The grumpy thread

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Jesus trig, thats pretty harsh innit. Also rotten luck for you, if its not too distasteful to say that (it is).

[RedSparrow]

How about paying the £2.60 by paypal and arranging collection later? If he refuses to sell it to you for that you can mark it as item not received and get your money back as he won't have proof of postage or anything else

 

This! Do this! Paypal it and select the local pickup option.

For me at this stage it would be worth loosing £2.60 too make his life slightly difficult.

[Pillock]

Mine never leaves that stage. The one started in February has had one fantastic month, one mediocre month, and I'm lucky to get a phone call or a text now. I think it's time for the chat.

[dollywobbler]

That's really harsh. What a shame.

 

Though the Evening Star needs to sack their proof reader. What's a fuggin' Citreon?

[trigger]

Thanks Bol, I'm stunned if I'm honest, The sad thing is that this guy was a really nice bloke, we was chatting and having a laugh for a while, He wife seemed very friendly as well.

 

He was telling me how he had a blow out on his bike the night before which was the reason he was slightly short of the full cash as he needed to buy a new tyre that day, It's scary to think that exactly 24 hours later he was dead.

 

I've also got to try and sell the car again now but it doesn't feel right thinking about it at the moment.

 

I'm just hoping this is all a major coincidence but I'd be mega shocked if it is.

[Lankytim]

Hey Trig, thats horrible news! Just shows you never know how life is going to turn out .

 

Maybe you could ring the local plod and get the family liaison officer who is dealing with the case to take care of getting the dough back to the family?

[trigger]

That's a good idea Tim, I might give the police a call and see what there advice is regarding giving the money back.

[dollywobbler]

That's a good idea Tim, I might give the police a call and see what there advice is regarding giving the money back.

 

Make sure it is the same bloke first!

[Negative Creep]

If you have his address maybe send a letter explaining you will return the money at a time of their choosing? Just thinking a phone call or visit might be a bit insensitive at the moment

[trigger]

I haven't got his address yet as I haven't filled in the log book details, All i know is that he was from Stoke by Claire which is a tiny village, I have his home number but i can't really ring that to ask if he's dead.

 

All i know was that he was late 30's, called Mark, worked at a printers in Ipswich, had a wife called Alison, 3 kids and was into motorbikes.

 

I can't imagine there being many people like that in Stoke by Claire seeing it's just a tiny village.

[Negative Creep]

Ask at the village shop or Post Office maybe?

[dollywobbler]

I think the afore-mentioned Police idea is the best way to proceed.

[Lankytim]

Its got to be him. I can't imagine the next of kin will be in touch to get the deposit back anytime soon. Leaving the money situation in the hands of the police has got to be the best idea I recon as you don't have to worry about ringing up his distraught widow to talk about your Bora deposit. The plod will approach the subject at the right time and in the correct way, plus it will be "on record" that you are attempting to refund the money and not attempting to keep hold of it.

[mk1_4dr]

Fuck Trig', thats really harsh. It all to easy to forget that this sort of thing happens every day all over the world, until it happens to you.

[trigger]

Thanks guys, I've just tried Ipswich Police station, the lady put me through to a advice department but there was no answer, I'll try again in the morning i think.

 

Life can be pretty shit at times, I wish i never saw this story now.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

bloody hell, that sounds awful...

 

Agreed that the police would be the best people to contact.

[Guest]

Had a heart stopping moment coming back from the Leigh barbeque.

 

Jumped off the M6 at Junction 20 and went down the back roads to get home. Took the main road that leads out of Lymm, and was chugging along quite happily down the NSL between 45 and 60 mph. Reached the crossroads for Willowpool at Agden Brow, went straight through as the lights were on green, round the slight curve that bears to the left..........

 

...........and then an old man in a new Defender 90 pulls straight out across the road in front of me. I'm still doing 45 at this point. All the colour drains from my face, I hit the brakes hard, the ABS pulses maniacally and I pull up with a few feet to spare. I drop the window and scream abuse at the stupid old bastard as he pulls round me, attempting to bat off my initial shouts with a wave of his hand. I drop my window and yell 'What the fuck do you call that move you stupid old cunt?' He trundles off looking bewildered (and in all honesty, probably pissed - he was pulling away from the pub car park).

 

All I can say is, hurrah for ABS. I know I've posted previously about being unconvinced by its efficacy but after last night you could say I'm backpedalling a bit. Put it this way, had I been in the 480 or Amazon, I would have gone into him. And Defenders are separate chassised. I'd have tipped him over and what was left of Solihull's finest would have come through the windscreen and finished me off. So there you go, the C4 can do something right. For once.

 

I have his registration number, I'm half wanting to report the bell - end for inconsiderate driving.

[fotorabia]

Old lady next door finally sells house..average white trash Holden driving family move in..whilst we were out yesterday in the Viva..they redesigned our fence..which surely was fucked..but had a great grapevine on it that provided tonnes of fruit..which they have destroyed..as a tenant i cant do nowt..its between them and my landlord whose in Utah..whom im good friends with..whose a local lad and a tuff Maori ta boot..the fence is now a danger..and ive just noticed that his Holdens number plate surround reads..Medicated for Your Own Protection..great...think i want to move out

[trigger]

I have his registration number, I'm half wanting to report the bell - end for inconsiderate driving.

 

I would have reported him to the plod there and then, You should have told them that you thought he was pissed and their for a danger on the road.

 

I remember many year ago my dad having the similar close call in our Escort, a taxi driver pulled out of a farm yard in front of us, even to this day i don't know how we stopped in time, The taxi driver just drove off as if he never even saw us.

[Pete-M]

I have his registration number, I'm half wanting to report the bell - end for inconsiderate driving.

 

Wasn't D701CWL by any chance was it?

[Richard]

Or even D701SWL?

 

If it was PU51DRY you should report the bastard.

[Pete-M]

Or even D701SWL?

 

If it was PU51DRY you should execute the bastard.

 

That's the one.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Mikey, just stop posting, if you've got nothing nice or interesting to say, don't say it at all. You'll find nobody really cares on here whether you're trolling the forum intentionally or not, just please try and fit in if you're going to post.

 

Aye. Stop posting on the thread too you MONGS, it's only encouraging him.

[Rusty Pelican]

The PU51 DRY thread , 14 pages of total shit , didnt post in in the actual thread for fear of dragging it to 15 pages

I have little of real interest to say so dont post much but read everyday without fail

Perhaps some could learn from this ( although I doubt it )

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I doubt it too, wankers

[dollywobbler]

So ashamed was I to be the last person posting in that thread that I deleted my post. Your turn Station!

[revolting peasant]

[Timewaster]

Aye that's a pretty good idea Wobbla.

+1

 

Everyone delete their posts, then FOE add pikey. Job done

[scaryoldcortina]

Partly to change the subject (don't even read the bloody thread if it winds you up that much!) and partly because I'm really annoyed right now I have a rant.

 

It was a nice evening, we had nothing better to do, so mrs S and I went out for a drive in the sierra. We went to Middlesbrough and visited some friends, but on the way back I got pulled over by Teeside's finest meatheads (as seen on ROADWARZ)......

 

I had noticed the unmarked blue BMW behind me, it had been following for a mile or so at 30 without overtaking me so I wasn't hugely surprised when the lights went on and the siren gave one "whoop" at me - I pulled over, they pulled in front of me and reversed back (almost to the bumper). Passenger gets out, walks round to my window and says

"Do you know why we stopped you?"

"no"

"Our ANPR shows this vehicle as un-insured, please have a seat in the back of our car"

oh shite. Mrs S is already looking rather pissed off....

So, I had a seat in their car, the driver ran my details while his passenger "inspected" the sierra.

First off, I had no ID on me. This didn't impress him, neither did my insistance that it isn't a legal requirement to carry my licence and insurance around with me. PNC check ahoy, not wanted, no warrants. Have a driving licence. Then he says "The car is uninsured, and it isn't registered to you, we are siezing it", I counter with "It IS insured, and registered to me" so he asks me to confirm the registration, and it turns out their ANPR has mistaken a B for a G so they aren't checking the right car. Nice one boys, surely in the time they sat behind one of them would have noticed? nooo, it's my fault. "Your numberplate has the wrong font". No, it doesn't. It is the original plate the car was supplied with, it even has the dealer's name on the bottom (totally legal for 1989). Anyway... he ran the number again. Yes, it is mine, yes it is insured! yay. BUT.... "aha.. why is it on disabled tax? You don't look disabled to me". "My wife is. That's her in the passenger seat getting more and more pissed off with you by the minute. Want to go ask her to walk around and see what happens?" Seems now I'm being "funny" with him. Then his mate comes back to the car, they confer with each other. Driver then says "There are a lot of wine bottles in the back of the car, when did you last have a drink?" "yesterday. The bottles are there because someone stole our recycling box so now I take them to the bottlebank at the tip instead" Breathalyzed me. No alcohol in system. Do they let me go yet? No. Passenger pipes up with "you have an illegal tyre, we are going to issue a fixed penalty". ffs. "I don't believe you. Show me." So they escorted me to the back of my car and showed me the nearside rear tyre. "It's down to the wear lines, that's illigal". "No it isn't, and NO, it isn't. Get your depth gauge out and measure it." Chunter chunter.... what would I know etc.. But I insisted, so they got a depth gauge (poncy dial type, not VOSA approved) out of their boot and checked. Lo and behold, 2.2mm of tread, completely legal. So instead I get "the sidewall looks knackered, it's all cracked" line. I demonstrate that it is surface only, and doesn't go through to the ply, and therefore fine. THEN one asks me why I think I am right and they are wrong (attitude problem mentioned again...) so I explain how and why I know the difference between an illegal tyre and a legal but almost worn out one. I am a MoT tester, I check far more tyres than they do.

 

That's when they let me go. The parting shot was "make sure you drive carefully" in a sarky way and no hint of apology at all. Mrs S is still fuming now. Gits.

 

PS, that tyre was already on the "due to change" list - test is up next month so it will get changed when I do the rest of the pre-test checking.

[warren t claim]

Aye that's a pretty good idea Wobbla.

+1

 

Everyone delete their posts, then FOE add pikey. Job done

 

I've deleted all mine with the exception of the picture of the Racing Tagora. I couldn't bring myself to delete that.