Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
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OpulentBob said:
HE aren't Walts, and "Womble" ain't exactly imaginative, and is hugely disrespectful. Any other Clarkson-isms you want to impress us with, you gigantic bell-end?
Because calling a fellow PH'er a gigantic bell-end is neither offensive or unimaginative? 
Loving your work. 
48k said:
Calling all Walts.....get your tickets for Womblefest 2017
https://twitter.com/HighwaysEngland/status/8495774...
I wanna go to Trafex2017 and meet bosshogg!!! https://twitter.com/HighwaysEngland/status/8495774...
5ohmustang said:
The hub cabs are Buick, could be a le sabre, same thing as an Oldsmobile eighty eight. Just rebadged. Some of Buicks had amazingly comfortable seats with built in style mattress toppers.
I have never known MP patrol cars to be o.d. Green, typically they have a post livery. He must really like his Buick.
Hmm. The lights definitely aren't right for any Le Sabre generation I know. I don't know why I want to know, but I'll work it out. I was thinking an Olds with a Buick hub cap. I have never known MP patrol cars to be o.d. Green, typically they have a post livery. He must really like his Buick.
The mirror being half way down the door is right for a Le Sabre
CoolHands said:
The reporter's name sounds like a character from VizCoolHands said:
So you think its all right for the driver of the car to endanger the lives of marshalls who had legally closed the road, and the runners they were there to protect? You really are a grade-A
ChemicalChaos said:
CoolHands said:
So you think its all right for the driver of the car to endanger the lives of marshalls who had legally closed the road, and the runners they were there to protect? You really are a grade-A
hacksaw said:
ChemicalChaos said:
CoolHands said:
So you think its all right for the driver of the car to endanger the lives of marshalls who had legally closed the road, and the runners they were there to protect? You really are a grade-A
CoolHands said:
Best comment:Jobsworth + Idiot = news
ChemicalChaos said:
Jobsworth? In what way? Because they wouldnt let someone DRIVE INTO THE PATH OF A LIVE MARATHON?
fk me sideways you lot are fking dense and blinkered sometimes
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k me sideways you lot are fking dense and blinkered sometimesIf you drive onto a closed road marathon course where exactly do you think your going to go ?
This is clearly a major issue at a MAJOR event.
If I had been deployed there by Area Command following liaison with other emergency service such as the Police and Lifeboats I would have taken a very different approach. But then I am time-served and well let's just say I've dealt with more difficult situations in the past and in hotter climes. Can't say much about that but I didn't always work in IT support.
Firstly, I would have stopped the driver by targeted use of drones, sorry no I meant cones.
Then I would have hitched up my elastic waist jeans, straightened my Stetson, smoothed down the Velcro on my refelective vest and sauntered over to the vehicle in question.
As I walked over I would have had one hand on my leatherman belt holster and the other on my COMMS as I whispered into in "This is North West Cowboy one niner actual, I have a code 3 situation, repeat a code 3. Over."
"Er Roger that NW Cowboy" Derek in the MOBILE COMMAMD CENTRE would have responded. "Be careful, no heroics even though you often hint at desert based fighting action"
"Roger that Mobile Command, I'll remember your kind words, here we go"
Taking a last sip of my weak lemon drink I would then have knocked on the perps window and flashed my 4x4 badge. "Citizen, you have breached a clearly signed roadblock and are interfering with a MAJOR EVENT to which I have been deployed!"
"Furthermore I have been fully authorised by the Police under the Road Traffic Act to defend this roadblock at all costs, what have you got to say for yourself?"
Well at this point experience tells me the ordinary man in the street would have reversed his vehicle flicked me the Vee's and driven off. Leaving me to chalk up another victory for law and order.
Anyway I would have had no time to muse on this event as my COMMS burst in to life: "water bottles running low at location twelve Alfa six! Cone knocked over in sector one four zero! Can someone get Derek a cheese pasty, no make that two!"
No rest for heroes, time to fire up the 4x4 and let's roll.......!
If I had been deployed there by Area Command following liaison with other emergency service such as the Police and Lifeboats I would have taken a very different approach. But then I am time-served and well let's just say I've dealt with more difficult situations in the past and in hotter climes. Can't say much about that but I didn't always work in IT support.
Firstly, I would have stopped the driver by targeted use of drones, sorry no I meant cones.
Then I would have hitched up my elastic waist jeans, straightened my Stetson, smoothed down the Velcro on my refelective vest and sauntered over to the vehicle in question.
As I walked over I would have had one hand on my leatherman belt holster and the other on my COMMS as I whispered into in "This is North West Cowboy one niner actual, I have a code 3 situation, repeat a code 3. Over."
"Er Roger that NW Cowboy" Derek in the MOBILE COMMAMD CENTRE would have responded. "Be careful, no heroics even though you often hint at desert based fighting action"
"Roger that Mobile Command, I'll remember your kind words, here we go"
Taking a last sip of my weak lemon drink I would then have knocked on the perps window and flashed my 4x4 badge. "Citizen, you have breached a clearly signed roadblock and are interfering with a MAJOR EVENT to which I have been deployed!"
"Furthermore I have been fully authorised by the Police under the Road Traffic Act to defend this roadblock at all costs, what have you got to say for yourself?"
Well at this point experience tells me the ordinary man in the street would have reversed his vehicle flicked me the Vee's and driven off. Leaving me to chalk up another victory for law and order.
Anyway I would have had no time to muse on this event as my COMMS burst in to life: "water bottles running low at location twelve Alfa six! Cone knocked over in sector one four zero! Can someone get Derek a cheese pasty, no make that two!"
No rest for heroes, time to fire up the 4x4 and let's roll.......!
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 7th April 15:29
You do get some right bellends trying to used closed roads and having a rant at the marshals on events like that. I marshaled at the Fleet half marathon the other year and while there had been signs up for a month before hand warning of road closures we still had one woman show up driving her car in what appeared to be pyjamas and a dressing gown, who'd left her house to go to the shop down a road that was closed in the other direction, and then had a right rant about not being able to get back home. Plus another bloke who was shouting about how he hadn't voted for this.
Mind you there were also some very Walty type running radio communications along the course.
For the record I do own a high vis jacket but only because I got one to keep in the boot when driving in France in my two wheel drive car with no stickers or flashing lights on it
Mind you there were also some very Walty type running radio communications along the course.
For the record I do own a high vis jacket but only because I got one to keep in the boot when driving in France in my two wheel drive car with no stickers or flashing lights on it
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