Jobsworth ruins charity cycle event

[downfader]

Why is Darth Vader always present at cycle events now, LOL!? Ever since David Curry MP mouthed off he's become like an idol of cyclists.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cer-Research-charity-event-Milton-Keynes.html

However it wasnt Vader that ruined it. No slashing of tyres with a lightsabre but someone else had tried to Force the event to close down it seems....

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Miserly misery guts.............

 

[Headgardener]

Does sound as if the council official was being a lot anal over the level of the P.A. system. Probably less volume than a music fesival. As for hiding in the bushes, bloody coward.

 

[Arch]

Wouldn't it be ironic if he got cancer....

I do wonder if the organisers had had to get permission for the PA or anything, I don't know how it works. Seems a bit petty to complain about a one off event. A consistent noise nuisance yes, but not a one off.

And the jobsworth sounds like a nutter - if he really did behave like that. I'm always a little wary of such reports - both sides can over react in the telling of it. Still, hiding in the bushes sound like the action of a power hungry twit.

 

[thomas]

he was probably just near a bush

 

[downfader]

he was probably just near a bush

Did he have his pants down I wonder. I'd have asked for credentials.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Wouldn't it be ironic if he got cancer....

I do wonder if the organisers had had to get permission for the PA or anything, I don't know how it works. Seems a bit petty to complain about a one off event. A consistent noise nuisance yes, but not a one off.

And the jobsworth sounds like a nutter - if he really did behave like that. I'm always a little wary of such reports - both sides can over react in the telling of it. Still, hiding in the bushes sound like the action of a power hungry twit.

The club I used to fly gliders from hosted a spitfire for a night (it was displaying at nearby Castle Howard for the proms). Our club hangered the 'Spit' over night, and then the next morning we were treated to an impromptu 15 min flying display close up, low level. Real 'hairs on the back of your neck' stuff.

Sure enough, we got a complaint a few days later. Turns out someone didn't like the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine at full chat, 8.00 on a Sunday morning....?

Wierdos.

 

[Arch]

The club I used to fly gliders from hosted a spitfire for a night (it was displaying at nearby Castle Howard for the proms). Our club hangered the 'Spit' over night, and then the next morning we were treated to an impromptu 15 min flying display close up, low level. Real 'hairs on the back of your neck' stuff.

Sure enough, we got a complaint a few days later. Turns out someone didn't like the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine at full chat, 8.00 on a Sunday morning....?

Wierdos.

Huns, no doubt.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Huns, no doubt.

 

[snorri]

I'd have asked for credentials.

I'd have told him to take off his dark glasses if he was speaking to me, and ignored him until he did.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

here we go again..........'a handful of complains'..........the whole of your country, the one I was born and brought up in and still have a passport for, is totally ruled by minorities. What a sorry state of affairs.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

the whole of your country, the one I was born and brought up in and still have a passport for, is totally ruled by minorities

eh?

 

[dmoan]

I think ThePain means that when a couple of people complain, an event is cancelled for everyone - even when the majority are happy for it to go ahead.

 

[Fnaar]

I don't understand the headline properly... "to put a spoke in the wheel" is surely a good thing? (as in wheels need spokes)... shouldn't it be to put a stick in the spokes, or something like that? However a quick google of the idiom tells me that it has been used correctly. But it's still odd, in my opinion.

OK, as you were, there's nothing to see now, move along please.

 

[amnesia]

Pah - he works in the public sector... good luck holding on to his job if all he's got to do is hide in bushes.