Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
Location: away
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Is the average motorist STUPID
Now, with the snow howling down here YET again, and me getting fed up with towing these planks, and my neighbours recommending me for a tow, WTF is up with these people
I live on a 1:15 hill, not a problem and hardly noticable when walking, but today we have idiots still trying to negotiate the hill in Small front wheel drives and getting stuck uphill, and spinning down. Our cars are now in danager too.
One of them I spoke to and asking what was so urgent, apparently he is a Gas engineer on call, his van is too heavy on his drive to move so he is out in his wifes Pug 206. He spun around inches from swmbo's corsa. I did say "so you aint insured then", to which he walked off leaving his car blocking the road partially.
The stupidity of these people is hacking me right off
Rant over
9th Jan 2010 2:00 pm
crwoody
Member Since: 09 Mar 2009
Location: Littleborough
Posts: 2109
Quote Mac - " Is the average motorist effin STUPID "
YES
Thats why our insurance premiums are so high. Clive
9th Jan 2010 5:44 pm
Ken
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Here
Posts: 10865
Doing a butterfies moment on the drive today It took me 55 mins with waffles to get the BMW off the drive today
And 12 seconds to put the defener in its place
9th Jan 2010 6:32 pm
MacLeod 313
Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
Location: away
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Police have put barriers now at the top and bottom, but said I can bypass them.................should do, I took the barriers to the top for them
9th Jan 2010 6:34 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Ken wrote:
Doing a butterfies moment on the drive today It took me 55 mins with waffles to get the BMW off the drive today
And 12 seconds to put the defener in its place
Jazz has been abandoned til spring!!!
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9th Jan 2010 6:39 pm
POINTYED
Member Since: 22 Mar 2008
Location: BURY,LANCS
Posts: 2758
got passed by a speed freak today in his rover 214"sport"on local main road
i was behind 2 cars and a bus in single file and nigel mansel overtook us all hitting the sludge/snow in the middle of the road.ooh he was fast!
then we all passed him as he sat there,the wrong way round, where he had spun and lost control.
i must admit i did gesture him as i went past and so did the person in the freelander behind me.
what a complete ar ole
dunc life is tooooo short.enjoy the moment.dont worry be happy
club BSS
9th Jan 2010 6:43 pm
biskit
Member Since: 23 Dec 2009
Location: in my Mancave.
Posts: 1365
Tell me about it i live at the bottom of a street, the guy across has a BM he wont even move his car in snow its been stuck over two weeks, next to him is a Lexus hibrid, he comes out with bowls of hot water to put under the car wheels, suprise still wont go up the street Daft or what
Derek,
Looks like you could do with someone to move that snow for you...
Doesn't it look pretty.
Trev.
9th Jan 2010 6:58 pm
countrywide
Member Since: 16 Sep 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 6019
That building on the right looks like it is tilting to the right
9th Jan 2010 7:02 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72787
Does a bit but just looked, it's straight!! More snow gets only one response,
it is really pretty, fantastic sun set last night but most peeps are fed up with it. Even the ski slope has problems as the ploughs are blocked by abandoned/badly parked cars!
9th Jan 2010 7:23 pm
robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 2392
MacLeod 313 wrote:
Police have put barriers now at the top and bottom, but said I can bypass them.................should do, I took the barriers to the top for them
Now that's just showing off Rob Smith
Silver rools OK
9th Jan 2010 7:52 pm
stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
Posts: 2330
POINTYED wrote:
i must admit i did gesture him as i went past
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/post123470.html#123470
Perhaps he'd relocated to your neck of the woods? Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
9th Jan 2010 8:00 pm
kevi
Member Since: 18 Mar 2006
Location: in the rhondda valleys
Posts: 945
just waiting for a reason to abandon the works van Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
2 Too many seats now
No trouble so far
tow pack, tasmods sills
IT goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows
9th Jan 2010 8:14 pm
pa28pilot
Member Since: 08 Mar 2009
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 204
Snow Snow bring it on
I got totally cheesed off when one of the naighbours with a bmw decided to move his car and in the process of got his car stuck infront of my drive, hence late for work. No common sense used only stupidity, everyone knows that bmw's are totally crap in the snow. In Germany they use snow chains hence the car is manouverable.
Pitty they don't have snow mode.
My Misses drives a Ford KA and no problems for her in this weather, just put a bag of sand in the boot of the car let the tyres down by two pounds per tyre and set off in second gear and flys up a snow and icy given hill no problems. Don't be blinkered vision, see the world in colour.
9th Jan 2010 8:19 pm
kevi
Member Since: 18 Mar 2006
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Posts: 945
are all bmw rubbish in this weather, x3 x5 x6 how good or bad ?Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
2 Too many seats now
No trouble so far
tow pack, tasmods sills
IT goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows
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Police have put barriers now at the top and bottom, but said I can bypass them.................should do, I took the barriers to the top for them 
ole
i live at the bottom of a street, the guy across has a BM he wont even move his car in snow its been stuck over two weeks, next to him is a Lexus hibrid, he comes out with bowls of hot water to put under the car wheels, suprise 
Daft or what 
