sleaterkinney
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Speeding on motorbike, killing someone - banned from driving for eight months and suspended jail term. Careless driving.
Killer biker gets suspended jail term
Killer biker gets suspended jail term
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Dashcam drink-driver sped at 132mph
Fuck sakes.
Third drink driving conviction, that should be a few years prison by itself, but this fucker crashed having intimidated others whilst hurtling along at 132mph, crashing and driving off.
Gets 12 months inside.
Nowhere near good enough.
Fuck sakes.
Third drink driving conviction, that should be a few years prison by itself, but this fucker crashed having intimidated others whilst hurtling along at 132mph, crashing and driving off.
Gets 12 months inside.
Nowhere near good enough.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
BigTom
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The good news here is that this is a story only because West Midlands police have actually started to fine people for obstructing the pavement. Hopefully a few tickets will improve matters.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
That has to be a set up for publicity, surely no one parks across the pavement like that???
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Cultural differences news...that’s pretty common parking in Barcelona.
(Not condoning it in the slightest, it’s just what it reminded me of).
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I've seen it in Leeds quite a bit, cars parked actually in the middle of the brand new 'super cyclehighway' in some cases. Enforcement a bit weak as can be expected with all the cutbacks.
Doesn't look quite so bad cos there's no shops/bus stops, but there's a stretch of pavement near me that is basically impassable on a daily basis for anyone with a wheelchair, buggy or the sort of mobility impairment that might cause difficulty with cobbles.
Pavement on other side of the road has kerbs about 20cm high and no drops. So it's a 20m or so detour on cobbles, or cross the road only to cross back again, or take your chances in the road.
BigTom
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Welcome to Birmingham...
Shocking new pictures reveal more terrible parking in Brum
Police combat more shocking parking around Birmingham
Can you believe how badly these cars are parked?
I can't find the story about the minicab driver in sparkbrook who parked their car across the pavement like a few of these pictures, had a £110 fine for obstruction, did again, police, issued a second fine and told him they'd tow his car if he parked like that again. He parked like that again. They towed his car. Not sure how much that cost him, or if he continued to park like that and get fined/towed.
Mela visitors accused of 'dangerous and disgraceful' parking
this one was "parking" at an event in the park rather than your run of the mill pavement parking on residential streets
Lots of complaints about this has led to police taking action, and most of these Birmingham Mail stories are from the police initially. Our PCC did a survey of issues you felt most affecting the community and specified maybe a dozen things, including drug use, buglaries and things like that, pavement parking was one of the preset options of those. It's terrible round here.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Wow! One thing in which London doesn’t top the cunt league. Guess cos in town you get ticketed in about 5 seconds flat just for parking on a yellow out of hours, so you don’t see shit like what you have in Brum and so on.
pseudonarcissus
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Parking on a pavement is an offense in Itself in London; not anywhere else in the country. Just imagine a blind person trying to negotiate that 
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Parking on a pavement is an offense in Itself in London; not anywhere else in the country. Just imagine a blind person trying to negotiate that
Not everywhere, I know a residential street in Raynes Park where they have a sign telling you how far you're allowed to park up on the pavement. It's quite a narrow pavement too.
Plumdaff
joy in people
One of the things that I really noticed moving from London to Cardiff was the blatant disregard for double yellow lines, and the parking on corners, parking at bus stops, parking blocking people in, on pavements and more. Oh and the people who think that stopping and holding up traffic while you pop in a shop/pick your mate up/who knows what is entirely reasonable as long as you have your hazard lights on
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yeah, it is the default that you can’t park on pavements unless told otherwise, outside of London it’s the other way round.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
He sat on the bonnet of the car. You can see the front suspension drop a little as he sits on the bonnet.
bubblesmcgrath
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Yep. Watched it a lot now. When the teacher turns sideways...the driver nudges the car forward a few inches touching the teacher's legs. An assault in itself. The teacher then sits....and the driver just loses the plot and drives like a fucking lunatic into the yard....luckily the 2 kids on bikes are just out of his path.
Yep. .the driver is a complete and utter bellend, nutjob entitled prick.
Btw was the driver charged with assaulting the teacher? The instant the driver nudged his car forward to catch the teacher's legs, he basically assaulted him. The teacher ends up sitting on the bonnet... and did so in a way that says "well just cos you nudge me with your car ..dont think that I'm moving"....or he may have had to sit after being pushed by the car...but whatever...it was still an assault in the part of the driver..
Fuckin nut job of a driver...
mojo pixy
interesting times
One of the things that I really noticed moving from London to Cardiff was the blatant disregard for double yellow lines, and the parking on corners, parking at bus stops, parking blocking people in, on pavements and more. Oh and the people who think that stopping and holding up traffic while you pop in a shop/pick your mate up/who knows what is entirely reasonable as long as you have your hazard lights on
Ditto Bristol. Driving and Parking Standards so low that the word standards itself seems like an exaggeration. All the above plus ignoring lanes, lights, signs (including disabled parking bay signs) and any other traffic that might want to move about in the same space. On the other hand if Bristol wasn't so lawless it wouldn't be the place it is so whatever.
My personal bugbear is people using wheely bins to save 'their' parking space outside their houses
A380
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Wtf was the teacher playing at anyway? he clearly didnt care that he was putting that driver in a dangerous position, look at all the other traffic that is forced to overtake the back end of the car which is clearly blocking the road, (see the car on the right forced to stop just in picture) what kind of idiot blocks a car at the entrance of a school, forcing other traffic to take evasive manouvers.. he could have and should have let the driver in to turn around. Its no justification what the driver did but the teacher is clearly a fucking idiot. Not easy to reverse either the angle he was at and with other traffic speeding past and kids around.
eta and the teacher had his back turned so couldnt see what was going on and clearly didnt care he was putting others at risk, as irresponsible as the driver and obviously why the driver did wat he did.
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bubblesmcgrath
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I suspect the yard was oitbof bounds for parking...hence the teacher standing in the gateway telling people they cant enter.
Where I work...the carpark has barely enough space for staff so a parent driving in taking a space causes havoc..
Parents are made aware of parking policies and in that case I would imagine the teacher was posted out there to ensure that cars did not enter the yard...for numbers of reasons.
The.driver put himself in that position...not the teacher.
And he could easily have reversed.
bubblesmcgrath
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Nope.
The driver was a dickhead.
He could have just as easily driven on and pulled up further up the road.
But no...
He's too important to wait.
In his rush through the gates he narrowly misses 2 kids on bikes.
Eta. Teacher is there to protect the kids....would you allow some dick to park in your driveway?
We dont know if the driver knew the policy do we? he turned in knowing the teacher was there but did the driver know why or was he just told by the teacher once he was stopped by him? Whatever the case the teacher sitting on the bonet with his back turned was pathetic. He should have just stood his ground or let the driver in to turn around..sitting on the bonet wtf.
eta how could he reverse with the teacher sittig on the bonet, it could be argued it was safer to go forward rather than reverse into a main road with some idiot on your bonet...
eta how could he reverse with the teacher sittig on the bonet, it could be argued it was safer to go forward rather than reverse into a main road with some idiot on your bonet...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
That road is not busy, so pulling away from the staff parking entrance to the parents drop-off zone wouldn't have been an issue. My best mate's eldest boy goes to that school,they had about 5 notices asking parents not to try and pull in to the staff parking area as there had been some fairly close calls with parents cars hitting kids in there.
And then this shithead rolls up in an illegally driven car and whether he had missed the 5 notices and the kid in his car failed to mention it, once told by the teacher he was having none of it and decided to drive at the teacher, just missing two other kids. And was fucking lucky not to be facing 10 years inside.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
and only got ten months..lucky escape then. I dont drive anymore too many idiots on the rds. I do think there should be much more done to stop tailgating, it seems to be the norm, most people havet a clue what thinking distance or braking distances are. And how the fuck do drink driver NOT get charged with dangerous driving? when you get in a car pissed, that is a constant and persistant course of bad driving (dangerous driving) drink driving should be automatic jail, comparecd to genuine mistakes made by drivers that have a momentary lapse of concentration and have the book thrown at them.
^^this.
Even without the added context, the notion that anyone other than the driver is responsible for what happened, or that anyone other than the driver was being arrogant, irresponsible or putting others at risk is, frankly, laughable.
Edit: though his not facing ten years inside isn't so much to do with luck as much as his weapon of choice was a car. Sentencing for motoring offences really is a nonsense.
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