OT Just off to the police station..

Cane wrote

You not been watching the news tonight then? You married blokes ought
to.

 

yes - I rather liked that reply too.

 

The varlet known as Lady Nina did proclaim to all assembled:

Bloody hell!

Nasty!

What is it with Merc drivers, this month?

Good mates, but risky.

Bit of both.
As others have said, be prepared for the shock reaction, later.
You may want to call a mate to come round - often helps.

Get this **** nailed to the fucking floor and clean him out.

GWS, luv!

 

It doesn't happen anymore, we've had quite a few dismissals in the last
few years. These have been two *drivers* in a cab.

South Central are very, very paranoid about it. Mainly as the newly
formed Railtrack's Barristers tried to put the guard in the driving seat
at the Cowden accident (October 1994).

It wasn't so many years ago you could have driven the fucking thing.

 

*ding*

Old and very loud DMU from South Croydon to Oxted through the tunnels either
side of Whyteleafe chalk quarry on the way to a party. (alledgedly)

JB

 

I'm sure I could show my staff pass and get in the cab on some Tube
trains even though you require a cab pass and have to have the driver's
agreement. I simply don't bother to ask because I cannot be seen to be
breaking the rules or inviting a driver to do so. I have no real need
to hold a cab pass either.

And who can blame them really with the litigious structure that has been
put in place.

<waves> BTDTGTTS

 

Could you not just sit at the front of the DLR and pretend?

 

[snip other stuff]

Wow. Glad to hear you and the kids are ok.

I'm guessing there's a bit of detail missing due to a) shock and b)
possibly not wishing to comment until the Police have dealt with it.

Gizza hint where in the world you are, btw...

It sounds just like "German-car-syndrome", I do believe. Put many people,
male or female behind the wheel of an expensive kraut car and it goes to
their 'eads, like. I meet tossers like him (ok, generally not /that/
extreme) all the time.

Often they're bottom-feeding management types or sales reps who've gotten
themselves an entry-level Merc, Beemer or Audi and have ordered it
"debadged" so they can swank around and pretend its the model that
actually costs an extra £60k.

I'm not sure who're worse, mind; the ones in the aforementioned "wannabe"
category or the myopic old fuckards in the real thing who have expensive
legal-aid on call just in case...

Wankers.

Anyhoo, best of luck getting it sorted and I hope the **** goes down for
it.
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sweller says...

Cowden was before 1994 wasn't it? My ex's brother lives in Cowden and I
am sure the crash happened before I ever visited there from May 1994
onwards.

 

15th October 1994

 

Or the people who go on about this kind of thing as if it were fact?
Difficult one.

I mean normally it's BMW drivers but since this was a Merc I guess it's all
German cars.

Incidents of what I would call genuine road rage [1] I've experienced in
the last few years were with other driver in:

knackered old Astra.
previous model Micra.
ancient Volvo estate (female).

This is a small sample but I think this is conclusive proof that it never
involves drivers of brand new cars.

[1] Where words were exchanged or very silly behaviour resulted.

 

sweller says...

Blimey, it was too. I was sure I knew of Cowden before I met her, purely
because there had been a well publicised train crash there.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Mid teens, me and my mate were taking a shortcut through a shunting yard
when a shunting engine came along and the driver asked us if we fancied
a go. It was just a dirty old diesel shunter, but it was fascinating to
a pair of 15-year-olds.

Can't see that happening now.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Make me an offer, I know the people who are putting the Wirksworth to
Duffield line back into service. Old diesels, no idea what sort,
trains have never done it for me.

 

On Tue, 11 May 2004 22:28:05 +0100, Wik

Thanks to everyone for comments here, txts, emails and phone calls -
appreciated.

Yeah, I'm out of numb and into angry, so I guess wobbly will hit in a
bit.

What I said is pretty much it, he came screaming round a corner, I was
already well commited, couldn't reverse because there were kids behind
me and he only needed to go back 2 cars length, I had about 7 behind
me.

Derbyshire. And a search on his plate reveals it is registered to a
bentley not the clk 320 he was driving - naughty.

He was (according to coppers, I have no idea not being a follower of
fashion) in an Armani suit and he owns a local business - I'd love to
know which one, but whichever it is the female copper who took my
statement is no longer getting something from there. I'd blow away in
astrong breeze and he's a big bloke.

Not in this case apparently.

yeah as I left he was still in the cells screaming for his brief -
again female copper pointed out that this hadn't made him popular.

Ta. If he hasn't got previous and holds his hands up he'll get a
slapped wrist. I'm probably not going to bother with the personal
injury thing but I am fucked off because my throttle hand is
enormously swollen and I'm not sure if I'll be able to go out on the
new toy tomorrow

 

When I was in the same boat a few years ago they came round to take the
pictures. I'd been out cycling with the kids, and it was the passenger (the
owner of the car) who attacked me for getting in his road space. It
eventually went to court, It was most enlightening, He and his driver had
(rehearsed) identical stories but when asked outside the rehearsal they were
completely different, and his friend dropped him right in it. Turned out
after he was found guilty and his previous was read out² he was banned from
driving and had a suspended sentence awaiting him. He appealed, and while in
custody he was convicted of further offences after mine (driving whilsr disq
and obstructing police.) He withdrew his appeal, but not until everyone had
spent most of the day in court again.

² most recent was parking outside cop shop on the grass and going on a booze
up, then returning at 2am well over limit and driving off noisily - whilst
already banned from driving for a similar offence. The van he was driving was
a works van - he had a job as a *driver!*.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote in

"dirty old diesel shunter" - that's a new one one me

I expect he's been arrested by now.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Best of luck in taking the fucker to the cleaners.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

He let us play with the knobs and everything.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Lady Nina <>
saying something like:

Copper search, or did you query the RAC site (which can sometimes throw
up wrong info)?

It was ABH. **** him - don't let the arsehole away with it, go see a
solicitor tomorrow.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10