Ignorant human beings

[David Riding]

Dave, i agree with what your saying and the examples you give, and i also agree that there is a chance that criminals at the game might have stole of anyone and stayed undetected, the big issue with the newspaper that people i know have is that it claimed a dead girl had been 'abused', and that fans were 'openly urinating on the bodies of the dead'. those things could not have been missed by cameras etc.

[Bob Slade]

some people can be ignorant and just down right unhelpful....

 

Went to work this morning feeling a little unwell but needed the money so went anyway. By the time 11 o'clock came i was up a mahoosive conifer and feeling rather unwell and feverish (man flu i thought, so i carried on). In the end i had to get home, told the customer i'd be back in the morning and started to drive home. On my way home i started to get pins and needles ALL over my body but it was affecting my hands which had clasped shut and my vision which was blurry, i was also breathing too rapidly and nearly crashed the car.

 

I pulled over to be sick at the side of the road but no joy, pins and needles where getting worse, i could hardly speak and only just managed to dial 999 on the phone as i was genuinely worried something was wrong... As i was trying to speak to the operator who was finding it very difficult to understand me, i couldn't remember where i was so crawled to the front of my car and tried to wave to someone to stop.

 

AT LEAST 9-10 cars drove past and looked at me and NOT ONE stopped!! eventually a jogger came past and spoke to the emergency services about my location.

 

Well after spending, 4 hours in hospital this afternoon strapped to a heart monitor and blood pressure device turns out i have a sickness bug, very low blood pressure and apparently am doing to much (yes i am a big girl) but the point is... NO ONE STOPPED!

 

since i had my stroke i have set up the sos on my phone which will automaticly ring both my daughters. if i cant speak then they can phone the ES for me. the ES can track your number and location. if the AA can do it then the ES can.

[RobRainford]

it is shocking at the quality of driving with some people, not to beat down a stereotype, but i find executives in their german 2 Ltr saloons seem to care more about themselves and keeping their speed over 85 on the motorway, than being a bit polite and letting you out into the lane they are in.

 

If you look at people who drive for a living, the standard is truly shocking, ive nearly been sideswiped by a wagon on the motorway because he decided he wanted to stay on the motorway as he was going up the slip road and nearly caused a pile up.

 

Taxi drivers, when they have no passengers, can be ABISMAL.

 

From driving tractors the past couple of years now, mainly fairly long journeys, been up to lancaster, to manchester a few times and down to crewe. People do completely daft overtaking and it seems to bring out the worst in people. i was driving on a B road and there was nowhere suitable to stop for a good 25 minutes, when i did finally find a layby, out of about 40 cars, i think 2 or 3 waved thanks, the rest just seemed irate and one wagon driver clapped sarcastically at me.

 

but what can we do? theres not enough traffic police to catch the real numpties until they are caught out and the good people get caught up in it!

[jpbeaver]

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If you look at people who drive for a living, the standard is truly shocking,

 

From driving tractors the past couple of years now, mainly fairly long journeys, been up to lancaster, to manchester a few times and down to crewe. People do completely daft overtaking and it seems to bring out the worst in people.

 

 

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so are you including yourself as someone who drove for a living?

[RobRainford]

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If you look at people who drive for a living, the standard is truly shocking,

 

From driving tractors the past couple of years now, mainly fairly long journeys, been up to lancaster, to manchester a few times and down to crewe. People do completely daft overtaking and it seems to bring out the worst in people.

 

 

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so are you including yourself as someone who drove for a living?

 

No I'm not. I drive to site. I dont drive to earn money. Driving is just part of the work that makes me money!

[Matthew Arnold]

We had a case today at a give way junction. We were in our defender turning right and indicating that we were goin right but this silly woman just kept on going. We didn't hit her Skoda Superd but it wasn't far off from hitting our bumper n rock sliders. We gave her a blast of horn and a flash of full beam but we got the finger from her and several expletives which i cannot repeat on here. She sat on our rear all the way up to the traffic lights effin n blindin at us. So when we got to the traffic lights that were on red we waited til the last minute then braked to shut her up. Which luckily it did.

[Mick Stockbridge]

I don't get stressed over ignorant divs anymore.... life is too short and I have better things to get on with.....

[Dean Lofthouse]

I don't get stressed over ignorant divs anymore.... life is too short and I have better things to get on with.....

 

I think your right Mick....it would drive me nuts if I thought about it too much, you cant change the world on your own but you can drive considerately where other don't

[Mick Stockbridge]

it would drive me nuts if I thought about it too much:

 

 

Me aswell Dean. I just ignore divs these days for that very reason.

 

I can remember a div a short while back that came screaming through traffic on a motorbike and his mirror hit mine so I bibbed him, the idiot stopped and strolled over to my window with some soppy looking skull face mask on and offered to break my neck......not wanting to offer violence because of my fac I told him, "fine, go ahead , dont let me stop you"......the div turned on his heels and jumped back on his bike......

[nepia]

A classic case is Ian Huntley. He was a peadophile but because he had not been caught it wasn't on file. They only realised when the two school girls went missing.

 

He had been caught - more than once - but not convicted. Failings in the way records of arrests and intelligence were kept and exchanged allowed him to slip through the vetting net, especially as he didn't play fair (irony) by using a false name in his job application.

Sorry to be pedantic but Huntley's ability to do the job he did wasn't because he hadn't been caught; in that sense the system didn't fail. If it had been used well he would never have become caretaker at that school.

In short human error, not system failure.