Be Excellent To Each Other

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Puddle-Splashing-Driver-Charged-For-Splashing-School-Kids-In-Plymouth-Devon/Article/200910215405349?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15405349_Puddle_Splashing%3A_Driver_Charged_For_Splashing_School_Kids_I

From the voice it sounds like Boris Johnson.

Heheheh. SPLOOOSH! Heheheh.

Police have just released a CCTV grab of the kid hating perpetrators:

That was a cracker.

Going at some speed there too.

Fucking Ben Elton wanker lol.

Hehehe

Also, it clearly wasn't careless driving.

Dick. A van did that to me in the Lake District, and I wasn't amused.

The aim was perfect

I don't find that amusing at all, really. I've seen that happen a few times, and it just goes to show how contemptible some drivers can be of pedestrians. Those people are in a dry warm car and find it amusing to soak a load of people that don't have the privilege of being able to travel by car, just for their own amusement.

So, you're going down a wet and slippery road, a road that you know has a load of people waiting on the pavement at a bus stop, so you think the best thing to do is to drive really fast? I hate the way some motorists treat pedestrians.

Well it's happened to me before. And it sucks, but I did see the funny side.

It clearly is, because the "driving without due care and attention" legal definition has a "showing consideration for other road users" clause, which she was not.

What other road users?

During the floods the year before last, I saw a succession of cars drive through a 9 inch deep puddle at speed, each soaking the same poor old man who was trying to walk along the adjoining pavement carrying his shopping. Absolute cunts. I wish them syphillis and then a lingering death.

It's battery, by the way, and you can get, like, totally done-zors for it. Or at least that was the case last time I did criminal law. Which was a while ago, I'll admit.

Well they weren't showing consideration for people at the bus stop

EDIT: yea! Mr Chris!

I don't like the idea of a car screaming down the road, then ploughing one side through something with vastly different physics and grip. How likely would a car be to lose control in a situation like that?

I think the thread title says it all... The actions of the driver are totally deplorable!!

What if she had lost control of the car and skidded into the kids? It was wet and she was driving at speed... Stranger things have happened.

Very good point - I clipped a very deep puddle I hadn't noticed at 50mph a while back and I very nearly went into a spin. Only my panicked grabbing of the steering wheel l33t driving skills saved me.



Hi5!

The kids at the bus stop. The road includes people walking on the pavement alongside it. And that's not including the odds of her losing control and aquaplaning into the kids or something solid, of course, as others have pointed out.

I totally think she should be prosecuted.

I agree with Mimi, Mr Chris and the Doc. Fucking twat.

Just because he's short and welsh, there's no need to be rude.

Me too, and yet despite that I couldn't help but smile a bit when I saw the clip.

Of course. Doesn't stop it being somewhat amusing though.

Granted.

I agree that it's well funny. But norty.

I think it's because they're just kids and kids deserve to get this sort of shit at every opportunity. If it had been old people then I'd be all angry.

Actually, on thinking some more about that I have decided it would still be pretty funny.

(Ahem....)

"When I see an old lady fall down, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I were an ant, and she'd landed on me? That wouldn't be so funny!"

I remember as a kid always asking my mum to slash puddles with her car, because it was fun. But never when there was people there to get wet, because that is mean.

I've certainly managed to soak one lady in my time. I wouldn't have known were it not for the fact I was driving in convoy, and the person behind me informed me later.

And I'm someone who pays attention to things like road surfaces, particulary in the rain.

Prevert.

Dave behaving badly.

LLOL

From me too.

Did she have one of those cars from Spy Hunter? And was Puddles the name of next door's cat?

Yeah, I'm siding with the "utter cuntburger who deserves a proper slapping" chorus of opinion here. It's not fucking funny to be on the receiving end of this sort of thing; it's puerile, childish, and pathetic and bordering on bullying-style behaviour. No time for it whatsoever.

The bloke commentating sounds a bit like that Johnny whatever his name was who presented The Big Breakfast. Anyway, it's highly cuntish, although it was a mildly amusing video, and seriously dangerous. When it rains around here the roads flood pretty badly; once some twat overtook me hit one of these puddles and by the narrowest of margins missed me and ended up being stopped by a tree. Christ alone knows what carnage would have ensued had pedestrians been on that stretch of pavement.

What Mr Chris says is correct. Unless you are Rev Stu, in which case it could not possibly be battery as there was no real harm done.

Thing is, once something like this gets up on youtube, the person that uploaded it probably told some people they know. And they told others.

And then people realize that secrets are only ever rented.

And Plymouth is a small place.

Oddly, the presentation of this story on PM this evening was that the kids *asked* the woman to do this... That doesn't strike me as being at all likely but is, if true, of course a complete defence to everything.

Mali - but he totally presented "precedents", and so was equally as right as you...

I hate the way you mock me, with your in car radio....
Also: "litigants in person..."

I'm muchos looking forward to meeting you on the 24th, by the way. I wont ask for a job or anything, though.

Shame - I was going to offer you £4 to clean the windows.

Tell you what, I'll trade you my radio for your heating system. I'll happily give up the dulcet tones of Eddie Mair for frostbite-free toes. Bring a functioning heating pump unit to Grim...'s (including pipes and flaps and stuff) and I'll bring the radio and the 10CD changer.


Snigger.



Ditto - but relax Mali, I'm married.

When I said I had a ladder in my tights....

----Important announcement-----

All talk of the 24th October is banned on threat of me cutting off your heels.

----Announcement ends----

1) I have aircon in the car. Which is nice. It turns on as and when it feels like it. Which is also fun.
2) Yes, indeed. We're being taught about THE RULES and how to help them, which is always "No, really, seek legal help"
3) You're not my type, and, if you were, you'd be a bit down the list.

Stabby stabby death. Still, I get to listen to music and that.



"Preferably from my firm"

Look, you can't hide it, you know. It's obvious to everyone. You'll just have to control yourself on the 24th.

You know, as a pedestrian, I look for puddles on the road and make sure I'm not next to them if there's a car. Those on foot need to bear their share of the responsibility, much as a driver must not take the piss.

In 'the wet' my driving style is max two thirds of the normal for that road, though in practice much less than that as conditions commit, on we go, maintaining safe stopping distances and so on. Under which circumstances, if I'd need to drift across to avoid splishing a pavement user (and not necessarily being any more road-stable myself) then bollocks to it, I'm not risking losing control. You know... wear a fucking mac, and pay attention to puddles and traffic. I've got someone before in the permaflooded Cardiff-on-sea and she could have avoided a total drenching by turning to check before she passed the little lake in the road. Im, on the other hand, would have aquaplaned sideways into the central reservation by Sainsbury's.

I tend to steer clear of puddles if I can help it. Not just because I'm generally nice to people but after being stranded in the arse end of nowhere after driving through a massive puddle & the engine stopping I'm a bit wary of them.

I did once spray a group of 10 or so rambling hikers, but it was either that or swerve into the on coming traffic like the car behind me

EDIT: I've just remembered something. In the schemes near here the kids used to throw glass and old nails into the puddles & then goad drivers into soaking them