MikeO Posted October 28, 2017 Report Share Posted October 28, 2017 Thanks Mark, still here but progressing slowly through the system. rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted November 20, 2017 Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 3.15am alarm to get to the airport😒. Be worth it in the long run but still sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted November 20, 2017 Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 Never realised how snide Italians are. Just think how many would have got tickets if they were honest from the off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Airport prices: 1 microscopic brekkie and 2 coffees = £15😠. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddock Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 3 hours ago, MikeO said: Airport prices: 1 microscopic brekkie and 2 coffees = £15😠. Kinell- you’ll never get over that!! 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 5 hours ago, MikeO said: Airport prices: 1 microscopic brekkie and 2 coffees = £15😠. Couldn't you afford the other brekkie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted November 21, 2017 Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 15 minutes ago, johnh said: Couldn't you afford the other brekkie? My breakfast comes in liquid form. Complan, not beer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just driving home from Woodley to Maidenhead (9 miles). Half-way - A4 closed. Diversion takes us down narrow country lanes. After about a mile traffic stops and doesn't move for 15 minutes, then an ambulance passes with blue flashing lights. Obviously an accident on the diversion. Do a quick about turn and take an even narrower side road (with passing points). Eventually get home an hour and ten minutes later. Traffic manic everywhere and its only Tuesday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 41 minutes ago, johnh said: Just driving home from Woodley to Maidenhead (9 miles). Half-way - A4 closed. Diversion takes us down narrow country lanes. After about a mile traffic stops and doesn't move for 15 minutes, then an ambulance passes with blue flashing lights. Obviously an accident on the diversion. Do a quick about turn and take an even narrower side road (with passing points). Eventually get home an hour and ten minutes later. Traffic manic everywhere and its only Tuesday! Sequel: Just phoned the guy I play snooker with to arrange a game and started to tell him about the above, when he cut me short and told me that he was driving behind the car involved in the accident. He said that the car indicated to turn right and turned only to be hit by a motorbike. He said the force was so great that the car was thrown into the air and landed on its roof. He said that the motorbike must have been going so fast that the car driver didn't see it and he said that he didn't see it. He also said that within a couple of minutes there were four police cars on the scene. Two marked and two unmarked with both uniformed and plain clothes policemen. He thinks that they may have been chasing the biker. Will be interested to find out what its all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 bloody hell any news on the injured? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted December 5, 2017 Report Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 hour ago, rubecula said: bloody hell any news on the injured? Just found out. The motorcyclist was a policeman, unfortunately he was killed, as was a passenger in the car. It does appear that the police motorcyclist and the police cars were involved in the same incident. Don't know what that was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 18 hours ago, johnh said: Just found out. The motorcyclist was a policeman, unfortunately he was killed, as was a passenger in the car. It does appear that the police motorcyclist and the police cars were involved in the same incident. Don't know what that was. Training exercise. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-42249569 Bit much that there's an outpouring of sympathy for the PC and he get's mentioned in parliament and his tribute on the BBC but no mention of the woman he killed (if John's mate is correct in his assessment of what happened). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 56 minutes ago, MikeO said: Training exercise. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-42249569 Bit much that there's an outpouring of sympathy for the PC and he get's mentioned in parliament and his tribute on the BBC but no mention of the woman he killed (if John's mate is correct in his assessment of what happened). In Prime Ministers questions, Theresa May paid tribute to the officer and also the passenger in the car. See above report. It happened in her constituency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 11 minutes ago, johnh said: In Prime Ministers questions, Theresa May paid tribute to the officer and also the passenger in the car. See above report. It happened in her constituency. I stand corrected, must've misread. I still think the piece is far too heavily weighted in its sympathy for the PC though, particularly if it was "possibly" his fault. I was driving on a busy A road locally a few years back (with kids) and I could see in my mirrors a powerful car driving like a complete nutter, seriously dangerous overtakes. It went past me eventually and then we came into a town and he was forced to stop at lights. There were four young blokes in it and I did something (can't remember exactly what, gesture or flash of lights probably) to convey my anger because they really could have killed someone. For a brief second they flashed blue lights inside the back window, so obviously it was police on a "training exercise". Didn't make it any less stupid in my view, certainly didn't make it any less dangerous. I know they need to learn high speed driving techniques but why do they need to learn them in unmarked cars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Lady was 91 and a passenger in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 I assume there’s different strategies for unmarked driving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 21 minutes ago, Matt said: I assume there’s different strategies for unmarked driving? no idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 33 minutes ago, Matt said: I assume there’s different strategies for unmarked driving? I just can't imagine a situation when you need to drive fast and put innocent lives at risk where it wouldn't be simpler just to turn on your lights and siren. Could be reasons I suppose but I can think of none, perhaps @London Blue could shed some light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 My mate said the four police cars turned up within a couple of minutes of the accident. Maybe the motorcyclist was acting as the 'baddie' in an exercise? The Maidenhead Advertiser on-line states that he had experience in 'special operations'. Doubt the truth will ever come out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Blue Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 First thing to say its a tragedy and my heart goes out to the families of all those involved. Without knowing all the facts its difficult to say what happened and why. What I know is there will be a full investigation by the IPCC as this will have a massive bearing on how training exercises are carried out in the future. As it was a pre-planned exercise there will of been detailed plans and risk assessments, and the Police cars will of had cameras on them and data on the vehicles speed etc. There has been a massive increase in bike / moped enabled crime, and this could have been training for officers in how to deal with it, or just training on how to deal with speeding motorcycles on A roads and motorways which is pretty common. I can think of a few times sirens have not been used, for example if you don't want to let the suspects know you are there, going to a burglary for example, or if it would make a situation worse, someone with mental health issues and you don't want to upset them. But you should have your lights on. Of paramount importance is to protect people so you have to justify how you drive. pete0 and MikeO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFC-Paul Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Speeding knobheads Lost our cat today no more than thirty feet from our house, new build area with a stretch of Rd many think is Santa Pod sadly one of these tits clipped our boy who wasn't even two years old bless him Awful having to scoop him up and hide him as the kids came out to see what I was up to 😩 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 34 minutes ago, EFC-Paul said: Speeding knobheads Lost our cat today no more than thirty feet from our house, new build area with a stretch of Rd many think is Santa Pod sadly one of these tits clipped our boy who wasn't even two years old bless him Awful having to scoop him up and hide him as the kids came out to see what I was up to 😩 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted December 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 4 hours ago, EFC-Paul said: Speeding knobheads Lost our cat today no more than thirty feet from our house, new build area with a stretch of Rd many think is Santa Pod sadly one of these tits clipped our boy who wasn't even two years old bless him Awful having to scoop him up and hide him as the kids came out to see what I was up to 😩 That sucks man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 9 hours ago, EFC-Paul said: Speeding knobheads Lost our cat today no more than thirty feet from our house, new build area with a stretch of Rd many think is Santa Pod sadly one of these tits clipped our boy who wasn't even two years old bless him Awful having to scoop him up and hide him as the kids came out to see what I was up to 😩 I'd have jumping in my car to go and follow the cunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFC-Paul Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 2 hours ago, Romey 1878 said: I'd have jumping in my car to go and follow the cunt. Didn't see it mate we've a Facebook group for the area and a girl put a msg on about a black cat being in the Rd knew instantly it was him and it must have only just happened If I knew who it was our saw believe me they'd be getting a pasting just leaving him there Tell you what though it knocked me sideways a bit which I never thought it would Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 11, 2017 Report Share Posted December 11, 2017 IKEA! Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted December 11, 2017 Report Share Posted December 11, 2017 36 minutes ago, MikeO said: IKEA! Is that the instructions or the missing screw? markjazzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 11, 2017 Report Share Posted December 11, 2017 3 hours ago, johnh said: Is that the instructions or the missing screw? The shop. With the wife. And the credit card. Just got home; it's in Bristol (70 miles away) but they're building one in Exeter (15 miles away, opening next summer). Dreading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted December 11, 2017 Report Share Posted December 11, 2017 my fucking dentist. Just cancelled again 7 months for a set of dentures and now no chance until feb next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 11, 2017 Report Share Posted December 11, 2017 1 minute ago, rubecula said: my fucking dentist. Just cancelled again 7 months for a set of dentures and now no chance until feb next year Mine cancelled on me as well, was due to go for some treatment tomorrow but it's now Jan 9th; check-up was October. I'm supposed to go every four months but that would mean booking the next check-up a month after treatment which is daft. She has to do the same thing every four months anyway so checks are pretty pointless, might suggest that to her thinking about it. rubecula 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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