Is this a record?
- Thread starter Dayvo
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FishFright
More wheels than sense
Your side of the argument need evidence too, choosing not to believe doesn't count as that .
Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I love anecdote wars. If I knew a dog with two dicks, he’d know one with three. We went to Tenerife for our hols: they went to Elevenarife. FFS pipe down
No it doesn't, that's a logical fallacy.
The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My late best mate almost trashed himself, me, and another mate about an hour after he passed his test!
It would have been in the mid-1970s so I'm fairly sure that we would not have had seatbelts on. My friend turned up in his now L-plate-less car, picked me and the other pal up, and then we headed off to minor roads around Corley and Fillongley, NW of Coventry. He got more and more cocky and soon we were doing 60 mph down a narrow, twisty, turny lane. It was fun until he completely misjudged a bend and we shot off the road. Fortunately for us at that very spot there was an entrance to a field and we missed a deep ditch either side of it. He had a very sheepish look on his face as he reversed back onto the road. We drove home at a more sedate 30 mph!
It would have been in the mid-1970s so I'm fairly sure that we would not have had seatbelts on. My friend turned up in his now L-plate-less car, picked me and the other pal up, and then we headed off to minor roads around Corley and Fillongley, NW of Coventry. He got more and more cocky and soon we were doing 60 mph down a narrow, twisty, turny lane. It was fun until he completely misjudged a bend and we shot off the road. Fortunately for us at that very spot there was an entrance to a field and we missed a deep ditch either side of it. He had a very sheepish look on his face as he reversed back onto the road. We drove home at a more sedate 30 mph!
simonali
Guru
Fella at work did exactly the same. Went out to celebrate passing his test and got pinched on the way home!
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
I reckon I witnessed a record being set for the most traffic offences committed in under one minute a few years ago.
It was a quiet Saturday morning in Bristol and I drove our company van back to our yard to swap it for my bike - I had been working away from home.
So I turn into the lane leading to our office which itersects with a second lane at the end. The lane I am driving along is one way but the other is both directions. As I get to the last twenty yards from our yard gate across the other side of the lane in front, a woman in a hatchback appears from around the corner in front of me driving the wrong way
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I stop, she stops and toots the horn for me to reverse. So I wind the window down and point politely at the the one way sign. So she reverses back around the corner, I go forward and into the entrance to our yard. She cuts behind me, drives half on the road, half on the pavement the wrong way up the lane, head cocked one way to shoulder with visible mobile phone balanced on it. Then she stops on double yellow lines, leaves the car and goes into a taxi rank at the top of the lane. As she got out of the car, she gave me a nasty look.
So thats driving on a pavement, driving the wrong way up a one way street, using a mobile phone while driving and parking on double yellows. Four offences in about 45 seconds. A record?. It's one reason why I bought a helmet cam as I normally cycle down the lane into work.
It was a quiet Saturday morning in Bristol and I drove our company van back to our yard to swap it for my bike - I had been working away from home.
So I turn into the lane leading to our office which itersects with a second lane at the end. The lane I am driving along is one way but the other is both directions. As I get to the last twenty yards from our yard gate across the other side of the lane in front, a woman in a hatchback appears from around the corner in front of me driving the wrong way
.I stop, she stops and toots the horn for me to reverse. So I wind the window down and point politely at the the one way sign. So she reverses back around the corner, I go forward and into the entrance to our yard. She cuts behind me, drives half on the road, half on the pavement the wrong way up the lane, head cocked one way to shoulder with visible mobile phone balanced on it. Then she stops on double yellow lines, leaves the car and goes into a taxi rank at the top of the lane. As she got out of the car, she gave me a nasty look.
So thats driving on a pavement, driving the wrong way up a one way street, using a mobile phone while driving and parking on double yellows. Four offences in about 45 seconds. A record?. It's one reason why I bought a helmet cam as I normally cycle down the lane into work.
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