What is it about zebra crossings that drivers don't want to stop at them for pedestrians? I was taught that you should stop for pedestrians and *not* move off until they are actually off the crossing. Drivers round here seem to stop grudgingly and pull away as if to clip the pedestrians' heels.
It's been an ambition of mine to kick a car as it went past me on a crossing, and I did it the other day. Normally I just have to put up with making a rude sign at them.
Sorry didn't make it clear,
For the pair, fitted,...
BTW the Pirellis quoted was the elcheapo.. made by Pirelli but not called Pirelli jobbies...
Ok perhaps i bigged that up a bit,
Numerous times yes, once on a roundabout last xmas day and a none to exciting speed.... that woke me up... but i was prepared to put that down to an oil spillage on the roundabout or some such, as i have been around the same roundabout at the same sort of speed before and after and it hasnt even felt loose before.
Other times it has and will again spin on an off camber 90º with a cobble rumble strip, at the side of a railway line, safe clear and open, the only other place i can get it to spin, and i have just been trying this is in a flat carpark ( at work with the gates locked and 8ft palasade fencing all around), but it takes provocation....
Yes, but then there are ways to say this, i can think of many ways to explain it better than being so harsh....
I suspect had i changed my name to "Sally Blonde" i wouldnt have recieved the same responce?
still i drempt you had inserted some sort of f-wit into a comment at some point, and it was this that was causing me upset, i appolguise for that.
Do you possess all your front teeth?
Or handle in the way it does, just made me curious thats all....
Absolutely....
'Ceat', I think. Kwik-Fit tried to fob me off with these last week - but got a pair of Goodyear Eagle Venturas for less in the end.
It is usually known as "under licence" which means that they are made in some old Pirelli moulds in some eastern European country, but still not a bad price for budgets. What part of the country do you live in? the reason I ask is just for research on the price of tyres in different parts of the UK.
Could you post the size /speed rating and price please?
195/60R14.
Eagle Venturas (V-rated) came in at just over £100 a pair.
Wigan area...
IIRC they was called Armstrong,
Guess I'll find out for sure one Weds if you can wait that long!
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Why do you think they're being withdrawn?
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It does when you thump the top of their car as the pass you. Works wonders for me. I've found they screech to a halt and check to see if they've hit you.
Me personally? All of it word for word.
Tom Burton ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.net) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Well, you'd already said that you were too mean to care about the safety of others.
Yes. I'm not sexist.
Yes.
So don't add to the pool of unsafe cars.
This is why I walk to work in steel toecaps. If you see cars in Oxford with a dint in the OSR door, it's because I kicked them whilst crossing a zebra crossing.
Having an apple in your habd to throw at the car is also useful (and tasty!)
Don;t forget to contact Claims-Direct or similar and sue them... as well as reporting them for failing to stop after an accident.
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Many years ago, when cars had wings/wheel arches that stuck out a friend's Dad was walking home along the Pilgrims Way at night and ran a car through the rear wing with his umrella 'cos it got too close to him.
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