People walking through your jobsite

[Steven P]

Ran past some tree work yesterday, reasonably main town road with full traffic management, cones, lights, and the traffic management company in attendance... remembering this thread I took note - didn't see anyone being too arsey with it... but that road often has works on it just now... Multiple trees over about 100m and not sure if that helped with it being a longer scheme than just a single tree where you can 'see' what is going on to take a chance?

Cones,

Traffic lights,

Footpath closed off

Traffic management company in attendance

About 6 workers all in high vis

[sime42]

There's some proper Bellends around. Keep your eyes open folks.

 

Derbyshire: Driver knocks over worker after ignoring closure

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Derbyshire Police said his actions were "not only unacceptable but criminal".

 

 

 

[Steven P]

6 months ban, 12 month suspended sentence?

 

Proper bellends, but also idiots for forgetting that every man (or woman) and their dog (or... ) has a camera phone at the ready, and the police will take it as evidence quite happily.

[Mr. Squirrel]

I’m pretty sure Germany is especially bad for this, always thought so when I lived there. 
 

I remember on a pissing wet day in Germany this guy ran through our taped off site, grabbing one of the tripod folding signs, and flung it in the river. I bombed out the tree and chased after him, but what would I really do? I got back and a groundy had found his keys. He came back 20 mins later, still in his running gear, still raining, looking around on the floor. I said excuse me a few times, he ignored me, then I said ‘excuse me, have you lost your keys’ holding them up. His eyes widened, a look of pure relief, and I tossed them over my shoulder into the river. He nodded and left. It was wonderful. 

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, Mr. Squirrel said:

I’m pretty sure Germany is especially bad for this, always thought so when I lived there. 
 

I remember on a pissing wet day in Germany this guy ran through our taped off site, grabbing one of the tripod folding signs, and flung it in the river. I bombed out the tree and chased after him, but what would I really do? I got back and a groundy had found his keys. He came back 20 mins later, still in his running gear, still raining, looking around on the floor. I said excuse me a few times, he ignored me, then I said ‘excuse me, have you lost your keys’ holding them up. His eyes widened, a look of pure relief, and I tossed them over my shoulder into the river. He nodded and left. It was wonderful. 

Exquisite . 🙂

[oldwoodcutter]

I’ve had them move my signs to cycle through into drop zone , triple lines of hazard tape have been pulled up and ducked under to walk directly under ton lumps of timber coming down, but I’ve found that the worst offenders are postmen, who will battle through every safety barrier erected and every banksman ignored,to get to that letterbox.

[manco]

On 04/02/2025 at 14:45, Peasgood said:

https://packaged-media.redd.it/67yu4rd1z8bb1/pb/m2-res_720p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1738692000&s=a372094d990229c71d15fa744af25c88b7422034

outstanding! 

got me a boner watching that cyclist go down

im not saying the tow guy wasnt at fault, but damn thats some good watching.

[Gavint]

On 02/02/2025 at 21:33, Pete Mctree said:

It’s always been an issue - never better, never worse. 
 

One tip I will share for stopping pedestrians is the magic branch. Put up a barrier, string some tape across and they will snap it, however if you put a reasonable sized branch or two in front of said barrier 9 times out of 10 it will stop them in there tracks. The simple fact is that the lazy retards do not like lifting there feet and stepping over stuff - just try it, you will see what I mean

This is true!  

 

I call them Homo domesticus - they'll stop and not know what to do even if there are just twigs on the ground. 

 

 

[IronMike]

On 09/02/2025 at 18:03, oldwoodcutter said:

I’ve had them move my signs to cycle through into drop zone , triple lines of hazard tape have been pulled up and ducked under to walk directly under ton lumps of timber coming down, but I’ve found that the worst offenders are postmen, who will battle through every safety barrier erected and every banksman ignored,to get to that letterbox.

I once had a postman drive over an outrigger on my Logbullet as he was in such a hurry.