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'Man steers clear of town after bollards smash' |
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Aug 6 2009, 10:36 AM
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Newbury man vows to steer clear of town from now on following smash with notorious bollards QUOTE His wife, Jayne, said: “He had no idea these wretched things were there" Where has he been for the last few years? & he didn't know they were there. Doesn't he read the news? Everyone in the town knows they are there! QUOTE “The signage is totally inadequate and it really is time that the council revised its safety methods.” There is plenty of signage! http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=10709
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Aug 6 2009, 11:36 AM
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QUOTE West Berkshire Council spokesman, Phil Spray, has reiterated that bollards are an accepted and effective form of management…. Says who? QUOTE and the council is monitoring the number of incidents, to feed into a planned review of Newbury’s traffic management systems later this year. Management system; run by morons for morons. Basically they haven’t got a clue.
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Aug 6 2009, 12:38 PM
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QUOTE (Andy @ Aug 6 2009, 01:22 PM) What it should read is "Another idiot, tailgating, lazy, inattentive, bad driver, who can't read huge signs and warnings, smashes car and then wants to blame anyone and anything for HIS c*ck up" hits bollards. If he had been caught wilfully doing 40 in a 30, he would gave got a ~£60 fine.
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Aug 6 2009, 12:47 PM
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QUOTE (Andy1 @ Aug 6 2009, 01:42 PM) According to Top Gear, which has been voted best factual program I believe on numerous occasions. Video footage was shown of a person tail gating a Bus and then getting bit by rising Bollards, was classed as bad driving. It is hardly going to be classified as good driving, basically it looked like the bloke (with child and presumably its mother on board) tried to rush the bollards. One cannot have any sympathy for a driver that is wilfully doing things like that. I do have some sympathy though for people who make a rather innocuous error, being punished so savagely.
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Aug 6 2009, 01:32 PM
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QUOTE (GMR @ Aug 6 2009, 12:36 PM) Says who?
Management system; run my morons for morons. Basically they haven’t got a clue. Forgetting the typo GMR I think calling them morons is more than a tad offensive. The morons are the ones who don't read traffic signs, like those who STILL drive right up to the cinema works and sometimes even try to drive round/through them!
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Aug 6 2009, 02:45 PM
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QUOTE (GMR @ Aug 6 2009, 12:36 PM) QUOTE West Berkshire Council spokesman, Phil Spray, has reiterated that bollards are an accepted and effective form of management….
Says who? Umm. Phil Spray?
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Aug 6 2009, 02:48 PM
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QUOTE (Bill1 @ Aug 6 2009, 02:32 PM) Forgetting the typo GMR I think calling them morons is more than a tad offensive.
The morons are the ones who don't read traffic signs, like those who STILL drive right up to the cinema works and sometimes even try to drive round/through them! Fair point; however I am sure you would agree with me that such places do have their fair share of morons? I am sure there are hard working people within such organisations, sadly they get overlooked by the more stupid elements. Many council workers, even on here, have acknowledged this. I’ve even worked for companies where the public believed that we were all morons; and they based that assumption on the people who follow the company policies/ rules verbatim. Irrespective of common sense, emotion or even understanding. In fact I would go one step further - judging by my own experience - and say that such companies employee a certain type of automaton to fit into their company philosophy.
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Aug 6 2009, 03:48 PM
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QUOTE (GMR @ Aug 6 2009, 03:48 PM) Fair point; however I am sure you would agree with me that such places do have their fair share of morons?
I am sure there are hard working people within such organisations, sadly they get overlooked by the more stupid elements. Many council workers, even on here, have acknowledged this. I’ve even worked for companies where the public believed that we were all morons; and they based that assumption on the people who follow the company policies/ rules verbatim. Irrespective of common sense, emotion or even understanding. In fact I would go one step further - judging by my own experience - and say that such companies employee a certain type of automaton to fit into their company philosophy. Not me!
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Aug 6 2009, 03:54 PM
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Next we'll be hearing his neighbour has been involved in an accident while cycling the wrong way up a one way street
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Aug 6 2009, 04:19 PM
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Wheyhey!!!!!!!!! it's a new "bollards" thread!! At least it doesn't say they "rose up" under the car, although it does in the NWN. (I won't go into that again ) At least it's another crap driver who won't blight the town again! P.S. How did they manage to get a new car they "couldn't afford"?
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Aug 6 2009, 06:11 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Aug 6 2009, 01:38 PM) If he had been caught wilfully doing 40 in a 30, he would gave got a ~£60 fine. Or, and, potentially far more dangerous - driving whilst using a mobile, with the tariff at just 3 points and 60 sovs. Far, far, too little a punishment, IMHO - if anyone deserves to have their cars taken and crushed it is these seriously anti-social people. Saw some pillock executing a right hand turn on a dual carriageway yesterday one handed with a phone stuck to his ear - grrrrrrrr!
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