OAP accidentally runs over a mourner

[lazybloke]

Thought cafe for this one, but it could go the other way.
http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/30/leade...an-over-graveyard-mourner-by-mistake-7511024/

Seems a very small fine (£40) for running someone over, even if 'accidental'. Is it relevant that the driver was an upstanding citizen? (Clue: no).
The roads would be better if we expected higher standards of (all) drivers, and imposed suitable punishments when standards slipped.

No mention of a restest - would it not make sense to mandate retests for all careless drivers?

 

[steveindenmark]

"Ran over" could be newspaper terms for "Gently nudged with a wing mirror". There are no mention of injuries and without all the facts it is hard to make a judgement.

 

[Tin Pot]

An 88-year-old Neighbourhood Watch busybody ran over a mourner in a graveyard after mistakenly believing he was a thief.

Outstanding journalism.

 

[Drago]

I wonder if his insurer knows he uses his car for a 'policing' purpose? The guy is a busy body eejit who's foolishness and lack of knowledge led to this one.

 

[NorthernDave]

I wonder if his insurer knows he uses his car for a 'policing' purpose? The guy is a busy body eejit who's foolishness and lack of knowledge led to this one.

^^^ This just about covers it.

 

[Pale Rider]

I wonder if his insurer knows he uses his car for a 'policing' purpose? The guy is a busy body eejit who's foolishness and lack of knowledge led to this one.

What led to this one was residents' frustrations over their ineffectual police force.

 

[Drago]

Quite possibly, quite possibly, although that's no justification for harassing innocent van drivers and then running innocent people over in their haste to escape. His frustration with the Feds has caused police time to be wasted, potentially depriving someone somewhere else who genuinely needed police attention. He's become part of the problem that he presumably decries.

I think more likely he is simply a Walt, someone who gets his jollies from the thrill of pretending to be Jack Frost, like these chumps that fit blue lights to their cars.Thats nothing to do with the very real shortcomings of the police, and everything to do with simply being a twit.

 

[Beebo]

It does make you wonder what an 88 year old was expecting to do if and when someone he followed approached him.

It seems he hadn't thought that through and just panicked in the face of potential danger.

 

[Cycleops]

[QUOTE 5231040, member: 259"]To be fair, they did give the ages of both of the perps, but they missed out on the make and model of the car.[/QUOTE]
But they did mention the price of houses in the area.

 

[Drago]

I'm a little concerned as the old boy was probably driving a Ford Fusion.

 

[NorthernDave]

I'm a little concerned as the old boy was probably driving a Ford Fusion.

Would a Fusion have sufficient acceleration to "mow down" and innocent mourner?

 

[raleighnut]

What did he think the guy was gonna nick in a graveyard, is there a market for 'pre-owned' gravestones or wilted flowers.

 

[Drago]

Would a Fusion have sufficient acceleration to "mow down" and innocent mourner?

Gently nudge aside perhaps. One does get used to being overtaken by glaciers and the odd kid on a BMX when driving a Fusion!

Busy urban graveyards can be rich pickings for the light fingered. They target mourners cars for valuables. Handbags are a favourite, because no one totes a handbag to the graveside.

 

[raleighnut]

Gently nudge aside perhaps. One does get used to being overtaken by glaciers and the odd kid on a BMX when driving a Fusion!

Busy urban graveyards can be rich pickings for the light fingered. They target mourners cars for valuables. Handbags are a favourite, because no one totes a handbag to the graveside.

Hadn't thought of that but then I don't use my handbag very often.

 

[Pale Rider]

Gently nudge aside perhaps. One does get used to being overtaken by glaciers and the odd kid on a BMX when driving a Fusion!

Busy urban graveyards can be rich pickings for the light fingered. They target mourners cars for valuables. Handbags are a favourite, because no one totes a handbag to the graveside.

Or just routine booze or drug fuelled vandalism.

I've never been involved in a Neighbourhood Watch scheme, but as I understand them there will be some police involvement, even if it's only turning up at a meeting occasionally.

I'm not sure what the police view on scheme members actively patrolling would be, but I suspect it might be discouraged.

Keeping your eyes open is one thing, stooging around at all hours of the day and night is another.