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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 04:45 AM
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The "F*ing angry" topic reminded me of an incident I had last year in Hampstead.
I came round the corner to see a queue of 3 or 4 cars, and the same in other direction.
A woman had reversed out of her drive, knocked this bloke off his motorbike and driven off.
Course, this guy couldn't lift the bike but everyone sat in their cars waiting. I walked down the queue, helped the guy lift the bike and get it out the way, just as I walked back down the middle of the road past the queue this old boy in a Jag decides that it doesn't matter what everyone else is waiting for, he's going to drive round em. So he's heading straight towards me. I got out the way and whacked his mirror as he went past.
When I drove off I caught him up (not intentionally) at some lights got out and gave him a mouthful, he never even looked at me. Then he turned off down a side street.
My only regret is not following him all the way and really laying into him (verbally) and calling the police.
Makes me "F*king angry" just thinking about it again.
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 05:16 AM
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 05:17 AM
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People seem in such a a rush to get nowhere fast nowadays.

This guy sounds like a real A grade idiot.
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 05:24 AM
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sounds like a real idiot. lots of them about. scarily so.
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 05:25 AM
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I'm sorry to say that that is typical for Hampstead. Loads of wealthy people who couldn't give a rat's ar$e for other road users. Up near to the pond there are a load of narrow winding streets. You often turn a corner to find a daft bint driving a ML or X5 in the middle of the road.
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 05:26 AM
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He could have been related to the turd woman who drove off
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by BigTed,Aug 23 2006, 02:25 PM
I'm sorry to say that that is typical for Hampstead. Loads of wealthy people who couldn't give a rat's ar$e for other road users. Up near to the pond there are a load of narrow winding streets. You often turn a corner to find a daft bint driving a ML or X5 in the middle of the road.
Right on the nail. I hate Hampstead, full of people with way more money than sense, and a real air of arrogance there are of course exceptions, but the whole area does seem to be full of em.
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 08:22 AM
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I just watched someone have a hissy fit and reverse into a car; coming up to a mini roundabout, and there is chaos - there's a copper stood there with the exit I want closed off. Muppet in his vectra estate stops to ask "is the road closed" - fair enough. Copper says - yep closed, sorry, so vectra-bloke has a hissy fit and slams it in reverse and reverses up so he can take the next exit.

Copper yells, CRUNCH, as vectra boy reverses promptly into the fiat behind him
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 08:23 AM
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O yeah, also - I did a shift with a traffic cop a little while back - attended 2 accidents. One of which was on a mini roundabout; ambulance in attendance, both drivers taken off to A&E, car abandoned on roundabout.

Me (in high viz) and another cop (also in high viz) directing the traffic. We were nearly driven into several times by drivers who preferred to gawp at the scene while driving, instead of looking where they were going. They also blatantly stopped to look and refused to drive on !
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Old Aug 23, 2006 | 08:27 AM
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Some jobsworth in a Ford Fiesta decided he could pull away and out accelerate me on a sliproad onto a dual carriageway yesterday. When i overtook him in a nano second, he chased alongside me (after I let him) making exagerated "I'm taking your number plate" gestures before brandishing what seemed to be Crown Estate Parking permit!! I flipped open my wallet in a similar manner while laughing, then gave him the finger.

Ooooooo tremble tremble, not sure how I'm going to sleep at night knowing he might track me down and perform a jobsworth arrest.

Idiots everywhere. Somebody save me from them.
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