Should he have been fined and had points ?
Fine the council for the puddle being there in the first place.
can't believe it, fined for driving in the rain
I must admit to not knowing the particulars. did he do it on purpose and drive off gufawing? or was it really a travesty
OK...what did I miss??
some guy was fined +3 for driving through a puddle and splashing workmen
good show i do that when ever i can, i just love bus stops with chav kids stud at them.
It is actually illegal to do that IIRC. I got soaked a few times by inconsiderate b@stards when I was on my way to work in the summer on my bike. A
lot of the time you see them coming, and see that they do it on purpose.
You can report people who do it if you get their plate. However not sure what the fines are etc.
Chavs deserve a soaking, but it doenst make it any less annoying when it happens to you.
David
its criminal cos its ridiculously foolish to swerve towards someone in the rain!
if its raining you dont need to swerve, u drive in the gutter ready to do it
if it was accidental, then thats harsh. If he did it on purpose, he deserved the 3 points. What a git.
atb
steve
[Edited on 31/10/05 by steve_gus]
quote:
Originally posted by serendipity123
if its raining you dont need to swerve, u drive in the gutter ready to do it
and i suppose everyone on here never goes a mile over the speed limit, you could get a blow out lose control and run in the back of me driving with care so that i dont miss the cavs at the bus stop swerve around me losing the back end of your tin top and runing a whole bus shelter of them over, where as i was just splashing them with water you on the other hand was driving to fast.
indeed. But there is personal gain in speeding, ie you get where you are going fast. Splashing people on purpose has no personal gain involved, except
the obvious glee involved in soaking those unfortunate souls who left the car at home
my point chavs. . . they dont get cars on the doll so they have to nick them or take the bus. . . i say we all speed and splash
why should anyone thats not got the money to have a car and be waiting for a bus be a chav?
So, as you drive down the road you can make an instant judgement as to wether the person you are about to cover in muddy water on a cold wet day
deserves it.
you know if they work. you know if they are on the dole. You know if they work in a charity shop, or if they are a mugger.
amazing insight
[Edited on 31/10/05 by steve_gus]
How dumb do you have to be to lurk by a puddle when there's eejits in every other car??
They were clearly asking to be soaked....
Bob
(never executed a soaking myself but can see the attraction...)
I'm surprised no one's brought up the "why does'nt he sue the council for not sorting out the roads so there are no
puddles"
quote:
Originally posted by Bob C
How dumb do you have to be to lurk by a puddle when there's eejits in every other car??
They were clearly asking to be soaked....
Bob
(never executed a soaking myself but can see the attraction...)
not that i would ever use a bus, i would never stand at a bus stop with a puddle infront of it. . . . mind you i dont really care it give me something to do on my way to work
quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
I'm surprised no one's brought up the "why does'nt he sue the council for not sorting out the roads so there are no puddles"
) happens. Lol, yeh who catches buses then???? id be carefull what you say, cos there may be a real nasty chav that knows where you live
i've just 5 of them at me door asking trick or treat.
My Nissan Navara makes BIG splashes
Drowned a few people and cars
Made me laugh...
Coucil Men and Working in the same sentence... next you'll be telling me Harry Potter is a Real Wizard!
(Ducks for cover!)
What's wrong with you people?
Do you think it's funny when you have to work outside all day and some lunatic soaks your clothes in which you have to work for the rest of the
day?
I've worked most of my live outside and I can assure you that there's nothing funny
about working in wet soacked cloths.
Perhaps you should try it for a while and see if you could take the insults throwing at you every day from passing drivers!
I would have given that idiot a nice Locost and let him drove around in wet clothes for a couple of hours on a cold wintersday!!!
That would change his idea about wet clothes being funny!!
Cheers Cita
The Guy was doing 15 mph, and didn't see 2 workmen in a ditch at the side of the road. Was going to stop and apologise, but as he was being "tailed" by a cop car, didn't have time before he was pulled over. Done totally unintentionally. Seems like one of the many symptoms of this pathetic country we live in. The priorities of the police seem all wrong to me.
EXACTLY!!!!!
WELL PUT!!!!!
What a load of old cobblers.
What utter shite, utter utter complete crap
I am bloody speechless.
Situation should go, man splashes workmen, workmen get angry, gesticulate rudely at man, man thinks sorry folks, continues on his way. At some point
in the future life has a habit of coming rounf to meet you and no doubt he'll fall embarassingly into a puddle himself walking home from the pub
the next week.
What is all this "sue him", sue them bollox.
For god's sake, do we all want to live in a sterilised clinic for ever. Just get on with flipping life.
The law is a frigging ass in my opinion, mainly due to personal experience with what I am told is the wrong side of it apparently.
As somebody put on another thread, it is for the guidance of the wise and the blind obedience of fools, never have truer words been spoken.
Bet the w**ker copper that stopped him really thought he'd done the country a service that day........twat.
I would say exactly the same in court "Jeez judge,I just wanted to apologize but the cops got me before doing so"
At 15 Mph that must have been a deap puddle to make a splash huge enough to reach two roadworkers.
As if the police would not see the difference if it's done on purpose or by accident.
Cheers Cita
From the way they close roads and put up all the unnecessary barriers and crap, just to fill a 6" pothole, I'd be asking how the car came to
be so close?
Someone must not have been stupidly adhering to all the latest EC safety guidelines in maintaining safe distances for barriers.
Sue the workers!! For putting the driver in such a compromised situation!!
And you've got to wonder why the police were tailing him????
It's obvious that you are all fragile office birds
Never worked beside a road than hé,try it sometimes and be glad that you survive the first day because at least once a day some lunatic in a car
try's to overrun you neglecting the signs and forgetting the fact that there are people working
Cheers Cita
The chavs may get the last laugh when the bow wave you've just created by driving through a puddle, reflects off the edge of the pavement back
into your engine bay, down your intake and speads the internals of your engine all over the road.
Yes i've seen it all to many times as a customers car arrives on the back of a recovery truck and explains that it was only a "little"
puddle honest.
David
even better when you get out of your stranded car, and they all kick the fcuk out of you
atb
steve