keitha
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Post by keitha on Aug 18, 2023 13:29:46 GMT
Lovely example down my road this morning house with a gas leak, Welsh Utilities are whatever they are called this week digging a hole and being sensible they put in temporary traffic lights. they also put cones on the opposite side of the road.
I'm walking down to get a bottle of milk so can hear and see what's going on. Numpty Woman drives up opens car door gets out and moves parking cone , gets back in car and parks ( completely blocking the road ) workman shouts over "you can't park there luv" She shouts back "I'm entitled to park here, it's outside my mums house" I get my milk and come back out , and car is still there and nothing moving.
NEE NAW heard and police car squeezes past traffic and stops safely. So I think I'll just hang around for a bit. goes over and asks workman whats going on and he explains and says "it's a young blonde woman and she's gone into number XX"
Policeman goes and knocks on the door and asks for car to be moved and gets the "I'm entitled to park there, I'm allowed to park my car on the road" Policeman says that cars has to be moved it's blocking the highway and gets "my car isn't blocking the road the hole is the problem not my car" Door is slammed in policeman's face. meanwhile the other officer is setting up a diversion by closing this section of road off and using the cul de sac off it to turn cars round in.
At this point I go home and can see no traffic moving about 20 minutes go by and I see a recovery truck coming down the road.
Guess what, yep they lifted the car with "i'm entitled" screaming at them that they can't move her car. last I saw was recovery driver giving her paperwork ( presumably where car was going and what it's going to cost her to get it back )
traffic is now moving OK
Why on earth would you even remotely think you can block the road especially given it's a main bus route
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Post by ethel on Aug 18, 2023 17:25:58 GMT
Some people are very stupid and deserve everything that happens to them.
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Post by agent69 on Aug 18, 2023 18:23:02 GMT
I could give you dozens of examples of idiots in cars at roadworks. The commonest event was for somebody to pull up at a road closed sign and then ask 'is the road really closed'?. However, my two favourites are:
- we were working on the A30 dual carriageway where it passes under the M5 at junction 29. The southbound off slip was open, but you couldn't turn left up the A30 towards Exeter airport as we were resurfacing it. A car coming down the off slip screeched to a halt by the temporary barriers and demanded that the gateman let him through. When the gateman declined the motorist drove on, but instead of turning right and following the diversion signs, he turned left and started driving the wrong way along the westbound carriageway (lights flashing to warn oncoming vehicles to get out of his way). Fortunately one of the traffic management gangs managed to pull him over before he crashed into anyone - needless to say the police were not impressed with his excuses.
- lots of roads in Devon are built on hill sides, and it is common for the edge of the road to subside over time and need repair. We were working on such a road half way up a hill just outside Bampton, where we had to dig out one side of the road and form a retaining wall with giant concrete lego blocks, all inside a road closure. A lorry driver ignored all the 'road closed ahead' signs and headed down the hill towards the site. When he got to the road closure he couldn't turn around, so moved the barriers and road closed signs and drove straight on. When he got to the section of road that was only 1 lane wide (and not a very wide lane at that) he carried on until he noticed that half the wheels at the back of his 40ft trailer were dangling in fresh air, 150ft above the main road and the valley floor below. At that point he got cold feet and vacated the cab. Once again, the police were not very impressed when they arrived on site
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Post by moonraker on Aug 18, 2023 19:43:01 GMT
We've had cases locally of drivers remonstrating with ambulance drivers on emergency call-outs who've blocked driveways out of necessity; one guy even moved the ambulance.
Less serious was the woman attempting to park in her usual place in when a very polite colleague of mine tried to warn her that she would be blocked in by more than a dozen environmental volunteers' cars and would she mind putting her vehicle by the exit. "I always park here," she muttered with bad grace.
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Post by mogish on Sept 5, 2023 6:35:51 GMT
My wife was working from home yesterday . This can stops at the entrance to our drive. Wife goes out to ask if he is looking for an address or something thinking he has a delivery. Nope just parked here under the trees for shade!! Not going anywhere she let it go. 25 mins later he drives off. She goes out later to find all the rubbish from his lunch dumped in our drive. is wrong with people!!!
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Oct 6, 2023 10:39:46 GMT
And Another in the Village, Caravan parked on the street with stabilisers down and levelled and obviously being used as storage. it's been there since May. Council have served a notice to moves as it is being stored on the highway.
Apparently the owner has gone full Karen, "it's my caravan, I can park it where I want, who are they to tell me what to do", It's got a hitch lock and she is saying if they remove it, that is criminal damage, and she will prosecute the council
Lol so lift onto a low loader and bill her
she has also moaned about people reporting it and has apparently threatened "snitches will get stitches"
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travolta
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Post by travolta on Oct 6, 2023 17:53:45 GMT
I blame AI.
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mikeb
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Post by mikeb on Oct 8, 2023 13:56:57 GMT
How can you blame AI, when the above Karenism is GS. Genuine Stupidity!
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travolta
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Post by travolta on Oct 8, 2023 14:40:50 GMT
C'n if I wan' to....
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Post by bracknellboy on Oct 8, 2023 14:49:25 GMT
you are certainly entitled to blame who you want...
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