doing my bit to combat the asylum-seeker menace

ta - slightly painful wrist, but that's it.

err, no - to what address?

 

looked *no* way, AFAICS.

almost no damage to anything. The 7R *might* have some more scratches,
but it's impossible to tell.

 

it was dark...

 

blatantly.

 

someone from a kebab shop produced a chair, and made her sit down on
it, and told her about 50 times: "that was your own fault, you know
that, don't you"? Which I'm sure she appreciated.

You'll have to dig it out from the undergrowth in my back garden.

 

oddly enough, the little collision seems to have fixed the brakes. I
think the 7R was just thinking it'd been too long since it had a nice
lie down on the comfy tarmac.

 

not this time.

 

heh.

Err, sorry I crashed your bike, Ben...

 

Oh, don't worry about that - I'm fully intending to lob your RGV down
the track as soon as I can get back to England.

 

When I was the witness for the driver in BusLady incident I just filled
in some forms (both bus company and police). The police phoned to
arrange a statement but then phoned again a few days later to cancel as
they had finished with their enquiries.

From that I can only assume they chose not to proceed against the driver.

Hmm, BusLady had a head scarf... Are you sure there isn't some team on
Ninja East Europeans trying to assassinate you?

Don't get too full of yourself though; it's obvious they're only sending
out the trainees.

 

Is that going begging?

 

err, "no".

It'd be worth actual money if I could get around to getting it fixed.

 

good man.

 

<worth a try>

 

I decided to wait and be a witness because :-

a) I saw the whole thing from start to finish. I suspect no one else was
in that position.
b) I felt sorry for the scooter rider as he never stood a chance and the
usual presumption (IME) is that it is the vehicle and not the pedestrian
that has done something "wrong". All this poor chap could be accused of
is his inability to see through solid objects.

The Police took a statement and they then followed up weeks later to
confirm the details. Nothing else happened and I didn't check on the
outcome. You can draw your own conclusions as to how useful any of that
is.

Pedestrians these days seem to think they have a god given right to step
out into moving traffic - regardless of speed - and just expect everyone
and everything to stop or somehow not crash into them. This belief also
seems to extend to not caring if motorists are then hurt or smash their
vehicles into each other. These self same people would probably go
berserk if someone walked out in front of their moving vehicle in the
same manner. I find the whole thing bizarre.

 

Seriously though, in France something like this would (IIRC) be covered
under the TP's household insurance (should they have insurance) [1].
Couldn't this work in the UK too? (I've never had the misfortune to be
in a situation like this).

[1] It may even be the case, that if she was going home from work, then
this would be classed as a work accident, thereby covered under her
company's insurance policy. This bit I'm not sure about though.

 

Nah, I'll do a "no win, no fee" job on her. What's her address, darsy?

 

darsy emerged from their own little world to say

you at sticky

 

In theory, yes, you can claim.

In practice, it's difficult. Especially as not everyone (not by a long
chalk) has household insurance anyway.

 

ah, right. I didn't bother with any of that police nonsense.