Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 378283 times)

Ian H · « **Reply #250 on:** 21 May, 2013, 10:58:41 pm »

The ever reliable Express & Echo:-
Crews called to ride on lawnmower fire in Cuckoo Down Lane

Ian H · « **Reply #251 on:** 21 May, 2013, 11:02:33 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 21 May, 2013, 10:58:41 pm

The ever reliable Express & Echo:-
Crews called to ride on lawnmower fire in Cuckoo Down Lane

...and...

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/crews-called-remove-ring-Exeter-woman-8217-s/story-19045730-detail/story.html

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #252 on:** 22 May, 2013, 12:14:57 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 21 May, 2013, 10:58:41 pm

The ever reliable Express & Echo:-
Crews called to ride on lawnmower fire in Cuckoo Down Lane

I wouldn't like to ride on a lawnmower fire but I guess that's how some people get their kicks.

Ian H · « **Reply #253 on:** 22 May, 2013, 01:41:59 pm »

It's a "Milk float crashes into wall, no-one hurt"* kind of story.

*Anyone know where that came from?

Bledlow · « **Reply #254 on:** 22 May, 2013, 02:44:49 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 11 May, 2013, 04:28:13 pm

Quote from: Deano on 10 May, 2013, 01:37:15 pm
More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/

"Mike Clark, mitigating, said Thompson had stolen the lager because he could not afford to pay for it."

Have I been misunderstanding the definition of 'mitigating' all these years?

I can't afford to pay for a Lamborghini Aventador. Should I plead this in mitigation, should I ever be caught stealing one? Or would my sentence be increased for taking the piss?

Arch · « **Reply #255 on:** 23 May, 2013, 06:28:20 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 22 May, 2013, 01:41:59 pm

It's a "Milk float crashes into wall, no-one hurt"* kind of story.

*Anyone know where that came from?

When I was 12 or so, a milk float crashed into the telegraph pole outside our house, at 5 in the morning. I don't know how many of you have ever heard several crates of milk bottles fall off the back of a milk float, but it's quite a noise! Mum and Dad went out and checked the driver was ok, let him use our phone to ring the dairy, gave him a cuppa while he waited for the back-up float and recovery crew. He gave them a pint of double cream - an unheard-of quantity of luxury for us then.

Kim · « **Reply #256 on:** 23 May, 2013, 06:42:02 pm »

When I was small enough that free school milk was still a thing, I remember a crate (or more?) being dropped during the delivery and what seemed to be a spectacular milk slick on the playground at break time. This was as exciting as things got (without actual hospital admission) at that age.

Arch · « **Reply #257 on:** 23 May, 2013, 06:54:58 pm »

Probably the messiest thing I ever saw in that vein was when a delivery driver rolled a pallet of 3lt bottles of Robinsons squash out of the lorry onto the tail lift of the lorry delivering to the supermarket I worked at. Sadly, the tail lift was down, not up.

It's very sticky stuff, squash.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #258 on:** 23 May, 2013, 07:57:45 pm »

Michael Jackson tribute act meets sometime MJ bodyguard. Wow.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10439952.It___s_a_Thriller_to_meet_you/

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“Ben has done a good job at looking like him and the good thing about him is he hasn’t had plastic surgery done"

That's because, unlike the real MJ, Ben was born white

Ian H · « **Reply #259 on:** 23 May, 2013, 08:11:14 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 23 May, 2013, 06:28:20 pm

Quote from: Ian H on 22 May, 2013, 01:41:59 pm
It's a "Milk float crashes into wall, no-one hurt"* kind of story.

*Anyone know where that came from?

When I was 12 or so, a milk float crashed into the telegraph pole outside our house, at 5 in the morning. I don't know how many of you have ever heard several crates of milk bottles fall off the back of a milk float, but it's quite a noise! Mum and Dad went out and checked the driver was ok, let him use our phone to ring the dairy, gave him a cuppa while he waited for the back-up float and recovery crew. He gave them a pint of double cream - an unheard-of quantity of luxury for us then.

I watched a float reverse into a pile of filled crates in a milk depot. The headline is from 1978, the San Serriffe Daily Telegraph.

Ian H · « **Reply #260 on:** 14 June, 2013, 07:28:07 pm »

Crediton Country Courier

Arch · « **Reply #261 on:** 14 June, 2013, 08:51:06 pm »

This is actually a potentially exciting story:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10466084.Runaway_van_crashes_next_to_city_centre_pub/

I liked the juxtaposition of statements though:

Exciting!

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He (a witness) said: “They were very, very lucky, I think. A couple of feet to the side, and it could have been a different story.

“It just came out of nowhere. I was typing away and heard people shouting others to get out of the way, quite frantically. It was quite dramatic, because there were quite a lot of people in the way. People were shouting from both sides of the river. The van lifted a couple of feet at the back because it really walloped the bollard.”

and

Not exciting!

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A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police confirmed that officers had attended the scene, and said no damage had been done to any property or structures, and that nobody had been injured.

Arch · « **Reply #262 on:** 14 June, 2013, 08:53:26 pm »

Oh, and courtesy of someone on Cyclechat who spotted it:

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Couple-return-holiday-grass-street-cut-different/story-19155350-detail/story.html

andrewc · « **Reply #263 on:** 15 June, 2013, 06:58:56 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 03 April, 2013, 05:41:48 pm

Quote from: Juan Martín on 02 April, 2013, 09:42:30 am
I see DUKWs on the water regularly during my lunchtime runs along the embankment and entering and leaving the river by a slip at Vauxhall Bridge. They appear to have only a few inches of freeboard and be quite under-powered; I have been waiting for something like this to happen on the Thames. I am surprised that they have been granted a licence to operate to be honest; they look distinctly dodgy to me.

Liverpool DUKW drivers claim unfair dismissal over raising safety issues

Oops...

And again.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-22922039

I think I saw some of these on the Thames last weekend as well.

Littlesox · « **Reply #264 on:** 16 June, 2013, 05:33:58 am »

Quote from: Bledlow on 22 May, 2013, 02:44:49 pm

Quote from: Arch on 11 May, 2013, 04:28:13 pm
Quote from: Deano on 10 May, 2013, 01:37:15 pm
More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/

"Mike Clark, mitigating, said Thompson had stolen the lager because he could not afford to pay for it."

Have I been misunderstanding the definition of 'mitigating' all these years?
I can't afford to pay for a Lamborghini Aventador. Should I plead this in mitigation, should I ever be caught stealing one? Or would my sentence be increased for taking the piss?

I'm off to Epic Cycles of Ludlow tomorrow to steal a Bianchi Oltre.

If I get caught, I'll offer the fact that I can't afford to buy it as mitigation.

Unbelievable.

And probably, we were all paying for Mike Clark via the Legal Aid system.

Bah !

Toady · « **Reply #265 on:** 18 June, 2013, 04:20:06 pm »

It's all happening in Whitby

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10488568.Whitby_councillor_claims_to_have_fathered_alien_child/

Deano · « **Reply #266 on:** 19 June, 2013, 09:56:08 am »

(damn, I was just about to post the Whitby councillor/abductee story)

Quote from: Littlesox on 16 June, 2013, 05:33:58 am

Quote from: Bledlow on 22 May, 2013, 02:44:49 pm
Quote from: Arch on 11 May, 2013, 04:28:13 pm
Quote from: Deano on 10 May, 2013, 01:37:15 pm
More hard-hitting news from the Northern Echo:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/10410655.Man_ordered_to_pay_compensation_after_stealing_lager/

"Mike Clark, mitigating, said Thompson had stolen the lager because he could not afford to pay for it."

Have I been misunderstanding the definition of 'mitigating' all these years?
I can't afford to pay for a Lamborghini Aventador. Should I plead this in mitigation, should I ever be caught stealing one? Or would my sentence be increased for taking the piss?

I'm off to Epic Cycles of Ludlow tomorrow to steal a Bianchi Oltre.

If I get caught, I'll offer the fact that I can't afford to buy it as mitigation.

Unbelievable.

And probably, we were all paying for Mike Clark via the Legal Aid system.

Bah !