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I love his writing style
If it mentioned guns or zombie maggots i would think it was chewk
I can only assume he was trying to dictate it to his phone with his mouth full of cereal and the car radio on. 🙂
I do like "shaved legged shouting finger" though. That's lovely.
so the other night i passed this lady on my commute in her black vw registration yp62lpj. who was engrossed in a novel. I assume so because she never looked up once as she crawled through traffic.
The coverage of the story in The Metro is impressively snide:
A very excitable cyclist caught the bizarre scene on camera, and took great joy in confronting her.
...
The cyclist proceeds to tell the driver behind her, because he can.
Even [url= http://www.****/news/article-3128014/Driver-caught-enjoying-breakfast-bowl-spoon-drives-Land-Rover-morning-rush-hour.html ]the Daily Mail managed a more balanced report[/url] than that!
Yes GrahamS - the metro is getting a wee bit far from it's "balanced reporting" position of stating facts for a while now.
@MattOAB - can you just post up when you are thinking about heading out, given your recent experiences - today's and the nutters from a few weeks ago - I'd like to just steer clear of the roads you're using... 😆
Who owns the Metro....?
"Lots of people aren’t paying attention to the road. In any given daylight moment in America, there are 660,000 people behind the wheel who are checking their devices instead of watching the road. Our safety drivers routinely see people weaving in and out of their lanes; we’ve spotted people reading books, and even one playing a trumpet."
Yep, the sooner we move to self-driving cars the better.
Here's your morning clickbait - apologies for Mail link, but where else would it be?
I'm not clicking that. Any chance of a précis (i can probably guess the main thrust)
[i]Any chance of a précis[/i]
Sarah Vine is a ****ing idiot? (Haven't read it either, but I'm pretty sure that's the facts what come out of it)
try clicking it - it takes you to another STW page warning you that the daily mail is "an abhorrent publication." genius
never heard of her but google says she writes for the mail, is married to gove and from the title of that article seems to think "telling" on bad driving is worse than bad driving. No idea whether an idiot or not but I doubt we'd see eye to eye on muchSarah Vine is a **** idiot?
martinhutch said himself it's clickbait and then added a link, I'm not going to feed the DM trolls/counters. STW stance on the DM could be argued to be unusual but I reckon it's probably fair.try clicking it
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In the interests of not sabotaging my own happiness on a Friday I am not going to read that article...
When did "vigilante" start to mean "reporting a crime you have witnessed"?
Surely an [i]actual[/i] vigilante would drag the driver from the car and beat the crap out of them?
A vigilante (/?v?d???lænti/, /?v?d???lænte?/; Spanish: [bixi?lante]; Portuguese: [vi?i?l??t(?)], [vi?i?l??t?i]) is a civilian who undertakes law enforcement with or without legal authority
well he wasn't [i]enforcing[/i] the law, he was reporting a breach of it.
Not really getting into a discussion about Sarah "Idiot" Vine's opinion are you?? Really chaps, it's not worth spending a millisecond of your brain activity on.
Go on Dez, read a bit, you know you can't resist.... 😀
This pretty much sums up our Sarah:
Yes, I know having an actual bowl of milk and cereal is pushing it. But it’s a well-known fact traffic lights are not there to control the flow of traffic. They are there to give mothers on the school run a chance to take a slurp from their coffee, chastise the kids in the back, check their hair in the rear-view mirror or generally catch their breath after the morning’s dramas.
Personally, I like to hit as many red lights as I can in the morning — it gives me a chance to do my make-up. I choose my route with care, so as to catch one or two especially lengthy red lights for my foundation and eyeliner.
On the shorter ones I do lipstick and hair — a much speedier operation — and give the car a general tidy after the tornado of the school run.
Irony bypass?
Personally, I like to hit as many red lights as I can in the morning
<pedant>The lady in the original isn't even stopped at a red light. She is two vehicles from the front at a busy Give Way and the front vehicle is just pulling away as we first see her munching on her cereal. </pedant>
[i]Go on Dez, read a bit, you know you can't resist...[/i]
I read that bit you quoted. She's a right larf eh?
and twice now I've seen men having a 5 knuckle shuffle whilst cruising on the motorway
....and they say men can't multitask?
[url= http://road.cc/content/news/154715-cereal-offender-caught-eating-wheel-hands-herself-policein-staines ]Positive outcome[/url]
It looks like both the Police and the lady driver agree with the cyclist that what she was doing was wrong. She's handed herself in.
She'll probably have to do that crappy 'What's Driving Us' course that I did. Won't teach the dozy cow anything.
Was coming home from work on Thursday, usual backed up traffic coming into town. Wee red Peugeot is a few cars in front, I'm crawling at walking pace along the inside, and it veers across to the kerb. I think, it's the usual dick not wanting me to come inside, even though I'm crawling along....
But no. Looked in the back window and there she is, with a full desk of paperwork strength across her lap, and pen in her hand writing whilst driving. She had an A4 binder open, plus at leat two A3 notepads that I could see.
Gave the back quarter a rattle, she shits herself and drops everything on the floor. I pull along side and give the window a chap to give her some advice.
Eyes fixed forward, she wouldn't meet my gaze. Stupid cow.
My nephew was involved in a fatal car crash. What surprised me was the amount of extenuating circumstances taken into account.
The fact he had a job, a steady girlfriend.... kept him out of jail.
If you run someone over while doing anything other than looking where you are going you stand a better chance of getting put away.
She'll probably have to do that crappy 'What's Driving Us' course that I did. Won't teach the dozy cow anything.
I suspect the thing that will teach her a lesson is that all her friends and work colleagues know she's a total moron and no doubt spent this week giving her a hard time after it got splashed across mainstream media - social pressure's more powerful than driving courses or fear of legal action IMO
Just seen a woman driving through the village at walk-the-kids-to-skool-time, eyes down and lifting a spoon to her mouth, just as she was heading out of the 30 onto the NSL road. 😯
Miss Black Mini Driver reg No: K155 PCP, I feel a strongly worded letter to the Malvern Gazette in green ink coming on!