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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: V8MoneyPit on November 02, 2006, 15:08:52
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/video/view_broadband/519.html
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Ouch! That'll be expensive but it serves the stupid bas***ds right!
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The chelsea tractor hit it quite hard. Had the back wheels off the ground :shock:
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It was posted before somewhere, but man its still funny to watch lmao
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LOL ROFL :(biglaugh):
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Mint, some people just cannot read! LOL
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The chelsea tractor hit it quite hard. Had the back wheels off the ground :shock:
thought it was one of those mazda mpv thingies????????????
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RAV4 by the looks of it, far to down market for Chelsea ;)
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fell out me chair lafin.
i could watch people doing that all day long.
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I can't believe people are really that dense.
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that was soooo funny !! oh to work in a shop opposite them i'd get stuff all done.
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when i was a kid, in venture scouts.. one of the other local units had a leader who was a real numpty... he was a copper and drove a 110...
one winter, after heavy snow, he spotted a snowman on the pavement that local kids had built... being the fool that he was, he thought it would be hilarious to run it over at high speed, sending snow flying everywhere...
it would have worked a treat, had the kids not built the snowman around a 3' high concrete bollard....
if you are reading this, hi Nick... ya numpty.
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Funny as hell but on a serious note I think there are grounds for suing the council, if the bollards can come up that quick underneath a car, that first MPV, the one that leaves the ground, well it looks llike it had kids in the back. Suddenly it's not so funny. For a laugh I'd park on top of the bollards and try getting a picture for the "getting some flex" thread :roll:
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Funny as hell but on a serious note I think there are grounds for suing the council, if the bollards can come up that quick underneath a car, that first MPV, the one that leaves the ground, well it looks llike it had kids in the back. Suddenly it's not so funny. For a laugh I'd park on top of the bollards and try getting a picture for the "getting some flex" thread :roll:
I Always thought things like this had to have saftey stops?
Imagine that happening to a motorcyclist or pushbike? Even someone with a pram/buggy.
Nort America they use things called bus traps which are far worse. Basically a foot wide foot deep ditch with a collapsible plate over it. Tend to fine people tearing wheels off or cartwheeling out of them :shock:
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Funny as hell but on a serious note I think there are grounds for suing the council, if the bollards can come up that quick underneath a car, that first MPV, the one that leaves the ground, well it looks llike it had kids in the back. Suddenly it's not so funny. For a laugh I'd park on top of the bollards and try getting a picture for the "getting some flex" thread :roll:
They are there for a reason, reasons we or other drivers may not agree with but none the less, they won't exist without the necessary signage.
Looks to me to be a symptom of:
a) People driving out of habit rather than reading the road & signs
b) People trying to be smart cuz they think they are "special".... special needs more like!
Skibum
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If you watch carefully, they stop the moment of impact. There is no reason for them to come up any slower IMHO. If they did the drivers trying to run the gauntlet behind a bus would get through and endanger others driving so close to the bus.
As said above. There will be signs. If people are stupid enough not to see them, it is there own problem.
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when i was a kid, in venture scouts.. one of the other local units had a leader who was a real numpty... he was a copper and drove a 110...
one winter, after heavy snow, he spotted a snowman on the pavement that local kids had built... being the fool that he was, he thought it would be hilarious to run it over at high speed, sending snow flying everywhere...
it would have worked a treat, had the kids not built the snowman around a 3' high concrete bollard....
if you are reading this, hi Nick... ya numpty.
:lol: :lol: :lol: ....Priceless.
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Then here's another thought, the royal mail van cango through, the city link/ups/courier cannot. Smacks of a monoply to me.
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Then here's another thought, the royal mail van cango through, the city link/ups/courier cannot. Smacks of a monoply to me.
Oh you are such a cynic.... you would never catch me thinking like that :wink: :lol:
Or maybe it's just white vans that are not allowed through? :lol:
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I know of one with a sign that has wording to the effect of "no through route except for busses and other authorised vehicles" continuing with "do not proceed beyond this point unless the green light is showing". The bollard rises a bit slower than the ones in the clip; a car tried to follow through and the bollard went through the fuel tank - petrol everywhere!
That type of bollard was only introduced because of people that think they can go bombing through part-time pedestrianised or restricted traffic (e.g. busses only) areas as if it is a normal road and that nothing can be done about them. The bollards have been put in to stop them. If they smash their vehicles up on them, tough. I hope that they had to pay out of their own pockets for the repairs since they were blatantly flouting local traffic regulations.
As far as couriers other than the post office gaining access - they should ask the relevant council for a permit.
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More in this BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi?redirect=st.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=6181758) clip.
I hate it when people think they're above the rules and try to cheat (especially when they're driving poseur cars), so I just love this stuff!
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Just to throw more fuel on the fire...
A motorcyclist lost a leg on the same type of bollard a few days back. I'll see if I cant get the details. Seems they dont stop for things like that.
Also waiting to see a vid of one of the local chavs standing on it as it goes up :)
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I agree. I used to be a courrier and my firm purchased a permit to drive a pedestrian area during certain hours.
If firms, husslers or joe public are to tight or dumb then its there hardluck !