Driver Hospitalized After Brightline Train Hits Pickup Truck In Hallandale Beach
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on 850 WFTL.
The driver certainly didn’t have a full load in the front of his pickup.
This paragraph describes the incident.
Dashcam video provided by Brightline captured the moment the driver of the silver pickup drove around the gate arm and onto the track a split second before impact. The arm was down when the collision happened.
Perhaps, the driver was trying to get a Darwin Award.
How Do We Protect Ourselves From Covidiots Like These?
I had to laugh when I heard this story on the BBC!
They gave a summary on Radio 5 of this story from Reuters, which is entitled London Police Irritated By Makeshift Nightclub In Barbershop Basement.
But I do suspect, that the Soho police were a lot more than irritated.
I certainly am furious at such irresponsible behaviour!
Lorry Bashes Into The Notorious Ely Railway Bridge – Again
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the Ely Standard.
This picture was clipped from the article.
To describe the driver as an idiot, is an insult to all those with a low IQ.
The driver should be banned for a very long time and only allowed to drive again, after he has leaned to read.
To further illustrate his stupidity, I took these pictures at Ely last month, before they re-opened the bridge.
This must be one of the worst cases of stupid driving, I’ve ever seen.
Will Trump Hit Stormy Weather?
I’ve just read this article on the BBC.
Hence the title of this post!
Brexit ‘no deal’ Means Britons Will Be Barred From Taking Pets To The Continent, Michel Barnier warns
The title of this post, is the same as this article in the Telegraph.
Doesn’t this say a lot about the vindictiveness, stubbornness and downright stupidity of those involved in the Brexit negotiations?
Protecting Pedestrians From Vehicles Driven By Imbeciles
Look at these Google Maps of part of various bridges across the Thames.
London Bridge
Southwark Bridge
Blackfriars Bridge
Waterloo Bridge
Westminster Bridge
Note.
- How the pedestrians can are easily seen in the images.
- All the bridges have wide pavements, which are designed for easy walking.
- All images were probably taken at the same time and are to the same scale.
- Westminster Bridge is much busier than the others.
There is no protection to stop a bin lorry with a driver who has a high risk of collapse, wandering off into the crowd. Given that that has happened in recent years, surely we should develop a protective system, that stopped vehicles getting on the pavement.
You wouldn’t need it on every road, as very few are likely to suffer an attack from imbeciles. But there have been a couple of pedestrians killed by drunks or drivers who should have given up because of health or advanced age.
Many roads too already have massive protection for pedestrians, as rows of vehicles are parked nose to tail alongside. I’ve never heard of an out of control vehicle going through a line of parked vehicles to kill someone. It must have happened surely!
Perhaps on London’s bridges and the wide pavements of streets like Regent Street and the Embankment, bollards or something physical will help.
But we should think creatively!
Something that could be done in London would be to follow on from the action at Bank Junction, where between seven and seven, the junction is for buses and cyclists only.
As there seems to have been little protest about this action, perhaps it could be done elsewhere and for twenty-four hours.
Look at the image of Southwark Bridge and the bridge is showing its reputation as London’s least used bridge.
So why not make the bridge pedestrians and cyclists only?
That could be done tomorrow and it would take some pressure from London Bridge, especially in the rush hour.
Also, at Blackfriars Bridge, it should be that pedestrians could use Blackfriars station, by just touching in and out and not being charged.
Pedestrian-only routes must be much safer.
Are Americans Too Stupid To Be Allowed Firearms?
This story on the BBC web site is entitled US boy, three, shoots both parents in New Mexico, which says it all.
Luckily, it appears his parents will live.
The story is the most read on the BBC web site.
And This Happened In Victoria
I bet the other Australian states are laughing at this story of a naked man stuck in a washing machine.
I suspect too that the England cricketers are pleased, as there’s another funny story in the country.
You Don’t Get Behaviour Like This On The Dalston Omnibus!
This tragic tale from Biggleswade, shows what you get when you mix two men of my age, shopping and an argument over parking.
You certainly don’t get any behaviour like this on the Dalston omnibus to or from Waitrose at the Angel. The most outrageous behaviour I saw, was a guy laughing at two ladies sitting beside each other who were probably about fifty years old; one black and one white, who’d both hurt a leg and their hospitals had furnished them each with one crutch. Everybody saw the funny side! Especially the ladies!
I do wonder sometimes, why people bother with driving. I miss it like a hole in the head!
I’ve actually never been to Asda and if you get killed in their car parks, I doubt I will now!
Europe’s Most Stupid Politician
I’ve just read two articles about President Hollande’s tax ideas in the Times and The Telegraph. He wants everyone who earns over a million euros to pay a 75% tax rate. the constitutional Council has turned his idea down, so he doesn’t even know French law.
Forty or so years ago, such a policy could have been enforced and in those days in the UK, anybody earning over about £40,000, used to pay an income tax of over 70%. But all that did was create schemes to avoid paying tax and the best brains of the country became accountants and tax lawyers, rather than scientists and engineers to create wealth by creating companies and jobs.
But Hollande thinks he can turn the clock back!
He must be so stupid to not see that he’s being counter-productive, by giving the brilliant, reasons to leave France. Il est un imbecile.
The Anonymous Widower 