Talking of cretins on the road I caught someone stealing large quantities of grit last night from one of the few grit boxes in the city - he had 50kg+ in his boot. He claimed he lived up the road and needed it for a fictional street despite having presumably driven there in a blizzard instead of walking and having come prepared with multiple large buckets. After asking politely if he could actually leave some for the main road junction and steep hill it was put there for he started the public service routine and sensing I didn't believe a word of it started getting abusive. I left him when he seemed to want to hit me and started chasing me and just cycled off to ranting insults drifting up the hill.
Cretins on the road
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Landslide
Rare Migrant
- Location
- Called to the bar
What on earth would you do with 50kg of rock salt (apart from clear your road)?
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Landslide said:
Those spice grinder shaker things marketed by Jamie Oliver are quite popular, maybe he wanted to make a killing refilling them....
I suppose it was lucky marin didn't get as-salt-ed...
Lazy-Commuter
New Member
- Location
- Bottom Right Corner
He read in the paper that it's in short supply so is stocking up for .. er .. something?Landslide said:
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benborp
Guru
- Location
- further from Penge
Does Maz know where Arch's coat is?
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
benborp said:
I don't know, but we do have matching hi-vis vests....
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
downfader said:3 points and a potential of being prosecuted under dangerous or careless driving type offences.
No snow here today. Got a bit cloudy but that was it. Very sunny and warm this morning in southampton so walked to the local bank. On my way I did see a car pull up to the lights as I was crossing the road and saw that they had no front plate. Technically very illegal.It was a souped up hatchback so I presume they like to speed and this is how they get around it.
Didnt fancy having a gander at the rear plate, thought it might have gotten me in trouble so walked on.
we drove back from derbyshire last night, kept brushing the lights off each time we stopped, windscreen wipers were taking care of the windscreen
the numberplate just had a block of ice on it that i couldn't shift without breaking the plate so i didn't bother!
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
Landslide said:
clear his own drive,
sell it
charge to clear someone's drive
he could have been doing the good neighbour thing and been clearing his own road,
but i'm sceptical
Mortiroloboy
New Member
Rigid Raider said:
Is glee some sort of body shop car polish then ?
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
- Location
- 'ampsheeeer
50kg of salt. Selling it and using it for gritting peoples drives. A couple of scallies around here do that, they knock on your door and advertise their services charging a small fee to sprinkle it down.
They lock our yellow grit drums around here.
They lock our yellow grit drums around here.
