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Over the past few weeks I've been looking at M3s to replace my 330ci and thought I found a suitable one not long ago. For reasons detailed in the Mpower section I decided not to go through with the deal.
It was just as well as I was woken at 3am on Sat morning with my car alarm going off. I went outside and found this.
Yes, some unknown gibbon has decided to mate his car with mine and then leave it like that with the windows down, the airbag deployed, the radio and the heater going, his keys still in the ignition and his mobile phone sitting on the dashboard. One of my neighbours said he saw a guy staggering off down the road. The police were called but they now won't tell me whether the guy was caught or not.
Something was telling me that it wasn't the right time to get a new car, now I know why.
It was just as well as I was woken at 3am on Sat morning with my car alarm going off. I went outside and found this.


Yes, some unknown gibbon has decided to mate his car with mine and then leave it like that with the windows down, the airbag deployed, the radio and the heater going, his keys still in the ignition and his mobile phone sitting on the dashboard. One of my neighbours said he saw a guy staggering off down the road. The police were called but they now won't tell me whether the guy was caught or not.
Something was telling me that it wasn't the right time to get a new car, now I know why.
My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
toastboy said:
My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
All that will happen is that you'll have drivers slowing and accelerating, making more noise, people like me in big cars ignoring the speed humps altogether and some people beeping their horn at every hump, just to remind you what a joke the phrase "traffic calming" really is.
Further, if this bloke's a pisshead, what would you have achieved? He'd have crashed into your car, traffic calming measures or no.
Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:23
CommanderJameson said:
toastboy said:
My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
All that will happen is that you'll have drivers slowing and accelerating, making more noise, people like me in big cars ignoring the speed humps altogether and some people beeping their horn at every hump, just to remind you what a joke the phrase "traffic calming" really is.
Further, if this bloke's a pisshead, what would you have achieved? He'd have crashed into your car, traffic calming measures or no.
Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:23
toastboy said:
CommanderJameson said:
toastboy said:
My neighbour said he looked in his mid fifties. He's probably been drink driving for years. I hope this time it's his 3rd offence and this time he'll get banged up for it.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
I'm trying to look on the bright side of things though. At least it was my car that stopped him and not one of the neighbours children. I'm going to try and get on to the council to get some traffic calming measures installed in the road as it's a real rat run. Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
All that will happen is that you'll have drivers slowing and accelerating, making more noise, people like me in big cars ignoring the speed humps altogether and some people beeping their horn at every hump, just to remind you what a joke the phrase "traffic calming" really is.
Further, if this bloke's a pisshead, what would you have achieved? He'd have crashed into your car, traffic calming measures or no.
Edited by CommanderJameson on Tuesday 17th April 13:23
Suggestion? Nothing.
No traffic calming measure could have prevented your car being hit. People won't avoid "rat runs" just because there's chicanes or humps or whatnot.
If you want to increase the amount of noise and pollution on your street, traffic calming measures are a marvellous way of doing that. They won't stop J. Random Pisshead driving into your car, though.
Best of luck catching JRP, though. Hope they nail his arse to the wall.
toastboy said:
Call me a hypocrite as I'm not keen on road humps but when these things happen on a residential road you can see the benefit of slowing the traffic.
You're a hypocrite. Speed humps will not slow down a pissed up, out of control drunk driver. I also wonder why he would have hit one of your neighbours children rather than your car. Are they in the habit of wandering about in the road at night?
Soz to see/hear that, there are millions of nobs like this guy around all the time. Upside at least it wasn't the new one, downside going to have a repaired motor now they are never quite the same
The speed bumps won't help with this, they will just go over them at a funny angle get all out shape and same result IMHO

The speed bumps won't help with this, they will just go over them at a funny angle get all out shape and same result IMHO
Edited by ^Iain330^ on Wednesday 18th April 14:59
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