Nearly killed by an eco warrior's subversive pet mouse...?

[Kirstie]

I had to go into work today and so got in my car to drive there (yes, I know I know, but it's a long way but I do it once a week if that)...the M1 was completely blocked because of the silverstone grand prix so I went through northampton which was also completely blocked because of a terrible accident on the A45.

So I was crawling around the ring road, and eventually found the road I wanted (the B526 as it happens). I was approaching a roundabout....went to slow down...and....the brakes failed - completely and utterly failed. I put my foot on the pedal and nothing happened. So I grabbed the handbrake with both hands (checked the mirror first), and narrowly missed hitting the car in front, which pulled away onto the roundabout just in time.

I absolutely poo'd myself. It was very scary.

So the RAC man comes along (v nice man too), takes a look under the bonnet, and there's all these chew marks in the foam around the engine block, and he says the immortal words:

'looks like a MOUSE has chewed its way through your servo line*'

A MOUSE FFS!!!!

So which one of you dogmatic ecomentalists sets their pet mice on unsuspecting cars then...? GRRRRRR

*the servo sends air into the brake system so it works.

 

[LLB]

I had to go into work today and so got in my car to drive there (yes, I know I know, but it's a long way but I do it once a week if that)...the M1 was completely blocked because of the silverstone grand prix so I went through northampton which was also completely blocked because of a terrible accident on the A45.

So I was crawling around the ring road, and eventually found the road I wanted (the B526 as it happens). I was approaching a roundabout....went to slow down...and....the brakes failed - completely and utterly failed. I put my foot on the pedal and nothing happened. So I grabbed the handbrake with both hands (checked the mirror first), and narrowly missed hitting the car in front, which pulled away onto the roundabout just in time.

I absolutely poo'd myself. It was very scary.

So the RAC man comes along (v nice man too), takes a look under the bonnet, and there's all these chew marks in the foam around the engine block, and he says the immortal words:

'looks like a MOUSE has chewed its way through your servo line*'

A MOUSE FFS!!!!

So which one of you dogmatic ecomentalists sets their pet mice on unsuspecting cars then...? GRRRRRR

*the servo sends air into the brake system so it works.

Pfffft, she said 'ecomentalist'

Seriously though, My old Xantia sprung a leak on its hydraulic system once as I was doing the same thing. You do still have brakes, but you need to really stand on the pedal to get any force on them.

Fairly scary though

 

[Kirstie]

Pfffft, she said 'ecomentalist'

You started it, I believe...

 

[domtyler]

Pfffft, she said 'ecomentalist'

No she didn't, she quite clearly said "Ecomentalists", plural.

 

[LLB]

No she didn't, she quite clearly said "Ecomentalists", plural.

The plural would only apply if she used an apostrophe

 

[fossyant]

Glad you still kept your 'head' on...must have been scarey !!!!

 

[LLB]

Err.... no. Dom's right.

How are we getting along with Q.E.D. Regurgitator ?

 

[LLB]

As you obviously don't understand the concept, and have little capacity to understand, I'm not wasting my time explaining it yet again.

Wiki is my friend

I think you got it wrong, and are executing your right to silence to avoid incriminating yourself

 

[LLB]

'You think' isn't the same as fact.

As you clearly don't understand the concept and precepts, then you aren't competent to judge such matters.

I suggest you purchase of copy of 'Philosophy for Dummies'...

OK I'll rephrase - It is my assertion that you got it wrong and you have been executing your right to silence to avoid incriminating yourself

 

[Flying_Monkey]

In a discussion about a term in disputation between someone who understands philosophy and someone who thinks that saying 'wikipedia is my friend' is a clinching argument, who do we think is right? Tricky one, that...

Back to the mice anyway - they are much more interesting...

 

[mickle]

I removed him from my ignore list for this? Still doesn't like upitty broads does he?

 

[LLB]

I removed him from my ignore list for this? Still doesn't like upitty broads does he?

I didn't know that User was a woman

I have no problem at all with Kirstie if you take the bother to read the thread Mickle

 

[LLB]

In a discussion about a term in disputation between someone who understands philosophy and someone who thinks that saying 'wikipedia is my friend' is a clinching argument, who do we think is right? Tricky one, that...

Back to the mice anyway - they are much more interesting...

If you knew what we were on about in the first place, you wouldn't come across with such a degree of arrogance - but then again, why take the effort to break the cycle FM ?

 

[Jaded]

If you knew what we were on about in the first place, you wouldn't come across with such a degree of arrogance - but then again, why take the effort to break the cycle FM ?

At least he has a cycle.

 

[Mr Pig]

Strange that you had no brakes at all. Without the servo the brakes still work, you just need to push real hard. Car's not French is it?