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Pro Bono

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680 posts

97 months

Friday 11th July
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I was interested to read this account of a Porsche owner who made a fraudulent claim after saying he'd been sat in his Porsche when it was hit by a truck. In fact, he was outside the car at the time, and appears to have been having a dump at the side of the road. Unfortunately for him he was filmed on the dashcam of a passing truck.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/man-who-tried-...

I would hope that he's prosecuted for fraud, but I can't find any mention that he was.

But I bet his evacuation was somewhat accelerated when the truck did hit his car! hehe

Countdown

46,354 posts

216 months

Friday 11th July
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What a stupid place to park up.

qwerty360

268 posts

65 months

Friday 11th July
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Even without a fraud charge, I suspect that dropping the entire claim (i.e. the ~60k claim for damage to the car) is a pretty big hit for the driver, as I doubt their own insurer will cover it ('If you hadn't lied to get £5-10k for fake injuries + treatment then other insurer would have been liable for vehicle damage')

(Though would also hope that there would be some contributory negligence for parking up in such a stupid location if the claim hadn't been dropped...)

bigandclever

14,161 posts

258 months

Friday 11th July
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Probably isn't the same Terell who works at Sytner Harold Wood.

otolith

64,186 posts

224 months

Friday 11th July
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How does someone thick enough to think they would get away with that earn enough money to fund one of those?

Killer2005

20,363 posts

248 months

Friday 11th July
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bigandclever said:
Probably isn't the same Terell who works at Sytner Harold Wood.
Right age at least

https://find-and-update.company-information.servic...

Franco5

462 posts

79 months

Friday 11th July
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otolith said:
How does someone thick enough to think they would get away with that earn enough money to fund one of those?
Why does everyone think that anyone with expensive possessions have earnt it or the classic “work hard”. The only people I know with pricey metal have been gifted it, inherited the funds or it’s through nepotism at family businesses.

Franco5

462 posts

79 months

Friday 11th July
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Killer2005 said:
Those companies are worth F all. It’s probably from drugs or Covid bounce back fraud.

spikeyhead

19,362 posts

217 months

Saturday 12th July
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Franco5 said:
Why does everyone think that anyone with expensive possessions have earnt it or the classic work hard . The only people I know with pricey metal have been gifted it, inherited the funds or it s through nepotism at family businesses.
The only people I know with pricey metal have earned it through hard work

Tisy

1,177 posts

12 months

Saturday 12th July
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Based on the video footage, I hope the trucker gets banned for dangerous driving, or at the very least a stiff penalty for DWDCA. The fact that he apparently didn't see the obstruction until he was about 30ft away is pretty shocking, given the lighting, weather condition and visibility at the time. And I say that as a licence holder to drive same.

bad company

21,179 posts

286 months

Saturday 12th July
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Countdown said:
What a stupid place to park up.
Presumably it was an emergency stop, he’d broken down or something?

The registration number T23 REL is now showing on an untaxed Aston Martin.

Pica-Pica

15,733 posts

104 months

Saturday 12th July
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Franco5 said:
Killer2005 said:
Those companies are worth F all. It s probably from drugs or Covid bounce back fraud.
Obviously a powerfully built company director doing his 'squats'.

havoc

32,361 posts

255 months

Saturday 12th July
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spikeyhead said:
Franco5 said:
Why does everyone think that anyone with expensive possessions have earnt it or the classic work hard . The only people I know with pricey metal have been gifted it, inherited the funds or it s through nepotism at family businesses.
The only people I know with pricey metal have earned it through hard work
I know both, in fairness.

Those who are under ~50 though (certainly <40) haven't got there through hard work...or if they have worked hard then at least family connections have, ah...facilitated their own business success.

But when was it ever any different? Stories of people from the wrong side of the tracks 'making it' are outliers that garner a lot of column inches in order to pretend that it's a fair world out there. And who here wouldn't try to give their kids a leg-up if they could? Morally questionable it may be but you'd need to have morals made of granite to hamstring your own offspring's chances in life just on a point of principle...

KungFuPanda

4,572 posts

190 months

Sunday 13th July
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Franco5 said:
otolith said:
How does someone thick enough to think they would get away with that earn enough money to fund one of those?
Why does everyone think that anyone with expensive possessions have earnt it or the classic work hard . The only people I know with pricey metal have been gifted it, inherited the funds or it s through nepotism at family businesses.
Go on then lad, give us a few examples of people who have been gifted expensive cars then.

MustangGT

13,587 posts

300 months

Monday 14th July
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KungFuPanda said:
Franco5 said:
otolith said:
How does someone thick enough to think they would get away with that earn enough money to fund one of those?
Why does everyone think that anyone with expensive possessions have earnt it or the classic work hard . The only people I know with pricey metal have been gifted it, inherited the funds or it s through nepotism at family businesses.
Go on then lad, give us a few examples of people who have been gifted expensive cars then.
I can give you an example from 20-odd years ago. An ex-colleague of mine rocks up to work one day in a 996 Turbo. His parents owned a construction business and this was given him as a 'company car' to minimise tax. He did not even work for the company.

Ian Geary

5,260 posts

212 months

Tuesday 15th July
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Tisy said:
Based on the video footage, I hope the trucker gets banned for dangerous driving, or at the very least a stiff penalty for DWDCA. The fact that he apparently didn't see the obstruction until he was about 30ft away is pretty shocking, given the lighting, weather condition and visibility at the time. And I say that as a licence holder to drive same.
Possibly.

But the video shows there was a silver van that had been to the right hand side of the truck (it appears at the end of the video), so maybe the lorry driver waited until the last minute to see if it would pull clear.

Or possibly not.

They should both get dwdca in my opinion, or whatever the relevant law is for dangerous parking.