One For Classic Car Fans.....

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Because hierarchy matters! :laugh:

Oh Hell Yes

They were so pleased when they graduated from the 2.0 litre to the 2.3 litre (or whatever it was!

on a similar note at the same time I was often travelling from Liverpool to ALtrincham (just West of Manchester with a colleague

I was male (obviously - OK Ok - stop sniggering at the back) and drive a slightly sporty car

she was clearly female - shoulder length blond hair and female clothes and drove a powder blue Renault 5

after a while we started to keep track of the people who passed us on the motorway
she got passed a lot more than I did
being IT people was looked at the data and synchronised our speed and time of day and re-checked
to zero surprise it made no difference
no matter what we did the "rep mobiles" pretty much always passed us if she was driving - often she would pass one in the middle lane and he(!) would speed up and pass us in the outside lane
if I did the same thing it often would not happen - even at the same speed


our boss - who did like people to think he was misogynistic, long story - suggested that she should cut her hair short and I should wear a wig and check what happened
I think she told him to **** off - which was not unreasonable!

anyway - what was the topic???
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Oh yes, the work car park hierarchy matters.

More than 20 years ago I pulled up at work in my new BMW 7 series and parked it next to the smaller and less expensive Lexus of my then Inspector. This triggered all sorts of questions from professional standards about how I could afford a car that cost £48k back then.

I regarded this as an unjustified interference into my completely lawful personal affairs and initially told them to sodu offu. Eventually the arses reg'd me and served me papers and started a corruption investigatuon, whereupon I gave in and explained how my very wealthy then-wife was a director for a large electrical retailer and earned more than the Chief Constable, and she had bought it because she was a snob and was mortified by my rattly old Peugeot 405.

Meanwhile, investigations into real crimes with real victims were being under resourced while they wasted time on me for nothing more than having a nicer car than my boss.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
This seems as good a place as any to post this.

1947 Riley, video from May 2022.



Polis told me they'd charged the driver with careless driving but I'd only hear any more if it went to court.


The whole point of the poileas charging is to commit a suspect to court, so the drivers visit to court is a matter of when, not if.
 

Ian H

Ancient randonneur
Company cars!

1) Guy in a neighbouring factory was so pleased when he'd made enough to afford a Porsche. A month on from getting it he was distraught. He hated the thing: it was noisy, uncomfortable and had no luggage space. Even worse, the depreciation on driving out of the dealer meant he couldn't afford to change it. We commiserated appropriately [snigger]

2) Sales director of one of my suppliers decided to save a bit of money and buy his sales people a diesel Escort each. Young Colin, one of the reps who I saw, was so upset by the idea of parking this thing where his neighbours could see it, that he 'found' an RS whatever badge, prised the diesel badge off and stuck the other in its place. Sales director later had his Subaru Impreza bling-mobile stolen from the carpark of a hotel. With all his clothes in it.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Careless is likely to go straight to trial with no other hearings, particularly one with such good evidence which would run on the "anticipated guilty plea" track to court.

Indeed, the CPS (Couldn't Prosecute Satan) might drop it, unusual as that may be for something like this.
 
Wednesday 6th


Vauxhall Viva

Outside a derelict pub
Methley
Leeds


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