Puddle splashing cars!

bob_bobson

Gilbert2 - no doubt you are a poor driver - one of the sniggering ignorant

Mupette

vyle wrote: »

So if somebody walked up to you and punched you in the face, would a valid response be "Yeah, but people are getting bombed and killed in the middle east, so get over it."?

Really!!! was that the best you could come up with.

weather conditions at present mean there are more puddles, your just on about pure violence. a little less of black ops 2 perhaps?

warehouse

OP, did the car park in a drive? Would you know where to find it again?

*gem*

warehouse wrote: »

OP, did the car park in a drive? Would you know where to find it again?

Yes. She drives down there daily and funnily enough her husband is a policeman. lol

*gem*

Gilbert2 wrote: »

In that case, you should get onto whoever is responsible for those potholes to get them filled in.

Roads all over the UK are full of potholes, just another obstacle the hard pressed motorist has to put up with on a daily basis.

Deep potholes will retain an amount of water long after the rain has gone and is unlikely to dry up quickly in winter months.

Unfortunately, not every pot hole can be avoided by the motorist as, often, one has to drive through/over them, to avoid a collision with another vehicle.

It sounds like you have issues with wet weather and the poor state of the roads and you want to blame the motorist for everything!

It is not our fault it rains and your council neglects their roads!

The pot hole is on their property from what I can see but it is also a bridleway and I will ring the local council tomorrow to see if they can help. There's only two potholes on the fairly long lane and if you had bothered reading my posts, it was totally avoidable as the lane is nearly twice the width of her car and it is only used regulary by the two cars the family owns. Btw the pot hole is dry now! It not a waterlogged, muddy place either.

vyle

Mupette wrote: »

Really!!! was that the best you could come up with.

weather conditions at present mean there are more puddles, your just on about pure violence. a little less of black ops 2 perhaps?

My dear, I would never, ever give money to activision, nor reward them for uninspired, iterative, yearly sequels.

The issue is that apparently, the driver did it on purpose, and showed no remorse -- in fact, found it funny, reinforcing the possibility that it was done on purpose.

I have some clothes, especially work clothes and my winter coat, that are dry clean only, and I would not just shrug off the dry cleaning bill to get them sorted, nor the bollocking I'd get for being late to work due to turning back to change clothes.

The drive-by-splashing (as ridiculous as it may sound) was a malicious act with tangible consequences. They may have been somewhat minor compared to people losing their homes, but what happened to those people is irrelevant. To effectively say, "you will get splashed, it's raining, get over it or stay indoors" is a rather absurd comment because getting rained on is one thing, getting a small splash is understandable, but there are lots of big puddles around that can splash people up to the shoulder or higher, and they are avoidable. If you're driving and you hit one and DO splash somebody, at least have the courtesy to apologise and foot the cleaning bill.

A wanton act of violence, and a malicious, unrepentant act of sheer idiocy are the same in my book, because both are perpetrated to make other people miserable while making the hooligan feel big. So yes, they are the same in a way.

custardy

Gilbert2 wrote: »

In that case, you should get onto whoever is responsible for those potholes to get them filled in.

Roads all over the UK are full of potholes, just another obstacle the hard pressed motorist has to put up with on a daily basis.

Deep potholes will retain an amount of water long after the rain has gone and is unlikely to dry up quickly in winter months.

Unfortunately, not every pot hole can be avoided by the motorist as, often, one has to drive through/over them, to avoid a collision with another vehicle.

It sounds like you have issues with wet weather and the poor state of the roads and you want to blame the motorist for everything!

It is not our fault it rains and your council neglects their roads!

try dealing with them on two wheels

warehouse

*gem* wrote: »

Yes. She drives down there daily and funnily enough her husband is a policeman. lol

Then a bucket filled with horse manure and thrown over the car will balance the books!

Fuzzy_Duck

Surely the main issue here is that the woman who splashed the OP was horrible about it. She should of apologised- and if it were me I would have been mortified and offered to pay the cleaning bill as well.

Was it her driveway then? If it was it seems incredibly mean not to pop in to her house and grab some tissues or something to clean you off a bit!

As for slashing pedestians generally, I find the majority of drivers will carry on driving just as fast as they approach you (and a few that happily speed up for maximum slashing!)

I always carry an umbrella and as cars approach me I stick my umbrella between the car and me. I did this last week when it had been raining heavily and it's just as well I did, as every car splashed me.

preable

The woman was rude thats the issue