Why isn't there a specific offence: 'Driving like a Daffodil'?

[Drago]

Smart car man sounds like a bit of a rebel. A loose cannon?

 

[User32269]

Could Ronnie Pickering have replaced his old Citroën for a more economical and environmentally friendly little Smart?

No wonder nobody challenged the queue jumping hardman.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Did he have one of those stickers on the back in the Smart font saying 'Arse'?

 

[Andy_R]

Indeed. But sometimes when I do it on my pushbike they get the hump.

What is this "pushbike" you talk of? Doth it not have pedals that one couldst propel it with?

 

[Drago]

I bet he does that parking sideways thing as well, just because he can.

Ye Gods, this chap sounds like a veritable young Marlon Brando. I bet the dashed fellow also sports one of those leather jackets that the young ruffians hereabouts have taken to wearing

 

[snorri]

Is there not a proper sub forum for squabbling about cars and bikes?

It's "the lights" that get me, they seem to give rise to much controversy, then when they say there's another lot 100 metres down the road? Why so close? wtf?

 

[cosmicbike]

What is this "pushbike" you talk of? Doth it not have pedals that one couldst propel it with?

My apologies, showing my age. I did, of course, mean to refer to my pedalcycle

 

[srw]

Because most cars are too heavy to flutter and dance in the breeze.

 

[NorthernDave]

Did he have one of those stickers on the back in the Smart font saying 'Arse'?

Like this one?
Cheeky! by Dave, on Flickr

 

[ufkacbln]

Coming back wi' t'hound and I run into one of those temporary three-way controls, on account of they've scraped the tarmac off about 100 metres of road.

When I finally get through the lights and turn right, there is of course a long line of traffic, which as I start passing it is being overtaken by one of those little Smart cars, which passes me going the other way, and all the waiting cars, and then (I check the mirror) pulls in right at the front of the queue, ready for the green light. Now, as far as I can see, the guy hasn't actually broken any laws. The 'other side of the road' that he was using was vacant when he used it; no-one was put at any risk; nothing he did would constitute 'dangerous driving', or contravene any other particular law that I know of. He was just queue jumping, pure & simple.

And yet if anyone in that queue had got out, wrenched his door open, hauled him out onto the road and beaten him to a pulp, as he richly deserved, I bet they'd be the one in trouble. I think driving like that should be an offence, and people who do it should have their cars crushed. Especially if they're Smart cars.

Rant over.

A few years ago they had works near the M27 near Southampton at the Airport Junction

There would be a queue of cars in the inside lane as they exited through the works.

Every morning there would be the impatient muppets who would drive past the queue and then block the middle lane as well as they tried to push in tho the original queue

So they put bollards along, but cars would then drive along, remove the bollards and push in

Then one fine morning the Police were involved...... they simply stood there and forced all that traffic to stay on the motorway

Next junction id not until Nursling and then there is a long trip back through the city on congested roads, or you have to turn round here, and go back on the motorway to the Airport junction.

A lot of disgruntled drivers and lots of Grinkingto the local press where they got little sympathy

The Police were there for about a week