..and we have to share the road with these muppets

[s3fella]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershi...



3 days driving from Gatwick to Wilts? No mobile, "sat nav not working".


WTF. Why didnt he just call home or ask for directions? I hope they take his licence and car off him to dozy cxxt!

[sunbeam_alpine]

I prefer to interpret his actions as "The wife's away, time for a hoon" (I've done this several times myself), and then clutching at an alternative explanation when he realised how much trouble he was in.

[4Q]

"Moroccan-born Mohammed Bellazrak"

Wonder if he's even got a UK License...

[littleredrooster]

I was approached in Rothersthorpe services (M1, J15A Northbound) by a tattooed Essex-boy.
"Gatwick, mate - how much further?"
"Erm....probably about an hour-and-a-bit that way" (pointing south).
"Fekkin' 'Ell - have I missed it? How do I get on to the other side?"

Turns out he'd driven most of the way around the M25, found the M1 and decided it "must be up here, then..."

[Fleckers]

littleredrooster said:

I was approached in Rothersthorpe services (M1, J15A Northbound) by a tattooed Essex-boy.
"Gatwick, mate - how much further?"
"Erm....probably about an hour-and-a-bit that way" (pointing south).
"Fekkin' 'Ell - have I missed it? How do I get on to the other side?"

Turns out he'd driven most of the way around the M25, found the M1 and decided it "must be up here, then..."

why because he is thick and has tatts must he come from Essex ?

most Essex people know that to get to Gatwick they need to use Dartford, I am guessing yourmoron was not from Essex but someout carot crunching sthole that has no idea where their arse is, let alone an Airport

still if the had asked me I would have sent him north as he would have deserved it.

as for the old man lost for 3 day, take his license away and crush the car.

road sigs in this country are ok if you can read, Satnav's only help when you are in little backwater villages, not M23, M25, M1 etc

[Snails]

littleredrooster said:

I was approached in Rothersthorpe services (M1, J15A Northbound) by a tattooed Essex-boy.
"Gatwick, mate - how much further?"
"Erm....probably about an hour-and-a-bit that way" (pointing south).
"Fekkin' 'Ell - have I missed it? How do I get on to the other side?"

Turns out he'd driven most of the way around the M25, found the M1 and decided it "must be up here, then..."

Bing maps reckons it's 104.3 miles! How did he get it that wrong?

[Cotty]

No mention of a map.

[Snails]

I was once in Felixstowe, Suffolk (I work there) and a man stopped me in his car. His wife had the map and his kids were in the back. He asks "Where is the tunnel?" Of course I was slightly confused and he said "The Channel Tunnel?". "Oh, you want Folkestone(Kent)" I replied. His face contorted "Is it very far?" I asked for the map and pointed it out to him and told him how to get there. Apparently he'd already driven from Cheshire. I can imagine his wife received an earful over the course of the 140 miles it is from Felixstowe to Folkestone.

[Negative Creep]

4Q said:

"Moroccan-born Mohammed Bellazrak"

Wonder if he's even got a UK License...

I would imagine that Police have already checked that

[HD Adam]

Negative Creep said:

4Q said:

"Moroccan-born Mohammed Bellazrak"

Wonder if he's even got a UK License...

I would imagine that Police have already checked that

And should be taking it off him.

Lets review the evidence.............

1. Old & probably senile
2. Too stupid to stop at a services and buy a map.
3. Probably too stupid to read a map.
4. Too stupid to retrace his journey
5. Too stupid to stop anywhere and call his family (3 days FFS)

This is the sort of old tit who blunders up the wrong sliproad and heads down a Motorway in the wrong direction.

Only a matter of time if he keeps driving

[John D.]

Snails said:

I was once in Felixstowe, Suffolk (I work there) and a man stopped me in his car. His wife had the map and his kids were in the back. He asks "Where is the tunnel?" Of course I was slightly confused and he said "The Channel Tunnel?". "Oh, you want Folkestone(Kent)" I replied. His face contorted "Is it very far?" I asked for the map and pointed it out to him and told him how to get there. Apparently he'd already driven from Cheshire. I can imagine his wife received an earful over the course of the 140 miles it is from Felixstowe to Folkestone.

[busta]

There's plenty of people about with no sense of direction. A reliance on sat nav only makes this worse. People that would previously have been scared to venture far from home are embarking on longer journeys with no real idea how to get where they are going, and a reliance on a bit of technology that can be rendered useless by forgetting the charger.

Everyone should carry a road map. Even if they aren't very good at reading one, if in a big enough muddle I'm sure anyone could fathom one out if they stared at it for long enough.

[dogbucket]

I seem to get this alot, most recently somebody asking me for directions to Brighton whilst stopped at a petrol garage in West London.

Perhaps they just get in the car and start driving hoping to somehow stumble upon where they want to go.

[Flintstone]

Fleckers said:

why because he is thick and has tatts must he come from Essex ?

most Essex people know that to get to Gatwick they need to use Dartford, I am guessing yourmoron was not from Essex but someout carot crunching sthole that has no idea where their arse is, let alone an Airport

still if the had asked me I would have sent him north as he would have deserved it.

as for the old man lost for 3 day, take his license away and crush the car.

road sigs in this country are ok if you can read, Satnav's only help when you are in little backwater villages, not M23, M25, M1 etc

<considers New Year's resolution not to mock the afflicted>

[CraigyMc]

busta said:

People that would previously have been scared to venture far from home are embarking on longer journeys with no real idea how to get where they are going, and a reliance on a bit of technology that can be rendered useless by forgetting the charger

I'm a consultant, and I travel to customer sites all the time. It's mostly for one-off meetings, and I typically don't visit the same place twice.

I have to do this for work all the time. The detail on a map to actually get me to the places I'm going would require an A-Z of basically every town I go to.

You don't actually need to have a sense of direction to have common sense. The driver in the story apparently has neither.

Sat-Nav has made my job a lot easier, and it's never once broken or taken me to the wrong place. Muppets are muppets with or without technology.

C

[g3org3y]

He's probably on benefits. Deport him.

[Cost Captain]

Just like all technology, it's only as good as the person using it.

I've only been driving 5 years so I've always been around sat navs, and subsequently have poor map reason skills.

But if I was truely lost I would stop at the nearest shop, petrol station, pub or wherever, find out where I was and find out how to get home.

Having said that, I've never been that lost.

[Flintstone]

Cost Captain said:

I've always been around sat navs, and subsequently have poor map reason skills.

Your writing isn't up to much either

[grumble]

and these are the sort of people i have to deal with everyday, i too have a sat nav but it is only use for the last mile or so, anyone who cant read a map shouldnt be on the road or maybe they should have a local licence that only lets them travel a couple of miles from home until they get some more experience

[CraigyMc]

grumble said:

only lets them travel a couple of miles from home until they get some more experience

If they get lost, how do you police this?

Gatwick isn't a million miles from Wiltshire.