Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...

[DonkeyApple]

Smarter means to clear snow and ice from the road surely?

[S11Steve]

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

Well, it's one way to clear the roads of snow I suppose....

[kowalski655]

Those amber flashing lights are in the wrong place!

[wst]

DonkeyApple said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Tricky one. In some regions (or "zones" as I believe they're called over the 'net) local authorities and Plod are giving Walt Brigades the clout to enforce road closures, so although the road closure has to be established by uniformed police, they can then post a Walty at the cordon and instruct them not to let anyone pass.

Could it not just be a Police policy for keeping hazardous individuals away and in a secure location? A bit like sending the kid on the building site to go and ask for a ‘long standing weight’?

Policeman 1: Ok we have a major incident at....

Policeman 2: Ok, I’ll instruct all the Walt’s to go and stand in fields for the next 12 hours while we sort this out.

And it does save cops from doing an unskilled/boring task.

[pinchmeimdreamin]

S11Steve said:

I've been deployed as an emergency taxi service to drop a few people home from work tonight.

Although I have winter tyres and all wheel drive, it's only a VW Transporter, and not a Land Rover/Frontera/Samurai etc. Nor do I have anything Hi Viz, and no amber lights or winches. I have a got snow shovel in the back though.

I'm not sure if I'm suitable material for these duties. It's quite some responsibility. .

Does your phone have a strobe light type App ?

Borrow some string from the Office and loop it onto the front bumper

Pinch a yellow coat of some description from a colleague

Ensure you take pics of yourself helping said strandees into your Mercy Vehicle

[anonymous-user]

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

How is "being trained" at all relevant to a fault with a vehicle?

[wolfracesonic]

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

My Nan used have an electric fire that gave the effect of real flames....................oh those are real flames. Where any Hi-viz vests harmed?

[S11Steve]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

S11Steve said:

I've been deployed as an emergency taxi service to drop a few people home from work tonight.

Although I have winter tyres and all wheel drive, it's only a VW Transporter, and not a Land Rover/Frontera/Samurai etc. Nor do I have anything Hi Viz, and no amber lights or winches. I have a got snow shovel in the back though.

I'm not sure if I'm suitable material for these duties. It's quite some responsibility. .

Does your phone have a strobe light type App ?

Borrow some string from the Office and loop it onto the front bumper

Pinch a yellow coat of some description from a colleague

Ensure you take pics of yourself helping said strandees into your Mercy Vehicle

I think I redeemed myself by wearing some snow specific Magnum SWAT boots.... A friend used to be a retailer so I got them at a decent price years ago, and they only come out in weather like this.

I did see a few greenlaners out near Chatsworth, but Edale MRT are supporting the local ambulances around here, and to be fair they are doing a great job.

[anonymous-user]

S11Steve said:

Edale MRT are supporting the local ambulances around here, and to be fair they are doing a great job.

Pfftt. What would they know?

[S11Steve]

Crossflow Kid said:

Pfftt. What would they know?

Yeah, I think those guys are a fair few steps above the typical festival car park walts!

[Willy Nilly]

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

The warmest 4X4XFar

[GOG440]

Willy Nilly said:

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

The warmest 4X4XFar

The HATO caused miles of traffic chaos with his little discovery flambe

Did clear all the snow from the motorway though lol

[BossHogg]

We could have done with it to melt the snow on the M6 in my neck of the woods.

[Some Gump]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

Does your phone have a strobe light type App ?

Borrow Commandeer some string from the Office and loop lash it onto the front bumper impact structure.

Pinch Procure a yellow High Vis coat of some description the appropriate EN standard from a colleague.

Ensure you take pics photographic evidence of yourself helping assisting said strandees civilinans into your Mercy Vehicle rescue appliance

FFS some of you clearly didn't take waltEnglish at GCSE.

[M3333]

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

Did another 5 of the bloody menacing things turn up and cone the whole motorway off to one lane leaving a 20 mile tailback?

I am Kidding of course, hope all involved are safe and okay.

[DanielSan]

BossHogg said:

Even those of us trained can come a cropper!

An Uber Walt and the worlds biggest orange beacon! Thread winner

[Henners]

S11Steve said:

Crossflow Kid said:

Pfftt. What would they know?

Yeah, I think those guys are a fair few steps above the typical festival car park walts!

Yup

Much more skilled and better equipped than a bellend with a Frontera, hi-viz, some stty ambers and a misplaced sense of self importance.

Let’s face it, a Walt getting the phone all to say they’re part of Mountain Rescue, therefore getting to wear the coveted fleece, would result in a massive spontaneous orgasm.

As has been repeated time and time again, you don’t need a lift kit, ambers and all that jazz. It’s a bit of snow, meaning Susan can’t get to the ward in her Fiesta, a Jimny would help

[anonymous-user]

The Army, pretending to be Walts....
Who'd have thought?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...

[Henners]

Crossflow Kid said:

The Army, pretending to be Walts....
Who'd have thought?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...

You know what a Walt is, don’t you?

[Rude-boy]

yellowjack said:

Same as being stopped on a public right of way. As happened recently to me. I must have been crossing the land of someone relatively wealthy or famous in some way. Some dude in a Defender rolls up and asks me if I know I'm on private land. I say I'm sure it's a bridleway. He says it is a bridleway, but it crosses private land. "Does that mean I can't use it then?" Apparently I'm OK to use it, but must keep to the marked path. Which was impossible at that point because the bridleway crossed an open field with no defined path, and the exit of the field onto the next section of laned off bridleway was out of sight over a hill. So I kept on going, and he crawled along about 30 feet behind me in the Land Rover and when I went through the gate onto the lane he sat in the Land Rover watching until I went out of sight. I've no idea why these clowns do this kind of thing though,because all it does is draw attention to the presence of something or someone that requires security, when before the interaction I had no idea there was anything remotely of interest in the area, and all I wanted to do was get to an off road MTBing trail area without having to ride on the roads and wear out my expensive, soft compound knobbly tyres.

Land registry will tell you the owner if you do not already know who it is and the owner might be interested to learn how ineffective their security people really are. I have little or no idea about it myself but the one thing i have observed is that discreet security is far more effective. Now you know that there is something interesting up there for sure...