What has your "friend" been up to?
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My friend once loudly told an elderly disabled woman that she was a "bitter and twisted old woman" whilst in a shop full of customers. This was after she unjustifyably compalined to him about his parking and started an argument.
He has also twice outrun the police. Once because he was driving too enthusistically and was a bit mentally unstable and once because he really badly needed to urinate.
He has also torn the speedomoter cable in half on his first car after he carried too much speed over a hump backed bridge and the cable got caught between the car and the ground on landing.
He may have also have attempted to remove a head bolt by turning it the wrong way, resulting in it snapping off. Gluing it back in was only a temporary solution despite his hoping otherwise.
He has also twice outrun the police. Once because he was driving too enthusistically and was a bit mentally unstable and once because he really badly needed to urinate.
He has also torn the speedomoter cable in half on his first car after he carried too much speed over a hump backed bridge and the cable got caught between the car and the ground on landing.
He may have also have attempted to remove a head bolt by turning it the wrong way, resulting in it snapping off. Gluing it back in was only a temporary solution despite his hoping otherwise.
Last week my friend was only saved from reversing his van into the father in law's brand new car by the frantic banging on the van by his wife.
He has also had a row with an old busybody in a car park regarding his perfectly acceptable parking.
He forgot to turn the power off when fitting fluorescent lights in his garage and was only saved from being flung across the garage from the stepladder by insulated wire cutters.
He also swivelled his motorbike around on it's sidestand by gripping the peg with his right hand and the hot exhaust with the inside of his right forearm, david carradine/kung fu style.
He has also had a row with an old busybody in a car park regarding his perfectly acceptable parking.
He forgot to turn the power off when fitting fluorescent lights in his garage and was only saved from being flung across the garage from the stepladder by insulated wire cutters.
He also swivelled his motorbike around on it's sidestand by gripping the peg with his right hand and the hot exhaust with the inside of his right forearm, david carradine/kung fu style.
antspants said:
Breadvan73 said:
- Reversed a brand new BMW into a bollard.
We might have the same friend, although mine ignored his parking sensors and reversed his BM into a lamppost - the blind tit! 
king house.gareth.e said:
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LeeThr said:
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Lefty said:
Was offered "anything he wanted" by a female student tenant in lieu of rent. Then made the mistake of starting a thread on PH about it with a pseudonym.
Link?I'm waiting!
Thankfully. There was a wee bit of mickey taking
My friend was one of those kids whom you would see either on crutches or with an arm in a sling almost literally every other week for the duration of their school years.
At approx age 10, same friend broke an arm, as a result of the bag of sausages he'd picked up for his Mum getting entangled in the spokes of the front wheel of his Raleigh Burner, throwing him over the bars and onto the road.
10 years later, same friend broke an arm after colliding with another friend in mid-air, whilst downhill mountain-biking through a forest. The other friend suffered a fractured skull and facial abrasions requiring plastic surgery.
As an apprentice mechanic, same friend's foot slipped off the clutch as he reversed a customer's car in the works forecourt, causing him to collide with 2 other customer's cars and resulting in him almost being sacked.
On passing his driving test, same friend had a very tidy SR Nova, which was his pride and joy. On a dark and very wet evening, some yoofs (pedestrians, dressed in dark clothes) were messing around not far from his home, playing chicken with other cars etc. They ran into the road in front of same friend's car, he swerved to avoid them, mounted the kerb and ploughed into the remainder of their group - who weren't playing chicken, but merely standing on the footpath. One of them was shunted over a garden wall and suffered a broken leg and collarbone. Fortunately, same friend didn't lose his licence because approx 30 mins before the incident, a taxi driver had called the Police to report the yoofs' dangerous behaviour - telling Police that "someone's going to get themselves killed."
Same friend was only insured TPFT on the Nova and repaired it at his own cost. On doing so, he was racing another friend (the one who later fractured his skull, above), also in an SR Nova. Same friend lost it at a very large roundabout on a dual carriageway and, in fact, went over the roundabout as opposed to round it at high speed, hitting a lamppost and knocking it down. Another friend, who is powerfully built, was sitting in the back at the time, not belted in. The force of the impact threw him forward so hard that he ripped the driver's seat out of its mountings and suffered a dislocated shoulder. This time, the Nova was written off.
I haven't seen same friend for several years, but last I'd heard was that he'd married the daughter of the boss of a very large household-name company and was doing rather well.
At approx age 10, same friend broke an arm, as a result of the bag of sausages he'd picked up for his Mum getting entangled in the spokes of the front wheel of his Raleigh Burner, throwing him over the bars and onto the road.
10 years later, same friend broke an arm after colliding with another friend in mid-air, whilst downhill mountain-biking through a forest. The other friend suffered a fractured skull and facial abrasions requiring plastic surgery.
As an apprentice mechanic, same friend's foot slipped off the clutch as he reversed a customer's car in the works forecourt, causing him to collide with 2 other customer's cars and resulting in him almost being sacked.
On passing his driving test, same friend had a very tidy SR Nova, which was his pride and joy. On a dark and very wet evening, some yoofs (pedestrians, dressed in dark clothes) were messing around not far from his home, playing chicken with other cars etc. They ran into the road in front of same friend's car, he swerved to avoid them, mounted the kerb and ploughed into the remainder of their group - who weren't playing chicken, but merely standing on the footpath. One of them was shunted over a garden wall and suffered a broken leg and collarbone. Fortunately, same friend didn't lose his licence because approx 30 mins before the incident, a taxi driver had called the Police to report the yoofs' dangerous behaviour - telling Police that "someone's going to get themselves killed."
Same friend was only insured TPFT on the Nova and repaired it at his own cost. On doing so, he was racing another friend (the one who later fractured his skull, above), also in an SR Nova. Same friend lost it at a very large roundabout on a dual carriageway and, in fact, went over the roundabout as opposed to round it at high speed, hitting a lamppost and knocking it down. Another friend, who is powerfully built, was sitting in the back at the time, not belted in. The force of the impact threw him forward so hard that he ripped the driver's seat out of its mountings and suffered a dislocated shoulder. This time, the Nova was written off.
I haven't seen same friend for several years, but last I'd heard was that he'd married the daughter of the boss of a very large household-name company and was doing rather well.
My "friend" accidentally sat on the garage plipper thing when reversing his old car out of the garage and ended up clobbering the bottom of the door with the roof of his car. Luckily there was no damage to my his car, and it was a shed anyway so it didn't matter. The door suffered a harsher fate though and ended up needing replacing.
Same "friend" also saw an empty parking space at work and nabbed it. The car in front drove off but my friend didn't think anything of it. My friend then came back to his car and saw a PCN for parking on a yellow line
Same "friend" also saw an empty parking space at work and nabbed it. The car in front drove off but my friend didn't think anything of it. My friend then came back to his car and saw a PCN for parking on a yellow line
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