http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Secret Plumber wins at Twitter en Fri, 22 May 2026 10:18:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-159263 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 03:48:14 +0000 gkgk 159263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like the sticker's recognition that cycling is quicker than driving. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-159222 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:35:19 +0000 Dougie 159222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Short for "take extra care when passing this vehicle" it is driven by a clown </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-159180 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:44:04 +0000 acsimpson 159180@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are these new?<br /> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/22BWu6h.jpg?1"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/22BWu6h.jpg?1"></a><br /> Take <strong><u>Extra</u></strong> care when passing this vehicle.</p> <p>And remember all that seeing a drivers mirrors means is that they <em>can</em> see you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-156499 Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:35:54 +0000 threefromleith 156499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That couldn't POSSIBLY have been the real Secret Plumber. He's such a polite gentleman and would never treat people like that or use such language.</p> <p>Perhaps the mate the took his phone and posted the abusive messages has now taken his van without permission? ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-156417 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:26:54 +0000 Roibeard 156417@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've had a brush with genius...</p> <p>On the morning school run we were followed along an active bus lane by the Secret Plumber.</p> <p>I explained to Mhairi that he was a known genius...</p> <p>Then this evening, we coincided again, as he took exception to us being doubled up at a pinch point, hooted and shouted something incomprehensible after we'd singled up again. Objecting to my rebellious signal (not the NiceWay one as I'm not American), he pulled over in the cycle lane and drove off shouting something or other rather than let us overtake again.</p> <p>We were quite chuffed to interact with a local celebrity!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-144957 Sun, 09 Mar 2014 22:39:08 +0000 threefromleith 144957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see the spelling / lack of apostrophes on his sticker matches up with that of the supposed 'mate' who sent the abusive Twitter messages.</p> <p>The boy's a genius... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-144953 Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:21:39 +0000 sallyhinch 144953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Printed magnets (like those flat fridge magnets) couldn't possibly do any damage though </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-144951 Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:30:56 +0000 SRD 144951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://twitpic.com/dxudz8" rel="nofollow">http://twitpic.com/dxudz8</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-144691 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:11:34 +0000 fimm 144691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@adamthekiwi, that's an excellent idea.<br /> I'd love to make up stickers to put on vehicles that abuse ASLs, but I have a nasty suspicion that sticking something on someone else's car could be criminal damage, or something... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-144683 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:55:28 +0000 adamthekiwi 144683@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can we get "... because I drive like a d!ck." stickers made up to add to these (and similar)? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-144674 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:13:06 +0000 neddie 144674@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saw a Secret Plumber van this am on Broomhouse Dr.</p> <p>Noticed that he had two red-triangle stickers on the back. One said, "Cyclists. Take extra care around this vehicle." The other I couldn't read, but said sthg different.</p> <p>So why do cyclists need to take <em>extra </em>care around his vehicle? Is it because he can't be bothered driving in a competent &amp; respectful manner? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-142714 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:53:30 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 142714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Including the apparent fact that if one motorist complains about another the police take it seriously."</p> <p>Well, there were apparently two occupants of the car, so the corroboration issue is dealt with. The sooner corroboration disappears from Scots law, the better for cyclists and many other groups IMO.</p> <p>Doesn't explain why headcam footage &amp; a witness statement from riders is routinely dismissed by Polis Scotland though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-142712 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:08:23 +0000 Pocopiglet 142712@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No, TSP not coming out of this at all well. Seems to have a number of inconsistencies in the statement and comes over as fairly objectionable individual. Avoid at all costs, IMHO. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-142711 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:59:21 +0000 chdot 142711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Definitely another world out there"</p> <p>Including the apparent fact that if one motorist complains about another the police take it seriously. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-142710 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:50:13 +0000 gembo 142710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Definitely another world out there. The secret plumber not coming over as very credible, but he has posted the fact that he has been charged by polis on his facebook?? He suggests the recent twitter issue is a hoax. The cyclist appears to decline to report being knocked off her bike to the police? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815&page=2#post-142706 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:19:46 +0000 SRD 142706@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, and these were on his fb page - </p> <p>]<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7418/12527286665_193bce5da0.jpg"></p> <p><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7374/12527769844_2c8183bd9d.jpg"></p> <p>/]<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7418/12527286665_193bce5da0.jpg"></p> <p>]<img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2853/12527409573_f7efcb5f2e.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-142705 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:53:26 +0000 MeepMeep 142705@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmmm, the plot thickens...</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Penny_Laidlaw/status/434260513178910720">https://twitter.com/Penny_Laidlaw/status/434260513178910720</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-140610 Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:31:03 +0000 Focus 140610@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My heart bleeds.</p> <p>...</p> <p>Oh, hang on...</p> <p>No, I just spilled some ketchup! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-140580 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:18:50 +0000 Kenny 140580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just went past the secret plumber who had been pulled over by 2 police on motorbikes! Karma strikes again! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-139221 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:40:55 +0000 le_soigneur 139221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Karma waited until the new year...<br /> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdhcAikIUAAs3Tr.jpg"><br /> WANTED!: 2 i c males, mid twenties, main suspect wearing grey cotton tracksuit. Last seen Dalry Road 1.00am<br /> <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdgZ2xtCAAAmbpD.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136532 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:42:42 +0000 recombodna 136532@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All Mouth and no trousers, Thick as 2 planks and hoist by his own petard......a thoroughly despicable cowardly bully. Other opinions are available ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136503 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:51:50 +0000 DaveC 136503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would compare the person to an 8 watt incandescent bulb. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136490 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:51:11 +0000 Pocopiglet 136490@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>His Twitter page is back up and he now says he picked up the wrong phone after a party on Friday night and his 'friends' were sending the tweets as a joke! Still no explanation as to why they were logged from his home address or about the confrontation re the driving the next day.</p> <p>Arrange these words.....hole digging big stop</p> <p>Oh, and if those were my mates they wouldn't be any longer! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136393 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:12:05 +0000 Focus 136393@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Mr Hogg explained: “I’m not very good at this Facebook and Twitter thing.”</em>"</p> <p>Perhaps you shouldn't have set it up then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136314 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:06:20 +0000 Min 136314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hehe! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136307 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:36:46 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 136307@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Was his actual body hacked too then? Aliens?</em>"</p> <p>Post of the day </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136305 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:36:08 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 136305@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excellent comment (no sarcasm):</p> <p><em>Better change your locks too James, someone's pointed out that your hacked (how come picking up someone's phone now constitutes 'hacking'?) phone was sending tweets with the geographical location tags saying it was at your company address! </p> <p>Looks like that'mate' maybe stole your house keys too?</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136302 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:21:47 +0000 MeepMeep 136302@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That'd be about right - we all know anything cyclist-shaped must be passed at all costs... [/ sarcasm] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136299 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:10:14 +0000 SRD 136299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting....</p> <p>she's now said on twitter that they were slow on pulling away from lights so as to callow cyclist in front to pull away and past parked cars. </p> <p>(the plumber claimed they were 'dangerously slow') </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11815#post-136298 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:08:29 +0000 threefromleith 136298@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>cb - at one point during his Saturday Twitter meltdown he claimed it was short for 'Mongolians', as he didn't like the good people of Mongolia driving on our roads! </p>