Why oh why do some idiotic drivers think it funny to drive through puddles at high speed next to pedestrians on pavements. Some even sweve to make sure they get the maximum spray and then you see them laughing as they drive away...

Well to the guy who thought it funny this morning to spray me with muddy water. Revenge is a dish served cold. I have your number plate and I hope you are a local.

I believe (although I may be wrong that it's actually an offence ! Book 'em TDAH

Also B$$$$$ rude as well (ha ha admin, bleeped myself)

Because it is funny. It's not nice or right or whatever but it's funny.

But yes you have his numberplate, justice can be served. Just exactly what do you expect to be able to do....beat the dude up??

I think anyone who does that must be a downright nasty person or a complete idiot. You have my sympathy and back up if you fancy going after them!

No. I'm not the violent type. I'd rather leave a 'message'.

How silly, you don't know who was driving the car do you? It could have been being driven to be sold somewhere and is now owed by someone else.

http://www.rac.co.uk/news-advice/motoring-...ng-pedestrians/

Motorists caught committing the offence can be prosecuted under the 1988 Road Traffic Act for selfish or aggressive behaviour on the road. Those convicted may also see an increase in their car insurance premiums.

Vandalism is a violent act, as is leaving someone thinking their 'welfare is in jeopardy'.

Don't recognise that offence, but it always used to be a straightforward Sec 3 RTA offence - driving without due consideration for other road users.....
Getting a prosecution in these days of 'worthwhile' will likely, and sadly, be more problematic....

These days pedestrians are not classed as 'other road users'.

The Road Traffic Act 1988 created two offences: Careless Driving and Inconsiderate Driving. It's the latter which covers splashing pedestrians, along with things like un-dipped headlamps and various 'lane' etiquettes.

Precisely.... Inconsiderate = without due consideration......

You're right (I just pasted that from the RAC link.) It's Sect 3 RTA 1988. Carries a fine of up to £2,500

TDH, if you're lucky the idiot who soaked you will have posted it on Youtube/Facebook like this woman did a couple of years back. Soaked a group of kids at a bus stop, while her partner filmed it (looked like they were speeding too so could have been much worse if she'd lost control). She was prosecuted.

Happy Splasher video

Daily Wail article

Bloody funny though!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/875991/pu...fires-on-driver

the best one

Bus-stop w*nkers!

Bus-stop w*nkers?!

Just what show do you watch exactly, Andy?

I said nothing about vandalism. They'd just need to clean there car as it might smell. I think swerving to hit a puddle and thus possibly aquaplaning and killing pedestrians is a very dangerous thing to do. Some people on this forum seem to think its funny. I bet they would be laughing out loud if it happened to them.

Like it!


You are absolutely right, but it is the same as someone walking into a lamp post; if you are the 'victim' - utterly unfunny.

No, splashing some one at a bus stop is akin to banging someone elses head into a lampost...

How is it in any way remotely similar? Banging someone elses head (what, as opposed to your own?) into a lamp post can cause severe injury, concussion, broken nose, jaw, black eyes, internal hemmaeraging or however you spell it. Where as splashing someone at a bus stop is only going to make them a little bit cold and require a change of clothes.

That's like saying eating bacon is akin to murder of a human.

or cause pneumonia & a slow & lingering death.

which ever way you look at it, doing something to your self through inattentiveness is not the same as maliciously doing something to another.

You won't get pneumonia from a puddle.

But what if you were to do something to someone else through inattentiveness? Surely that's ok too.

Well, human flesh is also known as "long Pork" for fairly obvious reasons !

Presumably you didn't see my, "if you are the 'victim' - utterly unfunny" comment, viz, I'm describing what I find funny, however; I wouldn't find seeing someone being battered funny.

Seeing somone splashed by a car, and seeing someone walk into a lamp post I would find funny. My being splashed by a car, or walking into a lamp post I wouldn't find funny.

All these clips of the Plymouth splashing go on about 'motorist faces prosecution'. None seem to report if she was actually prosecuted - or, if so, what penalty was imposed. There are dozens of news items using the video - all within a few days of each other in Oct 2009. Does anyone ever follow up on a story these days?

I see Turin Machine, that you are up to date wiv pidgin.
It amuses me that a condom in PNG is "Gummi bilong kok".

OK I am no saint and have found a car a little out of control on water on a major road.
On rainy days as a pedestrian I keep away from the edge. As a driver I can see kerbside puddles.
Like not knocking cyclists over, I would try to be considerate with puddles.

I think walking into a lamp post is your fault and doesn't really have a lasting effect. Being splashed by a car is someone else inflicting a situation on an innocent that may cause discomfort all day. I don't see how it could be considered funny personally but if someone splashed me intentionally, they had better make sure there is long bit of road before they have to stop.

Or they are much harder than you!

It's not being on your period or accidental popping Viagra instead of cold&flu pills. It's some water. When you have a bath you don't take all day to dry out.

Do you know how people contract pneumonia?

I'll pop down to Mill Lane sometime and pour a bucket of water over you. Then I'll wait for you to laugh at the hilarity of it all.

I know it is a disease caused by infection & has nothing to do wuith getting cold / wet, but 'catching pneumonia / death of cold' etc is a fairly common old wives tale attributed to getting wet/cold. As well you know.

I wouldn't laugh (well, not in my current frame of mind, but if things were all gravy then I probably would) but the people I work with most certainly get a right laugh out of it!

Last time I was washing my car my friend thought it would be funny to spray me with the Karcher pressure washer so I think a bucket of water could be taken in my stride. Just don't mess up the hair!

I think you miss the point. If you are walking to work in your suit and get drenched intentionally by some irrational moron then it's going to mean you have to go back change and be late for work. It's more than 'just a bit of fun'. Stopping me from getting to work by intentionally drenching me is akin to me coming round to your house and letting your tyres down just before you leave for work yourself. Oh the hilarity as I watch you have to change your tyres. Not.

I'm sorry, but that isn't as funny. It's all about timing.

If I wore a suit then yes it would probably annoy me. Your point is fair and valid. However this person wasn't wearing a suit. So we could keep adding modifiers to the story, perhaps the next one could be "a spaceship was trying to land and during the operation of his booster jets, water was splashed over me, not only at a very high velocity but at a temperature of several hundred degrees. I arrived at work wet with a melted face.

He was wearing a suit! It was ME!!!!

As a word of warning Xjay and your Karcher chum. I have a 4 inch scar from carelessly moving a patio tub without turning off the spray. Colonic irrigation is not to be attempted!
So where is my chain saw ? I have some pruning to finish.

C.e, thanks for your warning. I should heed it. I won't be sticking it up there anytime soon. Have fun trimming your bush, I'd be careful with the chain saw though, you might cut off your pole.



Well that would probably be a failure to remember detail on my part correctly.
Then why did you not pack a poncho or at least an umbrella in the event of this happening?

Or a shotgun so you can respond appropriately to the t**t that soaked you.

Surely killing someone would not be the most appropriate response according to the Geneva convention..

A shotgun fired at a car driving away from you would be very unlikely to kill anyone - make a mess of the car though - just like it just made a mess of the pedestrian.

On a more serious note - should deliberate drenching not be considered an assault? Criminal law could then take over and deal with the toerags who think it's fun to ruin someone's day.

Well, perhaps they should be punished in some way, but it's hardly assault. Assault would be punching someone in the face because they made a "your mum" joke. By that account we should all be sueing Thorpe Park for drenching us on Tidal Wave.. Last time I fired a Shotgun at a car it sort of exploded... but I feel Grand Theft Auto isn't probably indicative of real life.

It's a bit of water, at worst it's going to cost you half an hour of your time to go home, rub down and change, at most the people who did it should have to pay for the dry cleaning, but that'll easily be cancelled out by the £250 they'd get from sending the clip into You've Been Framed.

You really are a bit of a t**t.

Great, you finally realised

Edit: I realised that after all you did make the thread and you would get upset about us laughing at your expense.

You'd also be very happy to hear of this new initiative.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16783270

Erm... no.

I have to say this thread has made me laugh today!!!

I have been soaked by a driver before, as i probably have soaked pedestrians in the past, i think its one of those things.

Last year whilst walking down hambridge road, i got splashed by about 4 cars in a row. At the time i was fuming but by the time i got home i thought it was hilarious.

For those who walk to work, my suggestion is to wear waterproofs if it has been raining or take a change of clothes

Half an hour of time? So, I'm standing at a bus stop in, say, north London - a couple of hours from home - on my way to a job interview dressed in my best (ok, only) suit. Some prat drenches me for a laugh - I suspect I would happily shoot the b*****d!

Or I happen to be suffering from depression, trying to get out and get back to some sort of normality - drenched by someone laughing their heads off as they pass. I suspect I'd be more likely to shoot myself under those circumstances, or step out in front of the bus when it arrives.

Sure many people would just curse and cope - but not all - the result off an 'innocent' prank could be to ruin someone's life and will often ruin someone's day - the idea that this is just a 'bit of fun' has to be stopped. If it isn't considered as common assault then it should be - perpetrators should be given community service cleaning up river beds, in their best suit/dress, no waders. See how they like being soaked.

I have to say it seems, to me, much, much worse than a little chip on a wheel - probably just the tyre changer having a 'bit of a laugh'. Ho, ho, ho.

You didn't pay £40 for them to mark your £500 wheels did you. A better comparison would be that they got my wheels muddy which would require nothing more than a quick wash, where as the damage they did caused my car to have to get put on a SPARE wheel (which looked w*nk and made me have to take time off work {as in 2 days not 2 hours} to get things done) If getting splashed caused you to have to run around in your underpants while getting your shirt shotblasted, and repainted them you can make that comparison.

Then again if I was suffering from depression then getting wet would normally cheer me right up. Or yes it would push me over the edge, after all, losing my wife, child, job and house would get me down, but being splashed would be thing that pushed me over the edge. Then I'd ruin everyone else's day by causing them all to be late for work because I wanted to jump infront of a bus rather than off a bridge or quietly at home with a bottle of pills (pills don't work very well trust me I have tried, next time I'll use the "off a bridge" method) but jumping infront of a bus, or a train, or a car, is just very selfish. Sorry but unless you wanted to annoy everyone you could still achieve your end goal of death quietly without effecting the day to day activities of strangers.

Although your point about being far away from home is a good one. Although if you have ever tried one of those Dyson airblades they are pretty intense at drying things...well worth the 20p at Paddington bogs. And I'm not debating that it's a bit bad and should have some sort of consequence, I'm just saying it's funny to see it happen...and if you don't find it funny then consider that my sense of humour allows me to laugh at life more than you. Common assault, no...careless driving, but that carries 3 point and I think that most of these "soakings" are accidental, on a rainy day...sometimes it doesn't take a big puddle to make a big splash. I think paying for dry cleaning and a sincere apology should suffice unless it can be prooven it was on purpose...a 40 year old taking her 7 year old to school, probably accidental, but a pair of 20 year olds who are laughing, well perhaps not so they should have something else, but points or a criminal record is completely OTT unless it's a repeat act..

But it's ok, do unto others as you don't want them to do unto you, if you had to suffer, they have to suffer equally or more. Shoot them for making you a bit damp, yes that's great and a just retort.