We get a lot of kids on their offroad bikes tear arsing along the road, just waiting for the next one to hit a car, the last one to collide managed to kill himself. Shame they are that young they don't have any sense of their own mortality yet.
it sounds as if this problem is worse in England? I've heard that Edinburgh is really bad for bike thefts and I'm guessing Glasgow will be much the same, but as for bikers speeding through built up areas I've not heard or seen anything like that. Maybe someone from the big cities in Scotland will know if that's a problem
We had a 20 Yr old father who died in Birmingham travelling at up to 88 mph(police estimated) in a 30 limit, hit a car doing a right turn. Witnesses stated that the car driver was doing everything right, he did not pull out on the bike, it was all due to the sheer speed of the bike. The bike had no tax or insurance I feel sorry for the driver.
Property TAXES... After going thru the rigmarole$ of refinancing and getting the "a$$e$$ed" property value down to something other than the {pu$hed by realtor$} "market value"... the tax bill arrived today, up 33%. Damn liberal$, alway$ have their hand in your wallet. They are stealing from my kids & grandkids.
Booking.com shoving "gay safe destinations" in my face. FFS. I'm not gay, nor homophobic for that matter. But really? Surely these people are able to find a nice place to holiday for and by themselves.
Yes the world has gone barking mad. Don’t know how many gay people there are but I’m sure it is a very small minority, but the majority of us have to put up with being bombarded with their marketing choices. And I’m not homophonic either.
Totally agree. If someone is gay, good for them I hope they are happy, but why the need to go on about it. It's not as if they are vegan
What the feck even is a gay safe location? Thats like those stupid stickers people put in their car windows... baby on board. Yeah I was gonna ram your car for the hell of it... you fecking dime bar!
I live about 25 miles east of Philadelphia, PA, across the Delaware River in NJ. Philly has always been "The City." Whenever you wanted the best food, museums, sporting events, shopping, etc., you went to The City. I still have a few relatives there from my mom's side. I won't go there anymore. Murder rate has skyrocketed, muggings are rampant and the latest plague is swarms of little cretins on off road vehicles taking over streets. Dirt bikes, quads, trikes, dune buggy-type vehicles, you name it. They travel in packs of up to fifty or more. They drive like lunatics, weave in and out of traffic and will stop, closing a street down to do stunts. If one challenges them, they attack en masse, damaging cars or worse, dragging the occupants out and beating the shit out of them. Police won't chase them because they scatter like cockroaches and can go where a police cruiser can't. If one of the little peckerheads gets hurt or killed when police pursue, the officer is crucified criminally and civilly.
I feel for you. I'm in NJ. Highest property taxes in the country. I have a small ranch house (1800 sq. ft.). I pay $6500 a year in property taxes. Good friends of ours just moved to DE. A comparable property there? Less than a grand a year. Not to mention, the highest car insurance rates, most restrictive firearms laws (with the possible exception of California), worst infrastructure (our roads are for shit) and the highest cancer rate in the country. There are two kinds of people in NJ. Those who are leaving and those who wish they could. I am in the latter category.
What about any kind of sport just recently. Most pundits/commentators are telling us that football, rugby, golf and any other kind of sport must “be inclusive “ When I was a kid I’m not sure if there were gay people, but there must have been, but no one was ever stopped from being in the school team if they were any good. There was one team, the best one available and heaven forbid, we wanted to win. I didn’t get up on a cold Sunday morning and run around on an icy pitch ripping my thighs apart on the ground just to take part. Watched 10 minutes of the Commonwealth Games ceremony. On stage were there were three non males and all I took from what they had to say was “ for the first time there are more medals for women than men” Who cares? No one stops anyone taking part in sport as far as I am aware. Well done to the womens’ football team but how many tests before we have the “ not sure what I want to be World Cup” As things stand now they will have to start the play offs very early as they will be inundated with so many teams.
"Not sure what I want to be" {NSWIWTB} is fine... NOT really. The decision {by the Olympic Committee} that the competitor must have made the decision as to "what am I?" prior to its 12th birthday, is that of cowards. It moves the issue to young children and predators.
'Baby on board' stickers, seem to remember them being introduced to tell the emergency services to look for them in serious crashes. Now they seem to indicate the mental age of the driver.
Having worked thirty years as a Fireman I can definitely say that I never even noticed any stickers on the vehicles we turned out to. Baby seat or booster cushions yeah we saw those indications of perhaps children. Stickers? Never even looked for them. I don’t like having any stickers on my vehicles as I think they look tacky.
"Not sure what I want to be" {NSWIWTB}... https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/w...sedgntp&cvid=9bb65cc5f7fc4607aab4626731df10c1 "Predators R US"
'Twas one of the American ' exports' that a few people started using. I did wonder if it was to remind them that they had kids in the car.
