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What dash cams are good at.
6th Sep 2023 1:18 pm
disco chris
Member Since: 25 Apr 2022
Location: London
Posts: 288
Thanks all for the replies on that one, especially Brian. Sadly I don't have a dash cam and assumed any reporting would just descend into a 'he said she said' type dispute and just be a waste of my time and energy.
However I will report to McDonalds and see what they come back with.
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6th Sep 2023 1:38 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14437
You have his spit and DNA............ D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
but ... if he loses that job, he might end-up as your local EVRI driver and will have so many opportunities to have his revenge
6th Sep 2023 3:10 pm
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10355
One of my best pals is a hgv driver, and one of his hates is the way some of his counterparts use the trucks as, in his words, weapons.
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6th Sep 2023 3:48 pm
pjm-84
Member Since: 04 Oct 2016
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2595
Wife.
We have security cameras. Just caught her driving off the kerb which she always denies doing. So glad I didn't allow her to have 22in rims and 30 aspect low profile tyres.
Ha ha! My wife went away on business and came back with the door and wing of her Saab 9-5 dented and with blue paint in the scrapes. This happened while her car was in the railway station car-park. Incensed, I got onto the BTP, asking them to review their CCTV. When she overhead this call, she confessed!
2015 Volvo V40
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6th Sep 2023 5:50 pm
sarumlight
Member Since: 06 Nov 2008
Location: Off the Plain
Posts: 1592
There’s something wrong with driving off kerbs?
Maybe I’ve been driving a Disco too long
6th Sep 2023 7:31 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13565
pjm-84 wrote:
Wife.
We have security cameras. Just caught her driving off the kerb which she always denies doing. So glad I didn't allow her to have 22in rims and 30 aspect low profile tyres.
I always say "ah, poor tyres" when SWMBO drives off kerbs and that's with 16in / 55 aspect ratio tyres. I probably wouldn't say it if she carefully drove off rather than performing the kerb equivalent of an emergency start. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
6th Sep 2023 8:50 pm
Icarus
Member Since: 15 Jul 2023
Location: Essex
Posts: 100
Personal fly-tipping affront.
Put my 2 wheelie bins out earlier this afternoon. One for Garden refuse and one (with only 1small black sack in it) of household rubbish.
Then SWMBO and I went out to get a few bits, stopped and had a nice meal out, getting back around 6.45pm.
While we were out, some ar****le(s) dumped 2 full Royal Mail bags full of rubbish from a solar panel install alongside the our wheelie bins, plus more in the garden waste bin. Obviously the Local Council bin guys won’t take any of that - it’s commercial waste, not household.
We live on a busy B road, and they did this in broad daylight in the middle of the early evening rush hour. No idea why they ignored the other 14 houses that line the road, other than we live nearest to a roundabout, so they probably had to slow down, and just seized the moment.
So here was I, at nearly 80 years of age, in this heatwave, re-packing this rubbish it to make it acceptable for kerb- side collection, and putting the rest in my Disco4 ready for a tip run tomorrow.
Words fail me…….
6th Sep 2023 9:10 pm
Brian Considine
Member Since: 05 Dec 2022
Location: Nr Margate
Posts: 280
disco chris wrote:
However I will report to McDonalds and see what they come back with.
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Please let us know how you get on with them.
7th Sep 2023 10:37 am
Brian Considine
Member Since: 05 Dec 2022
Location: Nr Margate
Posts: 280
al cope wrote:
One of my best pals is a hgv driver, and one of his hates is the way some of his counterparts use the trucks as, in his words, weapons.
Al
One of my hates too. There is no need for it, I've been fortunate to have been able to walk away from the "Traffic Desk Facists" who expect you to drive like your rear end was on fire, bully your way through traffic & bend the rules. I always made sure that I had the means to get home should I decide to leave the truck wherever I happened to be.
Best work until I retired (or semi-retired) was for an "upmarket" supermarket chain - no pressure, truck loaded for you, unloading easy & a very well maintained fleet. Just how it should be.
Now, I work part time, on call for the County Council driving a Gritter/Snowplough.
Brian ! how very dare you mention gritters and snowploughs this early in the year!!!
forum etiquette is we have a spate of
"why is there smoke coming out of the nearside front wheelarch ?" questions,
followed by
"I opened the bonnet to see where the smoke was coming from and found a connector just behind the grille. what is it for ?"
BEFORE we get round to snowplough/gritter/wheelie-bin questions.
7th Sep 2023 11:32 am
Scott #55
Member Since: 15 Apr 2015
Location: UK
Posts: 1683
Re: Personal fly-tipping affront.
Icarus wrote:
Put my 2 wheelie bins out earlier this afternoon. One for Garden refuse and one (with only 1small black sack in it) of household rubbish.
Then SWMBO and I went out to get a few bits, stopped and had a nice meal out, getting back around 6.45pm.
While we were out, some ar****le(s) dumped 2 full Royal Mail bags full of rubbish from a solar panel install alongside the our wheelie bins, plus more in the garden waste bin. Obviously the Local Council bin guys won’t take any of that - it’s commercial waste, not household.
We live on a busy B road, and they did this in broad daylight in the middle of the early evening rush hour. No idea why they ignored the other 14 houses that line the road, other than we live nearest to a roundabout, so they probably had to slow down, and just seized the moment.
So here was I, at nearly 80 years of age, in this heatwave, re-packing this rubbish it to make it acceptable for kerb- side collection, and putting the rest in my Disco4 ready for a tip run tomorrow.
Words fail me…….
Report it as fly-tipping. The council may have cameras which would catch the .
However I will report to McDonalds and see what they come back with.
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Please let us know how you get on with them.
You might be surprised: I reported a bus driver for leching at a young girl: the GPS track and the video of the cab had him 'bang to rights' and he was sacked.
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No idea why they ignored the other 14 houses that line the road, other than we live nearest to a roundabout, so they probably had to slow down, and just seized the moment.
