I was once about to have a little paddle in a volcano, luckily, the rozzers told me I might scald my tootsies.

JerryChicken wrote:I'm really glad that you highlighted this, I really hadn't a clue how dangerous whirlpools could be, what with them whirling and all that, the very next time I see one I'll be sure to stand in front of it and wave people past telling them to take care and not get into the whirlpool for fear that harm may come. We need the police to tell us things like this. Indeed. What we need, I think, is a special Police Banal Warnings Division. Budgets are stretched, but this is important work, in the seemingly herculean task of preventing us lemming-like mortals from self-harm. Luckily, the BBC is there to lend a hand. In a mildly interesting piece pointing out that some pedestrian crossings have a tactile revolving cone underneath the button box, for the benefit of deaf/blind etc. people to signify that the green man is on by touch, the author, or the storycheckers responsible for deciding if this material is safe to unleash on the non-vision/haring impaired majority, helpfully said: Quote:What do I do with this information? You could try it out for yourself. Do as blind people do and stand at the crossing with your hand jammed under the control box waiting for the cone to spin. Beware, in winter do it with gloves on, that metal control box can be freezing cold. Phew. A close call, but the potential catastrophe of hundreds of unsuspecting non-impaired people having to have their freeze-welded hands removed from crossing boxes has mercifully been averted.

JerryChicken wrote:I'm really glad that you highlighted this, I really hadn't a clue how dangerous whirlpools could be, what with them whirling and all that, the very next time I see one I'll be sure to stand in front of it and wave people past telling them to take care and not get into the whirlpool for fear that harm may come. We need the police to tell us things like this. Indeed. What we need, I think, is a special Police Banal Warnings Division. Budgets are stretched, but this is important work, in the seemingly herculean task of preventing us lemming-like mortals from self-harm. Luckily, the BBC is there to lend a hand. In a mildly interesting piece pointing out that some pedestrian crossings have a tactile revolving cone underneath the button box, for the benefit of deaf/blind etc. people to signify that the green man is on by touch, the author, or the storycheckers responsible for deciding if this material is safe to unleash on the non-vision/haring impaired majority, helpfully said: Quote:What do I do with this information? You could try it out for yourself. Do as blind people do and stand at the crossing with your hand jammed under the control box waiting for the cone to spin. Beware, in winter do it with gloves on, that metal control box can be freezing cold. Phew. A close call, but the potential catastrophe of hundreds of unsuspecting non-impaired people having to have their freeze-welded hands removed from crossing boxes has mercifully been averted.

Reminds me of the "older kids" who used to tell the "younger kids" to put their tongue onto a frozen metal lamp post

There's a small volcanic island, just off the coast of Kos called Nisyros. Day trips are available from Kardamena.

On one visit we decided to take the guided tour of the volcano. Everyone was told to keep strictly to the marked paths and not touch anything. We all obeyed the advice except one American woman who, for reasons best known to herself, decided to dip her foot into a pool of fuming and bubbling water. It came out looking like a recently-boiled ham shank.

A shame they didn't warn themselves about the vehicle rolling at Pudsey Park on Saturday night .

The coppers are going to be mega busy in the future, what with 16,000 less of them how on earth will they police cheese rolling now they have to chase middle lane huggers and tail gaters. At least the muggers, drug dealers, human traffickers etc will be safe while they concentrate on important things.

I was at red traffic lights a while back and one of the typical boy racers that are now prevalent couldn't be arsed queuing, so overtook the whole queue and then pulled in across the bows of the lead car, almost knocking over an elderly woman who was starting to cross from the left. Offences: driving without due consideration for other road users; failing to stop at a red light (because he had completely crossed the stop line).

The wife took images on her phone of him, and his car in position showing the lights, and his reg no. and tried to give the info to the police. They were amazingly reluctant to become involved. Eventually they came back to us with the claim that unless there are at least two independent witnesses, they/CPS will do nothing.

And as the chances of a police car witnessing the event are vanishingly small, (and if it was a panda or a van they'd ignore it anyway) the scrotes know that they can drive like this, and worse, with impunity.

Our car and several others got a good keying from some passing scrote over the weekend. I don't know how many cars were involved but the total value of repairs for the dozen or so we saw would be maybe ten grand.

Over the phone they just wanted to give me a crime number but would send a plod out "if I insisted". One duly came and took details from all concerned. A little later got a call explaining that as we could not give the name and address of the offender, and there were no witnesses, and nobody had it on video, they were closing their file. But gave me a crime number.

Similar thing happened to me when we got broken into a few years ago, they sent a SOC bloke down, but he never even took finger prints of the window frame where they got in, stating 'all good burglars were gloves' to which I replied 'perhaps these were crap burglars'. We got a crime number for the insurance and nothing more was done. I was advised (separately) by a copper that if I went to Elephant & Castle pub or Humber Social Club I was likely to see someone flogging my stuff, if this was the case whey the f'ck won't the coppers go to these places and nick the scrotes (they had all the serial numbers for my nicked stuff).

As there is already a law related thread I'll not start another....

Check out the new fixed penalty prices coming to a lay-by near you soon.

Also read a 'hogging the middle lane' penalty is £100 also.




Thoughts?