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  On 09/03/2022 at 16:31, cort1977 said:

Not that I agree with them, but would this actually count as criminal damage?  The tyre can be inflated again without permanent damage.  Maybe they are smarter than we think.

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I wonder if sitting 2 tons of car on flat tyres could potentially damage them?

I had a flat on the works van t'other week and while hobbling along at 15mph trying to find somewhere that wasn't a snowy ditch to pull over I went over a speedbump and blew the tyre up. I suspect somebody hopping in a nice modern car with sound deafening galore might not notice a half flat tyre until one goes bang on a bump. Assuming they don't have tyre pressure sensors, obviously.

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 09:24, HillmanImp said:

Some see you next Tuesday has keyed the Elgrand. 

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3 panels. I've not owned it long enough to piss anyone off in it. 

Apparently some kid nearby has been caught doing someone elses. However, I've no evidence it was him and will have to suck it up. Presume it was a bit ago when it was parked on the road as they'd struggle to do it on that side on the drive. 

Been and got a quote to tidy this and all the other scuffs and scrapes and have been quoted £1500 for a full bottom half respray. Bummer. 

I'd probably not have bothered before but with this I may as well. 

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I had a mate who did body refinishing.

When anyone turned up with a job like yours, he always advised leaving it for 3 months. 'To let the dust settle'.

If it is someone with a grievance, or even without, they often take great pleasure in doing it again knowing you have wasted your money, and won't pay twice.

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  On 09/03/2022 at 20:53, Mally said:

I had a mate who did body refinishing.

When anyone turned up with a job like yours, he always advised leaving it for 3 months. 'To let the dust settle'.

If it is someone with a grievance, or even without, they often take great pleasure in doing it again knowing you have wasted your money, and won't pay twice.

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The chap who I'm looking at taking it to is booked up till May anyhow so thats probably takes care of that. 

Apparently some other cars have been done too on the next street. Probably kids.

Mrs wants CCTV now though in case her car gets done, which is more money that this is costing me. 🙄

It almost certainly happened on the road though. 

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 16:58, RoverFolkUs said:

'interfering with a motor vehicle' is an offence and I'm sure tampering with the tyre valves would be classed as a sufficient extent of interference 👍

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I looked this up and interfering with a motor vehicle is an offence under the criminal attempts act 1981 but only if it is part of an attempt to steal the vehicle. 

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/47/section/9#:~:text=(1)A person is guilty,himself or some other person.

Its got to be some kind of offence but very much doubt the CPS would charge anyone let's face it.

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  On 09/03/2022 at 21:51, cort1977 said:

I looked this up and interfering with a motor vehicle is an offence under the criminal attempts act 1981 but only if it is part of an attempt to steal the vehicle. 

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/47/section/9#:~:text=(1)A person is guilty,himself or some other person.

Its got to be some kind of offence but very much doubt the CPS would charge anyone let's face it.

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Good point. Perhaps not interfering with a motor vehicle 1981 then, I hadn't looked into it that closely. 

In that case it might be more to do with the public nuisance offences (just as with any other activist group) or perhaps under the road traffic act 1988 which has a very grey area around interfering with a motor vehicle for contexts outside of theft. 

It could in theory be criminal however as you say, I doubt anyone would be convicted over it unless they take it to the extreme and do something to a car that could be seen as attempted manslaughter like tampering with the brakes in some way

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 14:06, Zelandeth said:

Shopping for a new office chair.  My back isn't the best so actually wanting something halfway decent.  Holy hell they are expensive.  I've always had secondhand ones (best of which was bought for £10 from my old work when we were moving offices), or built my own.  Never bought a new one before...well other than in my student days, but that was a £20 Argos job that fell to bits after about 12 months.

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https://www.2ndhnd.com/collections/steelcase/products/steelcase-lets-b-hi-back-task-chair-with-new-black-leather

 

I can highly recommend this place, though they no longer have stock of my chair.

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 21:51, cort1977 said:

I looked this up and interfering with a motor vehicle is an offence under the criminal attempts act 1981 but only if it is part of an attempt to steal the vehicle. 

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So you're saying that if I want to go round pub car parks on a Friday night lifting up everyone's rear windscreen wipers, I can?

Lovely!

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 23:07, Crackers said:

So you're saying that if I want to go round pub car parks on a Friday night lifting up everyone's rear windscreen wipers, I can?

Lovely!

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Probably! I know what you mean!

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 23:07, Crackers said:

Ok, that sounded better in my head...

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It's Thursday. Chill.

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 23:18, High Jetter said:

It's Thursday. Chill.

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Am I low on batteries or has East Sussex migrated to a new time zone? 

Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 23:42, Crackers said:

Am I low on batteries or has East Sussex migrated to a new time zone? 

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It's Thursday now!

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Been reading the local rag, and the council are planning to turn a major road into no parking / stopping / loading at all times. A man on said road has objected as he has to stop to open his gates to then park his car. Councillor fuckface is quoted as saying they intend to ignore his objection "as nobody has the right to park outside their house". Bit tough shit then if you don't have off street parking and live there or want to order from Amazon.

My mind then wonders a bit... If I was to suddenly become wealthy, I would register "terrible cars LTD", a new challenger to Cazoo. My USP would be if you wanted to buy one of my cars your part ex must be in terrible condition, but with a valid* MOT. Obviously within a short period of time the entire stock would be terrible cars. Which I would park outside councillor fuckface's house, and all around his area. 

Probably a good job I don't have any money.

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Posted
  On 09/03/2022 at 14:01, cobblers said:

With all due respect, if someone read that and didn't realise it was the most obvious piece of satire, then now I understand why nigerians still send so many emails out

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https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/why-this-whole-ukraine-invasion-thing-is-a-scam-to-claim-asylum-by-priti-patel-20220301217954

There are more factual news websites. And this one is better. 

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I would like to apologise for the inconvenience I obviously caused the cyclists who just saw it fit to make me fold myself into the brambles hanging over the redway so they could stay three abreast and continue their conversation.

I'll endeavour to make myself and the dog fully two dimensional next time.

I'm sure dropping into single file (or even bearing slightly to the left) would have absolutely killed you.

Can I send you the bill for the sweater I just wrecked picking myself and the dog out of the brambles?

P.s. I am also a cyclist which is why such nonsense hacks me off so much, it's you bloody idiots that make everyone else hate us!

Posted
  On 10/03/2022 at 11:55, Zelandeth said:

make me fold myself into the brambles

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Just don't move that far.  If cyclists are 3-abrest and taking up the entire path, only move slightly out of the way, meaning the cyclist near you has two options:  Brake, drop in behind (as they should) or keep going and risk hitting you with the handlebars, thus knocking themselves off their own bike.

it's then their choice.  You've done what you can.  As a cyclist too, it pisses me off greatly when other cyclists think everyone else should get out of their way!

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I know some cyclists were bleating on about how cars now have to give way to them in the new highway code hierarchy, but surely they now have to give way to pedestrians? Pots and kettles...

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Posted
  On 10/03/2022 at 13:09, andyberg said:

but surely they now have to give way to pedestrians?

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And always have had to.

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I’ve been feeling like shit for the last 3-4 days. Work insisted I went for a PCR. 6:10 this morning I get an all clear, then at 15:49 i get another text & e-mail saying I’m positive.

I’m not grumpy because I’m C19 +ve, and I’m  mildly peeved that they either have sent me the wrong result this morning or this afternoon.

What I’m properly pissed off with is my work computer. Away from the work network and it continually stall, crashes or gets the arrow with the whirly ring and fans going like billy-oh

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medical sucks generally not just yours :)

not the people just the medical

so tax is due on bike and im like right ok ive seen the reminder somewhere

looking for it and can i fuck find it

so fuck it dug out the v5 and used that

and the reason you didnt have a reminder

is - IT CAME IN THE POST THIS MORNING DERP

its been a weird 3 weeks

 

Posted
  On 10/03/2022 at 17:16, hairnet said:

medical sucks generally not just yours :)

not the people just the medical

so tax is due on bike and im like right ok ive seen the reminder somewhere

looking for it and can i fuck find it

so fuck it dug out the v5 and used that

and the reason you didnt have a reminder

is - IT CAME IN THE POST THIS MORNING DERP

its been a weird 3 weeks

 

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To be fair, the life of Hairnet sounds weird most of the time….

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This morning I left to go work, walked to my car to find a nail in the top of the offside rear tyre.

Utter bastards! :evil:

It's a good job that I live about a 25 minute walk from work and that it isn't raining. Small mercies, eh? 

More than likely one of the feral neighbourhood scrotes. I wouldn't entirely rule out someone at my workplace doing it yesterday sadly...although I guess the tyre would have already deflated by the time I left. 

It's screwed things up a bit because I am due to collect my shopping at Tesco's tomorrow morning. I can put the spare on when I get home from work but I am worried that I could get another nail put in to any of the others overnight. 

Also I will need the car next week as it's booked in for a service and MOT. 

I really need to move from this shit hole. :(

Of course what I should do is what most of you shiters do and have a spare car! :mrgreen:

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It used to be a reasonably quiet part of the city when I moved there 20 years ago, but it's gone a long way downhill since then sadly.

Posted
  On 11/03/2022 at 11:53, wuvvum said:

It used to be a reasonably quiet part of the city when I moved there 20 years ago, but it's gone a long way downhill since then sadly.

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I might be overreacting. Just been chatting to a work colleague. I could have just run over the screw. One of the industrial units I work next too are quite messy. Maybe one of their screws in the detritus got embedded in the tyre? :unsure:

Still, I think I need to move house. And treat myself to a spare car. 

Posted
  On 11/03/2022 at 12:08, ProgRocker said:

Still, I think I need to move house. And treat myself to a spare car. 

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Using the money you save from NOT moving house, you can treat yourself to TWO spare cars.

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Posted
  On 10/03/2022 at 11:55, Zelandeth said:

I would like to apologise for the inconvenience I obviously caused the cyclists who just saw it fit to make me fold myself into the brambles hanging over the redway so they could stay three abreast and continue their conversation.

I'll endeavour to make myself and the dog fully two dimensional next time.

I'm sure dropping into single file (or even bearing slightly to the left) would have absolutely killed you.

Can I send you the bill for the sweater I just wrecked picking myself and the dog out of the brambles?

P.s. I am also a cyclist which is why such nonsense hacks me off so much, it's you bloody idiots that make everyone else hate us!

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Never move out of the way. Just shout. Slow down The dog is wild. 

Posted
  On 11/03/2022 at 11:53, wuvvum said:

It used to be a reasonably quiet part of the city when I moved there 20 years ago, but it's gone a long way downhill since then sadly.

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So which bit of Norwich is this?

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