Horses On The Roads - What's the Law?
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. Interesting results HuntsmanPH said:
Hang on - this is Nick the bassist we're talking about here, isn't it?
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Wonder how the hearing went.
I wouldn't have thought so.<snipped>
Wonder how the hearing went.
The OP seemed genuine enough, as the father of one 'Nick' (no other info given).
Then again, I have only an inkling of the history of 'Nick the Bassist' of PH legend.
Really doubt this is connected though.
Also curious as to the outcome...
Bit of a ...character... who was on PH a few years ago until he was asked to leave, as I understand it. Google "Nickthebassist" to see activity on other sites.
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Can't give a 100% guarantee it's the same chap, but maybe 99.999999999%...
Try this: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Good fun!
First name - check
Surname - check
Region - check
Car - check
Dad's occupation(!) - check
Can't give a 100% guarantee it's the same chap, but maybe 99.999999999%...
Try this: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Good fun!
As much as this hurts Op I think your son deserves this lession. I don't mean that in a horrible way.
I live in an environment where there are always horses. I drive a Cobra/TVR/Motorcycle so I know something about the different types of horse people you meet. Everything from those who are thankful if you slow down, to those who go into one purely because the car you drive is incompatible with their country life.
To give you an example in the summer I was driving the Cobra down the road which is considerably noiser than your sons TVR. Saw two horses about a hundred yards away. Pulled into a driveway and stopped the engine. After an absolute age it took for them to walk up to me, the olderwoman at the back said 'Thats a stupid car to be driving in the countryside, we could hear you a mile away.'
Now I had two chances there. Either
a) F off you old crone, start the car and dissapear with wheelspin, 'Or make progess because I was frightened they may have kicked my car', which I have to say sounds like a manufactured excuse, cos you don't yell p
s off while being scared at the same time. I can understand your his dad, but I think most on here can picture your sons frame of mind at that point.
b) Just hold my hand up, accept the fact she was upset with me, wait for her animal to pass and then be on my merry way.
I suggest your teenage son needs to learn why people in the movies, or on the internet, opt for option a), while people who actual live in these areas opt for b).
On a seperate incident I also got reported and had the communiy support officer turn up at my doorstep for the manner of my driving about a year ago. Some woman in my village had reported me thirteen times because I speed through the village and 'take corners on two wheels without indicating', several times I had attempted to mow her down.
Regardless of the total nonsense of the complaint, the community support officer asked if I would tone it down past her house or take another route to work. After mentioning that if I was trying to mow down a slow moving old lady in a four hundred brake horsepower motorcar, I would be dissapointed if I'd missed thirteen times, I thought this also gives me two options.
I could have reacted angrily and told the plastic police officer what to reply to said curtain peering crone, or simply accept the fact that both pedesrians, and horses are the things that I share the road with and would rather do that in an amicable fashion. Its all part of a road attitude that has nothing to do with the right and wrong legalities in the highway code.
Hopefully your son will meet a magistrate who has a bit of common, although down my way there seems to be quite a correlation between, being a magistrate, being on the parish council, and being horsey.
I live in an environment where there are always horses. I drive a Cobra/TVR/Motorcycle so I know something about the different types of horse people you meet. Everything from those who are thankful if you slow down, to those who go into one purely because the car you drive is incompatible with their country life.
To give you an example in the summer I was driving the Cobra down the road which is considerably noiser than your sons TVR. Saw two horses about a hundred yards away. Pulled into a driveway and stopped the engine. After an absolute age it took for them to walk up to me, the olderwoman at the back said 'Thats a stupid car to be driving in the countryside, we could hear you a mile away.'
Now I had two chances there. Either
a) F off you old crone, start the car and dissapear with wheelspin, 'Or make progess because I was frightened they may have kicked my car', which I have to say sounds like a manufactured excuse, cos you don't yell p
s off while being scared at the same time. I can understand your his dad, but I think most on here can picture your sons frame of mind at that point.b) Just hold my hand up, accept the fact she was upset with me, wait for her animal to pass and then be on my merry way.
I suggest your teenage son needs to learn why people in the movies, or on the internet, opt for option a), while people who actual live in these areas opt for b).
On a seperate incident I also got reported and had the communiy support officer turn up at my doorstep for the manner of my driving about a year ago. Some woman in my village had reported me thirteen times because I speed through the village and 'take corners on two wheels without indicating', several times I had attempted to mow her down.
Regardless of the total nonsense of the complaint, the community support officer asked if I would tone it down past her house or take another route to work. After mentioning that if I was trying to mow down a slow moving old lady in a four hundred brake horsepower motorcar, I would be dissapointed if I'd missed thirteen times, I thought this also gives me two options.
I could have reacted angrily and told the plastic police officer what to reply to said curtain peering crone, or simply accept the fact that both pedesrians, and horses are the things that I share the road with and would rather do that in an amicable fashion. Its all part of a road attitude that has nothing to do with the right and wrong legalities in the highway code.
Hopefully your son will meet a magistrate who has a bit of common, although down my way there seems to be quite a correlation between, being a magistrate, being on the parish council, and being horsey.
that'll be funny to watch I'd bet.simonjacko said:
Hi, Just to even things up a bit. NtB`s father took the TVR off him AGAIN a few weeks ago now.Maybe his father doesn`t believe everything his son tells him.
Where was it established that this is NtB?AFAICS it was an out of context post that started people thinking it, but...
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