Can't Understand Why
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Can someone please have a go explaining what enters a scrotes head when he feels he has to wreck/torch cars that are left/broken down/nicked by the roadside?
On my two-mile journey home there is/was a red H reg Escort Turbo parked up on the verge on the edge of a dual carriageway. Day one it was OK, then on day 2 it had been moved slightly, the rear windscreen had been smashed and the door was open. Day 3 it had been torched. Over 100 cars a month are wrecked like that in this city!
Some of the cars have the 'POLICE AWARE' sticker on – now besides the bleedin' obvious, what does that mean? Do the cops make any attempt to contact the owner – cos I can't believe it's been left there BY the owner ...
What upsets me is that someone can actually have that little respect for someone elses's property. Not living in a bad area I don't come across wanton vandalism much and when I do – I get MAD ... both for the poor owner and for the future of society as a whole.
On my two-mile journey home there is/was a red H reg Escort Turbo parked up on the verge on the edge of a dual carriageway. Day one it was OK, then on day 2 it had been moved slightly, the rear windscreen had been smashed and the door was open. Day 3 it had been torched. Over 100 cars a month are wrecked like that in this city!
Some of the cars have the 'POLICE AWARE' sticker on – now besides the bleedin' obvious, what does that mean? Do the cops make any attempt to contact the owner – cos I can't believe it's been left there BY the owner ...
What upsets me is that someone can actually have that little respect for someone elses's property. Not living in a bad area I don't come across wanton vandalism much and when I do – I get MAD ... both for the poor owner and for the future of society as a whole.
Yeah. But *some* of these cars have been left by the side of the road for a reason - their owners have abandoned them as it costs too much to get the scrappy to process it.
Apparently it can take days/weeks for plod/council to legally be allowed to remove the eyesore and get rid as the car is still legally someone's property.
In good old Basingstoke we have quite a bad abandoned car problem - its not bad but every so often there's one just left on the grass by the side of the ring road.
Its a personal rant but surely some of our road tax could be spent on subsidising scrappies for every car at the end of its life that they take on to make it worth their while to recycle even these old sh**boxes - if the owners (who, frankly, cannot afford £xxx to scrap the car) got a few quid for being responsible and taking it there then the problem would go away.
And the scrotes wouldn't have anything to burn...
Apparently it can take days/weeks for plod/council to legally be allowed to remove the eyesore and get rid as the car is still legally someone's property.
In good old Basingstoke we have quite a bad abandoned car problem - its not bad but every so often there's one just left on the grass by the side of the ring road.
Its a personal rant but surely some of our road tax could be spent on subsidising scrappies for every car at the end of its life that they take on to make it worth their while to recycle even these old sh**boxes - if the owners (who, frankly, cannot afford £xxx to scrap the car) got a few quid for being responsible and taking it there then the problem would go away.
And the scrotes wouldn't have anything to burn...
Just to add a little slant on this one, on the industrial estate where I work we had a sudden spate of dumped cars over a period of 3 months, one of the other unit owners is a magistrate and we decided on his advise that we could contact DVLA and get previous owner details sent to us and then charge the last registered keeper for removal. This is what we did on the last 4 cars and oddly enough 3 out of the last 4 were all shown as having been "sold recently to a local main dealer" now being a sinical bastard and the facts that all these cars were old shiters, the local dealer offers a £1500 min px for any car it looks to me that for some dealers its cheaper to either dump there shit or bung a local pickie £10 to do it for them. Oddly enough when the dealer was contacted they claimed to have recently "sold" all the cars in question but we haven't had any dumped since !!!!!!!!
It's such a pity it's only old bangers that are abandoned. I'd happily find a home for something a little more interesting. One of the Autocar contributers recently mentioned that they had "aquired" a Lotus Eclat (admittedly a full restoration needed) from a lay-by!
I pass a Astra van that's clearly been abandoned near where I live. Who's should I contact first, the police or the local council (there's no police aware sticker despite the fact it's been there a couple of weeks)
I pass a Astra van that's clearly been abandoned near where I live. Who's should I contact first, the police or the local council (there's no police aware sticker despite the fact it's been there a couple of weeks)
What I don't get is why people leave them in the most stupid places. OK, sometimes they just break down and the owner decides to abandon them, but why not at least leave them in a car park or park off the road properly?
There's an old Escort parked on a back road into Bracknell at the moment - it's currently aiming for the world record of an abandoned car that hasn't been trashed - it's been there for a week now. Police Aware stickers were on it yesterday so I guess it will move soon. By why to heck did they abandon it half on/half off the road? And why the heck didn't the police push it off the road properly? All the traffic has to slow/swerve around it at the moment.
There's an old Escort parked on a back road into Bracknell at the moment - it's currently aiming for the world record of an abandoned car that hasn't been trashed - it's been there for a week now. Police Aware stickers were on it yesterday so I guess it will move soon. By why to heck did they abandon it half on/half off the road? And why the heck didn't the police push it off the road properly? All the traffic has to slow/swerve around it at the moment.
By a strange coincidence I was on a Fire Safety Course yesterday run by Surrey Fire & Rescue Service and one thing that really hit me was the speed with which a fire can grow and trap you. Vehicle fires these days are particularly nasty with all the plastics used in trim, insulation - sound and electrical, and bodywork (all you TVR types). They all go up like matchwood and produce a really evil cocktail of poisonous fumes. You can be dead in just a few seconds
Having done the smoke-filled room, extinguisher practicals etc. I can tell you two things.
a) I am totally in awe of the professional firefighters who tackle these things for a living
b) the next time I hear a fire alarm I'm gone on the D of ding-a-ling
Having done the smoke-filled room, extinguisher practicals etc. I can tell you two things.
a) I am totally in awe of the professional firefighters who tackle these things for a living
b) the next time I hear a fire alarm I'm gone on the D of ding-a-ling
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By a strange coincidence I was on a Fire Safety Course yesterday run by Surrey Fire & Rescue Service and one thing that really hit me was the speed with which a fire can grow and trap you. Vehicle fires these days are particularly nasty with all the plastics used in trim, insulation - sound and electrical, and bodywork (all you TVR types). They all go up like matchwood and produce a really evil cocktail of poisonous fumes. You can be dead in just a few seconds
Having done the smoke-filled room, extinguisher practicals etc. I can tell you two things.
a) I am totally in awe of the professional firefighters who tackle these things for a living
b) the next time I hear a fire alarm I'm gone on the D of ding-a-ling
Article in Sprint several years ago. Fireman TVR owner had a call out to a Lotus a couple on minutes away. By the time they got there, chasis, rims and block was all that was left. Had to crane the chasis up as it had melted into the tarmac.
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