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Motorist hurt after train hits car on railway
A driver has been injured after a train collided with a car in Renfrewshire.
The white Hyundai appears to have broken through large metal barriers, coming to rest on the tracks before it was hit by the train at about 06:15.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-53790309
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From the first article:
"A blue vehicle was pictured face down in the mud in Musselburgh harbour"
It's getting worse
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"A similar incident happened in June 2015 when the owner of a Volkswagen Polo turned her back for five minutes only to find her car had plunged nose down into a harbour."
Outstanding. Outstanding.
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Both VWs, so probably with electronic handbrakes (ie a button on the dash/near the gearstick). Not a safety improvement IMO.
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I <rule 2> hate electronic handbrakes. Horrible things. (Downside of not owning a car but driving hire cars when you want to drive somewhere.)
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Potatoes blocking the A1 southbound at Haddington
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Indeed: http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=336#post-337579
(you got there first but sadly there's no suggestion the potatoes are sentient is there?)
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Some things don't need to be stated explicitly.
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Potatoes inherit sentience from the vehicle that carries them. They are a chip off the old block.
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I was a-fried you might say that.
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Those tatties jumped, they weren’t pushed. They said they wanted to be mashed.
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It'll never catch on.
https://road.cc/content/news/media-guidelines-launched-reporting-road-collisions-277575
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A new twist on an old dumbness:
https://twitter.com/AdamMorrisEdin/status/1311273788177293319
Adam Morris sounds like a bright chap
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Of more concern - a dangerous driver who clearly shouldn't be on the road!
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Brings to mind some of those apocryphal old insurance claims..."I was driving carefully along the road when the tree leapt out and damaged my car"
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He’s quite unrepentant about his stupidity:
http://www.shorthandpr.co.uk/blog/the-best-course-of-action-if-you-spark-a-twitter-storm-do-nothing
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Twitter users – many of whom were anonymous and almost all men
I see.
Though he's probably right in PR terms. Just leave the pilers-on to it.
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@IWRATS: it is very revealing about modern politics: say something stupid/false/downright insane and then ignore any corrections, clarifications or attempts to connect back with reality. Explains Brexit.
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Absolutely. The answer 'Oh that's interesting I hadn't thought of that but I will now' earns nul points in the game of politics.
I'm clear that Twitter is the pub and a bit of combative banter is quite appropriate for me. But not for politicians who wander in for a chat. They're on duty. This guy's off duty.
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I rather liked his blog post, which talked a lot of sense I thought. A stark contrast to the original Tweet...
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@Greenroofer, yes his blog post sounds reasoned and sensible until you realise he isn't taking his own advice:
"The only valid reason for deleting a tweet would be if it contained a glaring factual error"
Or perhaps he is
"Don’t delete either – a user will have taken a screenshot anyway and then use the erasing of it against you. That just makes you look doubly pathetic."
I suspect the first option has to be accompanied by an apology/withdrawal statement.
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Those drivers should really be glad that the wands are there. They'd have been quite likely to hit an expensive car, rather than a cheap bit of plastic, otherwise.
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Quite odd to see relative sense from such a bizzare tweet. I thought this bit stood out:
“ These are all people who would never behave like this in real life – it’s a Twitter persona they’ve invented and flit effortlessly in and out of. I’ve taken on many of the above roles myself, and feel utterly ashamed for having done so.”
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Chipwrapper trolling us now. They must be.
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A silver Mercedes car is reported to have behaved very badly in Muirhouse today, hitting two peds on a zebra crossing
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A car has encroached onto the railway at Stirling. We're working closely with the emergency services
https://twitter.com/scotrail/status/1316343606085644308?s=21
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