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I thank that would have been below the belt. In any event my partner was driving so it was all perfectly legal.
We returned up the M11 in the opposite direction around an hour later half expecting to see some major carnage. There was nothing, it seems that plod managed to shift the numpteys off of the motorway safely which cant have been easy.
See they do some good work after all!
We returned up the M11 in the opposite direction around an hour later half expecting to see some major carnage. There was nothing, it seems that plod managed to shift the numpteys off of the motorway safely which cant have been easy.
See they do some good work after all!
I got sent to a chap changing the rear nearside wheel of his Rover 216 in lane 4 of the M25 at about 2100 hours. He was mighty p1ssed off when my crew mate jumped in and drove it off the jack with no wheel attached to the brake drum onto the hard shoulder whilst I stopped the traffic! (it was obviously front wheel drive) It made a lovely scratch mark in the road surface and the sparks lit up the dusk nicely too.
Also M25, had a family of Asian people in an old Transit van facing East on prayer mats having not long got off a plane at Heathrow. They were on the hard shoulder next to the marginal strip, their heads (6 of them) about 6 inches from violent and sudden death. At least they had put the hazards lights on. Perhaps the horror of the M25 made them feel the need to 'get down on their knees and pray'.
Also M25, had a family of Asian people in an old Transit van facing East on prayer mats having not long got off a plane at Heathrow. They were on the hard shoulder next to the marginal strip, their heads (6 of them) about 6 inches from violent and sudden death. At least they had put the hazards lights on. Perhaps the horror of the M25 made them feel the need to 'get down on their knees and pray'.
wanty1974 said:
I have always been truly amazed by the activities of drivers on the M25 over and above all other roads I've travelled on. Must be an entertaining job doing traffic duty on there!
Yeah, but when it happens time and time and time again I guess that is enough to knock the spirit out of most people.... personally suprised and amazed by some of the stories that get told, I mean it is actually quite rare to have a low IQ (i.e. be clasified as thick or a moron / cretin) but why oh why do we have perfectly normal people doing spectacularily stupid things on our roads.... what on earth possessed that person to try and change a wheel in the outside lane of a Motorway? etc etc etc....
And how do they explain it away later? There are a number of people out there who have done daft things and their family and friends know - would you admit it?
I flashed a guy in front of me (lane 3 M5) as his tyre was so deflated it was starting to pour smoke, and ready to blow. I pointed at the wheel, and he blatantly stuck in the outside lane, thinking I wanted to overtake. I overtook on the inside, head out the window, finally he USED his mirror and saw the smoke, and pulled over just in time..
I flagged down a woman in a Previa once on the M1. One of her rear wheels was loose. The car was driving along at an angle. God knows why she didn't feel something wrong. 
I also had a bit of a job pointing out to a woman on the M40 a while back that one of the tyres on her SLK was flat (as she did 90mph up the motorway!).
I also had a bit of a job pointing out to a woman on the M40 a while back that one of the tyres on her SLK was flat (as she did 90mph up the motorway!).
pbrettle said:
Yeah, but when it happens time and time and time again I guess that is enough to knock the spirit out of most people.... personally suprised and amazed by some of the stories that get told, I mean it is actually quite rare to have a low IQ (i.e. be clasified as thick or a moron / cretin) but why oh why do we have perfectly normal people doing spectacularily stupid things on our roads.... what on earth possessed that person to try and change a wheel in the outside lane of a Motorway? etc etc etc....
I once worked with a girl from the Welsh Valleys who I used to follow home (early morning- after nightshift) and she never ever used the left hand lane of the A470 dual carriageway even though there was no traffic. She was a bit dizzy (blonde and she even admitted she was thick) and her excuse was 'I'm never sure what lane to be in, so I stay near the central barrier for safety'.
Last I heard she was a trolley dolly on BMI.
>> Edited by wanty1974 on Thursday 28th August 11:37
>> Edited by wanty1974 on Thursday 28th August 11:38
wanty1974 said:
Not a sunbed in sight...
Under a suspicious pile of towels maybe
Bloke up the road drove out of the close. But his rear wheel had locked up and despite the squeeling from dunlops finest on tarmacadam he was determined to carry on. Kept stopping and selecting 1st....2nd....oh hang on slowing down. Right 1st....2nd etc for several hundred's of yards. That was one long skid mark (bring on the skid mark joke's)
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