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A little while ago today, a chav parked across my drive (which is also a double yellow line). I asked him to move as I was going out, I didn't say anything horrible, I just asked him to move his car. Anyway he turned very nasty very quickly. Anyway I took the number plate from the car, looked it up and surprise surprise he has no tax and no insurance either. (He took my number plate as well, even though it was still parked on the drive, So I guess I'm going to have to watch myself for awhile.)
It just seems like there are group of people out here now, think they can do want they want (well it seems like they can do really). The car has had no tax or insurance since the summer. So I guess its not even in his name. I couldn't see the point of ringing the law because I don't think they will do anything anyway.
Ok, this is more of a rant than anything. But I've worked since I was 16 years old, 6 days a week for a lot of it, went to night school, part time uni and asked for nothing. But now I feel I have to watch my back / properly all the time from people who have done fu*k all with there life, and they don't really have to either, the government will look after them.
And there whole attitude sinks, the whole world is against me thing. I was born in a council estate, and I grew up in Northern Ireland. It just that I got on with my life. They grew up in London with the world at there feet, and did nothing.
Ok, rant over.
It just seems like there are group of people out here now, think they can do want they want (well it seems like they can do really). The car has had no tax or insurance since the summer. So I guess its not even in his name. I couldn't see the point of ringing the law because I don't think they will do anything anyway.
Ok, this is more of a rant than anything. But I've worked since I was 16 years old, 6 days a week for a lot of it, went to night school, part time uni and asked for nothing. But now I feel I have to watch my back / properly all the time from people who have done fu*k all with there life, and they don't really have to either, the government will look after them.
And there whole attitude sinks, the whole world is against me thing. I was born in a council estate, and I grew up in Northern Ireland. It just that I got on with my life. They grew up in London with the world at there feet, and did nothing.
Ok, rant over.
Edited by Noesph on Sunday 3rd January 16:43
Edited by Noesph on Sunday 3rd January 16:44
100% with you there buddy. Worked every day since I left school and it seems that those who have no sense of responsibility, an aggressive attitude and a face like a bulldog licking chili powder off a toilet seat cam achieve more than me without lifting a finger.
Once has some chav stop in their car in the middle of a road to have a conversation with another inbred. Drivers shouting at him to move, came back with something along the lines of "I'll take you all on". Classy.
Once has some chav stop in their car in the middle of a road to have a conversation with another inbred. Drivers shouting at him to move, came back with something along the lines of "I'll take you all on". Classy.
OP, I'm with you mate. My son is an apprentice air conditioning engineer, is 18 1/2 years old, is up at 4:45am most mornings to get on site in London for 7am every week day and in early December some scrote tried to steal his 2 month old Fiesta ST but couldn't get into it due to it being dead locked (testament to Ford security) and caused £1,000 worth of damage by hammering a hole through the drivers door. He can't claim on his insurance as his renewal will go sky high so I had to pay for the damage caused by jealous low life scum. The original door was ruined, so it needed a new door and spraying.
A man wanted to exit his drive but was blocked in by a chav who got nasty when asked to move his car. The man phoned the police, but they told him that no one was in the area to help him at that time, but they would send someone over as soon as they were available.
He said "OK," hung up, and waited one minute, then phoned the police back. "Hello" he said, "I just called you a minute ago because this chav blocked me in, he turned nasty and I was concerned about the situation getting out of control. Well, you don't have to worry about him now 'cause I've shot him."
Within five minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, an Armed Response unit, the works.
One of the officers said: "I thought you said that you shot him!" The man replied, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
He said "OK," hung up, and waited one minute, then phoned the police back. "Hello" he said, "I just called you a minute ago because this chav blocked me in, he turned nasty and I was concerned about the situation getting out of control. Well, you don't have to worry about him now 'cause I've shot him."
Within five minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, an Armed Response unit, the works.
One of the officers said: "I thought you said that you shot him!" The man replied, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
Exige77 said:
REALIST123 said:
Exige77 said:
If you have a firearms marker on your address, the BIB tend to come rather quickly when you call them.
Parrot anyone?If the man in RD's post had a marker, he probably would't have had to have called a second time.
Monkeylegend said:
Exige77 said:
REALIST123 said:
Exige77 said:
If you have a firearms marker on your address, the BIB tend to come rather quickly when you call them.
Parrot anyone?If the man in RD's post had a marker, he probably would't have had to have called a second time.
Exige77 said:
Why the Whoosh ?
If the man in RD's post had a marker, he probably would't have had to have called a second time.
I am aware of the parrot in the room but please let me put this one to bed....If the man in RD's post had a marker, he probably would't have had to have called a second time.
If a house has a firearms certificate against it the job wont be dealt with any quicker unless it actually involves the use of a gun. Even then there will be RV points, control room inspectors viewing the log and typing war and peace on it whilst making their mind up who to send and where those people are so it might actually delay a response!
Never say there is a gun in an attempt to hurry up a response unless there is one as you put a lot of people in harms way and detract small numbers of armed officers from real incidents that require their attendance.
Fort Jefferson said:
La Liga said:
It's estimated 70,000 were seized in 2014
So that's about 10% of uninsured cars then.From my experience of seeing the data of tens of thousands of cars go past ANPR cameras, the total number of uninsured drivers is well over-estimated and always has been. My colleagues who spend all their time driving around with ANPR cameras always think the 1 in 30 estimate is way out.
Although that estimate doesn't have any depth to it. How many miles does the average uninsured driver drive vs an insured one? Does it include vehicles which are not physically on the road but 'on the road' in terms of not having a SORN? I expect it does.
I'm typing out loud here, but perhaps this data can give an indication as to how 'visible' and how much road use (relative to insured drivers) the uninsured do.
The MIB says it deals with 20,000 claims per year of uninsured / untraceable drivers (I assume some could be insured and simply fail to stop and are not traced).
According to this this document, there were 28.4 million private and commercial vehicles insured in 2011, creating just under 4 million claims.
I am assuming 'claim' has the same definition across the MIB and this document. If not the the following may be inaccurate:
There are 0.02 claims per uninsured driver (20k / million).
There are 0.14 claims per insured driver (4 million / 28.4 million).
We're told that uninsured drivers, depending on the source, are 5-10 times as likely to be involved in a collision. If the average uninsured driver drove as much as the average insured driver, then would we not expect to see there be 0.7 - 1.4 claims per uninsured driver?
I would at least suggest the alleged prior probabilities (1 in 30) significantly misrepresents to probability of being caught for those who regularly drive uninsured, or anywhere near as much as the average insured driver.
Exige77 said:
REALIST123 said:
Exige77 said:
If you have a firearms marker on your address, the BIB tend to come rather quickly when you call them.
Parrot anyone?If the man in RD's post had a marker, he probably would't have had to have called a second time.
Not that it matters as it'd make no difference whatsoever in this case.
I had reason to call BIB before Christmas after finding an attempted Burglary.
As it wasn't an emergency by then, I phoned 111 and waited 30 mins to get through to someone.
After reading on here how little interest there is with Burglaries I got on with my day by contacting the insurers and clearing up.
5 mins later the Police arrived. I was very surprised to see them so quickly and told them so. We are in a rural location.
They explained that I had a Firearms marker on my address and they always gave priority to call outs to addresses with Firearms markers.
As it wasn't an emergency by then, I phoned 111 and waited 30 mins to get through to someone.
After reading on here how little interest there is with Burglaries I got on with my day by contacting the insurers and clearing up.
5 mins later the Police arrived. I was very surprised to see them so quickly and told them so. We are in a rural location.
They explained that I had a Firearms marker on my address and they always gave priority to call outs to addresses with Firearms markers.
Greendubber said:
Never say there is a gun in an attempt to hurry up a response unless there is one as you put a lot of people in harms way and detract small numbers of armed officers from real incidents that require their attendance.
Defining the act of scoffing Big Macs as "real incidents" is a bit of a stretch...
mybrainhurts said:
Defining the act of scoffing Big Macs as "real incidents" is a bit of a stretch...
More likely getting a spray tan than a big mac.To be fair they're fast aid trained and quite often tip up quicker than ambulances to stabbings and nast RTC's so they do get about a bit.
Exige77 said:
I had reason to call BIB before Christmas after finding an attempted Burglary.
As it wasn't an emergency by then, I phoned 111 and waited 30 mins to get through to someone.
After reading on here how little interest there is with Burglaries I got on with my day by contacting the insurers and clearing up.
5 mins later the Police arrived. I was very surprised to see them so quickly and told them so. We are in a rural location.
They explained that I had a Firearms marker on my address and they always gave priority to call outs to addresses with Firearms markers.
Might have been even quicker if you phoned 101 As it wasn't an emergency by then, I phoned 111 and waited 30 mins to get through to someone.
After reading on here how little interest there is with Burglaries I got on with my day by contacting the insurers and clearing up.
5 mins later the Police arrived. I was very surprised to see them so quickly and told them so. We are in a rural location.
They explained that I had a Firearms marker on my address and they always gave priority to call outs to addresses with Firearms markers.
Mate of mine had a break in rang police not that interested.
Told them he had shotguns in house and didn't know if they'd gone as ransacked that much could not get to room with cabinet.
Appeared in under 10 mins, impressive as he lives in middle of nowhere, can't put 10 high street in sat nav
Told them he had shotguns in house and didn't know if they'd gone as ransacked that much could not get to room with cabinet.
Appeared in under 10 mins, impressive as he lives in middle of nowhere, can't put 10 high street in sat nav
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