. With mine, if I tighten up the pivot arm too much, it stops the cage from moving at all, so I have to loosen it very slightly until the cage pivots correctly.
It is not the pivot bolt, that is in order. It is just the cage that has a small amount of play from the body, with about, with enough movement to make shifting slow or skip.The pivot arm comes as part of the outer plate assembly with the derailleur. There is also a T10 bolt that holds it in place.
If it is just the pivot arm and/or T10 bolt that is excessively worn, I can get a replacement, but I don’t want to burn more money on the mech if the internals of the derailleur body are also worn out.
Yeah, I meant the pivot arm that connects the outer plate to the derailleur body. Every few months, my one comes loose (different version derailleur though – mine’s Di2) and when I notice shifting issues, I have to remember to tighten that bolt up. (I don’t think it’s wear related, but more likely due to me mucking around with changing the cage to a fancy after-market one with oversized pulley and then changing it back when it didn’t work very well.)
